Museum

Today, with the spread of the COVID-19 virus all around the world, everyone is minimizing the time they spend with others. However, as human beings, we are entitled and conditioned to communicate fully all the time. Considering that art is a way and medium of communication, we are opening a new path in the arts and culture world with new kinds of communication systems.

Valuable exhibits have been damaged at many of Zagreb's museums by the earthquakes that rocked the capital on Sunday.

The Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, which has over 450,000 different artefacts, said on Monday that it has sustained "severe damage to its permanent display and objects".

Greece's Culture Ministry on Friday ordered the closure of the country's archaeological sites and state-run museums, due to "special circumstances."

Concerns over the Covid-19 outbreak have resulted in shortages in staff at guards, the ministry's announcement said, adding that the decision to keep these venues closed will be revisited on March 30.

The exhibition "This Is What We Fought For: Antiquities and the Greek Revolution," currently on display at the National Archaeological Museum (NAM) in Athens, was inspired by an anecdote about Greek General Yiannis Makriyiannis paying a group of soldiers not to sell two splendid ancient statues to European buyers.

The need to discover a new trend is undeniable for all actors in the art world. And when it comes to contemporary art, this need triples since the entire contemporary art world is always in search of something new. However, when searching for the new, the reality shifts and from time-to-time the art world turns to the most secure and trusted ones.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Rethymno on Crete and KOLEKTIV8 present "Critical Archives IV: Documents," the main exhibition from the Medphoto Festival's 2019-2020 edition "Archive: Between the Public and the Private." The exhibition, which runs through March 15, focuses on the lives of photographs as visual archives, their processing and various uses by individuals or institutions over tim

For those struggling to piece together the black holes of a boozy night, a one-of-a-kind museum in Zagreb is offering up some inspiration. 

The "Museum of Hangovers," which opened in the Croatian capital this month, is showcasing objects and amusing stories from drunken escapades around the globe.

A new museum is set to open its doors in the Black Sea province of Ordu, the motherland of hazelnut.

The historic three-story Kahraman Sağra Mansion was recently restored with the initiatives of the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry to become the "Museum of the Story of Hazelnut."

Baksı Museum - an extraordinary collection of traditional and modern artwork, located in the southeastern Bayburt Province - has won an award for a short film from the international "Museums in Short" contest.

Directed by Kadir Saraç, the film competed with 55 videos from 26 countries and drew praise from the jury.

The longest night is back in Plovdiv - today, and in the next  three evenings, the city will open its numerous museums and galleries for the general public.

For the fourteenth time, the event brings together local, national and international projects. The program includes 110 proposals to the public from all fields of art - theater, cinema, visual arts.