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The Old-Guard Thinking Behind the New Museum’s Expansion.
An $82 million expansion designed by OMA finds New York’s first contemporary art space caught between growing megadealers and establishment museums
https://archive.ph/OWaTD #globalmuseum #museums

Global Museum 19h ago

Gwen John: Strange Beauties review – Wales’s great modern artist stuns us with the glory of solitude.
National Museum, Cardiff.
In a superb, mystical retrospective, the painter sheds social trappings – and her clothes – as she uses her enormous intelligence to paint purely
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/05/gwen-john-strange-beauties-review-national-museum-cardiff #globalmuseum #art #museums #exhibitions

Global Museum 19h ago

Raphael and the Renaissance of Divine Beauty.
This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of painting.

https://archive.ph/T5eRm
#globalmuseum #art #museums #exhibitions

Global Museum 1d ago

As the others looked at her,
Emily was overtaken by a sudden a wave of embarrassment. It turned this wasn’t Pointy Hat night, this was Wednesday, the night when Flower Pots were worn - 14th century, British Library, Royal MS 6 E VI/1, f. 225v

@MedMilMedicine #globalmuseum #humour #humor

Global Museum 1d ago

Museum Bredius in The Hague displays a rare 1670 perspective box cabinet with a painting by Samuel van Hoogstraeten. One of only six 17th-century perspective boxes left in the world, the cabinet’s warped-perspective internal scene looks perfect when viewed through a peep-hole.
@RembrandtsRoom #globalmuseum #museums #art

Global Museum 1d ago

‘Serious reservations’ about proposal to scrap free entry for overseas visitors
Concern in the UK museum sector as DCMS and ACE accept recommendations of Hodge review.

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2026/03/serious-reservations-about-proposal-to-scrap-free-entry-for-overseas-visitors/ #globalmuseum #museums #UK

Global Museum 2d ago

Damaged church floor may have revealed the grave of the fourth musketeer.
Today, Charles de Batz de Castlemore, Count d’Artagnan, is best known as a character in The Three Musketeers, written by Alexandre Dumas and eventually played by both Gene Kelly and future Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy—but he was a real French military officer and spy
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/archaeologists-may-have-found-the-grave-of-the-legendary-fourth-musketeer/?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #archaeology

Archaeologists may have found the grave of the legendary "fourth musketeer"

This will not be turning up in the church rummage sale.

Ars Technica

Global Museum 2d ago

Is your museum brand sending mixed signals?
Are your fonts and colors all over the place? Is your messaging scattered, held together by a mishmash of Canva templates that feel very... off brand?

Arts marketing strategist Rani Robison of Neptune Sugar will walk you through the most common branding pitfalls arts and culture organizations make and how to fix them.
Register👇

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/WTj0PhO3Q0OiJxFnsyo0Dg#/registration #globalmuseum #museums

Global Museum 2d ago

Over the past 234 years, the National Museum of Scotland's library has gathered a wide-ranging and often surprising collection. In this Discover article, Morven Donald, Assistant Librarian, highlights six incredible objects from its collection.
https://www.nms.ac.uk/discover-catalogue/6-highlights-from-our-library?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #museums #libraries

Global Museum 2d ago

Museums in Shenzhen and Guangzhou are building bridges between Hong Kong and mainland China.
Cultural exchanges in both directions have been created via new infrastructure, rail routes and flights, but also organically, through artist and institutional collaborations
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/24/new-museums-in-shenzhen-and-guangzhou-are-building-bridges-between-hong-kong-and-mainland-china #globalmuseum #museums #China