During the European Heritage Days on 26 and 27 September 2026, the Florentine museums of GAMB show how they protect their collections. From the David to the instruments of the Medici and two bronze grand dukes.
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On Friday 25 September 2026, researchers from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii talk about their work. How you maintain a city that has been excavated since the eighteenth century, and where digging is still going on.
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On 22 October 2026 Sotheby's in Paris will auction Iris, a late canvas that Claude Monet painted at Giverny and that stayed out of sight for decades. What kind of painting it is, why it remained hidden and where in France you can see Monet's irises and water lilies.
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After thirteen hundred metres Sweden's flagship capsized within sight of the city. That she still stands today is because the Baltic is too fresh for the shipworm.
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The building went up for the 1900 World's Fair and within a few decades was unusable. That very failure saved it.
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The collection in Madrid is built on what the Spanish crown owned. A large part of it was acquired by the man who hangs on its walls himself.
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Berlin put its collections on an island in the river. That produced a unique ensemble and a problem that never goes away.
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In the basement a medieval castle wall still stands. Above it hangs a collection of which you can see only around six percent.
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The name means offices, and that is no joke. Florence's most famous museum was built to put civil servants under one roof.
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On Vienna's Ringstrasse two identical buildings stand opposite one another. That is not a symmetrical whim but a statement about what art and nature are worth.
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A port city in decline put up a museum and became a destination. Since then half of Europe has tried to copy it, usually without the result.
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This museum was not built just to show sculpture. It was built to refute an objection, and that intent can be read in every room.
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You do not move an altar and a city gate the way you move a painting. In Berlin the Pergamon Museum is therefore reopening in phases: according to the schedule, the altar returns on 4 June 2027.
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