Moving to the suburbs: vast museum collections centre destined for ‘New Moscow’
State Tretyakov Gallery among 23 Russian museums planning to store and show works near former killing field Kommunarka
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Hacking The Museum Tour – Entertainment With Attitude
“I found some of the interactive portions of the tour superficial and a bit corny, but the younger, millennial members of the group seemed to enjoy them.”
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It’s Final: All Of Kafka Archives Will Go To National Library Of Israel (And Who Knows What They’ll Find Inside?)
“A district court in Zurich upheld Israeli verdicts in the case last week, ruling that several safe deposit boxes in the Swiss city could be opened and their contents shipped to Israel’s National Library. … The Swiss ruling would complete the acquisition of nearly all his known works, after years of lengthy legal battles over […]
Could This Be How To Organize A Museum For The 21st-Century Age Of Migration?
A new exhibition in Hamburg by curator Roger M. Buergel (still known for his provocative Documenta 12 in 2007) “delivers on its contention that European museums need to do much more than just restitute plundered objects in their collections, important as that is. A 21st-century universal museum has to unsettle the very labels that the […]
