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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 24 Jan 2025

The National Lottery Community Fund is urging applicants to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools with caution in funding applications
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 17 Oct 2024

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded 15 UK heritage projects a share of £30m in funding, with London’s Crystal Palace Park and North Yorkshire’s Ripon Museum among recipients
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 16 Oct 2024

A tourism influx is putting the Komodo dragon's habitat at risk with Indonesia’s government considering partial park closures in 2025 to protect the species
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 13 Sep 2024

Due to the popularity of the Bridgerton series, Blenheim Palace has announced an extension to its summer film trail, as well as the launch of several new experiences based on the hit show
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 30 Aug 2024

It has been predicted that fifty World Heritage sites will be lost to climate change by the year 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions are not drastically cut
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 22 Aug 2024

Rain following a severe drought has seen an 1,100-year-old pyramid in Mexico partially collapse at the Ihuatzio archaeological site
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 20 Aug 2024

The UK’s oldest rollercoaster is currently undergoing repairs after some of the slats on the historic coaster were torn up during operation
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 30 Jul 2024

A controversial £1.7bn scheme that would have seen a major road running alongside Stonehenge become an underground dual-carriageway tunnel has been scrapped by the British government
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 16 Jul 2024

Ahead of the opening of its transformed gardens on July 18, London’s Natural History Museum has unveiled Fern, the bronze cast of its iconic diplodocus ‘Dippy’, to the public
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 15 Jul 2024

A fort-like structure built by the Nazi’s during World War II has undergone a €100m transformation to reopen as a green hotel, bar and events space complete with a rooftop public garden
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 21 Jun 2024

A major heritage attraction in China has found itself under scrutiny after installing timers above all of its public toilets in order to cope with an increase in visitor numbers
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 10 Jun 2024

The Albergo dei Poveri, one of Europe’s biggest historic buildings, is undergoing nearly €150m worth of work that will see it house the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, as well as university facilities and the city’s National Library
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 03 Jun 2024

The Kursaal - home to the world’s first purpose-built amusement park - has been named in the Victorian Society’s annual list of endangered buildings in England and Wales
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Stephanie Grant | Cultural Protection Fund | 28 May 2024

In a world affected by conflict, climate change and economic uncertainty, culture and cultural icons are under threat, but the British Council and its partners are leading projects across 19 countries to protect and preserve the world's cultural heritage. Stephanie Grant, director of the Cultural Protection Fund explains how this work is being done and why it is essential
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 23 May 2024

Work on the £1.7bn Stonehenge Tunnel has been delayed after campaigners were granted permission to challenge the controversial ruling that the project should go ahead
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 02 May 2024

Two men have been charged with criminal damage following the felling of the famous Sycamore Gap tree along Hadrian’s Wall
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 29 Apr 2024

Florence’s Ponte Vecchio is about to undergo its biggest restoration in sixty years, with the city icon prepared for £1.7m of works to protect the landmark
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 26 Apr 2024

The Getty Museum is set to return an ancient bronze head to Turkey after it discovered that the artefact was excavated illegally
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 24 Apr 2024

Unesco has added 18 new locations to its list of Global Geoparks, with each location celebrated for its combination of conservation and local community involvement
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 22 Mar 2024

First-of-its-kind research from Historic England has quantified the impact of local heritage on residents, with the annual economic benefit of historic sites in the country worth an estimated £29bn
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 22 Mar 2024

English Heritage is testing body-worn cameras at four of the national organisation’s sites in an attempt to deter anti-social behaviour and crime, as well as to protect its staff during ‘confrontational situations’
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 13 Mar 2024

The Smithsonian Institution will introduce a new policy on human remains that will see descendants or communities of origin able to decide what happens to their ancestors
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 23 Feb 2024

As staff at the Eiffel Tower continue to strike over the monument's management, France’s culture minister has suggested classifying the iconic building as a national monument, which would allow the state to help fund necessary works
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 21 Feb 2024

