museum

May 15, 2018, 11:13 am

Long-dead wild animals get new life on view at Tel Aviv nature museum

'If they die, they come to us,' where 2 Russia-trained taxidermists and dozens of curators have labored to prepare a facility that speaks to kids and professors alike

By Jessica Steinberg

Gail Asper with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Moe Levy, executive director of the Asper Foundation in Winnipeg. (Courtesy)

April 7, 2018, 12:56 pm

Canadian heiress throws millions into massive Tel Aviv-based Jewish hall of fame

The catch? Gail Asper still needs millions more for her dream $400-million Frank Gehry-designed museum, aimed at reframing the Jewish narrative and showcasing achievement

By Robert Sarner

The 'bombe,' a code breaking machine developed by a group of British mathematicians, is pictured at the Spyscape Museum on February 8, 2018 in New York (AFP PHOTO / Thomas URBAIN)

February 17, 2018, 8:04 am

‘Discover your inner spy’ at New York’s latest museum

From undergoing lie detector tests to decoding secret messages, interactive installations at Spyscape gives visitors a taste of life as a secret agent

By AFP

'De materia medica' by Dioscorides. Physician preparing an elixir. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund)

February 14, 2018, 11:31 pm

National Library of Israel shares interfaith love with Islamic art exhibit in NY

In 'Romance and Reason,' 24 Islamic pieces join those from other leading institutions to highlight the intellectual cooperation between Muslims and Greeks

By Cathryn J. Prince

Illustrative: The Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin (Wiki Commons, CC BY 3.0, Andreas Praefcke)

January 22, 2018, 8:41 pm

Two Berlin museums return works to heirs of Jewish collector

Foundation gives back 11 works that had belonged to Margarete Oppenheim, whose family was forced to sell them at a deflated price to National Socialists in 1936

By JTA

Pedestrians walk past Istanbul’s Neve Şalom Synagogue, one of the most important Jewish landmarks in Turkey. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)

January 10, 2018, 4:01 am

As Israel-Turkey tensions rise, so does foot traffic to Istanbul’s Jewish Museum

While PMs Erdoğan and Netanyahu trade barbs, mostly local visitors flock to 'the only place Turks can learn about Jewish culture'

By Larry Luxner

Florence Schechter showcasing her museum idea at a Limmud Festival in Birmingham, England, December 28, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

January 6, 2018, 5:51 am

This Jewish woman is creating the world’s first vagina museum

Florence Schechter has heard every joke on the subject since announcing her new project, but aims to shed light on serious issues facing women today

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Visitors go through an exhibit on the Old Testament at Museum of the Bible November 15, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

November 16, 2017, 5:28 pm

Washington’s Bible museum won’t touch political hot potatoes

Funded by evangelical Christian Steve Green, the controversial Hobby Lobby head, institution claims 'non-sectarian' mission

By Maggy DONALDSON

A mural of musician Leonard Cohen seen on a building in downtown Montreal, November 7, 2017. (AFP/Marc Braibant)

November 10, 2017, 4:04 am

With virtual choir, quirky exhibit reimagines Leonard Cohen

Glitzy installations for low-key performer feature a locked bedroom, an organ whose keys recite singer's verses, a slithering dancer

By Shaun Tandon

Anne Frank, aged 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941. (Courtesy, Beyond the Story)

October 30, 2017, 7:51 pm

A German train named ‘Anne Frank’? Not a great idea

Amsterdam museum points out that the teenage Jewish Holocaust victim and diarist was deported by train

By AP and JTA

Zev Moses, director of the Museum of Jewish Montreal. (Julie Masis/Times of Israel)

April 16, 2017, 3:59 am

Canada’s oldest Jewish community welcomes new addition – a history museum

Focusing on the Jewish impact on the city's culture, the Montreal institution covers Leonard Cohen, art, landmarks -- and even cuisine

By Julie Masis

Leopold David, first mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. (Courtesy AJM)

February 18, 2017, 7:01 pm

For the past 150 years, Alaskan Jews have blazed trails in the last frontier

With a spotlight on the dramatic rescue of 40,000 Yemenite Jews by Alaska Airlines, the Alaska Jewish museum marks the anniversary of 'Seward’s Folly'

By Rich Tenorio

The courtyard of Amsterdam’s emerging National Holocaust Museum, through which hundreds of Jewish children were smuggled into safety during the Shoah, January 15, 2017 (Matt Lebovic/Times of Israel)

February 3, 2017, 3:48 pm

Where 500 children ‘disappeared’ from Nazi clutches, a new Dutch Shoah museum emerges

Taking shape in the heart of Amsterdam's old Jewish district, a former teachers college to be a testament to the 102,000 Dutch Jews murdered in the Holocaust

By Matt Lebovic

Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky, left, with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (Wikimedia commons/kremlin.ru)

December 16, 2016, 7:43 pm

Did Russia meddle in recent US art theft legislation?

New congressionally approved bills provide immunity from seizure of foreign works on loan in the States. As one critic alleges the Hermitage had undue influence, is it just a case of jumping on the anti-Russia bandwagon?

By Rich Tenorio

Ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" (Screen capture: YouTube)

October 20, 2016, 8:31 pm

Wanted: $300K to rescue Dorothy’s ruby slippers

Smithsonian launches Kickstarter campaign to restore 80-year-old iconic 'Wizard of Oz' props, preserve them for public

By Ben Nuckols