If you read our recent article about the Dong Son bell identified at a museum in Assen and the troubling questions surrounding its provenanc...

Few dates have shaped museum acquisition practice as profoundly as 1970. The adoption of the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting a...

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things  which he can afford to let alone."  - Henry David Thoreau There has been a q...

Last Fall, the French Ministry of Culture took a notable step toward strengthening accountability in the museum sector by preparing a compre...

Detail of the altarpiece of the main altar of Santa Eugenia In 1927, a black-and-white photograph published in Historia documentada de la vi...

Stefan Papic on Flor Bressers' luxury yacht. A Bosnian-Dutch national, accused of play...

Welcome to ARCA’s PG Cert Alumni Spotlight Series, a collection of in-depth Q&A interviews conducted by Edgar Tijhuis*, highlighting the...

I have long been fascinated by the reddish-buff clay figures of barefoot women placed along the eaves of ancient Etruscan roofs. Dressed in ...

This week's theft at the Zilvermuseum Doesburg represents a troubling example of how cultural institutions, particularly smaller museums...

On 21 April 2024, at around 4 a.m., three masked individuals forced their way into the Musée royal de Mariemont, 50 km south of Brussels, in...