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** What It's Like to Evacuate a Museum in a Natural Disaster
To successfully evacuate the museum, the team would have to navigate egos,
bureaucracies, and public opinion—plus move dozens of fragile objects.
** The Removal of 44 Artworks from Catalan’s Museum of Lleida
Hundreds of people gathered outside the museum to protest the transfer,
which has become a point of contention in Catalonia’s bitter bid for
independence.
** Melbourne Museum to showcase its gems from deep storage
Anyone who toured the behind-the-scenes store rooms of Melbourne Museum,
even the crustiest grouch, would struggle to stop from oohing and aahing.
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** German museum returning objects robbed from Alaskan graves
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said Monday the objects will be
returned from Berlin's Ethnological Museum to the Chugach Alaska
Corporation, which represents indigenous people in the Chugach region.
** Claim Against Iranian Antiquities
Can a collection of Persian antiquities held at a Chicago museum be used to
pay damages to the American victims of a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem?.
** Wellcome Collection acquires 17th century portrait of hirsute Barbara
van Beck
The painting, dating from the 1640s, is an authentic record of a person
living with a rare congenital endocrine condition, most likely
hypertrichosis, also called Ambras syndrome.
** Naked And Afraid: Art Museums Are Having Their Own Post-#MeToo Reckoning
The problem is the imbalance of power behind many of those paintings, a
dynamic that positions woman as the eternal object of beauty and man as the
genius creator and authority of it.
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** Ear, Ear!
A new study led by The McNay Art Museum Oxford University Museum of Natural
History has revealed that an extinct group of marine reptiles called
sauropterygians evolved similar inner ear proportions to those of some
modern day aquatic reptiles and mammals.
** $10 million reward expiring for information on Gardner Museum heist
In May, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum put up a $10 million reward for
the return of stolen art, but the offer expires in just two weeks, at
midnight on New Year's Eve.
** The American Definition of Culture is Changing
The study found that more than a third of art museum-goers did not think art
museums were a cultural experience, and over half of theatregoers felt the
same.
** An Art Nouveau Interpretation of the Minoan World
In the early 20th century, Minoan fakes, sometimes fabricated by the same
people carrying out archaeological restorations in Crete, appeared on the
market for museum and private collectors.
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** Can a Museum Sell Its Art to Stay in Business?
The intensifying legal tussle over whether a Massachusetts museum should be
allowed to auction 40 works of art, including two by Norman Rockwell, has
raised questions about when - if ever - it's appropriate to unload the
collection.
** The Unreal Size Of The Dutch East India Company At Its Peak
Much has been written about what company will be the first to break the $1
trillion market cap (Amazon or Apple are both good bets), but that barrier
only remains unbroken for modern companies with the Dutch East India
Company, which was around from 1602 to 1799, peaking at a market cap way,
way, way above $1 trillion
** Exploring virtual reality at the National Museum of Singapore
Digimuse is still in its infancy stage; the ongoing showcase is simply a
teaser of possible things to come – and at the moment, they’re still in the
process of reaching out collaborators from the creative and technology
communities.
** How the Huntington's ‘Visual Voyages’ changes the story of art and
science
The Spanish colonization of the Americas resulted in an unprecedented level
of research and sophisticated levels of knowledge cultivation and
image-making.
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** Neandertals ate stomach goop, and you can too
Neandertals didn’t have great dental care, and in the last few years
anthropologists have begun to take advantage of monstrous tartar build-up on
fossilized teeth to figure out what the hominids ate.
** Underwater exploration without getting wet
The very nature of maritime archaeology, lying at the bottom of the seabed
in an area only accessible by those with the right training and equipment,
has meant that protected wreck sites have only engaged with a very small
number of people.
** The Cuban Culture War In Miami
The real-estate billionaire Jorge Pérez has accused Miami-Dade County of
slashing funding for the museum that bears his name as “punishment” for an
exhibition of Cuban contemporary art.
** The Most Precious Bronze Age Artefacts Were Made With Cosmic Materials
According to a new study, it's possible that all iron-based weapons and
tools of the Bronze Age were forged using metal salvaged from meteorites.
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** British Museum to move storage to Reading
The British Museum Archaeological Research Collection (BM_ARC) will provide
a home for many of the two million artefacts currently kept at Blythe House,
west London, which is to close in 2023.
** Conservation of Plastics in Museum Collections
July 16–20, 2018
** Interpreting Our Multicultural Past
Call for Papers: 2018 Annual Meeting & Conference, Association for Living
History, Farm and Agricultural Museum
** Distinguished honour for Arab American Museum
At a gala ceremony in Amman, Jordan the Arab American National Museum was
named a TAKREEM Laureate
** Hyperconnected museums: New approaches, new publics
The worldwide community of museums will celebrate the next International
Museum Day on 18 May, 2018
** Historians Uncover Evidence Stonehenge Once Prominent Druid Make-Out
Spot
Contradicting previous theories as to the purpose of the iconic monument,
historians at the University of Cambridge suggested on Friday that
Stonehenge was once a prominent Druid make-out spot
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