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Visitors stopping to take pictures of the 68m medieval embroidery were holding up others, prompting the rule change.

Two Germans were arrested Saturday after they stuck two paintings on a wall of the hall that hosts the Mona Lisa in Paris's Louvre museum, police sources said.

France's national library is lending the manuscript recounting the history of the Aztecs to Mexico.

Housed in an ancestral home in Kanadukathan, the museum looks to connect the Chettiar community’s traditions, global journeys, craft and future generations

A former director of a state-owned museum at the centre of a rare high-profile art scandal was sentenced to three years in prison, Chinese state media said on Wednesday. Xu Huping was found to have abused his position at the Nanjing Museum in eastern Jiangsu province and taken bribes, including money and property, for helping others secure projects and business collaborations. He was sentenced to prison for three years and fined 200,000 yuan (US$29,800), according to state news agency...

There has been much hyperventilating over two recent controversies at M+, Hong Kong’s museum of visual culture. The first was a series of mahjong social nights charging museum members and patrons up to HK$2,500 (US$319) for a package including an exhibition tour, a meal and social tile-shuffling in the members’ lounge. Mahjong may have had a Chinamaxxing makeover in the West, but in Hong Kong, the game is still considered a tad unwholesome for a museum even when no money changed hands. Frankly,...

The British Museum on Thursday opened its doors for the first public display of the 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry outside of France. The museum has so far sold a record-breaking 100,000 tickets to see the tapestry, which depicts the Norman conquest of England under William the Conqueror.

Police were on Tuesday hunting for two thieves who escaped with two Renoir paintings from a museum in southern France, after abandoning two others in its garden as they fled, a mayor said. The heist is the latest in a string of such robberies in France including the daylight theft last year of crown jewellery valued at around $100 million from the Louvre in Paris.

A small museum in a Stone Town doorway has become one of Zanzibar's most visited cultural sites, in an island economy built on heritage tourism. The post Zanzibar Has Turned a Doorway in Stone Town Into an Export Industry appeared first on The Rio Times.

Ginne Venkateswarlu of the TTD’s traditional sculpture institute worked after office hours for months, using 12 colours of marker pen on canvas; the pair of paintings will hang in the museum being redeveloped over 1.2 lakh sq. ft

The two thieves had attempted to steal a fourth painting, but abandoned it as they ran from the museum.

Two thieves on Tuesday broke into the Renoir Museum in the town of Cagnes-sur-Mer in southern France and stole "four works of art", dropping one as they fled, according to the local mayor. Officials estimated the value of the stolen works at 9 million euros.

The Freddie Mercury Museum in Zanzibar showcases the life and times of the music icon in the very house where he was born Farrokh Bulsara, 80 years ago, and where he spent his childhood

Mr. Basavanthappa said Davangere had made a significant contribution to theatre and the arts.

French President Emmanuel #Macron is in #London on the occasion of the #Bayeux Tapestry's exhibition at the #BritishMuseum. The 1,000-year-old work of woven art recounts the Battle of #Hastings, in which William the Conqueror – #KingCharles's ancestor – led the Norman Conquest of #England. An opportunity for the French president, the British PM Andy #Burnham and British monarch to celebrate the strong ties between the two countries.

George Lucas, the legendary creator of the "Star Wars" saga, on Wednesday showcased his long-awaited Museum of Narrative Art, the culmination of nearly two decades of work and numerous obstacles. "I'm used to doing the impossible. This one almost broke my will," Lucas said as he offered reporters a first glimpse inside, ahead of the museum's official opening on September 22. Lucas, 82, has described the complex built with his wife and business partner, Mellody Hobson, as the "people's temple of art."