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This Week In Global Museum | The #1 Museum Site For Museum News, Museum Jobs, Museum Resources & More!

**  Pay in Museums
The Museums Association publishes their Salary Research and Recommendations, and encourages employers, staff and funders to use the findings in this report as an advocacy tool to highlight the serious issues around low pay in the museum sector, negotiate better salaries and demonstrate the urgent case for reform. Complete report here.

**  Exchanges and integration make for a confident civilization: Beijing Palace Museum director
Although the Palace Museum is not yet 100 years old, the heritage under its purview, the Forbidden City and its vast collection of cultural relics that includes ancient relics, artworks and historical documents, is the carrier of China's 5,000 years of civilization. 

**  Putin Using Martial Law to Legitimise Ukraine Art Looting
ICOM is issuing a Red List as artefacts and art from Potemkin’s bones to Hunnish diadem are taken by Russia from occupied cities.

**  Taiwan museum admits breaking artefacts worth £66m 
Taiwan’s national palace museum has admitted to previously undisclosed breakages of three artefacts from the Ming and Qing dynasties, worth a reported £66m ($77m).
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**  Piet Mondrian painting was hanging upside down for 77 years, museum curator says
A painting by Dutch abstract painter Piet Mondrian has been hanging upside down for 77 years, says a curator at the German museum.

**  Are Just Stop Oil's dramatic art museum protests hurting their own cause?
Protesters who undertook extreme actions were perceived to be more immoral, and participants reported lower levels of emotional connection and social identification with these "extreme" protesters.

**  Museums spar over authenticity of painting ahead of major Vermeer show
Rijksmuseum to display Girl With a Flute at exhibition despite National Gallery of Art, Washington, saying it is an imitation.

**  The British Museum Declined to Display Ultra-Precise Digital Replicas of the Parthenon Marbles. So Another Museum Snapped Them Up
British Museum staff denied IDA director Rogel Michel’s request to take those scans, but he and his team surreptitiously captured them anyways on tablets and smartphones—with help from security guards and floor staff.
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**  Huntington museum lands a smashing gift, painted by court artist to Marie Antoinette
The Ahmanson Foundation has acquired its first major European painting for the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, a year after unveiling a new formal relationship to help build the San Marino museum’s permanent collection.

**  A brush with history
The earliest examples of toothbrushes were likely made in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907 C.E.), and they can still be seen at institutions like the Shanghai Museum.

**  King Tut Died Long Ago, but the Debate About His Tomb Rages On
At least part of the backlash against Dr. Reeves’s ideas can be traced to the politics of heritage; the narrative that Tutankhamun’s tomb was unearthed by the heroic English archaeologist Howard Carter has long been openly challenged.

**  Manchester Museum to reopen with ‘ordinary folk’ co-curating new gallery
A museum with a dizzying, encyclopaedic collection that spans Egyptian mummies, dinosaur skeletons and live Costa Rican frogs is to reopen next year after a £15m revamp – with a promise to be more inclusive and imaginative.
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**  Andy Warhol’s Prince portrait is about more than fair use law—it’s about the future of creative freedom
In the Goldsmith case, the Court is being asked to correct what I think is an important error in copyright case law—the assumption that deriving any value from another’s copyrighted work is an infringement that is automatically “unfair” unless one can meet the difficult burden of proving the use has no impact on the value of the original.

**  Private art museum pioneer stands stately on mountain in Kobe
The museum houses a collection of some 1,400 artworks mainly Eastern antiquities including national treasures and important cultural assets.

**  Rare golden sword pommel acquired by Scottish museum
The pommel, which is about 1,300 years old, was found in 2019 and was declared to the Scottish Treasure Trove unit.

**  Orientalism, Contemporary Art, and Cars: Qatar Is Building Three New Museums to Further Expand Its Cultural Scene
Qatar Museums, the institution founded in 2005 to spearhead the country’s cultural development, has pumped untold billions into building museums, upgrading heritage sites, hosting festivals, and staging public art installations.
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**  How did a minister come to own hundreds of Edward Hoppers?
Josephine Hopper listed the minister in her will as one of 14 beneficiaries, but the will left him no art.

**  The Museum of 20,000 Eggs
Nearly 20,000 dinosaur egg fossils have been displayed at the Heyuan Dinosaur Museum since the first dinosaur egg fossil was dug up in Heyuan, Guangdong Province in 1996.

**  Iranian Artists Stage Anonymous Protest at the Guggenheim Museum
The homage was a call for action to support the current revolution in Iran, led by brave Iranian women risking their lives to stand up against oppression to overthrow a long-time authoritarian regime.

**  Diyarbakır Prison turns into museum
Turkey's Diyarbakır Prison, which has long been associated with cruelty, torture, and inhumane acts after the Sept. 12, 1980, military coup, turns into a museum.
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**  Digital Museums Canada launches online course for museum and heritage professionals
Creating Engaging Online Experiences: An Introduction for Museums and Heritage Organizations is a free, two-hour, non-credit course available through the DMC website.

**  National Museum of Scotland Collection Centre Tours
16 Nov - 30 Nov 2022

**  Take a highlight tour of National Museums Ireland - Archaeology
Throughout the autumn, join one of our FREE public tours to find out more about life in Ireland from the Stone Age to Early Medieval Ireland and see some of Ireland's most iconic treasures at the Museum.

**  World Hunger Activists Throw Oil On Pelican
To protest climate activists wasting soup on art works
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