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See The Latest Stories & Jobs Here www.globalmuseum.org ** New Clue Reportedly Surfaces in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist Three decades after one of Boston’s most infamous unsolved robberies, a new clue may help answer some questions. ** Found in a Candy Tin: One of the First Coins Struck in Colonial North America I could hardly believe my eyes when I realized that it was an excellent example of a New England shilling, struck by John Hull in 1652 in Boston for use as currency by early settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. ** Top New York architect dropped midway through Hermitage Museum’s Moscow expansion project Hani Rashid, one of three top international architects currently working on major museum projects in Moscow, says he has been “unceremoniously” dropped from designing a contemporary outpost of the State Hermitage Museum in the Russian capital. ** A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the New National Museum of the American Latino If past experiences with that museum and with the National Museum of the American Indian augur anything, it's that both the gallery and museum will be heralded as a triumph, albeit an imperfect one. _____________________________________________________________________ 🧑🤝🧑 ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,731? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Facial reconstruction shows powerful Bronze Age woman's serene expression and huge earrings A "powerful, maybe even frightening" woman buried with a silver diadem in Bronze Age Spain now has a virtually reconstructed face that shows her wearing a serene expression and huge hoop earrings dangling from earplugs. ** Banksy’s ‘Love Is in the Air’ to Be Fractionalized into 10,000 NFTs A new NFT company aims to fractionalize ownership of traditional artworks by converting them into sets of NFTs called Particles, thus allowing for potentially thousands of people to share ownership of certain works. ** ‘If only it actually served pints’: our critic on the pub that took the Turner prize By only shortlisting collectives with strong social messages, this year’s prize has put aesthetic achievement pretty low on its list of “values”.. ** Notre-Dame in Paris denies redesign is too radical Plans to replace the gothic ambience of Notre Dame cathedral with a softer vibe of modern art and warm lighting have raised a few eyebrows, but the priest in charge denies any radical transformation is afoot. _______________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,599 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Cheetos Dust Artworks on a Yacht May Mark the End-times at Miami Basel Taping a banana wasn’t enough, so the art world had to do something even more stupid with food. ** A Year Into the Pandemic, the Arts Are More Important To Us, Survey Finds Have you recently tuned in to an artist-led online walkthrough of an exhibition, or maybe a virtual studio visit on Instagram? If so, you’re far from alone. ** With $125 Million Gift, Met Museum Jump-Starts New Modern Wing The donation from a trustee, Oscar L. Tang, and his wife, Agnes Hsu‐Tang, reinvigorates the long-delayed project and is the largest capital gift in the Met’s history. ** Hermitage Museum stages virtual NFT exhibit Russia's famed Hermitage Museum has opened its first-ever completely virtual exhibition; the show displays NFT artworks in a digital space modelled on Saint Petersburg's old Stock Exchange. _______________________________________________________________________________ 🐦 Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 212.5K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,743 Followers worldwide and growing ________________________________________________________________________________ ** Jewish doctor creates America’s only museum devoted to The Beatles His interest in them evolved from just liking their music to being intrigued with their cultural influence, the impact they had on politics, on hairstyles, on clothing and on the music world. ** After Missouri find confirms new dinosaur species, palaeontologist thinks there are more at site Bones of the latest adult dinosaur were discovered, and experts determined that the Missouri dinosaurs were part of their own species, Parrosaurus missouriensis. ** New owners prevent closure of world’s first savings bank museum The museum is on the site of the ‘penny bank’ that minister Henry Duncan established for Ruthwell parishioners in 1810. ** Ohio museum repays Nez Perce Tribe $600,000 for artefact collection An Ohio history museum is reimbursing the Nez Perce Tribe after forcing it to pay for a collection of its own artefacts more than two decades ago. ______________________________________________________________________________ 📌 Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2.5K Pins, 1,891 Followers- http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Fleming used his annual Christmas cards, school newsletters, and talks to tramping clubs to enlist family and friends, school children, and trampers to collect cicadas for him. ** Graves of Rich, Powerful Women Found in Lost City of Herodotus Graves of rich, powerful women have been unearthed in the necropolis of Bilsk in Ukraine, the biggest of the fortified settlements of that period in Europe – the 8th to 4th centuries B.C.E. ** More refugees to be trained as tour guides at Oxford University museums Funding from Alwaleed Philanthropies will support Multaka project working with 200 refugees and asylum seekers over the next five years. ** Online Resource: The Viking Videos Learn all about the Vikings and the role of Science in Archaeology through these newly created videos by the Education and Outreach Department at the National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, and in partnership with the Midlands Science. _______________________________________________________________________________ 🎄 GLOBAL MUSEUM STORE’S HOLIDAY SEASON GIFTS & GEAR 🎄 Discounted Gifts & All Sorts of Gear In The Global Museum Store – http://www.zazzle.com/thedigitalconsultant T-Shirts, Cards, Prints, Mugs & More … You Name It, We’ve Got it, You Can Buy It…. For Yourself, Or For The Museum Shop! _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Imaginations Project from UMAC Futures Zhao Ke, Co-Chair of UMAC FUTURES invites you to participate in our project: IMAGINATIONS, which is a series of online interview with young university museums professionals. ** Call for Participation for the 10th ICHORA Conference The 10th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (ICHORA) will be held online during the week of 25-29 July 2022, virtually hosted by The National Archives (UK) and the Forum for Archives and Records Management Education and Research (FARMER). ** CFG Risk Conference 2022. Thursday 27 January 2022 Increasingly demanding regulatory and operating environments have been applying additional pressure on the charity sector and how they assess and report operational risks. ** NASA Delays Space Walk After It Starts Snowing In Outer Space Once the weather clears up, we’ll send our crew on a space walk with shovels and a bag of rock salt, and ensure the astronauts scrape off the windshield of their return spacecraft. _______________________________________________________________________________ Global Museum’s Pandemic Resources Section – https://tinyurl.com/museumpandemic Resources & Important links _______________________________________________________________________________ All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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