Jimmy Deenihan TD Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht formally opened the display of recently discovered 17th Century gold coins from Carrick-on-Suir. The hoard will go on display in the National Museum of Ireland [Read More]
Antiquities
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National Churchill Museum presents WORLD WAR 11 NAVY ART: A VISION OF HISTORY, an exhibition on view June 10, 2013- August 11, 2013. This exhibition will commemorate all who served and the 70th anniversary of [Read More]
The Meadows Museum has acquired the first terracotta sculpture attributed to Spanish Baroque master Juan Alonso Villabrille y Ron. In-depth research conducted by museum staff members sheds new light on the identity of the bust-length [Read More]
Reading Museum presents Community Display: Greek Pottery an exhibition on view through 22 Sep 2013. Ancient Greeks produced painted pottery over 2,500 years ago. They were the leaders in developing new decorative techniques and the [Read More]
The Dallas Museum of Art presents The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece: Masterworks from the British Museum an exhibition on view through October 6, 2013. The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece: Masterworks from the British [Read More]
British Museum in London presents Silver service fine dining in Roman Britain an exhibition on view 23 May – 4 August 2013. Discover the iconic Mildenhall Great Dish and its central role at the very [Read More]
During the twelfth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian joins the Australian government, the Chickasaw Nation and the Association on American Indian Affairs [Read More]
In 1998 Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, commissioned calligrapher Donald Jackson to produce a fully illuminated luxury manuscript of the Bible. Working out of his scriptorium in Monmouth, Wales, Jackson and a team of [Read More]
The Frick Collection announce the extended loan of several important decorative arts objects from Horace Wood Brock, one of America’s most remarkable collectors. Over the last three decades, he has assembled an enviable collection of [Read More]
The Morgan Library & Museum continues its popular Treasures from the Vault exhibition series on May 7–October 6, 2013, with the presentation of thirty diverse works in its iconic 1906 McKim building. The great library [Read More]
Bowers Museum presents Gems of the Medici an exhibition on view through September 15, 2013. Gems of the Medici, highlights some of the oldest and most unique pieces of the Medici collections including antiquities dating [Read More]
Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina, an exhibition on view May 4 to July 7, 2013. Decorative arts historians coined the term [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that it will return to the Kingdom of Cambodia two 10th-century Koh Ker stone statues of “Kneeling Attendants”—donated in separate stages to the Museum in the [Read More]
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem is showing the Gabriel Revelation Stone in an exhibition, I Am Gabriel complementing the ongoing large-scale exhibition Herod the Great, which explores other aspects of the period. Considered the most important [Read More]
The Courtauld Gallery presents lluminating Objects an exhibition on view 1 May to 22 July 2013. The third display in the Illuminating Objects programme at The Courtauld Gallery focuses on the German miniature picture Bibles, [Read More]
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the joint acquisition of one of the finest illuminated Hebrew manuscripts ever created, a rare handwritten copy of the Mishneh Torah by Maimonides, [Read More]
The British Museum has announced a Pompeii and Herculaneum iOS app and an Android version available from 2 May. Explore life and death in the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum using streetmaps of the areas, [Read More]
Joslyn Art Museum announces the appointment of Erin Walcek Averett, Ph.D., as adjunct curator of antiquities. She will work in tandem with Joslyn curatorial staff in various projects beginning with the 2014 exhibition Poseidon and [Read More]