Normandy’s historic D-Day landing beaches could finally be named a Unesco World Heritage Site with the cultural organisation now ready to consider a new application 80 years on from the event that marked the beginning of Europe’s liberation from the Nazis
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 19 Feb 2024

The British Museum has been bombarded with social media messages from Chilean Instagram users demanding the return the institution’s iconic Easter Island statues from its collection
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 14 Feb 2024

Saudi Arabia’s tourism push is hitting the rails with the country investing US$75m into an Orient Express-style luxury train that will travel to two of the Kingdom’s World Heritage Sites
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 06 Feb 2024

Blenheim Palace has announced a ‘groundbreaking’ organic waste project that will act as a ‘major step’ towards such sites meeting net zero sustainability goals
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 01 Feb 2024

Charity organisation Survival International has called on Prince Harry to ‘distance himself’ from African Parks and step down from its board, after allegations emerged accusing some of its guards of abuse against Indigenous people
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 26 Jan 2024

Japanese authorities are fighting over tourism on Mount Fuji by announcing plans to introduce a toll and visitor cap on the World Heritage site’s most popular hiking trail
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 25 Jan 2024

The American Heritage Museum has unveiled the restoration of a WWII-era German Deutsche Reichsbahn Rail Car in the first phase of a project aiming to develop a comprehensive permanent exhibit remembering the Holocaust
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 11 Jan 2024

An Australian natural heritage attraction will undergo a significant renovation project to protect the site and streamline the visitor experience
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 08 Jan 2024

A cultural attraction dedicated to China’s Great Wall will become a national museum when it reopens in 2025 following an extensive renovation
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 18 Dec 2023

Argentina no longer has a Ministry of Culture after its new President Javier Milei abolished the government office one day into his four year tenure
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 25 Oct 2023

Officials from Israeli museums have called on the International Council of Museums to recognise Hamas as a terror organisation “akin to the Taliban”
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 12 Sep 2023

A stolen Van Gogh painting has been recovered by a private detective after its holder declared the work “a massive headache” to keep in their possession
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 12 Sep 2023

The famous Italian city of Venice is set to tackle over-tourism with the introduction of a €5 a day entry fee for visitors to the Unesco World Heritage Site
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 05 Sep 2023

The Great Wall of China has suffered ‘irreversible damage’ after two people dug a hole through the wall with an excavator to create a shortcut
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 01 Sep 2023

Up to seven people could soon be charged with the theft of a solid gold toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019 following a major breakthrough in the case
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 24 Aug 2023

Christie has worked with Maxin10sity to create a projection-mapped spectacle that has seen Germany’s Karlsruhe Palace transformed into a digital masterpiece
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 17 Aug 2023

London’s British Museum has sacked an employee after several items from its collection were reported 'missing, stolen or damaged'
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 03 Aug 2023

Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be the remains of the Roman Emperor Nero’s private theatre in the Italian capital
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 02 Aug 2023

London’s Horniman Museum has been awarded £5.7m by the National Lottery Heritage Fund for its Nature + Love project
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 27 Jul 2023

New research from environmental group Greenpeace has found that extreme weather conditions, caused by climate change, are already a significant threat to ancient heritage sites in China
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 24 Jul 2023

Unesco says it’s deeply dismayed over an attack carried out by the Russian forces, which hit several cultural sites in the city centre of Odesa, while President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pledged retaliation for the act
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 24 Jul 2023

The UK government has approved a controversial plan to build a £1.7bn tunnel beneath Stonehenge that Unesco worries could place the prehistoric monument at risk
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 19 Jul 2023

Extreme flooding in northern India has seen water make it all the way to the walls of the Taj Mahal - the first time such an occurrence has happened in 45 years
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 18 Jul 2023

The First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia has been granted US$22m in federal funding to turn the historic building into an interactive museum
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 05 Jul 2023

