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TOI Correspondent from London: Two thousand Jain manuscripts bought by British pharmaceutical entrepreneur Sir Henry Wellcome, which had been held by the Wellcome Collection in London, a museum set up after his death to hold all the items he had collected across the world, are now being returned to the Jain community.The collection, believed to…
The interactive installation Regular Animals is created by American digital artist Mike Winkelmann, widely known as Beeple. Image: AP At Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, visitors are greeted by robotic dogs fitted with hyper-realistic silicone heads resembling Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. These machines move through the gallery, observing their surroundings before producing AI-generated interpretations…
Thieves steal paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from a private museum in Italy. Thieves have stolen three paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse worth millions of euros from a museum near Parma, police said on Monday.The burglary took place overnight between March 22 and 23, when intruders forced open the entrance…
On the auspicious occasion of Mahavir Jayanti, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered a glimpse into India’s rich spiritual heritage by sharing images of the Samrat Samprati Museum at Koba Tirth. The PM shared some beautiful images on his official X (formerly Twitter) profile of the insides of the museum celebrating the 2,000 years old…
Ashmolean museum acquired the statue in 1967. In 2019, a French scholar flagged that its provenance was unclear, leading to a probe A 16th-century bronze statue of Saint Tirumankai Alvar, taken from a temple in Tamil Nadu, is among several Indian heritage items that are being returned to India from the UK.The Ashmolean Museum in…
An anti-billionaire activist group called ‘Everyone Hates Elon’ has hung a photograph of former Prince Andrew on the day of his arrest in the Louvre museum. (Screenshot) A British activist group staged a provocative stunt inside the Louvre Museum of France, hanging a framed image of ex-Prince Andrew — born Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — following his…
The Gulag History Museum in Moscow, the last prominent Russian institution dedicated to preserving the memory of Josef Stalin’s labour camps, is being replaced by a new museum focused on Nazi war crimes and the “genocide of the Soviet people,” the city govt announced on Friday.The museum stopped admitting visitors in Nov 2024, citing unspecified…
In a recent development and to boost tourism, the Uttar Pradesh government has announced plans to set up India’s first National Cow Culture Museum in Mathura. The project is aimed at celebrating the country’s cultural, spiritual and scientific connection to cows. As per media sources, the museum will be developed on the campus of the…
Mammootty’s ‘Bramayugam’ made history as the first Indian film screened at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. This period folk-horror, lauded for its black-and-white aesthetic and Mammootty’s chilling performance, captivated audiences. Social media buzzed with pride, celebrating Malayalam cinema’s global recognition and hailing the film as a monumental achievement. Malayalam megastar Mammootty‘s ‘Bramayugam’ became the…
From the 9th Century to Today: The Blue Quran Finds a Home in Mecca Museum In a landmark cultural moment for Islamic arts and history, the Holy Quran Museum in Mecca’s Hira Cultural District has opened a special display featuring a folio from the legendary ‘Blue Quran’ (Al-Muṣḥaf al-Azraq), which is one of the rarest…
