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 ** When A Museum Wants To Be Relevant To Its Community - What Does Relevance Mean? We simply needed to articulate the problem our community is facing that we are uniquely suited to address, the best solution we believe exists for that problem, and the concrete and tangible outcomes we're going to measure that will demonstrate our positive social impact. ** Tate and British Museum focus on research work Tate has become the second national museum this year to unveil plans for a research centre following a recent British Museum announcement. ** Still Life In San Francisco Officially Authenticated As Van Gogh Still Life with Fruit and Chestnuts, in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco since 1960, has been de- and re-authenticated more than once; it had been labelled as possibly by Van Gogh and had not been consistently on display. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,443? 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Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2K Pins, 562 Followers <http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/> http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Air And Space Museum Closes Nine Galleries As Part Of Massive Renovation As the National Air & Space Museum kicks off the first phase of its massive seven-year renovation plan, it has now closed a total of nine galleries until 2022, though the museum remains open to visitors ** Not Your Babushka's Museum Last year the All-Russian Decorative Art Museum opened the Center of Fashion and Design, whose exhibitions have been focused mainly on the 21st century and beyond. ** Sausage museum reconsiders move to Nazi camp site A German sausage museum apparently won't move to the site of a former Nazi camp for slave labourers after news of the plan triggered strong criticism. ** The Cuban museum's chairman denies breaking in The chairman of Miami's taxpayer-funded Cuban museum, which has been roiled by a nasty leadership split, has strenuously denied allegations by a rival board member that he had broken into the institution's building. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles - 189,881 in Circles. 14,379 in Community so far - <https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466> https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Let's not lose our marbles over the British Museum boss's remarks Hartwig Fischer said that removing the Parthenon marbles from Greece was a 'creative act' - but there is a logic to this provocative view that shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. ** A treasure trove of Ottoman Empire photographs now available online Gigord eventually amassed one of the most important collections of images of the Ottoman Empire in its waning years: 6,000 images, more than half of which have now been digitised and made freely available from the Getty Research Institute. ** The 210-million-year-old Smok was crushing bones like a hyena Coprolites, or fossil droppings, of the dinosaur-like archosaur Smok wawelski contain lots of chewed-up bone fragments, which led researchers to conclude that this top predator was exploiting bones for salt and marrow, a behaviour often linked to mammals but seldom to archosaurs. ** Museums Have Grown More Diverse, New Study Says Museums have incrementally hired more people of colour in recent years, the Andrew W. 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