Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition – exhibition at The Met
Nearly 300 works of art are now on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to mark how the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean underwent important changes between the seventh and ninth centuries.
The Walters Art Museum Receives $265,000 NEH Grant to Digitize Over 100 Flemish Manuscripts
This third NEH grant allows the Walters to provide public access to an even greater number of its illuminated medieval manuscripts
Museum Secrets, Season 2: Episode 3 Preview: National Archaeological Museum of Athens
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Museum Secrets, Season 2: Episode 2 Preview: American Museum of Natural History
From dinosaurs to meteorites to the origins of the human species, the American Museum of Natural History houses 32 million objects, is visited by over 4 million people annually, and has a stellar research staff that mounts over 100 expeditions every year.
Museum Secrets, Season 2, Episode 1: State Hermitage Museum
Museum Secrets is a wonderful show, which reminds me why I enjoy history so much. I am now very much looking forward to seeing the rest of this season’s episodes.
Season 2 of Museum Secrets Premieres this week!
Join us for a brand new season of Museum Secrets premiering this Thursday, January 12th at 10pm EST/PST!
Seeing and Not Seeing the Reliquary Bust of Saint Yrieix
The reliquary was experienced through an orchestrated system of punctuated non-sight, suggesting that experiencing was not about seeing, but believing.
Getty Museum Acquires Rare Late-Medieval German Sculpture
The Getty Museum were the successful bidders at auction for an extraordinary rare sculpture of St. John the Baptist dating from early 16th-century.
Lewis Chessmen arrive in New York City
Beginning today, over 30 chessmen from the collection of the British Museum will be shown at The Cloisters until April 22, 2012
Making History: Antiquaries in Britain
The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College is now presenting the exhibition: Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, which showcases treasures from the Society of Antiquaries of London
Islamic History galleries to reopen at The Met
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will be reopening 15 new galleries dedicated to the history of Islamic art – one of the…
A Late Antique Crossbow Fibula in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Late Antique Crossbow Fibula in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Deppert-Lippitz, Barbara Metropolitan Museum Journal, Vol. 35 (2000) Abstract In 1995 The Metropolitan Museum…
The Walters Art Museum Removes Copyright Restrictions from more than 10,000 Images
The Walters Art Museum announces the launch of its redesigned works of art website with the removal of copyright restrictions on more than…
Treasures of the Bodleian exhibition opens today
The Bodleian Libraries’ autumn exhibition ‘Treasures of the Bodleian’ opens to the public today (Friday 30 September). The exhibition will feature a selection…
Getty Museum acquires 13th century Bible
The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired the Abbey Bible, a 13th-century Italian book that is considered to be an important example of…
“In the Beginning Was the Word”: Medieval Gospel Illumination exhibition at The Getty
The J. Paul Getty Museum has unveiled its latest exhibition earlier this week, which gives visitors the opportunity to see how the four…
Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities – new exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi
Masterpieces by Botticelli, Beato Angelico, Piero del Pollaiolo, the Della Robbia family, Lorenzo di Credi and Memling – the cream of Renaissance artists…
Staffordshire Hoard is coming to America
More than one hundred artefacts from the Staffordshire Hoard – the largest and most valuable collection of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever discovered – will…
15th century Tudor House re-opens in Southampton
Southampton’s rich history is set to come alive once again as the city’s most important historic attraction re-opens its doors to the public…
Museum of Somerset to reopen with the Frome Hoard
One of the largest collections of Roman coins ever found, a shrunken head from South America and Judge Jeffreys’ medical bill are a…
New Byzantine and Roman galleries open at the Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Canada will be opening a new set of permanent galleries tomorrow that will showcase its impressive…
Viking Pop Culture on Display: The Case of the Horned Helmets
Never worn by Vikings, this popular cultural icon embodies the disjuncture between scholarly and popular knowledge of the Viking past.
Medieval world comes alive at the Dales Countryside Museum
Historic happenings aren’t unusual at a museum, but visitors to the Yorkshire Dales National Park in northern England got a little more than…
Fashion in the Middle Ages exhibition begins at the Getty
The J. Paul Getty Museum unveils a new medieval exhibition tomorrow, which will examine what people wore during this period. Fashion in the…
Faces of medieval people revealed at Stirling Castle
A new exhibition at Stirling Castle in Scotland will bring visitors face to face with knight and lady excavated from its lost royal…