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** Foreign Museum Directors in Italy Face Losing Their Jobs

Italy’s right-wing culture minister has left the directors of many its most famous museums wondering if they will be out of a job at the end of the year.

** Embracing The Old And The New: Museum Fundraising Tips For The Future

Innovative directors are learning how to connect the past to the present by using modern technology to build new audiences and enhance the way those visitors interact with their museums.

** UK Museums, Galleries Rushing To Ship Art Before Brexit Deadline

British institutions and galleries are rushing to ship works to and from the European Union (EU) before the Brexit deadline of 29 March as uncertainty mounts over the free movement of goods in the event of a no-deal scenario.

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** The Museum of the Dog is unleashed in Manhattan

A museum devoted to dogs seems like it could be vapid Instagram candy but the Museum of the Dog is serious, and its initial exhibition of collection highlights is composed of dignified paintings of dignified dogs.

** The Museum of the International Baroque's Restrained Homage to Over-the-Top Art

Mexican goldsmiths, ironworkers, ceramicists, masons, builders, painters, plasterers, musicians, writers, priests, aristocrats, and congregations all had a hand in shaping the baroque in the Americas.

** How Do Artists Get To Be Famous? Study Says It’s Who You Know

While past studies have suggested that there is a link between creativity and fame, Ingram and Banerjee found, in contrast, that there was no such correlation for these artists.

** Do historical objects belong in their country of origin?

Four historians consider one of the most contentious questions facing the West’s museums and galleries.

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** Two Centuries Of Incorrect Labelling And George Washington’s Enslaved Chef

A white tall hat, an embroidered silk coat, and a ruffled cravat glowed eerily in the ultraviolet light as a dozen art experts from around the world gathered at Mount Vernon to solve an art mystery that has lingered in the public’s imagination for half a century.

** Digital archive hopes to help rebuild Syria

The special exhibition that opened in a Berlin museum features a digital treasure trove of photographs, maps and films as well as artefacts to take visitors on a virtual journey through Aleppo and other cultural marvels of Syria.

** Leicester museums to restructure curatorial team

These UK museums are to move away from subject specialist curation in order to focus on linking their collections more to audiences, under new plans proposed by Leicester City Council.

** The Islamic world: the big themes

Curator William Greenwood explores the themes connecting objects from a vast and fascinating area, now on display in the British Museum's Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic world.

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** Woman with rare bone disease donates skeleton to Philadelphia museum

Orzel’s dying wish came true when the Mütter debuted the exhibit of her reported 4-foot-7-inch skeleton — along with her costume jewellery collection.

** End as Beginning: Chinese Art and Dynastic Time

In the first of a live-streamed, six-part lecture series, Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, introduces the concept of "dynastic time" and its sustained role in narrating the history of Chinese art.

** Searching for the ships Cortés burned before destroying the Aztecs

Eager to march inland to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, Cortés destroyed 10 of his 11 ships, cutting off his men’s only hope of retreat and leaving them with no option but to head inland.

** Masterpiece or Mistake? A Hawaii Museum’s $7.5 Million Question

Last fall, a fact-finding delegation of curators from the Bishop Museum visited experts in London and Paris, including Mr. Meyer, to investigate the history of the sculpture.

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** Are museums being clear enough about what’s real and what’s fake?

There are, however, museum curators and professionals who consider the idea of displaying copies without full disclosure at odds with the educational mission of museums.

** Van Gogh Museum Suggests Artist’s Last Painting Has Long Been Misidentified

A major piece of evidence - namely, a letter written by the Post-Impressionist that dates the work’s creation closer to July 10, 1890, a full two-and-a-half weeks before he committed suicide - contradicts an earlier attribution.

** The New England Ski Museum

With a collection of over 1,000 pairs of skis, 365 pairs of boots, 970 ski posters, and thousands of photographs, this museum is a must-see for hardcore skiers who are interested in how the sport progressed from its ancient roots to its current state.

** The Middle East's hottest new museum is almost here

It's been delayed by more than two years, but the new National Museum of Qatar will finally open on March 28 and is another stunning new architectural highlight along Doha's already spectacular waterfront.

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** Dinosaur fossil collectors ‘price museums out of the market’

The booming market for specimens, driven by their popularity with wealthy private collectors, including Hollywood stars, is pushing up prices and putting them out of reach of museums and scientists.

** The Preservation of Digital Prints

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** Development-led Archaeology in Europe

A themed issue based on presentations from the 2018 EAC symposium on Development-led Archaeology in Europe

** Registration to the XXth Universeum Conference

8th-21st June 2019.

** This Week's Horoscopes

Leo - By this time next year, you’ll be $400,000 richer, two cars the better, and just as gullible as you are now.

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