Museums

Explained: Augmented reality, and how artists and institutions used it to make culture an at-home experience during the pandemic

If visitors could no longer go the artworks, maybe AR could help bring the artworks to them.

Benin Bronzes: Germany to return hundreds of artefacts looted during colonial era

Germany’s minister for culture, Monika Gruetters, said the Benin Bronzes were a key test for the way the country deals with its colonial past.

Goa's Museum of Christian Art aims to enhance visitor experience through redesigned interiors and learning tools

The ambitious upgradation project prepared and executed jointly by the museum and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal) included structural restoration of the building, a new interior museographic layout and conservation of art objects.

A year since India's COVID-19 lockdown, an overview of how artists and cultural institutions navigated a crisis

Reviewing a year since nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, in culture coverage at Firstpost. Part 1 looks at how artists and institutions responded to the crisis.

Should museums tell the public about missing art? Transparency about thefts and loss might aid in recovering objects

Museums have at times withheld information about thefts, fearing that revealing security weaknesses could make other institutions less likely to loan them art or that it could encourage other thefts.

Berlin follows Cologne in opening up cultural venues to public, as Germany eases COVID restrictions

Museums throughout Germany closed at the beginning of November as coronavirus cases increased, but authorities earlier this month eased restrictions to allow some museums, galleries and certain other cultural venues to begin receiving visitors again.

Shut due to COVID-19 pandemic, the Louvre turns to merchandise sales for revenue

The merchandise expansion is just one of the ways the museum has been getting creative with funding.

The Frick, New York's plushest museum, undergoes an unexpectedly audacious transmutation

As the iconic museum expands, the Frick Collection has to move out for two years — into a sublet five blocks away, where it’s discovering the more modern luxury of blank walls and empty rooms.

Louvre moves artworks to a safe house in a preemptive bid to preserve them against Seine's floodwater

Already 100,000 works have been moved — including paintings, carpets, tapestries, grand sculptures, small figurines, furniture and decorative pieces — dating from antiquity to the 19th century.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Cinema halls in England to reopen from 4 July with rules to maintain social distancing

Britain has been incrementally reopening its shuttered economy as the number of deaths and cases due to the coronavirus declines