The museum, a collaboration between Dubai Culture, Dubai Municipality, and Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, promises visitors a fascinating insight into the rich past of the UAE.

The newly rebranded and reimagined Central Bank Museum reopened on January 15, after three years. It was formerly known as the Money Museum. Speaking at the launch, the bank’s human resources, industrial and external relations senior manager Nicole Crooks said the reopening was a matter of perfect timing when all parties were able to be on board for the project. Crooks said management went through a conceptualisation stage and the right consultants were engaged.

NGX Interactive, a Lord Cultural Resources partner, was granted the prestigious Summit Emerging Media Awards for the Perlan Museum Augmented Reality Cliff Viewers exhibit. This award recognizes and celebrates creativity, innovation, and those pushing the boundaries of creative excellence in all newer forms of emerging media. The cliff viewers received the highest award, the coveted Visionary Award.

Los Angeles has quickly become the visual arts mecca and global player in art and culture. A huge part of that scene is thanks to the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach where diversity is interwoven into the multi-cultural world of Latin American Art amidst the artful metropolis of the City of Angels. The Museum of Latin American Art is a cultural partner of the LA Art Show and is exhibiting Cristian Castro's site-specific installation, 27 Peces/27 Fish, from January 23-27.

El museo Chillida-Leku, el imponente espacio artístico al aire libre que acoge más de 40 obras de gran formato del escultor vasco más universal, reabrirá sus puertas en abril de este año tras permanecer cerrado al público desde enero de 2011, cuando la familia del artista decidió el cierre por la crisis económica y la falta de ayudas oficiales. "Estamos francamente encantados ante esta nueva etapa que va a experimentar Chillida-Leku”, afirma Luis Chillida en nombre de los herederos.

The provincial government announced its partnership with the City of Vancouver last September to explore the creation of a new Chinese-Canadian museum, and it is now engaged in a public consultation process that will help guide the creation of a detailed proposal. As part of the consultation process launched earlier this winter, the provincial government released an independent report created by Lord Cultural Resources that evaluated possible preliminary options.

Workers restoring the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford have uncovered writings on beams and walls from Six Nations students at the former residential school dating back as far as the early 1900s. The discovery has added a new dimension and poignancy to the $16 million project, which was already aimed at reviving the centre with a greater focus on its history as a residential school.

Green Gables Heritage Place, PEI: The setting for Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables novels will get a larger visitor centre in the spring of 2019, with a revamped gift shop and new interpretive exhibits among the upgrades.

One of the largest private foundations in the U.S. has donated $10 million to the National Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations, The Office of Strategic Services Society announced on Dec. 17.

More than 180 pieces of dog artwork and half a dozen interactive digital exhibits line two floors and three stories of New York City’s newest museum: The AKC Museum of the Dog. The museum will officially open February 8, 2019.

Mandela: Struggle for Freedom will continue at Canadian Museum for Human Rights until Oct. 14

The CMHR says a survey in the summer found one-third of visitors to the Winnipeg museum came specifically to see the Nelson Mandela exhibition. 

Beijing's Zaha Hadid-designed airport and the M+ museum of visual culture in Hong Kong are among Dezeen editor Amy Frearson's picks of the most exciting new buildings opening in 2019.

Miami-Dade is waiting on $3 million in state grant funds before proceeding with six library projects expected to cost a combined $31.1 million. On Dec. 4, commissioners unanimously OK’d an item sponsored by Javier Souto to approve the county’s new five-year library plan, which library staff had worked on since February 2017 with planning consultants Lord Cultural Resources.

Each new year ushers in new offerings; museum openings are among them. 2019 will welcome in new attractions within this sector, as new buildings or new additions are anticipated to open their doors and greet visitors with a variety of memorabilia, masterpieces or magnificent finds or collections. Here is a roundup of museums set to open in 2019. 

See Our work with National Museum of African American Music and The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the National Museum of Indian Cinema here and underlined the role Indian films have played in projecting the nation’s soft power across the globe. Modi heaped praise on the artistes for taking Indian cinema to the level that it has currently reached.

Congratulations to the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative on its 60th Anniversary! To produce 60 years of great art in a cooperative setting is an achievement of great consequence to Canada and the world. Thank you for the beauty you have brought to us.  

The Art Gallery of Ontario is taking the unusual step of selling off 20 paintings by famed Group of Seven painter A.Y. Jackson to make room for more works by underrepresented artists.

Dubai Expo 2020, the opening of Louvre Abu Dhabi, billions spent on humanitarian aid around the world all are part of the UAE’s goal of establishing itself as a “soft superpower” and the regional capital for ideas, culture, art and tourism.

Banksy’s Love is in the Bin—the work sensationally shredded by remote control during an auction at Sotheby’s in London in October last year—will enter the collection of the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie as a long-term loan, the museum says in a statement. The painting will first go on show in a four-week exhibition in Baden-Baden, Germany.

If you thought 2018 was a big year for museum openings and expansions—think of the Victoria & Albert Museum of Design in Dundee, and the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, to name just two prominent examples—then fasten your seat belts. The next 12 months are jam-packed with headline-worthy developments around the world.