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said that the UK and Greece should come to an agreement to share the controversial Parthenon Marbles currently on display at the British Museum
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 03 Jul 2023

Abu Dhabi’s culture and tourism board has revealed ambitious plans to grow its tourism economy to 24 million visitors a year
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 27 Jun 2023

The Met and the Smithsonian have worked with the US Army to help train soldiers in preserving and protecting cultural heritage in conflict zones
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 22 Jun 2023

Concerns have been raised after local government passed a bill allowing intensive irrigated strawberry farming on a World Heritage-protected wetland in Spain
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 20 Jun 2023

The US is set to rejoin Unesco, nearly six years after the Trump administration withdrew the country from the organisation. The move comes amid rising concerns that China has been influencing Unesco’s policy making processes
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 15 Jun 2023

The conflict in Sudan has left experts fearing for the country’s cultural heritage, with museums unable to adequately protect their collections
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 07 Jun 2023

Crypto membership collective TemDAO is using blockchain technology to preserve cultural and world heritage sites, with its innovative new approach potentially a game changer when its comes to heritage funding
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 06 Jun 2023

Australia’s government is providing greater protection to the Great Barrier Reef, announcing a AU$160m package to phase out commercial gill net fishing by 2027
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 23 May 2023

Japanese architecture firm Kengo Kuma & Associates has won an international design competition to design a new visitor centre at Butrint National Park in Albania
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 22 May 2023

Five cultural institutions are in the running for this year’s Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 11 May 2023

The Nerja Caves has launched a new VR experience that allows visitors to access parts of the caves that have previously been closed to the public
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 02 May 2023

An official location tour dedicated to hit BBC series ‘Call the Midwife’ has opened at The Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent, UK
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 27 Apr 2023

Pembrokeshire County Council has approved plans to transform a grade II-listed prison in Haverfordwest, Wales, into a visitor attraction
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 20 Apr 2023

A major museum dedicated to William Shakespeare will be built on the foundations of the theatre where the famed playwright hosted some of his first works
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 14 Apr 2023

Continuum Attractions has taken up operations of the Loch Ness Centre, which is set to reopen next month following a £1.5m redevelopment
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 13 Apr 2023

A new museum celebrating the legacy of Amelia Earhart is set to open its doors in the aviation legend’s hometown of Atchison, Kansas
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 11 Apr 2023

Amnesty International says that Cambodian officials are forcing residents of the Angkor Wat World Heritage site to ‘voluntarily’ leave in the name of preserving the popular heritage attraction, with the move affecting an estimated 10,000 families
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 24 Mar 2023

Kate Mavor CBE has announced that she will step down as CEO of English Heritage later this year
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 15 Mar 2023

Thousands of UK museum and heritage workers have joined industrial action protesting against low pay and other working conditions.
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 09 Mar 2023

Teaching the construction sector the necessary skills to retrofit the UK’s heritage structures could provide the British economy with a £35bn boost, a new report has suggested
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 03 Mar 2023

The UK’s National Lottery Heritage Fund has announced several changes to its funding priorities to address concerns for the ‘health and future of the nation’s heritage’
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 28 Feb 2023

Ukrainian security company Ajax Systems has installed US$13,000 worth of security equipment to protect several Banksy artworks in Kyiv created by the artist during the Russian invasion
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 17 Feb 2023

3D printing has been used to create a full-size replica of a World Heritage site in China, offering visitors an up close and personal experience while also securing crucial data for future world heritage protection
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 17 Feb 2023

The Hegra Welcome Centre in AlUla, Saudi Arabia, has unveiled a new exhibit; the reconstructed face of Hinat, a woman who lived more than 2,000 years ago
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 09 Feb 2023

Unesco has offered its support to the victims of the devastating earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria this week as concern grows for a number of historically important World Heritage sites in the region
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 09 Feb 2023

The popular Titanic Belfast attraction will reopen next month with four new galleries and a 7.6m-long replica of the iconic ship following a multi-million pound revamp
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 24 Jan 2023

