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**  Museum Boss Salaries: Reduced but Still an Issue Amid Wider Cutbacks
The compensation packages of museum directors are drawing scrutiny as their institutions try to fill budget holes with cutbacks that have included layoffs and furloughs of lesser-paid staffers.

**  Museum Docents Contend with Racism
Museums are in the process of confronting how they educate the public about the art on their walls—arguably the most important thing a museum can do, but also a job that often falls to unpaid employees.

**  Being A Ninja Doesn't Guarantee Security
The Iga-ryu Ninja Museum in Mie Prefecture, dedicated to the history of the famous Iga clan of ninja - covert agents in feudal Japan - had a safe containing cash totalling over 1 million yen had been stolen from its office.

**  Ten artists who won Turner bursaries from Tate 'fully support' museum's striking workers
The ten recipients of this year’s Turner Prize bursaries have issued an open letter, saying that they “stand in solidarity” with the 313 workers at Tate Enterprises, the Tate’s commercial arm, who were made redundant last week.
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**  British Museum undergoes biggest deep clean in decades to remove lockdown dust
Teams of experts have been tasked with cleaning the surfaces of the museum’s exhibits to prevent damage by potentially dangerous dust particles.

**  How an L.A. museum is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage
The exhibition will have an interactive component involving the 1920 California ballot, a DIY protest poster that visitors can design and print, and events including a three-part discussion series held in conjunction with Zócalo Public Square.

**  Plague and Protest Go Hand in Hand
Although plague and protest did not occur concurrently—the revolt itself occurred thirty years after the Black Death swept through Europe—Senn suggests the plague exacerbated the oppressive social conditions that already existed in London, leading to revolt.

**  Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum can keep looted Nazi art
A U.S. appeals court has ruled that a Camille Pissarro painting a Jewish woman traded to the Nazis to escape the Holocaust in 1939 may remain the property of a Spanish museum that acquired it more than a half-century later.
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**  IRS probes Whitney Museum ‘smear campaign’ to oust board member over police device ties
The IRS is looking into an allegation that the Whitney Museum launched a “smear campaign” to oust a board member because his company makes tear gas canisters and other law enforcement devices.

**  Dinosaurs' unique bone structure helped them support their large weight
A team of palaeontologists, mechanical and biomedical engineers examined the upper and lower leg bones of duck-billed hadrosaurs and sauropods, long-necked and big-bodied plant eaters, whose fossils have been found on every continent.

**  After Allegations of Systemic Racism, the Guggenheim Has Released a Diversity Plan
Job opportunities and internships will be promoted within historically Black universities, a professional network for BIPOC at the Guggenheim and beyond will be launched and the museum’s exhibition history will be examined in order to offer more diverse programming in the future.

**  The Museum Where Racist and Oppressive Statues Go to Die
Rather than scrubbing the area of statues that symbolize racism, antisemitism, and other forms of violence and oppression, the museum aims to contextualize the past, putting uncomfortable realities on display in productive, educational, and sometimes challenging ways.
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**  Amazing secrets found under National Trust manor house’s floorboards
A banned prayer book, a wartime chocolate box and rats’ nests made from Elizabethan textiles are among a remarkable collection of objects found under the floorboards of a Norfolk manor house.

**  The Ancient Art of Handwashing
Maybe it is time to take inspiration from the Middle Ages and consider aquamanilia—art that added purpose to a mundane act.

**  New Data Paints a Grim Portrait of a Steep Drop in Trade in the UK Art Market. But the Full Picture May Not Be So Dark
Despite Christie’s and Sotheby’s reporting notably weaker sales year on year to July, a significant migration of sales online in response to pandemic restrictions is addressing this.

**  Researchers say they know what happened to ‘Lost Colony’
The English colonists who settled the so-called Lost Colony before disappearing from history simply went to live with their native friends — the Croatoans of Hatteras, according to a new book.
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**  Open-Air Exhibit Features Hopeful Stories for Trying Times
The New-York Historical Society hopes to connect the people of the city to one another and reflect on the overwhelming events of the last few months.

** The Global Mean Temperature Of The Past 2,000 Years Captured In 20 Seconds, Visualized
Looking at global temperature deviations from 0 to 2019 AD, it's hard to ignore the near-unidirectional climate change that has been occurring since the late 1800s.

**  A spade, a saddleback, and thousands of trees
Auckland Museum’s Jane Groufsky, Project Curator History and Dr Josie Galbraith, Project Curator Natural Sciences, look at the amazing conservation success story of Tiritiri Matangi island, and share how Auckland Museum is acknowledging this story in an exciting new gallery.

**  Archaeological excavations in Van unveil child skeleton with two dragon head bracelets
Work continues at the 2,750 year-old Necropolis, unveiled in the excavations and restoration works three years ago, where aristocrats are believed to be buried.
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**  What kind of ancestor will you be?
The 2020 American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting will look different this year as we gather online rather than in-person.

**  Museums Galleries Scotland Museum Recovery and Resilience Fund 
Museums Galleries Scotland have announced the £4 million Museum Recovery and Resilience Fund, which aims to secure the future of Scottish independent museums put at risk by the Coronavirus pandemic.

**  Teaching with Cultural Heritage Online During the Pandemic
Ithaka S+R is pleased to announce a new project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will explore how teaching and learning with cultural heritage collections is evolving in response to the pandemic.

**  Experts Say Future Of Green Transportation May Be 16-Ton Possum That Passengers Cling To Like Babies
Calling the program “an ingenious idea with near-unlimited potential,” experts at the World Resources Institute announced Wednesday that their studies indicated the future of green transportation may, in fact, be a 16-ton possum that passengers can cling to like babies. 😊
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