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**  MGS opens slavery and empire consultation
The consultation is linked a nationwide project that is looking at the ways Scottish museums can help empower people to explore Scotland’s connections with empire, slavery and racism.

**  Against Artsploitation - Unionizing the New Museum
Somehow, the anti-austerity politics of the work we were publishing and exhibiting didn’t apply to those of us working at the museum; behind the New Museum’s veneer of social justice was rampant exploitation.

**  How the Smithsonian Preserved a Stock Certificate Destroyed on September 11
The stock certificate is also a piece of reality, as fragments of paper rained down all across the city of New York following the collapse of the World Trade Towers.

**  What's Eating Auckland Museum?
Not all insects are harmful to our collections; the ‘Famous Five’ are the pests which we are most concerned about as they can cause the most damage to our objects.
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**  The 9/11 Museum Has A Problematic Legacy. Can It Be Saved?
It results in an overly simplistic and uncritical narrative, promoting an excessive sense of patriotism and nationalism — ironically, much like what happened immediately after 9/11 itself.

**  Science Museum removes protester’s climate strike placard from display
The Science Museum in London has agreed to remove a protest sign from its Our Future Planet exhibition after its donors complained that the temporary exhibition was sponsored by Shell.

**  A Birdwatcher’s Eye View
As artistic styles and attitudes towards nature have evolved, so have works of art that depict birds—from medieval manuscripts featuring imaginary winged creatures to photographs that take a scientist’s eye to a variety of avian species.

**  Berlin’s bizarre new museum: a Prussian palace rebuilt for €680m
Like an imposing Disneyland castle minus the fun, the Humboldt Forum stands in the middle of Berlin’s Museum Island, its beige walls and freshly carved stonework gleaming with the unreal quality of a high-definition digital model.
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**  Modern Snakes Evolved From A Few Survivors Of Dino-Killing Asteroid
A new study suggests that all living snakes evolved from a handful of species that survived the giant asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs and most other living things at the end of the Cretaceous

**  Italian Police Have Seized 485 Artworks Believed to Be Fake Francis Bacons
The primary suspect, a Bologna-based art collector, had previously been connected to a 2018 incident called the “Paloma Operation” wherein other fake Francis Bacon paintings and fake Picassos were involved.

**  Scientists develop a statistical fix for archaeology's dating problem
Michael Price has developed an approach to estimating prehistoric populations that uses Bayesian reasoning and a flexible probability model that allows researchers to overcome the problem of equifinality.

**  L.A.’s new film museum was plagued by delays. Why that turned out to be a very good thing
Creating a film museum that is more than a collection of props and old scripts was always the biggest challenge the academy faced — we all love Dorothy’s ruby slippers, but most of us are not about to shell out 25 bucks, much less pay for a membership, to see them.
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**  How London’s Postal Museum Used AI To Optimize Its Operations
For the Postal Museum, which wanted to increase revenue per head at its store, the IT package uses computer vision to record visitor flow before a forecasting algorithm rolls out daily suggestions for staff deployment to maximize conversion.
**  Hong Kong’s Tiananmen Massacre Museum Was Raided Last Week
In the aftermath of new jurisdictions that have broadened the powers of Hong Kong police and allowed extraditions from Hong Kong to mainland China, yet more crackdowns against civil society groups have recently taken place: authorities in Hong Kong raided the Tiananmen massacre museum and went about removing material from the institution.
**  Scientists Say They Could Bring Back Woolly Mammoths. But Maybe They Shouldn't
Flush with a $15 million infusion of funding, Harvard University genetics professor George Church, known for his pioneering work in genome sequencing and gene splicing, hopes the company can usher in an era when mammoths "walk the Arctic tundra again."
**  Lockdown fieldwork – collecting new weed specimens
A Botany Curator and a Researcher – who are in the same bubble – used their lockdown walks to collect roadside weeds for Te Papa's herbarium.
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**  How Museums Are Changing Lives In Scotland
Working with museum colleagues in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, the Museums Association has compiled three series of case studies about how museums have created positive and lasting change.
**  Amber Room treasure is NOT on board sunken Nazi warship
Divers searching a WWII shipwreck in hope of finding the legendary Amber Room treasures say they have come across nothing more than military equipment and the private possessions of passengers.
**  The Magic of Creating Replicas of Ancient Greek Masterpieces
A workshop in Athens produces the only officially-certified replicas of ancient Greek masterpieces which are later sold at the country’s archaeological sites, monuments and museums.
**  No sign of £4.8m golden toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace, two years on
A gang broke into the 18th Century stately home and caused "significant damage and flooding" because the toilet was plumbed into the building.
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**  SCULPT2021- Shaping Genealogies
Registration is now open for SCULPT2021- Shaping Genealogies –1st International Conference on Late 19th and early 20th-century Sculpture, to be held online on October 7-8, 2021.
**  AIM Pilgrim Trust Collections Care, Audit and Conservation grants
The AIM Pilgrim Trust Collections Care, Audit and Conservation grants support small to medium sized museums to care for their collections more effectively and efficiently and to meet the standards required for Accreditation.
**  Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen | Glyptotek, Denmark
Way ahead of her time, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen fought for artistic recognition in a male-dominated profession and for women’s right to education and a career
**  Archaeologists Discover Concession Stand At Colosseum That Gouged Ancient Romans 10 Denarii For Small Clay Cup Of Wine
Our preliminary findings of the lower levels under the Colosseum show that not only did these stands charge an arm and a leg for some cheap swill wine, they also had the gall to think people would pay upwards of 20 denarii for some mediocre snails or a little bag of olives.
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