Tate St Ives is seeking an architect-led multi-discipline team to lead a major renovation of Palais de Danse, the former studio of renowned sculptor Barbara Hepworth
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 19 Jan 2023

The UK government has announced the launch of a new Energy Bill Discount Scheme offering significant discounts for vulnerable businesses including museums and heritage sites
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 18 Jan 2023

After a difficult few years the museum sector is showing promising signs of recovery with several exciting projects set to open this year. Here are 14 of 2023’s most anticipated museum openings
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 17 Jan 2023

Heritage organisations in the UK are in serious jeopardy of closure as a result of the cost of living crisis, with nine in 10 concerned about their future
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 16 Jan 2023

A plot to steal a 10-tonne ancient statue of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II has been foiled after police arrested three men attempting to make away with the gigantic antiquity
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 10 Jan 2023

Arguably Britain’s most well known dinosaur - the Natural History Museum’s iconic ‘Dippy’ the diplodocus - is set for a three year move to Coventry starting next month
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 05 Dec 2022

Culture, heritage and sport sites are set to receive £4.5m over the next three years to support actions in the Welsh Government’s Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 22 Nov 2022

Longtime member and actor Helena Bonham Carter CBE has become the first female president of The London Library
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 20 Oct 2022

Cruise operator Holland America Line is celebrating 150 years with the announcement of a partnership with the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 14 Oct 2022

A wildfire on Easter Island which could have been started deliberately has caused ‘irreparable’ damage to the Unesco World Heritage Site’s iconic moai head statues
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 06 Oct 2022

Researchers from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and London’s Natural History Museum have discovered the cause of damage to several medieval murals in a Unesco World Heritage site in Ukraine
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 02 Aug 2022

The British Museum has proposed a ‘Parthenon partnership’ that could see the Parthenon Marbles - also known as the Elgin Marbles - returned to Greece for the first time in more than 200 years
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 20 Jul 2022

Detailed replicas of the controversial Elgin or Parthenon Marbles, created by a robot, will soon go on display in London
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 27 Jun 2022

Unesco has verified more than 150 cultural sites in Ukraine have been either partially or completely destroyed since the Vladimir Putin-led invasion by Russia
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 15 Jun 2022

The Ford Island Control Tower at Pearl Harbor is now open to the public for the first time in decades following a US$7m restoration
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 31 May 2022

Jean-Luc Martinez stands accused of conspiring to hide the origin of archaeological treasures that investigators say were smuggled out of Egypt during the Arab Spring uprisings
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 30 May 2022

A man entered the Louvre on Sunday disguised as an old lady in a wheelchair in an attempt to deface the Mona Lisa with cake
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 20 May 2022

The Natural History Museum is partnering with the University of Reading on a major new digitisation centre to be built at the Thames Valley Science Park
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 27 Apr 2022

Unesco’s World Heritage Committee meeting in Kazan has been indefinitely postponed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 08 Apr 2022

Organisations including the Auschwitz Memorial and Europa Nostra, as well as the UK’s culture minister Nadine Dorries, have called on Unesco to change the location of its 45th annual World Heritage Committee meeting, which is currently scheduled to take place in Russia
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 01 Apr 2022

Art and antiquities dealer Roben Dib has been arrested on charges of gang fraud and money laundering
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 25 Mar 2022

The museum closed due to security concerns in 2019, and was then hit by the coronavirus pandemic
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 09 Mar 2022

The UN cultural organisation is aiming to mark as many key heritage sites with the Hague Convention emblem, which protects cultural heritage in the event of armed conflict
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 04 Mar 2022

Los Angeles’ iconic La Brea Tar Pits will soon undergo a major transformation should a masterplan by Weiss/Manfredi pass its environmental review
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 23 Feb 2022

Escalating tensions between Ukraine and Russia have seen Ukrainian institutions prepare security and evacuation plans should the worst happen
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 22 Feb 2022

