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MADRID, June 10 — A new museum packed with hundreds of treasures collected by Spain’s monarchs over the past five centuries is set to open in Madrid this month. Located just across from the Royal Palace, the Royal Collections Gallery, which opens on June 29, will showcase paintings, tapestries, furniture …

A saddlebag that belonged to Chief Poundmaker.HO/The Canadian Press Century-old artifacts belonging to a 19th century Plains Cree chief who was known as a peacekeeper were returned to his descendants in a repatriation ceremony at the Royal Ontario Museum. The Toronto-based museum transferred a ceremonial pipe and a saddle bag …

Family, friends and hereditary chiefs gathered to witness the historical repatriation of the Nuxalk Nation totem pole, carved by the late Louie Snow, after years of effort to release the pole back to the nation from the Royal BC Museum during a ceremony in Victoria, B.C., on Feb. 13, 2023. …

Items on display from the communities of the Plains are photographed at the Royal Ontario Museums in the Daphne Cockwell Gallery dedicated to First Peoples art and culture, in Toronto on July, 2019.Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail The Royal Ontario Museum has temporarily closed its First Nations gallery after conversations …

A visitor looks at the pieces on display in the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Gallery of China at The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, on July 23, 2020.Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail The Royal Ontario Museum announced Thursday it had received its largest pledge ever of $50-million from the Hennick …

An exhibit from the third floor of the Royal BC Museum in Victoria on Dec. 29, 2021.JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press Premier John Horgan has halted an ambitious but costly and controversial plan to shut down the Royal BC Museum and rebuild a new facility over the next eight years, acknowledging …

An exhibit from the third floor of the Royal BC Museum.JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press The B.C. government has presented a business case for a new Royal BC Museum, which shows the $789.5-million cost of building a new museum on the current site in Victoria would be lower than repairing or …

The Postal Museum, which is supported by Royal Mail and Post Office Limited, will mark an addition to Bovingdons' existing partnerships with seven … Source link

The Royal BC Museum in Victoria.CHAD HIPOLITO/The Globe and Mail Next week, the British Columbia government will lay out its business case for spending nearly $800-million to rebuild the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. The announcement, made May 13, was a shocker. B.C. Premier John Horgan promised a “safer, more …

The British Columbia government will lay out its case for building a new Royal B.C. Museum after the Opposition took aim at the initiative as a “billion-dollar vanity project.” Tourism Minister Melanie Mark said Thursday there has been interest in the business case since the government announced the $789-million rebuilding …