The Niagara Parks Power Station has won a major award for its design excellence. The refurbished 118-year-old building, which opened to the public two years ago, received one of two Grand Prize awards at the 2022 Niagara Biennial Design Awards this week.

From historic monuments to mighty superstructures, ancient cities to modern megalopolises, we explore Saudi’s must-see architecture.

Lord Cultural Resources was honoured to be engaged on major five-year pre-opening consultancy assignment for ITHRA, advising on many aspects of this groundbreaking project in Saudi Arabia.

This year, the historic Charleston Museum and the forthcoming International African American Museum will hold a series of exhibitions and public programmes that critically explore the role of the city in the transatlantic slave trade.

Much of the history of Miami history has been made on Virginia Key. In 2016, the consulting firm Lord Cultural Resources produced a business plan stating that the museum would need operating support from the government and private sources, It estimated an operating budget of about $2 million per year for the first three years.

Chants of "Woman, Life, Freedom" echoed around Roosevelt Island in New York City on Sunday as hundreds gathered to bring to life an art installation symbolizing solidarity with the women leading the uprising in Iran.

Canadian Modern, a new exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum, celebrates the country’s unforgettable contribution to design by showcasing a collection of 100 limited-edition and mass-produced objects—all made in Canada.

Although some museums and visitor attractions  continue to suffer from lower-than-usual visitor numbers since the pandemic, there is still plenty of investment in the museum sector today. This can be seen most clearly in the number of high-profile museums and galleries that are scheduled to open their doors to the public in 2023.

Lord's specific role in the Grand Egyptian Museum centered on the project management of the exhibition design and construction.

Indigenous advisors will be hired to help rewrite a 1990 museum policy to promote “equity, diversity and inclusion,” the Department of Canadian Heritage said yesterday.

As museums have become more inclusive places, they have begun to welcome patrons with dementia. Many, including the Frist, took cues from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which started its Alzheimer’s Project in 2007.

In a new podcast released this week, Glenn Lowry, the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), discusses the political and cultural landscape post-Covid. He is raising issues such as the role of museums, abortion rights in America and whether “democracy will survive the next decade”.

The museum is looking forward to it’s return to the Frick Mansion on 70th Street.

In 2022, the Louvre received 7.8 million visitors—19% less than in 2019, albeit a rise of 170% from 2021 when French museums were closed for nearly five months. But the fall in attendance is not necessarily bad news. The Louvre Director Laurence des Cars has hit the pause button and decided to limit daily entries to 30,000.

The endless debate over the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece could soon see a hopeful conclusion as the British Museum has confirmed that it is engaged in “constructive discussions” with Athens.

It’s 2023, and if you’re looking for a list of the most important, must-see exhibitions of the year. You have come to the right place! Here’s a round-up of the U.S. Museum shows you’ll definitely want to keep an eye on, through May.

Eighty-five new species of wasp are among more than 350 new species identified in 2022 by the Natural History Museum. By combing through its collections, as well as sending scientists on research trips, curators and researchers have managed to describe a total of 351 new species.

Over the past decade, Los Angeles has emerged as a global arts center, already renowned for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad and, most recently, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Less visible is an extensive and important network of smaller museums, catering to niche audiences interested in topics ranging from olive growing to the Garifuna people of the Caribbean.

Museum curators once regarded non-Western cultures as primitive. Now they’re trying to change the narrative.

Museums are more than just the curated artifacts in glass cases or artwork on white walls. There’s so much visitors don’t get to see. That’s why Atlas Obscura has a series called “Secret Lives of Museums,” to highlight the people of these amazing places and the sometimes unusual stuff they have to do.

David Chipperfield Architects have won an international competition to design Greece’s New National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The London and Berlin-based practice – working with local firm Alexandros N Tombazis & Associates – was chosen ahead of 10 rival teams.

Sydney is home to one of the most recognizable buildings in the world: Jørn Utzon’s Opera House. The shot of its shell-like nesting roofs, with the trussed arch of the Harbour Bridge rising beyond, is without question the image most associated with the city. But now, half a century since the completion of Utzon’s building, Sydney has an architectural landmark with an entirely different character—the expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales designed by the Pritzker Prize–winning architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, principals of Tokyo-based SANAA.

For years, around 300,000 finds – ranging from arrow heads to pots, pipe bowls and tools to make canoes – have been stashed in boxes in an office suite in a National Capital Commission building steps from Parliament.

Clearing, one of the New York galleries that helped trigger a groundswell of artistic activity in Bushwick in the early 2010s, is set to leave the neighborhood after more than a decade there.

The old trope of Vancouver being all mountains, oceans, Gore-Tex and no culture is tired and pure fiction. This is a city with an impressive and exciting cultural output – novels, rock songs and beyond.

Celebrating its ninth edition, FOG Design+Art returned to San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture with an international roster of 48 galleries. Benefitting the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s education and exhibitions program, the fair’s preview gala on Wednesday evening drew notable faces such as Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, and actor Owen Wilson.

The Gardiner Expressway is a defining feature of Toronto’s landscape. As the City of Toronto works to rehabilitate the elevated expressway and bring new life to surrounding communities, there is an opportunity to reimagine how this piece of infrastructure can connect, perform, and inspire.

Canada Goose may be a luxury parka brand, but it has big ambitions when it comes to acquiring Canadian art.

Decades since the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act’s was passed, many museums and universities have still not returned remains in their collections.

Hinojos, who is also known as “La Morena,” is the first Chicana and Indigenous artist to be selected by the NFL for a collaboration. This includes creating artwork that be featured on the tickets for the 2023 Super Bowl and displayed across Arizona in the month leading up to the game.

In what is being presented as a sure sign of India's flourishing art market, Mumbai Gallery Weekend (MGW) is currently holding its largest edition (until 15 January), with 32 participants—its first regular event since 2020.

The United States might rejoin Unesco, more than four years after their most recent departure. An article in the $1.7 trillion Omnibus Appropriations Bill passed on 22 December paves the way for the Biden administration to rejoin and finance the Unesco organisation—the United Nations (UN) culture and education body—as well as pay the huge debt accumulated in membership dues.

Projects to build a research center at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, to develop digital tours of an exhibition highlighting Jewish founders of the film industry at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, and to add touch-screen kiosks to the National Comedy Center in Lucille Ball’s hometown of Jamestown, N.Y., are among the 204 beneficiaries of new grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities announced on Tuesday.

Life Kit talks to three art professionals about how to look at art and have a museum experience that leaves you feeling revitalized and inspired.

The Manhattan District Attorney (DA)’s Office has returned looted antiquity to the Palestinian Authority in what it says marks the United States’s first repatriation of a cultural object to the Palestinian people.

Archaeologists are on the leading edge of a wave of jobs that will result from $1.2 trillion in direct government spending from the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

The exhibitions pay tribute to the groundbreaking genre in all its forms, from beats to art to fashion.

The adaptation for television depicts the mistreatment of First Nations people in Canada and has drawn praise for its unflinching realism.

Two new lawsuits – one this week from the Seattle-based photography giant Getty Images – take aim at popular image-generating services for allegedly copying and processing millions of copyright-protected images without a license.

At the Crypto Valley Partners-sponsored networking lounge, attendees can strap on virtual reality goggles to visit the Octopus Contemporary Art Museum (OCAM) designed by ArtMeta, a metaverse and digital display company.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has acquired its first NFT, a work titled Final Transformation #2 (2022) by artist Lynn Hershman Leeson.