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BY EUROPEANA
04.07.2016
Confessions of the last zournas-player in northern Greece
This blog post was first released on the Europeana Sounds website . During the field-research carried out in the prefecture of Evros in 1996 for the “Thrace” programme of the Music Library of...
BY Culture24
05.07.2016
British Archaeological Awards 2016: Winners to be announced on July 11
The British Archaeological Awards announces winners across five major categories at the British Museum on July 11 The British Archaeological Awards will be announced at The British Museum on July 11...
BY Culture24
29.06.2016
Object of the Week: A 5,000-year-old figurine which curators thought was lost forever in Orkney
This Neolithic human figurine was found at Skara Brae, in Orkney, in the 1860s. But it was only recently rediscovered during a search of the collections at Skaill House © Stromness Museum / Rebecca...
BY Culture24
29.06.2016
Arms, eyes and masks: Ten chilling exhibits from the Science Museum's World War One Wounded exhibition
Ten million combatants were killed during World War One. Double that number were wounded, with millions left disabled, disfigured or traumatised. Victims and the people who cared for them had to be...
BY Culture24
28.06.2016
Seventeen sculptures are taking over London's Square Mile in a display of heads, "anti-monuments" and more
From huge heads to delicate paper chains, Sculpture in the City is a 17-work takeover of the Square Mile. Here are some of the works to look out for this time Benedetto Pietromarchi, Of Saints and...
Museum of the History of the Mining Industry is the name of Akinfy Demidov
27.06.2016
"My City" - in kindergarten
2016 June 24 on the initiative of representatives of the municipal budget preschool educational institution Zmeinogorsky kindergarten "Birch" our Museum staff held an event on the theme "My City"....
BY Culture24
27.06.2016
Artist puts 40-part choral performance through oval of 40 speakers at 900-year-old castle
The Throne Room of Bishop Auckland's 900-year-old castle is the setting for Janet Cardiff's latest haunting work - a circular set of speakers playing a sacred composition © Colin Davison In its...
Museum of the History of the Mining Industry is the name of Akinfy Demidov
25.06.2016
The story is interesting in all languages
21 Jun 2016 MBIC Museum as part of the tour "Mineralogy and metallogeny of Rudny Altai" was visited by the participants of the VIII International Siberian conference of young scientists on earth...
Museum of the History of the Mining Industry is the name of Akinfy Demidov
25.06.2016
The exhibition "Porcelain zoo"
Dear Zmeinogorsky! Especially for the anniversary of the city of Zmeinogorsk in MBIC Museum of the history of mining behalf of A. Demidov" opens the exhibition " Porcelain zoo " and wildlife in the...
BY EUROPEANA
24.06.2016
Are You In Europeana? How I found out about my relative who fought in the WW1
Everyone googles their name from time to time. But have you tried doing the same on Europeana? Portraits of Roland Gerard Garvin . British Library, CC BY Cultural heritage is often our shared...
BY Culture24
24.06.2016
Scotland's set of 6,000-year-old axeheads from the Italian Alps have gone on public display
Made out of alpine rock and extracted near prehistoric Turin and Genoa, Scotland's jade axeheads have come out of storage - along with a new sculpture Artist Tim Pomeroy with his sculpture, Axehead,...
BY Culture24
26.06.2016
A big societal change? The hi-tech clothing that changes colour to show air pollution
Amid air pollution concerns in which the figures seem uniformly grim, a new form of clothing resembling illuminated origami could help © Nick Harrison Artist Kasia Molga’s Human Sensor is a design...
BY Culture24
22.06.2016
A land artist has created a solstice work in his 55-acre intergalactic artland in rural Scotland
In the centre of an extraordinary 55-acre Scottish artland he created, artist and landscape designer Charles Jencks has made a new mosaic for a three-day solstice festival. It’s inspired, he says,...
BY Culture24
22.06.2016
Incomparable Romano-British settlement in Devon shows early Britons enjoyed Mediterranean diet
Some of the first evidence of the Romans in the south-west outside of Exeter has been discovered by archaeologists in a rural Devon village. They seem to have liked a Mediterranean menu © Steven...
BY Culture24
21.06.2016
This 17th century fire engine would have weighed half a tonne and squirted six pints of water
A major exhibition marking the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London opens this week – and one of the star exhibits will be a 17th century fire engine rebuilt to a millimetre-perfect version...
BY Culture24
21.06.2016
"Brave and unpretentious": The Liverpool artist who made the artwork for Jake Bugg's new album On my One
What's it like when a star musician picks your artwork for their new album? Nathan Pendlebury says Jake Bugg's call has been "a kick up the arse" © Nathan Pendlebury Four years on from his debut,...
Maribor Museum of National Liberation
20.06.2016
Poletna muzejska noč 2016
V muzeju je bilo na Poletno muzejsko noč nadvse pisano in veselo. Že popoldan se je v parku pred muzejem zbralo veliko obiskovalcev, ki so prišli s kocami, stolčki in piknik košarico. Gospa...
BY Culture24
20.06.2016
This huge hoard of hack silver is still revealing details of life in Roman Scotland - almost 200 years after it was first found in Aberdeenshire
The field where a Roman hoard was originally discovered during the 19th century has revealed a far vaster collection of artefacts - including evidence of the elite © Antiquity / National Museums...
BY Culture24
20.06.2016
Story of largest Saxon cemetery ever found in Wessex revealed 42 years after its discovery
The largest Saxon cemetery ever found in Wessex contains cremations, inhumations and warrior burials Found in Collingbourne Ducis in Wessex, this skull shows a well-healed trepanation. There is no...
BY Culture24
22.06.2016
