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** AI-driven ReMasterpieces revives WWII-lost art, balancing innovation with ethics in heritage preservation
Technological advances in general, and the explosion of generative AI tools in particular, have jump-started projects that support provenance research and lost art identification.
** Dutch Museum Sends Crimean Treasures to Kyiv After Russia-Ukraine Legal Struggle
Historical treasures that were stored for years at an Amsterdam museum during an ownership dispute sparked by Russia's annexation of Crimea have been safely transported to Ukraine.
** V&A director says museum trustees ‘infantilised’ amid row over Parthenon marbles
Museum trustees should be able to “make the case” whether items in their collections should be retained or returned to their countries of origin, but instead were being “infantilised” and “hidebound” by legislation.
** External Pressures on Museum-Going
This visual Data Story is based on findings from the 2023 Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, a national survey of American museum visitors from AAM and Wilkening Consulting
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** The Exhibition Designer With A Grape Passion
Eisterhold’s day job is designing museum exhibitions, but he has spent decades accumulating this collection of grapes that—despite an illustrious past—have been largely forgotten and were very nearly lost.
** Destruction of Ukrainian heritage: why losing historical icons can leave a long shadow
The report lists damage to a number of historic sites, including the UNESCO-listed Vasyl Tarnovsky Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities and the burial mound at Boldyni Hory – one of the largest eleventh-century Ukrainian necropolises.
** Tyrian purple: The lost ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold
In a small garden hut in north-eastern Tunisia, just a short distance from what was once the Phoenician city of Carthage, one man has spent most of the last 16 years smashing up sea snails – attempting to coax their entrails into something resembling Tyrian purple.
** See a 17th-Century Portrait Restored to Its Original Appearance, Minus Lip Fillers and Other Touch-Ups
Conservators removed cosmetic changes made to a painting of English aristocrat Diana Cecil, likely to match 19th-century beauty standards
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** 5 of the Greatest Natural History Hoaxes of All Time
These historical forgeries show what makes misinformation so successful.
** The Winter solstice at Newgrange
A brief account of the Winter solstice at Newgrange, the archaeological excavations at the site and some of the finds now stored in the National Museum of Ireland.
** What visitors to the British Museum think should happen to the Elgin marbles
“The British do have a habit of taking stuff or buying stuff but not for the right price. That seems to be a British tradition, unfortunately".
** Unusual Museums - Pizza Hut Museum
The small brick building that housed the World's First Pizza Hut looks like a hut, but that's not why Pizza Hut has that name.
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** Research into Museums admissions pricing policy
This new work updates related research AIM commissioned in 2016 and should help museums and galleries consider how they might optimise their income, position themselves effectively in the market, whilst maintaining their accessibility.
** NHM defends collections move after scientists raise concerns
Letter warns that planned relocation of 28 million specimens to Berkshire could hamper research.
** Why Restoring a Banksy Mural in Venice Is So Controversial
Critics argue that the street artist may have intended for the work to deteriorate over time.
** Civil War weapons thrown into river by General Sherman's forces recovered in South Carolina
The Union army dumped captured Confederate munitions into the Congaree River, including over a million ball cartridges, more than 26,000 pounds of gunpowder, thousands of sabres and bayonets, and even backpacks and tents
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** The 'longevity bottleneck' hypothesis: Research suggests that dinosaurs may have influenced how human beings age
Human aging may have been influenced by millions of years of dinosaur domination according to a new theory from a leading aging expert.
** Italy Searches for Museum Leaders, With Nationalism in the Air
Last time the top jobs at some of the country’s most prestigious art institutions came up, many went to foreign candidates; this time, that’s unlikely.
** Research highlights opportunities and risks of AI for heritage organisations
Main uses of AI include managing collections, visitor experience and commercial operations.
** The York Helmet
The remarkably rare and well-preserved York Helmet is one of only six surviving helmets from Anglo-Saxon England. Iron and copper alloy, AD 750-775.
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** Generations past - how Christmas was celebrated in years gone by
As Christmas is quickly approaching and we are caught up in the rush of buying presents and putting up Christmas decorations, take a few moments to consider how generations past celebrated Christmas in Ireland.
** Call for Papers
Shaping Transformation. University Collections in a Changing World. Joint Annual Meeting of ICOM-UMAC and UNIVERSEUM. TUD Dresden University of Technology │ September 24th to 29th, 2024.
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