Museums around the world have been grappling with the issue of diorama removal. Some museums have opted to remove these old dioramas; the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in the US ...

Since then, they’ve been scattered in museums and collections around the world. In early November, a new website was launched called Digital Benin cataloguing the location of 5,246 bronzes ...

Most museums in South Africa would consider themselves fortunate if they had 45,000 visitors in a year. Zeitz Mocaa has had around 100,000 since opening. On display.

JOHANNESBURG >> A South African Cabinet minister on Friday urged the cancellation of an upcoming U.S. auction of a key to the Robben Island prison cell where Nelson Mandela, the country’s first ...

Nelson Mandela, left, and former US president Bill Clinton look to the outside from Mandela’s Robben Island prison cell in Cape Town, South Africa, March 27, 1998.

In the final days of 1794, a Portuguese ship taking about 400 slaves from Mozambique to Brazil crashed on the rocks off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. About half of the slaves died in the ...

Transformation of the countries museums comes under the spotlight this morning, when a conference titled 'Blurring the Boundaries and Training for Transformation' kicks-off in Cape Town today.

A project about the return of objects from European museums ends in October. Here's what African artists and curators want to see next After global racial justice protests, looted colonial-era ...

Since 1977, International Museum Day has been organised worldwide and held every year on or around May 18, coordinated by Icom. The date was designated by Unesco as the International Day of ...

A pivotal report calls for thousands of artworks to leave French museums and return to West Africa. An artist, a historian and a philosopher debate what should happen — and what these objects ...

Seven years on and the French government's very public commitment to return art and cultural objects back to Africa, seemed to have stalled. Search Query Show Search News ...