Canada’s museums are slowly starting to return Indigenous artifacts
The western world is under growing pressure to confront issues around the rightful ownership of art and artifacts. In Canada, that reckoning has just begun.
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Museums
The fraught case of the National Gallery’s plan to sell a Chagall painting
How the federal museum’s scheme to sell one high-priced painting to pay for another fell apart
Curatorial studies at Carleton University: the past’s next generation
A partnership with the National Gallery of Canada prepares curators for a shifting role in society
How Mesopotamia invented our world (and created the best beer stein)
A look at the only Canadian stop on a world tour of treasures from the cradle of civilization
The Museum of Conservative History?
Staff at the Museum of Civilization are concerned about the museum’s rebranding and new mandate.
Panic on the playground
New anti-pedophile measures bar adults without kids from visiting parks and museums
Canada’s most cultured cities
Who in Canada are the big readers, show-goers and museum patrons?
On the odd theory that national museums must be in national capitals
Tell it to the Marines . And when in Krakow, enjoy the National Museum in a City That’s Not Poland’s Capital .