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 ** A Landslide of Classic Art Is About to Enter the Public Domain Throughout the 20th century, changes in copyright law led to longer periods of protection for works that had been created decades earlier, which altered a pattern of relatively brief copyright protection that dates back to the founding of the nation. ** Commerce vs. Curation: Lessons From Today's Museum World As leading museums compete for crowd-drawing exhibits, and try to balance commercial interests and cultural diversity, visitors are bearing a rising proportion of the cost. ** A history of world music in 15 instruments To celebrate the British Museum's first major musical festival this April, here are 15 extraordinary instruments from history that hit just the right note. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,322? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Why Authoritarians Attack the Arts Last month, the Trump administration proposed a national budget that includes the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts; Many Americans have been protesting the cuts by pointing out the many ways that art enriches our lives - as they should. ** Judge Gives Green Light to Contentious Museum Art Sale The Berkshire Museum says it will sell the rest of the artwork until it reaches $55 million in proceeds. ** A boat museum preserving eastern India's disappearing river traditions Tucked inside the Institute of Cultural Research in Kankurgachi, a neighbourhood in north-eastern Kolkata, is one of the most unique museums in the country-one that showcases 46 models of boats that are native to Bengal, and through them reflects an aspect of the region's heritage that is fast disappearing. ** Great Pyramid's hidden chamber may be a trick of perspective Cutting individual, geometrically complicated blocks to fill the resulting cavities would have been immensely difficult and time consuming; So leaving the gaps makes sense. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,339 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** V&A Willing to Return Looted Ethiopian Artifacts on Long-Term Loan Treasures taken by British troops 150 years ago could be returned to Ethiopia on a long-term loan from the Victoria and Albert Museum, the institution's director says. ** Famed Istanbul modern art museum enters new era Since opening on December 11, 2004, Istanbul Modern, spectacularly situated on the Bosphorus with a view of the Ottoman-era Topkapi Palace, has become a symbol of 21st century Istanbul, open to outside influences but proud of its past. ** Archaeologists unearth wooden tools created 90,000 years ago by Neanderthals The research team behind the discovery used luminescence dating to determine that the tools were deposited around 90,000 years ago and, therefore, created by Neanderthals. ** American Revolution Museum winning battle for tourists The Museum of the American Revolution is a year old this month and officials say it has landed a decisive victory in capturing tourists' attention in a city with lots of revolutionary competition. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1.92K Pins, 457 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Nazi-Looted Art Ordered Returned to Holocaust Victim's Heirs A New York judge awarded two Nazi-looted paintings to the heirs of an Austrian-Jewish Holocaust victim whose collection of hundreds of pieces of art was systematically stolen by Hitler's army in 1938. ** Untangling the threads Te Awe is a major project that is working through the 10,000 taonga Maori held at Auckland Museum from whakairo to whariki, to enhance their records and improve their care. ** Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments? Are museums the appropriate place for storing these gigantic homages-not even to the Civil War itself-but to the Jim Crow movements that fuelled their commissioning and erection in the early decades of the 20th century? ** The Lithuanian Ethnocosmology Museum The museum originated the word "ethnocosmology," which explores society's many visual, emotional, ethnic, cognitive, and spiritual connections to the celestial world . ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles - 192,389 in Circles. 14,505 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Egypt charges 72 for looting, turning archaeological site into parking lot The Administrative Prosecution court in Egypt has ordered that 72 employees from the archaeological sector and a number of security officials in Menoufia governorate to be tried on charges of theft of antiquities and turning the location into a parking lot. ** The third dimension: Observations after 30 years of framing at Te Papa Frames are ancillary artefacts of design: most often not what our eyes are looking for, yet when appropriate they properly belong to the artworks that are acquired. ** Contractor sues Frost Science Museum, alleging millions in unpaid work The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science's general contractor just filed suit, alleging millions of dollars in unpaid work owed to the firm and its subcontractors. ** Augmented reality will explore history at Singapore bicentennial events Singaporeans can also look forward to a variety of exhibitions next year organised by the Asian Civilisations Museum, National Museum of Singapore and National Gallery of Singapore. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 193K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,806 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** Saudi Crown Prince and Macron Dine in Style at the Louvre Museum The French president's office said the museum was chosen as a symbol of France's cultural heritage and because of a new exhibition of the work of painter Eugene Delacroix that just opened. ** SAAM Fellows' Lectures The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery ** Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections October 15-16, 2018 Commerce Club ** Exhibiting Historical Clothing & Textiles Wednesday, April 25 - Wisconsin Historical Society ** This Week's Horoscopes Aquarius - You've been fooling yourself for so long that you've lost track of your sense of identity, your joy in life, and which one is actually the real Shroud of Turin All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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