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**  Curator Feared for Her Safety Before Being Kidnapped in Baghdad
On Monday evening, as-yet unidentified perpetrators carried out the kidnapping of Hella Mewis, a German national and curator who was working as the head of the Tarkib art center in Baghdad

**  One out of three US museums may shut down forever, a survey confirms
A new survey of more than 750 museum directors in the US has confirmed that one out of three institutions may shut down permanently as a result of financial troubles related to the coronavirus pandemic, the American Alliance of Museums reports,

**  ICOM in turmoil after resignations
Questions over the governance of the International Council of Museums have been raised as part of ongoing discussions over the organisation's proposed new museum definition and nine members of the council's committee and executive board have resigned in recent months as a result of the row.

**  Thai serial killer cremated after decades as museum display
In recent years, however, doubts were raised about whether the man called Thailand's first serial killer was given justice and a campaign was launched to at least give him a proper funeral.
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**  Centuries-Old Paintings Help Researchers Track Food Evolution
By combining modern plant genetics with centuries of still-life paintings, the researchers realized that they could create a visual timeline of produce domestication.

**  Critics debate: Will the pandemic have a lasting effect on the arts?
For years you’ve been waiting for the next consciousness change, and you don’t think this is it? More than 600,000 dead globally, massive economic upheaval, every cultural institution we know massively displaced — what more are you waiting for?

**  Penn Museum to Remove Skull Collection of Enslaved People
The Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) announced that it will remove from view parts of its Morton Cranial Collection, which includes skulls of enslaved people.

**  Rat Sneaks In And Kills Museum's Thirty Year Old Tuatara
The rat was found in another part of the museum, where damage had been done to the albatross diorama and a line fishing display nearby.
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**  Astronomer claims to have pinpointed date of Vermeer's View of Delft
Courtesy of research by a professor of astronomy at Texas State University, a little of the mystery surrounding the life and works of the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer may now have been cleared up.

**  Oregon Arts Organization Has Voluntarily Repatriated Its Only Building to a Native American Group
After ten years, Yale Union, a contemporary art centre in Portland, Oregon, is shutting down and transferring ownership of its land and historic building to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.

**  Unseen Picasso sketch found hidden behind famous Still Life artwork
The secret was uncovered after experts used X-ray technology to examine the Spanish cubist painter’s 1922 piece Still Life, in an effort to assess the nature of some wrinkles that had been noticed on the canvas.

**  Its Top Curator Gone, SFMOMA Reviews Its Record on Race
The senior curator resigned amid anger among staff that boiled over when he used the term “reverse discrimination” — and now the museum is trying to address additional staff complaints.
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**  Ask a Curator: Francesco Bonami on Museums Reopening & More
I think small museums with human scale will thrive. The mega museum—the Guggenheim Bilbao phenomenon—is maybe at its end. Big museums will think twice before they embark on building an extension.

**  Making 2,000-year-old Roman bread
In AD 79, a baker put a loaf of bread into the oven, just like any other day in the town of Herculaneum; nearly 2,000 years later it was discovered carbonised, still inside the oven, during excavations at the archaeological site in 1930.

**  Smallpox and other viruses plagued humans much earlier than suspected
Smallpox is only the latest example of a serious infectious disease whose history has been suddenly and substantially rewritten by ancient-DNA analysis in the past decade.

**  When you can’t be in the Field: Taking working from home to the extreme
In the midst of lockdown uncertainty, we made the decision to identify local US installers and Systems Engineers who could represent Te Papa and undertake the de-install supported remotely by Te Papa staff in Aotearoa New Zealand. 
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**  Fossils of New Herbivorous Dinosaur Found in China
Irisosaurus yimenensis is a small, early member of Sauropodomorpha, a group of long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs that incorporates sauropods — such as Diplodocus, Brontosaurus and Titanosaurus — and their ancestors.

**  Firing of Museum Director Stirs Debate and an Official Inquiry
The government of Quebec is reviewing the termination of Nathalie Bondil, who led the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for many years, because of a dispute over why she was let go.

**  Surprise cave discoveries may double the time people lived in the Americas
According to a paper published in the journal Nature, the site, known as Chiquihuite Cave, may contain evidence of human occupation that places people in North America around 30,000 years ago—roughly twice as early as most current estimates for when the first humans arrived on the continent.

**  Visitor Services: The Museum Super heroes? Could be.
It was hard to hear and I grieved the loss of my dream to work in Museum Collections, but that was when I decided I needed to let it go.
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**  Building Community While Apart
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF). 

**  Smithsonian Arctic Studies Centre Newsletter
The most recent Smithsonian Arctic Studies Centre newsletter, from May 2020, can be found as a pdf available for viewing/download

**  Making: How to weave your walk with Blake Griffiths.
Go for a walk in nature with Australian artist Blake Griffiths and learn how to collect materials and make a richly textured weaving

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Leo - Okay, the stars realize that last week’s prediction of increasingly lower temperatures may not have been that impressive, but this week’s incubus invasion should make up for it.
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