ICOM invites its members, committees, partners and other interested stakeholders to participate in the development of potential alternatives for the museum definition in time for the 25^th ICOM General Conference, which will take place in Kyoto, 1-7 September 2019.

Close to 300,000 people have visited the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice since they opened in April 2018. Local, national, and international visitors and media are describing the sites as powerful spaces for truthfully confronting American history. The New York Times declares, "There is nothing like it in the country. Which is the point." Congratulations to the new Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace & Justice on their courage and success.

Museums are having a field day with these duck pics. The Museum of English Rural Life, whose Twitter account is the internet equivalent of a hot cup of tea on a rainy day, asked the British Museum to give them their "best duck."

Muzeum Susch aims to bring a “disruptive outlook” to the historic Engadin valley pilgrimage site. For the collector Grazyna Kulczyk, it will be third time lucky when she opens her private museum in the Swiss Alpine village of Susch on 2 January. After negotiations with the city authorities in Poznan and then Warsaw fell through in her native Poland, Kulczyk has realised her dream on the site of a 12th-century monastery that she discovered “by chance” during a day trip from her home in the Lower Engadin valley. The remote location, once a pitstop on the Medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela, struck her as “the perfect place for the kind of activity I had in mind—a museum with a disruptive outlook”, she says.

Architecture, a slow art that takes time to be realized, is expected to last for years. But surprisingly often, a building is remodeled, expanded, or even torn down, before its once-imagined expiration date. This weekend, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, reopens as an intriguing case study of this process.

With hundreds of design fairs, conferences and trade shows taking place around the world every year, it can be hard to choose which to attend. To help you out, we've compiled a definitive guide to over 50 of the best events of 2019 for your calendar.

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A total of 700 science and technology museums had been built by the end of 2018 at middle schools throughout rural China, providing better access to science and technology for three million students, Science and Technology Daily reported on 24 December.

The Musée de Bretagne is an open access pioneer in the French museum sector, offering high-resolution public domain images free to download and use. Douglas McCarthy spoke with Céline Chanas and Fabienne Martin-Adam to learn about the genesis, impact and context of the museum’s open access policy.

Johannas Vermeer is one of art history’s most prolific painters. While his body of work comprises less than 40 pieces, his paintings can be found in a myriad of museums—both real and imaginary. In Meet Vermeer, a digital platform created by Google Arts & Culture and the Mauritshuis Museum, Vermeer’s entire body of work is “illuminated in the virtual space” and presented in augmented reality.

France and Germany agreed to found at least ten joint cultural institutes by 2020, with the first four combined institutes to be established in Rio de Janeiro, Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Erbil in Iraq and Palermo, Sicily.

“It may be said that the world is troubled,” Patrick Flores, the biennial's artistic director, says in a statement. “We ask: what is the possibility of art, the artist, and the audience in light of this trouble? What is the responsibility of the artwork, its making, and its experience in the prospects of future action? As we believe, every effort to change the world for the better matters. SB2019 puts its faith squarely in the potential of art and its understanding to rework the world.”

The story of nearly 10 years of research, conservation, and improvements to preserve the Tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt.

This multiyear project was a collaboration of the Getty Conservation Institute and Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities. It focused on conservation and the creation of a sustainable plan for continued management of the tomb.

CAMBRIDGE, England — As he was leading a tour of the Polar Museum at Cambridge University one recent Saturday, Dan Vo drew the group’s attention to a smooth white penguin egg found in Antarctica in the early 1900s. It had been collected on an expedition that included George Murray Levick, the author of a semi-secret 1915 paper “The Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin.”

According to a survey released in 2017, nearly half of museum boards are entirely white. Now, a $4 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Alice L. Walton Foundation, and the Ford Foundation aims to change that.

Some of the world’s most beautiful gardens we stumbled across in our travels and others are known to everyone who loves landscapes.

What if, long before Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo, the Neanderthals were humanity’s first artists? At any rate, this is the hypothesis raised by new dating of Spanish rock paintings published in February 2018 in the journal Science, indicating that the hands and animals depicted on the walls of three caves date back 65,000 years. This would mean that they were painted 25,000 years before the arrival of the first Homo sapiens in the Iberian peninsula.

A mobile building that looks like the Bauhaus school in Dessau will travel between four global cities, aiming to "unlearn" the influential school's Eurocentric attitudes. Called Wohnmaschine, which means "living house", the small-scale Bauhaus bus will travel between four cities in 2019, the school's centenary year.

By collapsing pixel data and hex codes, the team at Shutterstock was able to see what hues their users are downloading most frequently. Using this information they’ve compiled a visual report of the top three universally popular colors, as well as local favourites from different countries around the world. Check out the report below.

City planning is often about big visions: shaping city blocks and transit routes and skylines. But Hamilton, Ontario planner Jason Thorne focuses his energy on small and intangible things – live music, street festivals, helping cyclists get around – that create a sense of place and pride.