Museology

The Heritage 2015 "Restoration, Archeology and Museum Technologies" fair and conferences opened yesterday at the Lütfi K?rdar Congress and Exhibition Hall. Being organized for the first time in Turkey, the fair's theme is "New Perspectives, New Technologies, New Applications." 

The 10th annual "Night of Museums" in Croatia started on Friday evening in over 200 museums and cultural institutions in 100 towns and cities.

Opening the doors for free to visitors between 6pm and 1am on Saturday has become a popular event on the last Friday in January each year.

Greece's Education Ministry plans to scrap an art history schoolbook which was recently criticized of misrepresenting the history of the the 5th-century B.C. Parthenon Marbles, now housed in the British Museum.

BELGRADE - Belgrade-based scientist Sofija Stefanovic and her team have managed to secure a EUR 1.7 million European Research Council (ERC) grant for a scientific project of research into population growth in prehistoric times.

Bulgaria is losing an estimated BGN 500 M (EUR 250 M) a year from illegal trading in archaeological artifacts due to inconsistent legislation, a local NGO announced on Monday.

As the country’s museums and archaeological sites prepare to revert to a reduced winter timetable on Saturday, Culture Ministry officials yesterday hailed as a resounding success the enforcement of an extended timetable at most of the country’s sites over the summer.

A major exhibition on the Seljuks will be held at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art without loans from Turkey.

The British Institute will organize a workshop titled “Public Archaeology: Theoretical Approaches and Current Practices in Turkey” on Oct. 30 and 31 at Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations.

An exhibition called 'Revisiting Romania: Dress and Identity,' including over 500 folk costumes, towels, cloths and household items representing the various ethnographic areas of Romania will open in the Horniman Museum of London on Friday, October 3.

Over the past 10 years, Turkey has been working to increase its number of museums and keep them up to contemporary standards, while also keeping in mind the necessity of quality over quantity In recent years Turkey has taken large strides to develop museums of international standards, which have opened one after the other.