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**  How Galleries Are Increasingly Funding Museum Shows

​​Museums need support from galleries, but is it only blue-chips landing the best partnerships?



​**  Who Cares About Museums?

Arts and education charity Culture& has announced plans for a new survey into museum visitors.



​**  Rediscovering Gems: British Museum exhibition exposes hypocrisy of new loan agreements for looted objects

While the British Museum celebrates recovered items in its new exhibition, it has continuously refused to return historically looted items in its own collection back to countries of origin.



​**  10 Best Aviation Museums Around the U.S.

​​Learn more about the history of flight and see vintage planes at some of the best aviation museums in the U.S.

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**  British Museum bounces back from scandal to be UK's most visited attraction

The controversy over thefts from the British Museum has not dented its popularity with the Bloomsbury institution being named the most popular visitor attraction in the UK last year​.



​**  Einstein’s only experiment is found in French museum

Some of the apparatus used by Einstein and de Haas has been found languishing in the Ampère Museum near Lyon, which is one of France’s oldest science museums.



​**  Hong Kong Palace Museum holds first thematic exhibition

Nearly 100 exhibits are being showcased in five sections: metalware; painting and calligraphy; furniture; religious art; and ceramics, dating from the Neolithic Period (which began in China around 10,000 B.C.) to the 21st century.



​**  Anger as the V&A museum lists Margaret Thatcher as 'contemporary villain' alongside Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden

The Victoria and Albert Museum faced calls for it to be stripped of its public funding after naming Margaret Thatcher in a list of 'unpopular public figures' alongside Hitler and Osama bin Laden.

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**  Eleven People Face Trial in France for Selling Fake African Artifacts​

They are being tried in a French court after being accused of manufacturing and dealing $1million of fake African artifacts.



​**  Archaeologists Discover Wooden Spikes Described by Julius Caesar

Until recently, no traces of the military technology had ever been found.



​**  UK Museums Still Have Yet to See Pre-Pandemic Attendance, New Report Reveals

Attendance at national museums and galleries in the UK has dropped massively since the pandemic, even despite a lack of restrictions, according to a new report published by the UK government this month.



​**  ‘Ultra-Specialized’ Gang Pulls Off $1 Million Heist at Italian Museum

Nearly 50 treasures including jewels and gold statues were brazenly stolen.

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**  Why Philanthropy IS a Business Model While “nonprofit” is not

Philanthropy is most certainly a business model, or at least the core of such a model, because it is at the heart of financing  almost all of the country’s leading cultural institutions, from museums to the performing arts, as well as most organized religious institutions.



​**  UNESCO’s Quest to Save the World’s Intangible Heritage

For decades, the organization has maintained a system that protects everything from Ukrainian borscht to Jamaican reggae.



​**  Archaeologists Unearth the Long-Lost Top Half of an Enormous Ramses II Statue

A German researcher found the lower section of the Egyptian pharaoh’s likeness nearly 100 years ago.​



​**  Carving a place for women on statues

If you were to count the statues in your local town, village or city, how many would you find that represent women?​

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**  Billionaire Family Gives the Louvre’s New Curatorial Department a Major Boost

A new curatorial department at the Louvre that will be dedicated to the art of Byzantium and Eastern Christianity is set to receive a major financial boost from one of France’s wealthiest families.



​**  Here’s Everything Going On at the Frick Until It Reopens Later This Year

Between Frick Madison's closure and the Frick Collection's reopening, there's quite a bit to do and see.



​**  Royal Mint’s new dinosaur coin inspired by Natural History Museum’s Dippy

The collectable 50p coin, which is now on sale from the Mint, has been inspired by the Natural History Museum’s cast of a diplodocus.



​**  Nancy Adams and the art of seaweed

Nancy Adams (1926–2007) was one of New Zealand’s most notable botanists and a talented artist.

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**  NEH Research and Development Grant

The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Preservation and Access is pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Research and Development grant program



​**  Public Houses Conference

Public Houses: What makes civic custodianship of historic house museums in Britain different and where next?



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