India: The culture ministry has identified five archaeological sites that will be developed as visitor destinations with onsite museums, as part of a major government investment in the tourism industry. An Institute of Heritage and Conservation is also being set up.
Israel: Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, has apologised for including inaccurate maps in a video at its Holocaust memorial event in January. Critics said the maps promoted pro-Russian revisionist propaganda, but the museum said there had been no external attempts to influence the material.
Poland: The elected director of Warsaw’s Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Dariusz Stola, has agreed to stand aside if an agreement can be found for the “museum’s further functioning”. The museum director has been in a year-long stalemate with the government, which had refused to confirm his reappointment.
US: The Museum of Chinese in America hopes much of its archive can be salvaged, after a fire broke out in a building storing 85,000 items. The museum itself is open to the public.
US: A national museum dedicated to women’s history is a step nearer after the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill to develop the facility. It would come under the Smithsonian network of museums.
Compiled by Geraldine Kendall Adams. Seen in Live Mint, Outlook India, Jewish Telegraph Agency, Times of Israel and Art Newspaper
Israel: Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, has apologised for including inaccurate maps in a video at its Holocaust memorial event in January. Critics said the maps promoted pro-Russian revisionist propaganda, but the museum said there had been no external attempts to influence the material.
Poland: The elected director of Warsaw’s Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Dariusz Stola, has agreed to stand aside if an agreement can be found for the “museum’s further functioning”. The museum director has been in a year-long stalemate with the government, which had refused to confirm his reappointment.
US: The Museum of Chinese in America hopes much of its archive can be salvaged, after a fire broke out in a building storing 85,000 items. The museum itself is open to the public.
US: A national museum dedicated to women’s history is a step nearer after the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill to develop the facility. It would come under the Smithsonian network of museums.
Compiled by Geraldine Kendall Adams. Seen in Live Mint, Outlook India, Jewish Telegraph Agency, Times of Israel and Art Newspaper
