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**  2023 Annual National Snapshot of United States Museums

Over 300 museum directors responded to this AAM survey on their organizations’ behalf, representing a broad cross-section of the field in geography, size, and discipline.

**  New Orleans Museum of Art faces public outcry for hiring white curator of African art

Noma's decision to hire Maples has further amplified the strain between the institution and New Orleans’s Black community, first publicly exposed at the height of the racial justice protests in the summer of 2020.

**  Visitors can own everything inside New York's new Rally Museum

Rally, a collectibles investing platform, has opened a new museum in NYC where guests can own a share of each object on display and leave with equity in a piece of history.

**  National Gallery Of Art's Guide To Your Artsiest Summer Yet

Artists from Mary Cassatt to Roy Lichtenstein have spent the warmer months making works that show busy beaches, ripe raspberries, fresh flowers, and golden light.

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**  Chinese museums exorbitantly cash in on their popularity

When official channels for reservation fail, people have no choice but to pay exorbitant prices to businesses to make reservations on their behalf or pay even higher prices for organized tour services in order to enter the museums.

**  Museum used powerful non-invasive nuclear and accelerator techniques to gain information about Aboriginal artefacts

A number of sophisticated non-invasive nuclear and accelerator techniques were used to provide information about the origin and age of an Australian Aboriginal knife held in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum.

**  Tate loans painting of Covid frontline staff to Alder Hey hospital

Such was the impact of the commission, the gallery felt its home ought to be at the hospital, marking a rare incident of a painting in the national collection being allowed to reside in a non-arts space on a long-term basis.

**  Glorious glass – worth more than gold?

Rough and unworked fragments of glass appear in both Mesopotamia and Egypt around 2000 BC, but it wasn't until about 400 years later that glass vessels, amulets and jewellery began to be crafted in proper workshops.

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**  The Real History Behind the Archimedes Dial in ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’

A device called the Antikythera mechanism is the true-life basis for the object at the centre of the franchise’s latest instalment.

**  Vermeer Has Dominated Global Museum Visits In 2023

The most popular museum exhibition in 2023 so far is the blockbuster show of works by artist Johannes Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the most complete collection of his works ever, drawing sold-out crowds.

**  British Museum Staff Plan Another Weeklong Strike, Calling the Institution’s Rebuff of Its Demands ‘Deeply Insulting’

The government approved a lump payment to striking civil servants—but the British Museum left it out of their equation.

**  Tel Aviv Museum of art facing pressure over links to auction of Nazi-looted works

A group of Holocaust survivors that has taken Christie’s to task for the sale is turning its attention to the relationship between the auction house, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and a New York-based charity that funds the museum.

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**  ‘Ridiculous’: Titanic museums mocked for having memorials for submarine expedition

Two memorials were held last week at Titanic museums across the US, in honour of the five people who died earlier this month on a submarine expedition to the famous ship wreck.

**  Amsterdam's Hermitage museum is renamed after cutting ties with Russia following Ukraine invasion

Starting in September, the Hermitage Amsterdam will be called H'ART Museum.

**  For This Museum, Russian-German Collaboration Got Awkward

As a Berlin museum with Russian trustees commemorates an allied victory over the Soviet Union, it is also negotiating the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

**  Inside the First Art Gallery for Blind Artists and Audiences

All of the art exhibited here is meant to be touched — something the staff had to push me to do when I visited, because I was so conscious of the rules at other galleries.

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**  A toolkit for ethical transfer, reuse and disposal of collections

The Museums Association ethical advice on transfer, reuse and disposal encourages museums to take a more active approach to appropriate disposal.

**  Mission San Gabriel Museum Rebuilt After Fire

This is where the missionaries lived, and where Native people from distant regions — more than 7,000 of them — came and had their struggles.

**  Beyond the Little Black Dress

Discover how the nuances of the colour black have made the little black dress a contradictory garment, from the well-mannered cocktail attire of the early 20th century to the leather and latex worn by members of punk and fetish subcultures

**  Airgead: A Thousand Years of Irish Coins & Currency

The National Museum of Ireland's Airgead examines the manner in which the lives of people were influenced by the use of money and how money in turn reflected social and economic trends.

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**  How to start a love affair with art

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**  Win an architect

Whether you’re a business in need of new premises, the owner of a heritage asset in need of restoration or an arts organization looking to make a splash.

**  Climate Smart Humanities Organizations Grant

Does your organization have a comprehensive plan for lowering your carbon footprint, preparing for climate-related threats, or adhering to new state or local energy targets?

**  This Week's Horoscopes

Libra: Libra, your quest for balance and harmony will take a bizarre turn this week when you find yourself meditating in the middle of a supermarket cereal aisle. Embrace the weirdness and find enlightenment amidst the Frosted Flakes. Read the full weekly horoscopes here.
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