Warwick Castle will soon be home to a Zog-themed playland, with the popular IP set to arrive at the heritage attraction in April
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 14 Feb 2022

One of the world’s most important works of prehistoric art has found a new home at the British Museum
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 02 Feb 2022

With so many big things coming in the year ahead, we’ve rounded up all the key events taking place this year. Welcome to your attractions calendar for 2022.
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 14 Jan 2022

A new initiative from France’s Grand Palais will see the development of digital experiences for some of the world’s most iconic artworks, starting with a debut exhibition on the Louvre’s Mona Lisa
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 11 Jan 2022

The Gateway to Hell could soon burn no more with Turkmenistan’s President ordering the famous blaze to be extinguished for good
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 06 Jan 2022

McDonald’s has lost a high court appeal to build a €1.3 m drive-through restaurant directly next to Rome’s historic Baths of Caracalla
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 13 Sep 2021

The new Ilulissat Icefjord Centre is part of Greenland’s plan to attract more tourists to the country
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 27 Aug 2021

Pixel Artworks has worked with Merlin Entertainments to develop Sundown Spectacular - an all-new lightshow at Warwick Castle celebrating the end of the British summer
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 26 Aug 2021

The Taliban has vowed to protect Afghanistan’s heritage but concern is still extremely high following destruction seen in previous years
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Alex Chapman | Planet Attractions | 03 Aug 2021

The exhibition explores the history of the Mary Rose, Henry VIII’s warship, which sank in the Battle of the Solent in 1545
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 27 Jul 2021

The World Heritage Committee has inscribed 13 new sites in Europe, Asia and the Middle East to Unesco’s World Heritage List
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 23 Jul 2021

The Highland Council has appointed Mather & Co to help transform the castle into a world-class attraction
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 20 Jul 2021

Unesco has deleted Liverpool from its World Heritage List after a committee determined new developments were damaging the city’s global heritage
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 12 Jul 2021

Unesco has said that plans by the British government to build a tunnel beneath Stonehenge will have a ‘highly adverse and irreversible impact’ on the World Heritage site
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Alex Chapman | Planet Attractions | 09 Jul 2021

Castles and palaces in Germany are set to receive a huge investment into refurbishing existing tourist attractions.
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 07 Jul 2021

The Colosseum’s hypogeum has undergone a major restoration allowing visitors to explore the historic passageways for the first time
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 02 Jul 2021

The Museum of the Home has been refused permission to remove a statue of Robert Geffrye despite public calls to ditch the controversial work
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 29 Jun 2021

Unesco says that COVID-19 will have a significant impact on World Heritage long after the pandemic has been brought under control
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 22 Jun 2021

Belgium will work with the Democratic Republic of Congo to return items looted during the colonial era in the first half of the last century
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 16 Jun 2021

Historic England’s virtual dive trail tells the story of Stirling Castle, a 70-gun warship that was destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 14 Jun 2021

A statue famously felled during the Black Lives Matter protests, is now on display in a Bristol museum
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 11 Jun 2021

Tower Bridge is set to welcome man’s best friend for a very special dog-friendly ‘VIPooch’ event
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 08 Jun 2021

Emergency restoration work was carried out on the Megalosaurus after its jaw collapsed last year
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 04 Jun 2021

Kazakhstan has welcomed the country’s first flying theatre ride with Brogent Technologies behind the landmark new attraction
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 27 May 2021

The gold rosary beads were snatched alongside several coronation cups that Mary gifted to the Earl Marshal
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 25 May 2021

Where exactly is the line when it comes to improving the visitor experience and interfering with historic sites?
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 04 May 2021

The Dundee Cultural Recovery Fund will support cultural institutions through financial difficulties and bring tourists back to the area
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 30 Apr 2021

The 18-pounder Losoya House exhibit features a full-size replica of a cannon used during the Battle of the Alamo in 1836
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 19 Apr 2021

