UDAIPUR. The City Palace Museum’s historic Chhota Darikhana witnessed the grand inauguration of the three-day art exhibition ‘Dharohar – Echoes of Tradition in Modern Art’ on Friday. The opening day saw a remarkable turnout of art enthusiasts, students, and tourists from across India and abroad. Dr. Mayank Gupta, CEO of the Maharana Mewar Charitable Foundation, […]
TOI Correspondent from London: Thieves have stolen more than 600 valuable colonial artefacts, including items from the British Raj, from Bristol Museum. On Sept 25, between 1am and 2am, four men gained entry to a warehouse in Bristol which houses the museum’s British Empire and Commonwealth collection. They made off with “a high-value burglary of […]
new video loaded: The Conflict Over Nigeria’s Returned Treasures Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes — priceless items looted during colonialism — to Nigeria, but political infighting has jeopardized the ability to display and maintain the masterpieces. Our reporter, Alex Marshall, traveled to Nigeria to see some of the Bronzes. By Alex Marshall, Stephen […]
Explore 13.8 billion years at Abu Dhabi’s new museum / Image: File Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism (via the Abu Dhabi Media Office) announced that the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi will open to the public on Saturday, 22 November 2025, following VIP tours by senior royals this week. Abu Dhabi unlocks 13.8 […]
Uncertainty surrounds the fate of the highly anticipated Museum of West African Arts (MOWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria. The museum’s inception was initially tied to the restitution of the Benin Bronzes; when plans for the new state-of-the-art institution were first revealed in 2020, the museum was promoted as the “most comprehensive display [of Benin Bronzes] […]
Representative image (AP) The multi-million dollar Museum of West African Arts (MOWAA), a prestigious cultural project in Edo State in southern Nigeria, has suspended preview events scheduled for this week.MOWAA made the decision after around 20 men, some armed with wooden bats, stormed the museum courtyard on Sunday during a pre-opening event. Guests, including ambassadors […]
Near the shadow of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Egypt has officially unveiled the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), a monumental project that has taken decades to complete and is now being hailed as the world’s largest archaeological museum.The museum, whose construction cost more than $1.2 billion, […]
French authorities have arrested two suspects in connection with the high-profile theft of France’s crown jewels from Paris’ Louvre Museum, officials confirmed on Sunday. The arrests come a week after the dramatic heist, in which thieves made off with royal artifacts worth an estimated 88 million euros (102 million dollars), leaving the world’s most-visited museum […]
Two suspects have been arrested in the $100 million Louvre jewel theft, one week after what has been termed as the “heist of the century”, French media outlet Le Parisien reported on Sunday.The stolen items consisted of a sapphire diadem, a necklace, and one earring from a set associated with 19th-century Queens Marie-Amelie and Hortense.What […]
Louvre museum thieves caught on camera escaping with the jewels. A video has emerged showing two thieves calmly escaping the Louvre Museum in Paris with an estimated €88 million (£76 million) worth of France’s crown jewels — in what is being described as one of the country’s most spectacular heists in decades.The 36-second clip, verified […]
