Museum looking for Taylor Swift superfan to work as advisor
Is this your dream job? The Victoria and Albert museum in London is recruiting a Taylor Swift superfan advisor to join their team. The job description has been posted on their current vacancies page with a closing date of 7th March. The job advertisement asks; “Are you an encyclopaedia of Emojis? A connoisseur of Crocs? […]
2 years ago
Military museum forced to ask couples to stop having sex behind exhibitions
Staff have helpfully suggested somewhere else for them to…. Exhibitions at one museum have become the unexpected hotspot for couples getting frisky – but staff have quite frankly had enough. The Fort Gerhada military museum in Poland is apparently where lovers like to get down and dirty these days. Staff recently updated the CCTV system […]
3 years ago
2,000 year old skull held together by metal offers evidence of ancient surgery
The Peruvian warrior survived the remarkable surgery A museum in the US has branded an elongated skull fused together with metal as “one of our most interesting” pieces, with experts saying it is one of the earliest examples of surgery amongst ancient peoples. The skull, which is currently in the possession of SKELETONS: Museum of Osteology in […]
4 years ago
Artist turns in blank canvases after being given $84,000 for museum art
He called the piece ‘Take The Money And Run.’ An artist in Denmark delivered two blank canvases to a museum after it had lent him £84,000 to use within his work. Jens Haaning was meant to recreate two of his pieces from 2010 for the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, which depicted the average income […]
4 years ago
The V&A’s video game exhibition is a must for any serious gamer
We’re surely past the ‘Are video games art?’ discussions by now, right? Video games are almost certainly going to be the defining artistic medium of the twenty-first century. Interactive entertainment has the potential to thrill us, bring us together, let us experience the lives of others, and be creative, in ways passive mediums like movies […]
7 years ago
1,300-year-old ‘mysterious artefact’ found on body of aristocrat put on display
The ‘Trumpington Cross’ is made of gold and garnet and its value is astonishing. A 1,300-year-old cross that was buried with the body of an Anglo-Saxon teenager is set to go on display in Cambridge. It will be held in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, just a few miles away from where the object was discovered. […]
8 years ago