Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online compendium, read weekly since 1998 by 8,000+ readers in more than 201 countries. http://www.globalmuseum.org ** What It's Like to Evacuate a Museum in a Natural Disaster To successfully evacuate the museum, the team would have to navigate egos, bureaucracies, and public opinion—plus move dozens of fragile objects. ** The Removal of 44 Artworks from Catalan’s Museum of Lleida Hundreds of people gathered outside the museum to protest the transfer, which has become a point of contention in Catalonia’s bitter bid for independence. ** Melbourne Museum to showcase its gems from deep storage Anyone who toured the behind-the-scenes store rooms of Melbourne Museum, even the crustiest grouch, would struggle to stop from oohing and aahing. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,255? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** German museum returning objects robbed from Alaskan graves The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said Monday the objects will be returned from Berlin's Ethnological Museum to the Chugach Alaska Corporation, which represents indigenous people in the Chugach region. ** Claim Against Iranian Antiquities Can a collection of Persian antiquities held at a Chicago museum be used to pay damages to the American victims of a terrorist bombing in Jerusalem?. ** Wellcome Collection acquires 17th century portrait of hirsute Barbara van Beck The painting, dating from the 1640s, is an authentic record of a person living with a rare congenital endocrine condition, most likely hypertrichosis, also called Ambras syndrome. ** Naked And Afraid: Art Museums Are Having Their Own Post-#MeToo Reckoning The problem is the imbalance of power behind many of those paintings, a dynamic that positions woman as the eternal object of beauty and man as the genius creator and authority of it. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,315 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Ear, Ear! A new study led by The McNay Art Museum Oxford University Museum of Natural History has revealed that an extinct group of marine reptiles called sauropterygians evolved similar inner ear proportions to those of some modern day aquatic reptiles and mammals. ** $10 million reward expiring for information on Gardner Museum heist In May, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum put up a $10 million reward for the return of stolen art, but the offer expires in just two weeks, at midnight on New Year's Eve. ** The American Definition of Culture is Changing The study found that more than a third of art museum-goers did not think art museums were a cultural experience, and over half of theatregoers felt the same. ** An Art Nouveau Interpretation of the Minoan World In the early 20th century, Minoan fakes, sometimes fabricated by the same people carrying out archaeological restorations in Crete, appeared on the market for museum and private collectors. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. 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The intensifying legal tussle over whether a Massachusetts museum should be allowed to auction 40 works of art, including two by Norman Rockwell, has raised questions about when - if ever - it's appropriate to unload the collection. ** The Unreal Size Of The Dutch East India Company At Its Peak Much has been written about what company will be the first to break the $1 trillion market cap (Amazon or Apple are both good bets), but that barrier only remains unbroken for modern companies with the Dutch East India Company, which was around from 1602 to 1799, peaking at a market cap way, way, way above $1 trillion ** Exploring virtual reality at the National Museum of Singapore Digimuse is still in its infancy stage; the ongoing showcase is simply a teaser of possible things to come – and at the moment, they’re still in the process of reaching out collaborators from the creative and technology communities. ** How the Huntington's ‘Visual Voyages’ changes the story of art and science The Spanish colonization of the Americas resulted in an unprecedented level of research and sophisticated levels of knowledge cultivation and image-making. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles – 193,040 in Circles. 14,366 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Neandertals ate stomach goop, and you can too Neandertals didn’t have great dental care, and in the last few years anthropologists have begun to take advantage of monstrous tartar build-up on fossilized teeth to figure out what the hominids ate. ** Underwater exploration without getting wet The very nature of maritime archaeology, lying at the bottom of the seabed in an area only accessible by those with the right training and equipment, has meant that protected wreck sites have only engaged with a very small number of people. ** The Cuban Culture War In Miami The real-estate billionaire Jorge Pérez has accused Miami-Dade County of slashing funding for the museum that bears his name as “punishment” for an exhibition of Cuban contemporary art. ** The Most Precious Bronze Age Artefacts Were Made With Cosmic Materials According to a new study, it's possible that all iron-based weapons and tools of the Bronze Age were forged using metal salvaged from meteorites. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 181K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,835 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** British Museum to move storage to Reading The British Museum Archaeological Research Collection (BM_ARC) will provide a home for many of the two million artefacts currently kept at Blythe House, west London, which is to close in 2023. ** Conservation of Plastics in Museum Collections July 16–20, 2018 ** Interpreting Our Multicultural Past Call for Papers: 2018 Annual Meeting & Conference, Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museum ** Distinguished honour for Arab American Museum At a gala ceremony in Amman, Jordan the Arab American National Museum was named a TAKREEM Laureate ** Hyperconnected museums: New approaches, new publics The worldwide community of museums will celebrate the next International Museum Day on 18 May, 2018 ** Historians Uncover Evidence Stonehenge Once Prominent Druid Make-Out Spot Contradicting previous theories as to the purpose of the iconic monument, historians at the University of Cambridge suggested on Friday that Stonehenge was once a prominent Druid make-out spot All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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