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 ** British Museum confronts colonial history, moves statue of founder over slavery links Curators at the historic building in central London say they have "redisplayed" a bust of the museum's founder, Sir Hans Sloane, who profited from Jamaican sugar plantations, to better reflect his ties with Britain's empire and the slave economy. ** Who Says Museum Heists Don’t Pay? Here Are 5 Ways Crafty Criminals Actually Profit From High-Profile Art Thefts The FBI estimates that art crime is multi-billion-dollar-a-year illicit industry, and while much of it is made up of low order theft, the plundering of a museum never fails to steal headlines. ** What Should a Museum Look Like in 2020? There is a chasm between institutions issuing newsletters about “standing in solidarity” and those, like the Walker Art Center, that have, for example, stopped contracting their local police force for public events. ** What If Museums Aren’t Up For Reform? What if adaptation is not what is needed? What if we are asking the wrong questions? What if the most important questions cannot be asked of others, but only of ourselves?_______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,558? 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 athttp://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** 17th-Century Dutch Painting Is Stolen. Again Thieves broke into the museum, Het Hofje van Aerden, apparently by forcing open the back door, setting off alarms at 3:30 a.m. local time, the police said, and taking “Two Laughing Boys,” a painting from 1626. ** Guy Who Punched Picasso Painting At Tate Modern Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison Judge concludes without hesitation the impact upon the public and the gravity of this offense, together with the need to deter others from this form of conduct required the imposition of an immediate custodial sentence. ** Illegal Gold Hunters Obliterate 2,000-Year-Old Archaeological Site When a team of archaeologists deep in the deserts of Sudan arrived at the ancient site of Jabal Maragha last month, they thought they were lost; the site had vanished ** A Cultural History Of Chairs Setting a body higher than and apart from other people, in an individual structure with rigid, flat planes – a throne, if you will – evolved as a way of recognising an individual’s power, with the earliest known models dating to ancient Egypt and south-eastern Europe. _______________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,588 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Bletchley Park Trust announces job losses The Bletchley Park Trust, the home of codebreaking in Britain during world war two, is proposing to restructure as a result of the financial impact of the coronavirus crisis. ** 14 things not to miss at the British Museum As part of the new British Museum experience, they have created a one-way route around the Ground floor galleries that lets you safely enjoy incredible objects from cultures around the world. ** Philippine crickets, held nameless in a Hawaii museum, are finally identified For six decades, 28 crickets from the Philippines have been stored in natural history collections at a U.S. museum unidentified, but now they finally have names, thanks to a new study. ** Ancient mammoth ivory carving technology reconstructed by archaeologists A team of archaeologists from Siberian Federal University and Novosibirsk State University provided a detailed reconstruction of a technology that was used to carve ornaments and sculptures from mammoth ivory. ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2.35K Pins, 1.25K Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Natural History Museum Union Files Complaint Over Coronavirus App Many of union members saw the app, called ProtectWell, as an invasion of their privacy and objected to the museum choosing a program whose data was not protected by Hipaa, the federal law on patient privacy. ** Te Papa Investigates Hardship and Humour It is a great example of how both the museum and the library can work together to care for and share objects of our cultural heritage and enrich their stories, as these two images only make sense as a pair. ** How dinosaur research can help medicine The intervertebral discs, consisting of a cartilaginous fibrous ring and a gelatinous core as a buffer, connect the vertebrae and give the spine its mobility; even Tyrannosaurus rex could have suffered a slipped disc. ** Whitney Museum Slammed for Acquiring Black Artists’ Work Way Under Market Value The Whitney’s use of the works acquired through the See In Black print sale at significantly discounted prices—the proceeds of which were donated 100 percent to charity—constitutes unauthorized use of the works to which the artists do not consent and which the artists were not compensated. _______________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 204.3K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,747 Followers worldwide and growing fast _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Yoko Ono Is Creating Banners for The Met’s Reopening In general, the museum could use a win, so it’s certainly welcome that the famous conceptual artist Yoko Ono has reportedly created two massive, 24-by-26-foot sized banners that will be draped over the Met when it reopens on August 29th. ** Community Engagement during COVID-19 at the House of Memory Museum, MedellIn The decision by the mayor’s office to include the House of Memory Museum in its strategy against COVID-19 was influenced by the years of community work carried out by the museum in order to build a relationship of trust with the various communities within its surroundings. ** What Ancient Sculptures Reveal About Universal Facial Expressions A study of ancient Mesoamerican sculptures offers a new take on the age-old question, suggesting that expressions of emotions such as pain, happiness and sadness transcend both time and culture. ** The Librarian Who Guarded the Manhattan Project’s Secrets One of the most significant features of this elaborate security apparatus was the scientific library, a virtually unknown space that, during the 1940s, housed the secrets of the nuclear bomb. _______________________________________________________________________________ FACE MASKS | FACE SHIELDS | Plus Gifts & All Sorts of Gear In The Global Museum Store –http://www.zazzle.com/thedigitalconsultant T-Shirts, Prints, Mugs & More … You Name It, We’ve Got it, You Can Buy It…. 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