Lord Cultural Resources is pleased to announce the release of its latest publication, the Manual of Museum Exhibitions 3rd Edition. To celebrate with us, we are hosting a webinar on the latest trends in museum exhibitions. During the hour-long webinar, we talk with the book’s editor, Maria Piacente, followed by a panel discussion with museum and cultural expert contributors.

Our Vice President Dov Goldstein will be speaking at the Ontario Museums Association’s annual conference. Dov will be joined by Shelley Falconer, President and CEO of the Art Gallery of Hamilton to discuss the future of the AGH.

Senior Consultant with Lord Cultural Resources Tiffany Lyons will speak about Truth, Healing, And Reconciling at the Council of American Jewish Museums Conference. In partnership with the Association of African American Museums, the national conference on—Re/Imagining: The Future of Culturally Specific Museums — is taking place in New York City this November 1-3, 2022.

We are excited to announce the appointment of Holly Shen as a new Director in the U.S. office of Lord Cultural Resources. Based in San José, California, Holly is a leading voice in creative placemaking and placekeeping, public art, and digital strategy.

The mayor of Salford, England, stepped in last week to plead with wealthy donors to purchase the painting at auction so that it could stay in the artist’s hometown museum, the Lowry, where it has been housed for since 2000.

In 2020, the Niagara Falls History Museum collected thousands of crochetted and knitted poppies from around the world.  After developing their display, they donated some of their leftover poppies to continue the movement in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Through generous funding from the Government of Canada, we are expanding the NOTL Poppy Project and will include the Museum display, an expanded poppy garden with soldiers' names, a "poppy path" on King Street, poppy wreaths on some of the Queen Street shops and a display on the Court House.

As the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum undergoes a major redesign, its leaders hope it can do more to engage the public and educate visitors about the realities of climate change.

Starting Saturday, admission to Remai Modern will be by donation on all open days following a financial gift from the Frank and Ellen Remai foundation.

We at Lord Cultural Resources are proud to offer our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Sara Diamond, Thought Leader in Digital, Data, Higher Education and Public Art, on the investiture of her Order of Canada.

The Order of Canada is one of Canada's highest civilian honours. Created in 1967, the Order of Canada recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. Close to 7,000 people from all sectors of society have been invested into the Order. 

Dr Diamond was one of only 83 new appointments announced in 2019 to receive this prestigious award, recognizing her immense contribution to Canada’s art, culture, and digital industries. The award was presented on October 20, 2022 at Rideau Hall. 

In a recent op-ed in “The Globe and Mail,” Gail calls for removed works to be placed in an Aware-house (not a ware house, but an “aware-house”) where the works would be removed from public space, where people do not have the choice of whether to interact with these works and their histories, and instead place them in an Awarehouse where the works can be contextualized and discussed by activists, curators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, as well as by and with the general public.

The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) celebrated 26 years of showcasing Latin American and Latinx art with a very successful gala that brought together more than 500 celebrants and supporters for a fun-filled extravaganza of fun, delicious food, great music, and art appreciation. MOLAA also honored Master Artist Fernando Botero, businessman and philanthropist George L. Plá, and Fundación Elías Pando with its LEGADO awards.

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is planning to mark its 10th anniversary in 2024 with a major expansion, with the help of one of its original supporters.

Philanthropist and business mogul Arthur M. Blank has committed $15 million toward the center’s $48 million capital campaign that will add two wings to the downtown museum.

With great respect and in reflection of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation here in Canada, Lord employees had a day to observe and explore what truth and reconciliation means to us as individuals.  Across the nation, the day was marked in different ways.

The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is showcasing an exhibit dedicated to the “Micmac Indian Craftsmen” (MIC) from the 1960s, called “Wabanaki Modern – the Artistic Legacy of the 1960s “Micmac Indian Craftsmen.”

Designed by KPMB, the new Harrison McCain Pavilion entry is a multi-functional lobby for the existing Gallery.

Vancouver could become the first city in Canada to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) with a plan developed alongside the three First Nations on whose territory the city is located.

The alliance is announcing a new initiative to help draw up these standards, which will be devised with the assistance of a six-to-eight-person advisory group of museum professionals, over the next three years. The process will be supported by a $740,000 government grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

For more than two decades, artist Robert Sutz has been working in his Scottsdale, Arizona studio to create an expansive body of work focused on the Holocaust. Soon, his artworks will be part of a new Holocaust Museum those pieces helped to inspire.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: "The British Museum is prevented by law from removing objects from its collections, except in some narrow circumstances. The government has no plans to change this act."

Three U.S. museums transferred ownership of more than two dozen works of art known as the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria Tuesday, part of an effort to return pieces they say were stolen over a century ago.

The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War, an online history centre that has been almost a decade in the making, may chronicle and examine a conflict that ended 83 years ago but its aims could not be more timely.

Opened on Oct. 10, 1972, the Flat River Historical Museum at 213 N. Franklin St. near Montcalm Street, has spent the last five decades inviting guests to take a walk back in time.

This winter, many British museums will welcome homeless people seeking a place to stay warm. But a new museum, called The Museum of Homelessness, will soon be putting the experiences of homeless people front and centre.

Valour & Victory honours the contributions and sacrifices made by Six Nations and Native Allies during the Battle of Queenston Heights and the War of 1812 in support of their British and Canadian compatriots.

Led by a new team, the McMichael Art Collection expands beyond its reputation as a Group of Seven shrine and goes in search of a wider, more diverse Canada

The Rosetta Stone is the star attraction of a new exhibition at the British Museum. It marks one of the most significant dates in Egyptology: 200 years since the French scholar, Jean-Francois Champollion, finally cracked its code and deciphered hieroglyphs.

A new sound installation by the artist Marysia Lewandowska will accompany visitors’ wanderings through The Cosmic House, the former home of Charles Jencks, the architectural historian and Postmodernist provocateur.

Ukraine's precious cultural history has fallen victim to Putin's 227-day-long invasion of Ukraine, the culture minister has told AP. Oleksandr Tkachenko alleged that Russian soldiers had looted thousands of artifacts from almost 40 Ukrainian museums in an interview with AP.

The history of the lost neighborhood will come to life as Lincoln Center reopens the newly renovated David Geffen Hall with back-to-back performances of “San Juan Hill: A New York Story,” a new work by Trinidad-born trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles. Lincoln Center commissioned the piece, and is presenting it jointly with the New York Philharmonic.

The relationship between Canada’s Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples need not be forever bound by the painful past.

When the Guggenheim Bilbao opened 25 years ago (18 October 1997), its architect Frank Gehry spoke of a “very strong mythology accepted by most architects: that a museum for art has to be [deferential] and neutral in order that it does not compete with the art”. And debate began almost as soon as the museum opened about whether, in resisting that tendency, he was demonstrating its wisdom.