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Historical artifacts dating back centuries have been secured in position using microcrystalline wax in the Kocaeli Archaeology Museum as a precaution to safeguard them from potential earthquakes and disasters.

French museums are nonetheless studying the origins of some 90,000 African objects in their archives. But the task is 'titanic and exhilarating' because of the lack of sources.

He wants to control the issue of the Parthenon Sculptures - Coordinated campaign to remove disliked individuals from management positions in Britain's museums and cultural institutions

Turkish authorities have orchestrated the return of 12,135 smuggled historical artifacts over the past 22 years, with the country gearing up to welcome back more than 8,600 cultural treasures in the upcoming period.

The British Museum went to court Tuesday against a former curator alleged to have stolen hundreds of artifacts from its collections and offered them for sale online .

A regional laboratory in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, home of many different civilizations spanning thousands of years, has performed maintenance and repair works on approximately 1,252 artifacts in 2023 to shed light on cultural history and exhibit them in museums.

Following the aftermath of floods that hit the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa last year, Şanlıurfa Archaeology Museum and Haleplibahçe Mosaic Museum, which were badly damaged, have reopened their doors to visitors in just 11 months, after repair and maintenance work was completed.

In January 2023, 14 members of the British public entered a wood-paneled room in the back of the British Museum for a secret presentation. They were there to learn about an exhibition still in development, which the museum wanted kept under wraps.

New York's American Museum of Natural History closed two halls featuring Native American objects starting on Jan. 27 acknowledging the exhibits are "severely outdated" and contain culturally sensitive items.

Museums in Bulgaria insist on receiving 50% more money next year for the maintenance and modernization of the fund storage and exhibition halls, as well as for raising wages in the sector, as there is a mass departure of specialists. At the moment, there is a serious imbalance between education and culture, the chairman of the Association "Bulgarian Museums" Boris Hadjiyski told BNR.