Dear museum-Llers,

a fresh issue of EXPOTIME!, full of well researched articles, hints and incitements, has been published. Just go to 

https://www.museumaktuell.de/home/eTime/ExpoTime-2021-0305/index.html

and enjoy the 78 pages, containing 4 videos, 114 links und 202 mentioned institutions.

Hint: A PDF list of the mentioned isntitutions (lots of them from the US) is hidden as an easter-egg on the front page. The full-text research function enables you to get to the respective page(s) of a mention within seconds.

The issue contains, among others, the following articles (The four underlined articles are of special interest to conservators):

• The editor's intro: Will we soon cancel mummy exhibitions – even of animal mummies?
• Utz Anhalt: Animal mummies in museums
• Somayeh Kalesh Ranjbar: Dead by salt: The “Salt Men” of Iran. German Mining Museum, Bochum. Until August 8, 2021
• Petra Reinmöller: “1821: Napoleon’s end: St. Helena, Arenenberg and the birth of a legend”. Napoleon Museum Arenenberg, Salenstein (CH): until October 24, 2021
• Team of KANVA Montreal: Montreal’s Biodome will be re-opened August 31, 2021
• Claudia Luxbacher: The new Documentation Centre Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation opend June 23, 2021
• Michael Stanic: How much New York is concealed in this Koolhaas press photograph from Paris?
• Team of Kunsthaus Zurich (CH): Strange Hodlers, erotic Klimts and the stylish Wiener Werkstätte. Until August 29 at Kunsthaus Zurich
• Team of the Smithsonian American Art Museum: Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea. A national tour from July 31 2021 to January 14, 2024
• Team of Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich: Come to Monaco di Baviera and see Italy. The exhibition “Naples And Campania. Books and Pictures from the Italian Paradise” at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. Until Sept. 30, 2021
• Christian Mueller-Straten: Reconstructing a cut, restored, attacked and ageing painting: The Reconstruction of the Night Watch is on Show at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam until September 2021
• Team of The Guggenheim, New York: Away from the Easel: Jackson Pollock’s “Mural”. Till Aug. 30, 2021
• Alexandra Jeberien; Gisela Hüttinger: From the Oddy Test to a Standardised Pollution Test Method
• Mary Hamilton French: Honoring the Past While Preparing for the Future: Conservation of a 15th Cent. Manuscript on the Life of St Augustine
• Ernst Haiger: Critical examinations reveal fake documents of German resistance fighters at the Museum of Military History in Dresden

Enjoy the issue!