A quick snap! Tourist accidentally breaks the toes off a 200-year-old sculpture at Italian museum while lying on it for a selfie The tourist leaned on the ‘Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix’ artwork He accidentally broke off three of the toes of the 200-year-old sculpture Police say they have identified the man as a 50-year-old … Read more
Tourist snaps the toes off a 200-year-old sculpture at Italian museum while lying on it to take a selfie The tourist leaned on the ‘Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix’ artwork He accidentally broke off three of the toes of the 200-year-old sculpture Police say they have identified the man as a 50-year-old Austrian tourist By … Read more
He’s the self-made billionaire who, along with his brother, built an enormous property empire from the ground-up – after renovating a £122,000 one-bedroom flat in central London. And now Christian Candy plans to expand his £150million Candyland kingdom even further – with the construction of an underground museum for up to 57 cars, a dance … Read more
The museum is awash with sightings of the paranormal. Pretty much everybody who works there agrees that the objects all hold a lot of energy The British Museum is home to the largest collection of ancient relics and bones, so it’s not surprising that staff and visitors have experienced thousands of eerie happenings. Historian Guy … Read more
A former councillor has been charged with criminal damage after the words ‘Dickens Racist’ were scrawled on a Charles Dickens museum. Ian Driver, 63, of Broadstairs, Kent, was arrested today and charged with seven counts of criminal damage relating to an alleged offence in Broadstairs on Saturday June 13 and six in Broadstairs and Ramsgate … Read more
NYC’s Museum of Natural History will remove its statue of Theodore Roosevelt on horseback flanked by Native American and African men because it ‘symbolizes racism and colonial expansion’ The bronze statue depicts Theodore Roosevelt on horseback with a Native American man and an African man standing next to the horse It has stood at the museum’s … Read more
Amazon UK boss quits to become director of the Natural History Museum By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:58 BST, 18 June 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 18 June 2020 Doug Gurr (pictured) will replace Sir Michael Dixon at the Natural History later this year Amazon UK’s boss is quitting to become director … Read more
‘Bring down Winston Churchill’s statue!’ Black Lives Matter organiser calls for ‘offensive’ memorial of wartime leader to be removed and put into a museum Imarn Ayton, a figurehead of BLM movement, feels the Churchill statue must go As a compromise she feels it should be placed into a museum, not in the streets ‘Any statues … Read more
‘Bring down Winston Churchill’s statue!’ Black Lives Matter organiser calls for ‘offensive’ memorial of wartime leader to be removed and put into a museum Imarn Ayton, a figurehead of BLM movement, feels the Churchill statue must go As a compromise she feels it should be placed into a museum, not in the streets ‘Any statues … Read more
Police arrived at the home of Oxford-educated Madeline Odent this evening after she tweeted a guide on how to destroy bronze statues in the wake of recent Black Lives Matters protests. Museum curator Madeline Odent wrote a series of tweets last night on how to destroy bronze statues such as the one of Edward Colston … Read more