This Week In Global Museum | Celebrating 28 Years Serving The Profession | The #1 Museum Site For Museum News, Museum Jobs, Museum Resources & More! www.globalmuseum.org ** Workers Denounce Brussels Museum Director’s ‘Rule of Terror’ in Letter to Government The letter claims the museum suffers from “psychosocial risks in technical services and exhibitions,” multiple cases of “burn out and depression,” unequal treatment between employees and a general lack of “equity and basic justice.” ** British Museum returns Oceanic sculpture to Polynesia—for three years Unfortunately the British Museum has for decades lacked an Oceania gallery, so it does not have an appropriate place to display this key sculpture in a proper context. ** V&A’s Diva show uses costumes and artefacts to celebrate female creativity In a major exhibition, the V&A is reclaiming the term by celebrating the power and creativity of divas, from the famed sopranos of the Victorian era to today’s global megastars. ** What Shipwrecks Reveal About the Origins of the Benin Bronzes A new study traces the metal used to craft the brass sculptures to manilla bracelets produced in Germany and used as currency in the slave trade. _____________________________________________________________________ 🧑🤝🧑 ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,738? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Museum Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Native American Artifacts from Collection Perhaps Spotted Eagle’s most egregious conduct was to rifle through sacred medicine bundles, not only causing physical damage, but also desecrating them. ** Italian land artist makes world’s largest Picasso portrait with tractor An Italian land artist has used a tractor to create a portrait of Pablo Picasso on wasteland in Castagnaro, Verona. ** The Getty Conservation Institute Conserves A Pink Giraffe The 9-foot-tall sculptural giraffe, constructed of transparent pink polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), is currently in poor condition. ** ‘It’s called stealing’: new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein Pop art founder made millions, but the comic book artists he copied struggled financially. _______________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2.7K of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Man Became Trapped Inside Public Sculpture Apparently he climbed up top someplace, found a hole big enough to slither into and slithered down inside; and then he couldn't get out ** A Tattered Scrap of Fabric, Unearthed From a Peat Bog in the Scottish Highlands, Is the World’s Oldest Piece of Tartan A scrap of weathered fabric, discovered four decades ago in a peat bog, is the world’s oldest piece of tartan, with new analysis determining it dates to the 16th century. ** Experts reveal digital image of what an Egyptian man looked like almost 35,000 years ago An archaeologist and a 3D designer used the skeletal remains of a man found at an archaeological site in Egypt to recreate a digital image. ** Not Picassos, but Still Precious: Museums Return Silver Lost to the Nazis Some German institutions have begun to give back cups, candlesticks, teapots and other items of crafted silver that Jews were forced to surrender during the reign of the Third Reich. _______________________________________________________________________________ 🐦Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 228.7K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,715 Followers worldwide and growing 🐘 Having a ‘Musk Moment’? 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The phrase “fake it till you make it” has come full circle as the Courtauld Gallery in London gears up for a special exhibition dedicated to the forged artworks in its collection. ** Sabertooth cat skull reveals details about this Ice Age predator The Smilodon fatalis skull was collected from late Pleistocene sand and gravel exposed along the East Nishnabotna River _______________________________________________________________________________ 🧑🤝🧑 Follow Global Museum on Instagram | 38 Followers and counting! - https://www.instagram.com/globalmuseum6/ 🧑🤝🧑 Global Museum is on TikTok: Follow us here - https://www.tiktok.com/@globalmuseum _______________________________________________________________________________ ** CFG Cultural Sector Conference How do you continue thriving within the cultural sphere when faced with funding cuts? ** Future of Museums: Disposal 28 June 2023, 1100-1600 ** Viking Ireland Explore the Viking Age in Ireland through surviving objects – including objects from Viking graves of the 9th and 10th centuries and from settlement sites of the 10th to 12th centuries. ** This Week's Horoscopes Virgo (August 23 - September 22): This week, you will discover that you have the power to communicate with animals. 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