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** Bullies and perverts in workplace causing stress to National Museum
staff
A report reveals over 40% of staff at the National Museum of Ireland are at
risk of developing anxiety or depression and how 70% of employees surveyed
want mental health support to help deal with stress
** Albania Wants to Show Off Its Shipwrecks
From 6th century B.C. Greek cargo ships to WWII wrecks, the Balkan nation is
hoping to boost tourism by highlighting its underwater archaeology
** 400 million year old gigantic extinct monster worm discovered in
Canadian museum
A previously undiscovered species of an extinct primordial giant worm with
terrifying snapping jaws has been identified by an international team of
scientists
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** Long-lost lions from Charles V's tomb
The discovery of these lions in a private English collection is wonderful
news for collectors and scholars who previously thought they had been lost
during the French Revolution
** The 19th-Century Chinese Script Only Women Could Write
In one rural county in Hunan province, women developed a phonetic writing
system called nüshu, in which they wrote poems, letters, and even
autobiographies
** Africa’s Largest Art Gallery Forced To Close Due To Leaky Roof
The roof has leaked since 1989, but heavy rains last month did so much
damage that the museum – whose collection includes works by Picasso, Monet,
and Rodin – has been forced to close for several months but that’s by no
means JAG’s only problem
** The Holocaust’s Great Escape
As Siksnianas led Freund through the woods, he told an astonishing story
about a group of prisoners who had reportedly tunnelled to freedom and
joined partisan fighters hiding out in the forest
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** Damien Hirst Alienated Collectors. Will His New Work Win Them Back?
The project, “Treasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable,” according to
those who have glimpsed it, resembles jewelled buried treasure covered with
coral as if just pulled out of the ocean, like relics from the lost city of
Atlantis or Captain Nemo
** Watercolour by mysterious British artist goes on show after 50 years in
shadows
The three paintings appear to have been stashed away in the 1950s without
ever being recorded in the British Museum’s collection
** Vatican, Rome's Jewish Museum to hold first-ever joint show
The museums of the Vatican and Rome's ancient Jewish community are hosting
their first joint exhibit, building on decades of improved Catholic-Jewish
relations following centuries of mistrust
** British Museum-trained Iraqi archaeologist assesses Isil destruction of
Nimrud
An Iraqi archaeologist who was recently given emergency training by the
British Museum is leading a rescue operation in Nimrud, the Assyrian site
which was almost totally destroyed by Isil extremists
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** Could this giant polar bear skull be the legendary 'weasel bear'?
The thawing and rapidly eroding Chukchi Sea coastal permafrost has produced
evidence that one of these legendary weasel bears — or some other strange
kind of bear — roamed Arctic Alaska centuries ago
** Release our pet ape from your exhibit!
Named John Daniel, he was raised in England a century ago by an aristocratic
clan who treated the gorilla like a human boy; he played rugby with his
pals, slept in his own bedroom, washed up after himself and tended the
hearth
** Singapore renames ‘Syonan’ second world war exhibition after public
outcry
Singapore has renamed a second world war exhibition after the original
title, which used the name given to the city-state by Japan under its brutal
occupation, sparked a public outcry
** Key Concepts in Public Archaeology
This free online textbook provides a broad overview of the key concepts in
public archaeology, research field that examines the relationship between
archaeology and the public, in both theoretical and practical terms
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** Songbirds Guitar Museum opens in Chattanooga
The Songbirds museum is the new home to what is considered by aficionados as
the premier private collection of rare guitars in the world
** What Mirrors Tell Us About Animal Minds… including our own
Gallup’s mirror test is one of the most famous and controversial techniques
in the study of animal intelligence; it has been administered to dozens of
species, in much the same way
** A New Reason to Go to a Museum? The Food
As museums become ever more expensive to build—and to visit—it makes sense
that the stereotype of the museum café is also undergoing a metamorphosis
** British Museum takes on Duke of Cambridge over ban on ivory trading
The British Museum is opposing the Duke of Cambridge's call for a total ban
on ivory trading, arguing that it would harm its collection of
“indispensable” treasures
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** Europeans Salmonella Caused Epidemic that Wiped Out Aztecs
It was Salmonella, along with war, that reduced Mexico’s population from an
estimated 25 million to 1 million in the course of a century
** Museums in Arabia 2017
Second Call for Papers
** Museums, Democracy and Human Rights Challenges and Dilemmas in
Storytelling
FIHRM 2017
** TIME 2017/Teaching Institute in Museum Education
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to offer TIME
2017/Teaching Institute in Museum Education
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