The removal of scaffolding during a seven-year restoration at Turkey’s iconic Hagia Sophia Mosque has revealed a number of Seraphim Angels. The Hagia Sophia Mosque in the north-western Turkish city of Istanbul was opened for worship on 24th July this year after previously being used as a museum for 86…
The popular flowery puppy monument which changes colours according to its flowers’ bloom cycle at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has this year been given a facemask of flowers as solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although kept a secret until now the blooms are starting to show clearly that the iconic…
France has unveiled Europe's first underwater museum made up of statues sculpted by various local artists by placing them along the seafloor 100 metres off the Mediterranean coast near Marseille. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUSpJTpzt5Q&feature=youtu.be Newsflash The project had been in the works for a while but had been met with various legal hurdles.…
Five African rights activists who tried to steal items from a museum in France to "take them home" have appeared in court in Paris. The prosecutor is asking for a EUR 1,000 (GBP 907) fine against Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza despite the maximum possible sentence of 10 years in…
The head of the Auschwitz museum has called on the Nigerian president to pardon a 13-year-old boy jailed for 10 years by an Islamic Sharia for blaspheming and said if it was not possible, he would serve part of the boy's sentence in his place. Piotr Cywinski, the head of…
