Museum objects

Excavated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition in 1914-15 at Thebes; allotted to the Museum by the Egyptian Government in the division of finds. Shipped to New York and accessioned by 1928

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

As the Nobel laureate opens a museum in Istanbul displaying the objects from which his latest novel, The Museum of Innocence, is constructed, Orhan Pamuk guides us round a selection of the exhibits

Thousands of cannonballs and a marble toilet roll feature in Making Sense, the first design-focussed exhibition by Ai Weiwei at London's Design Museum.

The collecting of anonymous objects — and the subsequent use of those objects in creating a perfectly styled interior — has become such a staple of modern life that it’s hard to remember a time when not everyone loaded up their vans twice a year at places like Brimfield. But Franco Clivio, a former industrial designer and a lecturer at Zurich’s Schule für Gestaltung, has been amassing such objects for more than four decades. His collection — which numbers into the thousands — is on view…

Image 1 of 5 from gallery of Display Cases in Mithraeum Bloomberg Space | Goppion. Mithraeum Bloomberg Space

Impending Remains: Babysitter Bones, 2022Impending remains is a digital art series based on the idea of future historical discovery. Present day objects that human progression leaves behind, later unearthed in the distant future to be collected as museu…

Inscription: Rectangular paper label (removed from underside of foot): printed in black ink: 458; further inscribed in pencil: P.M. 1022Marking: [1] unidentified maker's mark;[2] Utrecht mark, end 16th century–first quarter 17th century;[3] G encircled (Utrecht date letter for 1602);[4] O crowned and encircled (Dutch verification mark for old work, 1807–10);[5] V encircled and crowned (Dutch import mark for large work in gold or silver, 1859–1909);[6] cock in a vertical octagon (mark of…