LONDON.- The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons opened its latest exhibition London’s Lost Museums: Nature and Medicine, celebrating early natural history and anatomical collections once displayed in the capital, now ‘lost’…
Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons Rediscovers London’s Lost Museums
LONDON.- The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons opened its latest exhibition London’s Lost Museums: Nature and Medicine, celebrating early natural history and anatomical collections once displayed in the capital, now ‘lost’…
Long List for Inaugural £10,000 Clore Award for Museum Learning Announced
LONDON.- Ten museums across the UK have been long listed for the inaugural £10,000 Clore Award for Museum Learning. The new award is aimed at championing excellence in museum learning and is run in parallel with the Art Fund Prize, the UK’s largest …
Louvre Presents First Exhibition of Austrian Sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
PARIS.- For the first time in France, the Louvre presents a monographic exhibition devoted to the Bavarian-born Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, active in Vienna and Pressburg (now Bratislava) in the late 18th century. As a court sculptor,…
Museums Escape the Worst in Spending Review, will Only Face a 15 Percent Funding Cut
LONDON (REUTERS).- Museums breathed a sigh of relief after escaping the worst of the government spending cuts announced on Wednesday, but reductions in funding for other sectors of the arts were significantly higher. Chancellor George Osborne said muse…