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The restitution of cultural heritage will race ahead in 2025

Economist 19 Nov 2024
... British Museum in London since they were purchased from Lord Elgin in 1816.
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The Daily Mail 19 Nov 2024
The wail of the Aztec Death Whistle was the last thing many human sacrifices ever heard before they met their untimely end ... Now, a study has found that this instrument is just as terrifying for people today as it was 500 years ago ... The British Museum. .
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Cutting-edge labs, a rainforest gallery and guesthouse: Nigeria to open art museum for 21st century

AOL 18 Nov 2024
The museum, which is independent and not for profit, has received funding from a range of sources including the German government, the Mellon Foundation and the British Museum.
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Where to travel for free art and entertainment this winter

The Trentonian 18 Nov 2024
Museums and iconic landmarks for free ... The city is home to numerous renowned museums and galleries that are entirely free to the public, including the British Museum, National Gallery and Tate Modern.
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‘Day of action’ mars COP29 talks

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 18 Nov 2024
She added ... ... In London, hundreds of protesters marched from the British Museum to the offices of Socar, the Azerbaijan-owned oil company, before heading to the residence and office of Prime Minister Keir Starmer ... .
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To the end of the earth: what it’s really like to cruise Antarctica

The Times/The Sunday Times 18 Nov 2024
Many Argentinians fervently believe that the Islas Malvinas belong to their country, but in a 2013 sovereignty referendum 99.8 per cent of islanders voted to remain a British territory ... The Falkland Islands Museum.
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Why Goodall feels lucky she grew up in WW-II

Hindustan Times 17 Nov 2024
sAt 90, renowned British ... India’s first Ocean Literacy Dialogue is in collaboration with UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), the British Council, and the CSMVS Museum.
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Activists demonstrating for Palestine and against climate change clash with pro-Israeli protesters...

The Daily Mail 16 Nov 2024
The protest, involving more than 60 groups including Greenpeace, Extinction Rebellion, Amnesty International and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, rallied outside the British Museum on Saturday before marching to Downing Street ... The 30-year-old said.
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British Museum chief Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I start with the idea that everything is possible’

Financial Times 15 Nov 2024
The new director on transforming one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions, last year’s scandal over thefts — and what might happen to the Parthenon Marbles ....
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The crown should consider the restitution of cultural artefacts | Letters

The Guardian 15 Nov 2024
While we might wish the British Museum or an Oxbridge college to reconsider their policies towards their various treasures, at least they can argue that some of the public can actually see them.
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Stephen Fry assured the return of Parthenon Marbles will happen: Ouzo Talk Podcast 2024

Greek City Times 15 Nov 2024
Citing a softening stance from the British government and a potential "win-win" scenario for the British ...
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Worcester Art Museum welcomes British touring exhibit, '20th Century Nudes from Tate'

The Gardner News 15 Nov 2024
Curated by Emma Chambers, curator of modern British art at Tate, and Claire Whitner, Worcester Art Museum's director of curatorial affairs, and James A ... “We hope people can, as they move through the museum, see sort of a progression,” she said.
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80s a-go-go, hanging with Calder and a Scots stitch-up – the week in art

AOL 15 Nov 2024
Exhibition of the week. The 80s. Photographing Britain ... On Kawara. Date Paintings ... A £1bn collection of Chinese ceramics has been donated to the British Museum ... Printmaker at the British Museum, London, until 30 MarchSign up to the Art Weekly newsletter ... .
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The Lahore Biennale is a Powerful Call to Action

Khaleejtimes 15 Nov 2024
The biennale activated cultural heritage sites across the city, ranging from the seventeenth century Lahore Fort and Shalimar Gardens, built during the reign of Mughal emperors Akbar and Shahjahan ...
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British Museum receives donation of Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion

CNN 14 Nov 2024
The collection, which has been on loan to the British Museum since 2009, has been donated by the Percival David Foundation ... “This is the largest bequest to the British Museum in our long history,” said George Osborne, chair of the British Museum.

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