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**  Covid has improved disabled people’s engagement with museums, study finds
Respondents expressed feeling liberated knowing that their flexible working requests might be taken more seriously and seen as viable for at least part of the working week, when previously such requests had been denied.

**  World’s Oldest Coin Mint Discovered in 2,800-Year-Old Chinese Foundry
Archaeologists have uncovered the world’s oldest known coin mint, along with pieces of spade-shaped metal currency, inside a bronze foundry dating to 770 B.C.E. in Guanzhuang, China.

**  Hindsight is 2020: What We Learned About Leadership in a Crisis
When the pandemic hit, and it became clear we would need to shut down our physical sites and work from home, most of our institutions put programs on pause for a variety of reasons, whether because they were based physically on site, required use of exhibits that weren’t accessible, or required funding that was unavailable,

**  Tea, sweat and whale poop: museum sniffs out history of London’s docks
The smells of damp wood, sea air, tobacco and maybe just a soupçon of human sweat will waft through a gallery for an exhibition telling the hidden stories of what was once the world’s busiest port.
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**  What’s in a Frame?
Frames tell their own tales: about when and where the artwork was completed, the decorative styles that were popular at the time, and the artwork’s journey from artist to collector. 

**  ‘Starry Night’ dog bowls and other tragedies: The merch of ‘Immersive Van Gogh’
Van Gogh might have felt despondent if he knew the almond blossoms he laboured over would be turned into a shower curtain or (drum roll, please): Van Goghgurt.

**  Greek wildfires threaten UNESCO World Heritage site of Olympia
According to information provided by experts and press reports, firefighters continue to battle major fires in Greece, including one that could impact the World Heritage site of the Archaeological Site of Olympia.

**  New Analysis Reveals more details about Smithsonian founder's Illegitimate Family tree
The newly recovered 1787 Hungerford Deed, detailing the contentious fight over property and prestige, can now be viewed in a new virtual exhibition.
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**  ‘Missing link’ dinosaur had novel breathing system
A study has found a novel, decidedly un-birdlike breathing system in the most primitive ornithischian: Heterodontosaurus tucki, an early Jurassic dinosaur.

**  ‘Art doctors’ help keep the collection healthy at Smithsonian American Art Museum
In the spirit of sharing, the museum invites visitors to watch the conservators mend paintings, three-dimensional objects, works on paper and frames from their glass-walled labs on the third floor.

**  Shattered by blast, landmark Beirut museum tries to rebuild
Conservators, hunched over with magnifying glasses, fill lines of paint loss caused by the explosion with their brushes and weave together tears thread by thread under microscope.

**  Respect Wanted: Overworked Museum Guards at the Met Say They’re Being Asked to Do More Work With Less Help Than Ever
Nowadays, security officers can be responsible for patrolling nearly a dozen galleries on their own—a job normally split between three people—leaving ample room for disasters to happen.
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**  Carnegie Museum asks for visitor feedback on cultural sensitivity, exhibits with complicated pasts
How we can appropriately display objects that represent a culture, how can we tell a culture’s story, without receiving the proper input? 

**  Archaeologists Claim They’ve Discovered the Trojan Horse in Turkey
Turkish archaeologists excavating the site of the historical city of Troy on the hills of Hisarlik have unearthed a large wooden structure. Historians and archaeologists think what they have discovered are remains of the legendary Trojan Horse.

**  STiCH - Sustainability Tools in Cultural Heritage
STiCH (Sustainability Tools in Cultural Heritage) is a new web resource to help cultural heritage professionals make educated, sustainable choices to lower the environmental impact of their work.

**  History of Science Museum to tell Oxford University’s Covid story
A dedicated collecting Covid curator and archivist will be appointed at the History of Science Museum working in close partnership with a dedicated archivist at the Bodleian Libraries to jointly lead this two-year project.
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**  Viking ‘amulet factory’ discovery forces rethink of enigmatic artefacts
Mysterious, ancient female figurines have been found by the dozens all over Denmark, and as far afield as England and Russia: inch-long bronze depictions of long-haired women, often wearing crested helmets and long dresses, and armed with shields and swords.

**  Drawing a blank: can artistic talent ever be taught?
The originality of Leonardo was made possible by a medieval art education; the kid from Vinci joined Verrocchio’s workshop in Florence as an apprentice when he was 17, and worked constantly at drawing and painting.

**  Visitors Are Flocking Back To Berlin’s Museum Island
With more than half of Germany fully vaccinated, visitors are returning to Berlin’s museums; waiving admission fees on Sundays is helping, too.

**  Public Art Show In South Florida Falls Apart After Mayor Goes McCarthy On Artists
The curator of a major public art show in Florida has resigned after the local mayor claimed two of the artists spoke too favourably about communism and pushed to defund the show.
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**  AATA Quarterly Update
The summer update includes abstracts from various journals focusing on technical analyses and archaeological conservation; from conference proceedings on textiles, protective shelters, and conservation practice; and of audio-visual recordings produced during the past year.
**  Climate crisis: How to write a carbon management plan – and tap into environmental grants
Dundee Museum of Transport is creating Europe’s first fully carbon neutral transport museum in Dundee, by retrofitting its Grade B listed Maryfield Tram Depot.
**  Historic England and English Heritage Call for Collaborative Doctoral Research Partnerships
Historic England and English Heritage are delighted to announce our 2021 Call for Proposals for our AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) programme.
**  This Week's Horoscopes
Pisces - An awkward silence will threaten to ruin one of your many blind dates this month. Break the ice by displaying your homemade necklace of census taker’s ears.
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