Lithuania’s government is backing plans to transform its famous Lukiškės Prison complex into a multifunctional hub featuring museums, restaurants, hotels and other commercial and cultural spaces
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 08 Apr 2021

Take a tour of Queen Elizabeth II’s back garden, with visitors allowed to explore the exteriors of Buckingham Palace unguided for the first time ever
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 07 Apr 2021

Egypt has celebrated the long-awaited opening of its National Museum of Egyptian Civilization with a procession of 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies through Cairo
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 01 Apr 2021

Cruise ships are no longer welcome in Venice following a ruling by the Italian government
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 31 Mar 2021

The historic Chichén Itzá Maya has been closed to the public while Mexican authorities battle an influx of non mask-wearing tourists
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 29 Mar 2021

Unesco has revealed the extent of the effects of Covid 19, with only half of the world’s heritage sites fully open to the public
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 27 Mar 2021

The bid was backed by actors Sir Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 24 Mar 2021

The historic theatre in London will reopen with a series of Shakespeare classics starting in May
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 02 Mar 2021

‘Songs of England’ explores traditional folk music associated with different heritage sites throughout England
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Alex Chapman | Planet Attractions | 01 Mar 2021

Coral bleaching caused by climate change is turning the famous wonder white
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 15 Feb 2021

The 100-year-old key was posted to English Heritage customer services with a note apologising for the 48-year delay
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Chris Tebbutt | Planet Attractions | 11 Feb 2021

One of India’s highest security prisons has opened to the public, with educational tours taking visitors inside the place where Mahatma Gandhi was held prisoner for several years
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 28 Jan 2021

There are parts of Chernobyl so dangerous you could die in minutes just standing there but that’s not stopping tourists who are visiting the exclusion zone in record numbers
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 18 Jan 2021

The renovation is the most significant in the gallery’s 89-year history
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 11 Jan 2021

‘Sparking visitors with hope, light and connectivity’, Bruge’s WinterGlow returned in December for a series of installations across the historic city
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Chris Tebbutt | Planet Attractions | 08 Jan 2021

The second round of NLHF’s Culture Recovery Fund makes £36m available for sites across Britain
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 05 Jan 2021

Grupo Xcaret says its new landmark attractions will now open at the end of the year - 12 months later than originally planned
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 01 Jan 2021

Recognising the world’s most astonishing attractions, Planet Attractions names 2021’s Wonder Award winners
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 23 Dec 2020

ELLO, ELLO, ELLO! The former police station will welcome visitors as soon as COVID restrictions allow
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Chris Tebbutt | Planet Attractions | 15 Dec 2020

Europa Nostra has announced which of Europe's heritage sites are most at risk
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 13 Dec 2020

German forces likely threw the device into the water to avoid it falling into Allied hands
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 09 Dec 2020

Our World Heritage is calling on the general public to save world heritage sites
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 08 Dec 2020

A new set of Accords aim to protect Infinity and Beyond for future generations
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Adam Laver | Planet Attractions | 06 Dec 2020

The trailer showcases the latest spectacles coming to Puy du Fou for its next season of shows
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Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 05 Dec 2020

Actors call on a ‘fellowship’ of fans to help raise £4.5m to fund the house’s purchase and start a programme of events.
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Kier Lymn | Planet Attractions | 01 Dec 2020

See Walt Disney’s office exactly as it was, “down to the last paperclip” and learn a little bit about the man behind The Walt Disney Company’s media and theme park empire.
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Hannah Reeder | Planet Attractions | 01 Dec 2020

Lego has turned Rome’s historic colosseum into a 9,036-piece construction, which is now available to buy
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Chris Tebbutt | Planet Attractions | 01 Dec 2020

Viewers from all around the world will be able to marvel at the annual Stonehenge winter solstice
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Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 03 Dec 2020

The Australian Museum was closed for 15 months while works took place
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Alice Davis | Planet Attractions | 01 Dec 2020

The museum is on track for its mid-2022 opening
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