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**  UK Government delays bill allowing museums to return items on moral grounds
The UK Government has deferred the introduction of legal provisions that would enable national museums in England and Wales to deaccession items from their collections on moral grounds for the first time.

**  Why the Van Gogh Assault Matters to Non-profit Arts Organizations
All they’ve done is manage to create a situation in which those who lobby for climate change are equated with soup-throwers—at best, childish vandals, and at worst, daffy anarchists.

**  With help of tokenization, future museums will be able to build NFT Galleries
As demonstrated by the Royal Institution of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, NFTs will eventually turn into a way for museums to profit from their holdings and curatorial expertise in a digitally-driven future.

**  She Was Killed by the Police. Why Were Her Bones in a Museum? 
In early 2021, as the Penn Museum faced ongoing public criticism about its use of the Morton skulls (more than 50 of which belonged to enslaved Africans), several people connected to Penn began to discuss the other remains in its storage rooms.
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**  Climate activists throw mashed potatoes at Monet work in Germany
Two protesters pelt painting with potatoes and glue their hands to wall at Museum Barberini in Potsdam.

**  Berlin Museum Shuts Off a Light Installation, Joining European Institutions Battling the Energy Crisis
Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum will shut off a signature light installation this winter, joining other European cultural institutions flipping the switch as a symbolic gesture of energy conservation

**  Bloomberg‘s Massive Crypto Article Derides NFTs as Nothing More Than a Ponzi Scheme
Something Levine didn’t mention is that even the royalties that are supposedly guaranteed to artists by NFTs aren’t always delivered because different NFT marketplaces write different smart contracts that can’t be processed when an NFT is sold across platforms.

**  Reimagining Tutankhamun as a Warrior
Tutankhamun’s warrior image is reinforced on the famous painted chest found in the antechamber of his tomb; he is shown defeating Nubian and Asiatic foes—events echoed in the mortuary temple’s decorations.
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**  Philadelphia Museum Strikers Open Up on “Tense” Return to Work
Workers returned to work with a higher minimum wage, across-the-board raises, longevity bonuses, paid family leave, and lower-cost healthcare and a newfound sense of community.

**  Researchers rediscover ancient parchment that served as ancient, accurate map of the sky
Researchers thought they were analysing a seemingly bland parchment from a monastery in Egypt — but as it turns out, they had uncovered a real treasure.

**  Long Lost Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Discovered in Aftermath of 2020’s Beirut Explosion
The painting was damaged while in the Sursock Palace, a historic mansion owned by Yvonne Sursock, a member of the wealthy and influential Sursock family who died due to injuries sustained by the explosion.

**  The UK Didn’t Have a Museum Dedicated to Black History So She's Setting One Up
The Black British Museum Project is a collaboration between museum professionals, curators, academics, researchers, and creatives, all on a mission to develop a museum celebrating Black British history and culture.
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**  Is Saudi Arabia Building a Special Museum Just for ‘Salvator Mundi’?
Though the whereabouts of the purported Leonardo da Vinci painting have been shrouded in mystery in the years since, it is understood to have been purchased on behalf of Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.

**  Swedish archaeologists find 17th-century warship
Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa, which sank on its maiden voyage.

**  Cabinet set to approve construction of Albert Einstein museum in Jerusalem
Upon his death, the famous physicist bequeathed his writings and archive containing a multitude of items to the Hebrew University; these are now expected to go on display.

**  Australian Museum curator's ill-fated fight against the creationist establishment
In 1874, when two big burly blokes hustled a man out of the Australian Museum and chucked him out onto the street, it marked the end of a particularly spicy chapter of the institution's history.
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**  A Punk Rock Museum Is Coming to Las Vegas
Ten musicians and industry professionals are coming together to launch the venue, where they aim to preserve the fashion, instruments and ephemera of the punk rock movement for posterity.

**  The Spy Museum gives autistic adults a night of their own
The D.C. museum explores the secret history of espionage, but it took openness and candour to make the night happen.

**  Indonesia Wants 'Java Man', Art Back From Dutch Museums
Indonesia has asked the Netherlands to hand back at least eight art pieces and natural history collections that were acquired during the colonial era, including the remains of a landmark hominid known as "Java Man."

**  Digitising film negatives: Making the negative, positive
A large part of Te Papa's current project digitising the Spencer Digby / Ronald D Woolf Collection is processing around 250,000 photographic negatives.
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**  Who Is Vermeer?
10 facts about a famous but mysterious artist

**  Introducing this year’s Museums Association Conference host
The host for Conference 2022: Make Change Happen is Briana Pegado, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an award-winning social entrepreneur.

**  Experiencing History: Holocaust Sources in Context 
Each digital primary source collection offers historical background, linked resources, and suggestions for further reading.

**  Greta Thunberg’s Global Warming Conference cancelled due to sub-arctic freezing temps
The teen climate activist, who had hitched a ride on a hot air balloon powered by her own fiery breath to arrive at the conference in order to yell, “How dare you?” at everyone only to be turned away with hypothermia.
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