He’s the sculptor whose work gives you a certain sinking feeling. Jason deCaires Taylor is known for creating underwater museums that feature fascinating sculpture collections. He’s created aquatic sculpture gardens in locations such as Mexico, Grenada, the Bahamas, Lanzarote, the Maldives – though this one was partially destroyed after it was deemed offensive – Norway … Read more
London‘s world-renowned Science Museum reopens as a Covid-19 vaccination centre on Thursday (March 11). The museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, which was founded in 1857, will serve north-west London as part of the NHS‘s vaccination programme. Vaccinations will take place in Special Exhibition Gallery 1, a vast temporary exhibition space where thousands of artefacts have … Read more
A museum is to use Government cash to host a virtual drag queen night to kick-start a research project to find gay, lesbian and transgender Britons who may have helped in the Industrial Revolution more than 200 years ago. The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust runs sites in the Shropshire Valley region known for its 18th … Read more
The Parthenon Marbles: The Parthenon Marbles – popularly named the Elgin Marbles after the7th Earl of Elgin, the man who took them from Greece – are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures, inscriptions and architectural members that were mostly created by Phidias and his assistants. The Earl of Elgin, Thomas Bruce, removed the Parthenon Marble … Read more
To mark the arrival of NASAs latest rover on Mars, the Natural History Museum has placed a giant replica of the Red Planet alongside its famous whale centrepiece. The Perseverance Rover will arrive on Mars later today after a seven month journey from Earth and will begin its search for traces of past microbial life. … Read more
The Parthenon Marbles: The Parthenon Marbles – popularly named the Elgin Marbles after the7th Earl of Elgin, the man who took them from Greece – are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures, inscriptions and architectural members that were mostly created by Phidias and his assistants. The Earl of Elgin, Thomas Bruce, removed the Parthenon Marble … Read more
The British Museum has hired a curator to delve into the history of its eight million objects, many of which were obtained during the colonial era. Historian Dr Isobel MacDonald is to lead the museum’s History of Collection research, which will examine how objects have arrived since its 1759 founding. Several of the items in … Read more
Within moments of arriving by train in Copenhagen, I’m already smiling. The central station is steps away from the fairy-lit utopia of Tivoli Gardens, the second-oldest operating amusement park in the world, and shrieks of delight from its rollercoasters are often the first sound visitors hear. Built in 1843 by King Christian VIII to entertain … Read more
A beautiful Roman mosaic depicting a leopard hunting an antelope is set to stay in the UK after a local museum scrambled together enough money to purchase it. The 8ft by 6.5ft panel was unearthed in 1974 and is thought to have been made 1,700 years ago during the Roman occupation of Britain, experts believe. … Read more
A beautiful Roman mosaic depicting a leopard hunting an antelope is set to stay in the UK after a local museum scrambled together enough money to purchase it. The 8ft by 6.5ft panel was unearthed in 1974 and is thought to have been made 1,700 years ago during the Roman occupation of Britain, experts believe. … Read more