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** Visitor Figures 2021: the 100 most popular art museums in the world—but is Covid still taking its toll?
While attendance figures still have some way to go to reach pre-pandemic levels, fewer days of lockdown-related closures coupled with vaccine rollout programmes spelled good news for institutions around the world.
** Museums Are Cashing In On NFTs
There’s money to be made, though most institutions are wary of getting involved.
** UK Heritage Group Will Sue British Museum Over Access to Parthenon Marbles
The Oxford-based Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) plans to take the British Museum to court over its refusal to allow a 3D scanning of a piece of the famous Parthenon Marbles.
** Why We Must Challenge the Typical Museum Narrative Regarding Ancient Egypt
Looking at how and why museums interpret their ancient Egypt collections, we can see museums’ role in creating a Western-based narrative that has appropriated ancient Egyptian history, and fragmented Egyptian history, culture, and identity to create an incomplete and oversimplified narrative.
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** Trilobite Fossils Suggest Cannibalism Is Older Than Once Thought
Evidence of cannibalism can be found in a 514-million-year-old treasure trove of trilobites on an island off the South Australian coast, at a site called Emu Bay.
** Technical taxidermy: life as a museum preparator
Steven Sparrey on collecting whale carcasses, feeding possums to carrion bugs and stuffing lions at the Melbourne Museum.
** William Morris’s ‘heaven on earth’ Oxfordshire home restored to former glory
The manor was built around 1600 for a working farmer, and Morris saw its architecture as unspoilt and unpretentious, encapsulating working lives and rural crafts.
** Smells like ancient society: Scientists find ways to study and reconstruct past scents
In a new paper, researchers discuss the importance of scent in human history and address how and why experts might investigate smells from the past.
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** America’s First Woman Detective, Foiled a Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln
In addition to making history as the first woman detective in the United States, Warne likely saved Abraham Lincoln’s life by helping to uncover—and thwart—a plot to assassinate him ahead of his March 1861 inauguration
** Exploring The RKD
The RKD provides worldwide access to knowledge, research and information about Netherlandish art in an international context, for museums, the academic community and the general public alike
** Surrealism’s return in a very surreal age
Surrealism has always been a truly international movement and, as such, it speaks to contemporary concerns with diversifying existing Western cultural cannons.
** US Supreme Court to take up dispute over Andy Warhol images of Prince
The court will consider an issue that arises when a new work of art is based on an existing one: How different does the new work have to be?
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** Burrell Collection reopens in Glasgow
The collection was created by William Burrell and his wife Constance who acquired a wide range of art, including items from China, stained glass and tapestries.
** Dense Bones Enabled This Dinosaur To Capture Prey Underwater
Prior work suggested bone density might serve as a marker of how often an animal might spend time sinking into water, much as an anchor can help keep a boat in place.
** Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Destroys Retro Computer Museum
The Club 8-Bit museum in Mariupol housed over a 120 retro computing devices, including some old-school Apple and Atari hardware, along with Soviet-era computers.
** The National World War II Museum Uses Unique Ways to Teach History
It’s not just pictures, panels to read, and artefact displays, but instead the museum uses immersive environments, interactive exhibits, and cinematic experiences to educate visitors on the war.
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** Graves of dozens of kings from the time of King Arthur uncovered in Britain
The new study by Ken Dark, an emeritus professor of archaeology and history at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom, identifies what may be up to 65 graves of post-Roman British kings and their families at about 20 burial sites across the west of England and Wales, including the modern English counties of Somerset and Cornwall.
** Cups, saucers and women’s right to vote
Ceramics have a long history of being used to show support for a particular cause and in 18th century Britain, your choice of teapot could express your support for a radical politician.
** A World of Watercolour
Te Papa's guest curator Annika Sippel talks about exhibiting works from the Archdeacon Smythe collection, in order to show the unexpected versatility of the medium and the taste of the collector.
** French museums rally to protect art collections in Ukraine with truckload of emergency supplies
More than 20 museums and institutions from across France including the Louvre, the Musée du Quai Branly—Jacques Chirac and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (national library) have donated emergency supplies to Ukrainian museums to help them protect their collections against destruction.
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** Nominations open for Family Friendly Museum Award
Which museum is families’ favourite in the UK? It’s time to decide!
** Registration now open for the 2022 ALHFAM Annual Meeting & Conference
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** Wealthy Couple Founds Art Museum To Foster Public Appreciation For How Wealthy They Are
In a generous gift intended to enrich the lives of residents and tourists alike, wealthy couple Louise and Richard Morris launched plans Monday to establish an art museum that would foster public appreciation for exactly how wealthy they are
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