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** House of Lords warns Brexit may starve UK museums of skilled workers

The National Museums Directors’ Council and the Museums Association made a joint submission, expressing “severe concerns” about the impact of Brexit on museum staff, audiences and the sharing of collections, ideas and expertise across European borders.

** Acknowledging the Intellectual Labour of Curators in a Museum

In the world of museums, where I work as a curator, and where I have often witnessed lack of proper crediting, it is time to properly recognize the deeply collaborative intellectual labour that underpins so much of what we do.

** The Louvre’s Critically Acclaimed Delacroix Show Gets Record-Breaking Attendance

A record half a million people went to the Louvre’s Eugène Delacroix blockbuster, which is headed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall.

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** They stole a ‘priceless’ gold bar from a Key West museum — and they’re paying the price

Saying they destroyed a priceless artifact, a federal judge has handed out prison terms to the two thieves who eight years ago helped themselves to a 17th century gold bar that had been the centrepiece of a Key West museum..

** Amid MoMA’s $450 Million Expansion, Employee Tensions Are Running High

The dispute is not the first of its kind, either for MoMA or for any number of major institutions that spend lavishly on expansions while refusing to meet their workers’ demands.

** While Building a Museum for Mosaics in Israel, Another Gorgeous Mosaic Is Found

The 1,700-year-old manse unearthed in Lod featured every luxury, as well as glorious mosaics showing animals but no people.

** How one historic museum has provided a lifeline for the world's fastest bird

On June 20 1855, a smattering of Oxford dons and other college notables gathered as the foundation stone was laid for what was intended to be a dedicated science museum at the university.

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** Should Museums Be Advocating For Viewers to Slow Down?

Now in its eighth year, the annual event Slow Art Day hasn’t necessarily gained a lot of popularity, but the notion behind it, to discourage fleeting-glance style art spectating, might have a growing number of advocates—at least on the part of museum professionals.

** Planned Japanese war museum criticized for tourism focus

A project to build a war museum in the town of Nishiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, has drawn the ire of a group of local residents, who say the initiative is “downplaying its peaceful purpose.”

** Technology Museum of l'Empordà

This small, family-run museum is largely unknown, despite the fact it boasts a huge collection of old, rare typewriters and sewing machines.

** Ode to the Library Museum

By immobilizing pages, by securing spines, by presenting material that is illegible or unintelligible to the average modern reader, the library museum ruptures our habitual schema for what to do when confronted with a text.

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** Diary of an art historian: at last, some common sense for the abolition of image fees

I bring better news from the campaign to abolish fees for images of works in British public collections. Birmingham Museums Trust has decided to go for “open access”, the first major British museum to do so.

** Does Polly really want a cracker?

Te Papa will be welcoming Dr Barbara Mizumo Tomotani in September, to work on the isotopic and morphometric analyses of some of New Zealand’s most threatened endemic birds (including some extinct species) – 10 species from kakapo to huia.

** New Free Guide: Working With Freelancers

A new guide – Working with Freelancers – has been created to support museums in finding, commissioning, briefing, working with and paying freelancers and consultants.

** Paris’s first digital art museum: all lit up at Atelier des Lumières

The museum is in a former foundry and is operated by Culturespaces, a French museum foundation that specialise in immersive art displays.

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** Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life

Nematodes moving and eating again for the first time since the Pleistocene age in major scientific breakthrough, say experts.

** 19th Century Women Artists Get Overdue Recognition — Will Their Market Follow?

In 19th century Paris, the cards were stacked against women making art, and certainly against making a living making art.

** Museum of Interest - Topaz Museum

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

** California museum can keep Cranachs looted by Nazis

The Federal appeals court says the Norton Simon Museum can keep two 16th century masterpieces depicting Adam and Eve by the German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.

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** Volunteers find 560,000-year-old milk tooth in France

French and Spanish volunteer archaeologists have discovered a child's milk tooth dating back 560,000 years in the mountains of southern France.

** Popular Art, Architecture & Design

Call for Papers

** Now On View: Preserving Modern and Contemporary Museum Collections

The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts (CCAHA)

** Museums Association Conference & Exhibition 2018

8-10 November, Belfast

** This Week's Horoscopes

Leo - Betrayal, treason, and vile calumny will be the order of things next week, which you must admit, sounds a lot cooler than the light office work you’re used to.

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