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/> http://www.globalmuseum.org ** Think the museum fire in Brazil can't happen here? Think again Data compiled in 2012 by the American Assn. of Museums found that, since 1989, public funding of museums in the U.S. declined from 38% of total budgets to 24%; and now the Trump administration is seeking to turn this slow death into a bloodletting. ** Sweden launches museum for Scandinavian Holocaust survivors Sweden has plans to launch a Holocaust museum with a focus on Holocaust survivors from the Scandinavian country and a centre devoted to the diplomat Raoul Wallenberg. ** The 7 Biggest Museum Openings This Fall It's been delayed before, so take this one with a grain of salt: The National Museum of Qatar, now eight years in the making, is eyeing December 2018 for its grand unveiling. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,414? Our Community on the LinkedIn Platform - Join the Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos & Videos, Blog, Use the Forum. Become one of our first 5,000 members. Join Today at <http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927> http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Putin demands ramping-up of cultural hub in annexed Crimea Vladimir Putin has ordered officials to speed up the construction of a cultural centre in Sevastopol, the historic naval capital of Crimea, which will include exhibition space for the State Hermitage Museum, the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery. ** The Museum of What You Already Know To what extent should museums embrace interactive technology? How should they position themselves along the continuum that has what people know they like at one end and what they might discover they like at the other? ** Hundreds of Roman gold coins found in basement of old theatre Police said that current or former employees at the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion stole more than 7,000 insects. ** The Santos Museum of Economic Botany For more than a century, Adelaide's Santos Museum of Economic Botany has educated the public about thousands of phytochemical and ethnobotanical derivatives. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,417 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574?> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** How the Smithsonian Helped Sleuth Out the True Identity of a Pair of Dorothy's Ruby Slippers At the FBI's request, Wallace and Barden were looking for signs that the recovered pair might be those that went missing in 2005 while on loan to the Judy Garland Museum in Minnesota. ** In Shanghai, a Future of Endless Museum Photo-Ops The new private art museums that have opened in Shanghai so frequently (six since last October), all led by a zealous collector with a mission, fall into two categories: those wishing to bring international perspectives to local audiences, and those supporting Chinese art. ** Greece questions two women over dousing museum relics with oil Police in Greece are questioning two women suspected of squirting or dabbing oil on artefacts in at least two museums in a ritual the suspects said was dictated by Bible teachings. ** Blockchain: Hot stuff or hot air? The technology offers the promise of a world in which a work of art's provenance is held on a single database-if it lives up to the hype. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. 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It is the first time the academy has introduced a gender quota for its exhibitions, and other upcoming Royal Academy exhibitions will not be subject to the same requirements. ** The Delicate Job of Making Mounts for Giacometti Sculptures The creation of each Guggenheim exhibition involves many people, and all of them bring different kinds of technical expertise to the installation process. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles - 190,804 in Circles. 14,440 in Community so far - <https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466> https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** British Museum's basement of treasures to remain off-limits The British Museum's hidden basement galleries are to remain closed under its new masterplan for a sweeping redisplay of its collections-but what treasures do they hold? ** The New Wave of Private Museums Revolutionizing the Art World Wealthy patrons have been bankrolling artists for centuries and slapping their names on exhibit halls and museums for years (we see you, Guggenheim). ** The Most Important Art World Stories You May Have Missed This Summer As summering artists, curators, collectors, dealers, and others return to their respective art capitals, a familiar but ever-so-slightly different landscape awaits. ** Muzey Sulayman Too Muzey Sulayman Too (also spelled Sulaiman-Too) is housed within a combination of natural and human-made caves that accommodate a total of 13 exhibition rooms. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - <http://twitter.com/globalmuseum> http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 196K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,741 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** These Cultural Treasures Are Made of Plastic. Now They're Falling Apart Museum conservators are racing to figure out how to preserve modern artworks and historical objects that are disintegrating. ** Clues in the Dress: Dating Photographs from Clothing Wednesday, October 17 ** Common Ground: People and Our Places Local Learning announces publication of Volume 5 of the Journal of Folklore and Education ** Visitor Experience Conference The 2018 Visitor Experience Conference will be held in San Antonio, TX, October 7-9, 2018. ** This Week's Horoscopes Pisces - An eerie sense of doom enters your mealtimes as the fortune cookie people continue their vendetta against you. All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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