Art museums
Inside the mind of Tolkien illustrator John Howe
A lover of mythology and legends, the acclaimed illustrator has also worked on video games and a TV series
Most non-EU visitors will pay 45% more to visit Louvre
PARIS’ Louvre museum said Thursday it would raise ticket prices for most non-EU visitors, meaning US, British and Chinese tourists among others will have to pay US$37 to get in.
Valuable jewels stolen from France’s Louvre in daring heist
THE world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris was shut on Sunday (Oct 19) after several pieces of invaluable jewellery were stolen in a brazen robbery.
Brit Gala? British Museum hosts Met-inspired fundraising ball
The theme, less ambitious than the Met’s elaborate fashion cues, was “pink” – inspired by the “colours and light of India”
DC tourists frustrated by museum closures as shutdown persists
Millions of tourists visit Smithsonian every year
Keeping cool with colours, Vienna museum paints asphalt to fight heat
With more intense, longer and more frequent heatwaves a direct consequence of climate change, according to scientists, European cities are trying to change their urban planning
France museum-goer eats million-dollar banana taped to wall
[STRASBOURG, France] A visitor to a French museum bit into a fresh banana worth millions of dollars taped to a wall last week, exhibitors said on Friday, in the latest such consumption of the conceptu...
Pompeii welcomes home erotic mosaic looted by Nazi officer
Set on a slab of travertine, the mosaic panel dates to between the late 1st century BC and the 1st century AD
Egypt grand museum delay puts tourism hopes on hold
The vast museum, two decades in the making, has faced repeated delays, from political upheaval and economic crises to the Covid-19 pandemic
UK gallery to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish collector
[LONDON] The Tate Britain gallery is set to reunite the great-grandchildren of a Belgian Jewish art collector with a painting looted from his home by the Nazis, officials said on Saturday (Mar 29).