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 ** National Portrait Gallery Director's Problem With the Google Face-Matching App Trolling through the feeds, I was disappointed that users did not seek to find out more about their partnered self-a failing, perhaps, of the app, which could have worked with the museums to provide more information about their works of art. ** French President agrees to loan Bayeux Tapestry to Britain If the tapestry does come to the UK, it raises the question of what reciprocal loan could be made to France, with the Rosetta Stone, originally in French hands until Britain defeated the French in Egypt in 1801, a likely contender ** An introduction to the Parthenon and its sculptures The temple's great size and lavish use of white marble was intended to show off the city's power and wealth at the height of its empire, under the statesman Pericles. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,268? 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Violent crime is so out of control in Baltimore, a daytime visit to any of the museums presents a true and dangerous risk. ** Swiss museum revisits demand for Nazi-era art return after 2008 denial Switzerland is again at the centre of a dispute over a Nazi-era art trove as the Basel Art Museum reconsiders demands it return a Jewish art historian's collection to descendants. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. 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Department of Natural and Cultural Resources' QAR Lab have discovered and conserved a type of artifact that very rarely survives on shipwreck sites - paper. ** UMAC/AAMG 2018 Miami | Reminder Travel Grants Our next Annual Conference will be jointly organised with the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG-USA) at the University of Miami, 21-24 June ** Dressing Dempsey's People The Johnston Collection ** 2018 Building Museums Symposium The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums (MAAM) is proud to present the 2018 Building Museums Symposium ** This Week's Horoscopes Virgo - While "To thine own self be true" is wise advice, it was intended for someone whose own self didn't sit on the couch eating beef jerky and watching car-auction shows All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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