The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza has inaugurated its new library, designed as a center for knowledge, scientific research, and cultural exchange. The project was carried out with the support of the French government and in…
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Ten years after Umberto Eco’s passing, Bologna is opening its doors to one of the most important collections of an author’s works in the contemporary world. The Eco Library has been inaugurated—a project that makes the personal…
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Travel Libraries Odessa Ukraine
The cultural heritage of the city of Odessa, Ukraine's great Black Sea port, is unique in the richness of contributions from different European cultural traditions. This is the result of the city's peculiar history, founded in 1794 during…
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The National School of Heritage and Cultural Activities has made available online the new training course The Art of Welcoming: principles and practices of hospitality in museums, archives and libraries, designed for those who work in…
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The U.K. government has announced a total investment of 1.5 billion pounds (about 1.7 billion euros) earmarked for culture over the next five years, outlining what is being presented as a step change from more than a decade of…
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News Focus Archaeology and Art History Library Libraries
"This is a auspicious date that we will remember. A special history that for the first time is preparing to reopen to the public with the precise role of a cultural center," said Minister Alessandro Giuli on June 12 as he inaugurated…
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A library is not just a collection of books: it is a geography of knowledge, a map of collective and intellectual memory. And today, with the entrance of the Serlupiana Library to the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz…
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News Focus Heritage Libraries Politics and cultural heritage
June 22, 2020: in Florence, a group of citizens takes to Piazza della Signoria to protest against the City Council, which, more than a month after reopening operations after the end of the confinement to contain the Covid-19 contagion…
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