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** Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has quietly sold its art and used restricted money to pay debts

The museum has quietly sold off “a substantial portion” of its permanent collection and spent restricted endowment money — without first seeking permission from donors — to pay off some of its debt, financial audits show.

** Women are increasingly getting the top museum jobs. Will more of them finally get equal pay?

Women comprise the majority of museum employees, but in most cases they earn less than their male colleagues; this is true in Washington, where several new female directors of Smithsonian museums were hired at significantly less than a male counterpart, despite running much larger institutions.

** How A Caretaker With Little Training “Restored” (And Damaged) 200 Of Van Gogh’s Paintings

It remains highly disturbing that a restorer with virtually no formal training and with little experience should have been given the task of restoring so many of Van Gogh’s paintings.

** Treasures in the loft: an Antiques Roadshow photo essay

Some unexpected surprises have included the discovery of a Lalique vase, which was bought for a pound in a car boot sale and later sold for £25,000, and a portrait by an unknown artist bought by a priest for £400 in a Norwich antique shop (partly for its frame), which was later identified as a painting by Van Dyck that was valued at £400,000.

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** Plan To Merge Florence’s Uffizi And Accademia Galleries

The Italian culture minister, Alberto Bonisoli, is planning to merge the Gallerie degli Uffizi with the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence under a single administration” as part of a new set of reforms rolling back the previous government’s reforms of Italian museums.

** After Three Hundred Years of Fading, a Dutch Masterpiece Is Digitally Restored

Digital reconstructions of paintings are complex undertakings, and this one required help from members of multiple departments in the Met Museum.

** This May Be the Only Known Recording of Frida Kahlo’s Voice

The recording, which likely dates to 1953 or '54, introduces its speaker as a female painter “who no longer exists”—a point in favour of the Kahlo attribution, since the artist died on July 13, 1954, shortly before the program’s release.

** Doctors Can Now Give Out Prescriptions for a Visit to the Museum

Launching its partnership with the Médecins Francophones du Canada (MFdC) last November, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) has filled 185 prescriptions, each one granting up to two adults and two children admission to peruse its collections of old and new masters, visit an exhibition, or join a guided tour.

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** Tring Natural History Museum Hybrid Animals

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a wealthy zoologist and collector, was particularly interested in the hybridization between different species and some may still be seen in the glass cabinets of the Natural History Museum at Tring.

** Ten unexploded allied bombs at Pompeii

At least 10 unexploded bombs dropped by the allies during the second world war are hidden within the foundations of the archaeological site of Pompeii, Italian media have reported.

** A ‘pebble’ found in NC tavern ruins was really a coded message among Colonial rebels

A clump of dirt initially dismissed as nothing more than a pebble has turned out to be one of the most significant 18th Century artifacts ever found in North Carolina.

** Could proteins found in dinosaur fossils come from microbes?

A new study continues the debate over whether or not scientists have discovered fragments of actual dino proteins.

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** Want to know which is the best museum in the UK? (Warning: it’s not in London)

We’ve got the likes of the V&A, The British Museum and the Natural History Museum right on our doorsteps, so it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that London is home to the best museums the UK has to offer?

** Missing Lewis Chessmen piece found in family's drawer sells for £735,000

A family recently learned that the piece - an 8.8cm warder made from walrus ivory from the late 12th/early 13th century - bought by their grandfather for just £5 more than five decades ago was one of the missing treasures.

** Hyperallergic and the Gardiner Museum Team Up for Limited-run Podcast Series

Inspired by the Gardiner Museum’s rich collection of contemporary ceramics, Hyperallergic’s new limited-run podcast series invites prominent artists and curators to explore the social history of ceramics, spotlighting its multifaceted role in our culture.

** Fewer Visitors to Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum Spells Success: Here’s Why

A revamping of their ticketing practices included introducing starting times, amending supply based on different sales channels, and creating a dedicated team that can adjust the number of available tickets every 15 minutes based on real-time capacity insights.

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** The Best Artificial Intelligence Resources For Charities

Charity Digital have collated a list of the best resources, grants and educational sources for charities to start getting to grips with the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI).

** How One Museum Is Giving a Voice to Former Mental Health Patients

The Indiana Medical History Museum is telling the human stories behind its collection of brains, tumours and other biological remains.

** Site Of Interest - The Center for Art in Wood

The Center for Art in Wood is a non‐profit museum that advocates for creative engagement in the material of wood; it has presented an increasingly ambitious roster of exhibitions and publications to document the field and its artists and built a museum collection of 1200 works in wood.

** The National Postal Museum tells the history of America through moon mail and one taxidermy dog

The vast collection includes the world’s first adhesive stamp, an 1840 Penny Black, featuring Queen Victoria; the best-selling stamp of all time, the 1993 Elvis stamp; interactive displays; and more than 20,000 objects related to the history of these tiny works of art.

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** Truths refuse to die: excavating buried stories in the time of the Raj

Summer Lecture Series, The National Archives

** Terracotta Past Present And Future

Midland Hotel, Manchester, UK

** Coral: Image and Symbol with Sophia Errey

The Johnston Collection, Melbourne, Australia

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