The Worcester Art Museum has named a new curator to help oversee one of its major collections.

Tobias Capwell is an independent scholar, curator, an expert on arms and armor, as well as a historical advisor for movies and TV. In this video he reacts to the warriors of Warhammer Fantasy and ...

In 1912, Bashford Dean became the first curator of arms and armor at the Metropolitan Museum of New York. He Bashford Dean in Japanese Armor, ca. 1900. (Courtesy the Met) In 1912, Bashford Dean became ...

Ronald S. Lauder has promised to give 91 objects from his collection of European arms and armor to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which already owns an esteemed array of some 14,000 related ...

WORCESTER — The Worcester Art Museum has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a permanent gallery installation dedicated to the John Woodman Higgins ...

They will have more than 1,000 objects from around the world that span centuries. The core of the collection was acquired from the former Higgins Armory Museum, which closed in 2013. WORCESTER – Three ...

Toby Capwell is an American historian who lives and works in London. His principal interest is in European arms and armor of the medieval and Renaissance periods. He has written and spoken extensively ...

WORCESTER — Long before Spain’s King Philip II launched his armada’s ill-fated attack against England, the then-prince donned an elaborate suit of armor to have his portrait painted by Titian. The ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that the cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder would donate 91 objects from his collection of medieval and Renaissance arms and armour to the institution.