Etiket: museums
Trip to Trentino: works of art and museums not to be missed
«SI am convinced that without art the world is chaos. Art means feeling emotions; without living them and sharing them we couldn’t move forward.” How can you disagree with the…
Museums experience record year: ‘People make an outing of it’
It has been a great year for almost all museums in Brabant. Especially for the Overloon War Museum. There, the record number from 1984 was broken with 153,000 visitors. Tourism…
Drenthe museums happy with more visitors, ‘but our costs also continue to rise’
Several museums are seeing an upturn in the number of visitors after the ‘corona years’. Yet the flag does not go out. Museums remain cautious due to higher personnel costs…
More people are finding their way to Bruges museums
With more than 770,000 visitors, the Bruges museums attracted about 12 percent more people in 2023 than in the previous year. In terms of popularity, the Belfry remains the crowd…
Suspects of defacement in Amsterdam museums are ‘two artists who are concerned about the situation in Gaza’
The two suspects who were arrested last night after the defacement of the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk Museum and the Van Gogh Museum were released this afternoon around 3:15 p.m. A…
The strangest and most curious museums in the world
For centuries, after their emergence in the 18th century, museums were mainly kept collections (of animals, plants, insects) that helped to better understand the world in which we live. Museums…
Outrage about Swiss museum’s auction of masterpieces in order to survive
Museum Langmatt in Baden, Switzerland has caused a lot of commotion with its intention to sell three paintings by Paul Cézanne. In November, the museum will have two still lifes…
Redder museums help each other in difficult times: ‘Greater yields, lower costs’
Disturbing messages from the museum association. Yesterday the body announced that half of Dutch museums made a loss last year. Reason for the museums in Roden to do more and…
How Argentine Freemasonry prepares for the Night of the Museums
“It is a wonderful experience because many people come who have some idea about Freemasonry. After taking the tour, visiting every corner of the house and seeing the exhibitions, people…
US Justice Department confiscates three works of art stolen by the Nazis from museums
American justice has seized three works by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele from a number of important museums in the US, reports The New York Times. The works are claimed…