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Swiss Museums Return 18 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

07/01/2026

Swiss Museums Return 18 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria Three Swiss museums—theEthnographic Museum at the University of Zurich,Museum Rietberg Zurich, andMusée d’Ethnographie de Genève—have collectivelyreturnedeighteen courtly and religious objects from the Republic of Benin (now Nigeria). All of the returned items …

Метки : репатриациябенинские бронзымузеишвейцариянигериякультурное наследие

Swiss Voters Reject Inheritance Tax After Billionaires Threaten Exodus

12/03/2025

Voters in Switzerland, the home of art world mainstays Art Basel and Hauser & Wirth, emphatically voted down a new inheritance tax on Sunday, with 78 percent voting no. The proposed tax, which came from the country’s left-wing Social Democrats …

Метки : швейцарияналог на наследствобогатыеискусствоart baselhauser & wirth

Remains of a Strategic Roman Bridge Uncovered in Switzerland

09/23/2025

The remains of a Roman bridge were uncovered in Aegerten, about 20 miles northwest of Bern, Switzerland earlier this month, according to the Miami Herald. Experts found more than 300 oak piles well-preserved in waterlogged soil near the Thielle or …

Метки : история.римская археологияшвейцарияархеологические находкидревние цивилизацииискусство

Switzerland’s Cash-Strapped Museum Langmatt Under Fire for Selling CÉzannes

05/13/2023

Baden, Switzerland’s Museum Langmatt has raised the hackles of the International Council of Museums (ICoM) with its plan to sell off three works by Paul Cézanne in an effort to remain solvent and therefore extant. Langmatt is putting the French …

Метки : музей лангматтбаденшвейцариямеждунар