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**  Museums' treasures endure, but how we see them may change
Will the pandemic force powerful change in how museums engage with global digital audiences, for instance, or with local communities that are often estranged from the cultural destination around the corner?

**  Upheaval Over Race Reaches Met Museum After Curator’s Instagram Post
A top curator’s Instagram post that seemed critical of protests over monuments and the Black Lives Matters movement — shared on Juneteenth — has ignited objections by staff members, and a larger internal critique,

**  Trove research on Nazi-looted art ends
An investigation into the origin and ownership of 1,500 artworks found in the filthy flat of a German recluse whose father bought Nazi-looted paintings has finally concluded, leaving more questions than answers.

**  Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Quick Eye’ May Have Aided in Creation of ‘Mona Lisa’
New research conducted by a scientist at the University of Basel in Switzerland focuses on how Leonardo da Vinci’s superior visual acuity might have enabled the Italian master to depict liminal moments, including the Mona Lisa‘s mysterious smile, in his works.

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**  Museum Cocktails: Three Great Libations Inspired by Art to Make at Home
Some museums have gone further, inventing new cocktails inspired by works in their collections and searching through bartending books for drinks that complement the art under discussion.

**  Facebook Bans All Trade In Historical Artifacts After Rampant Selling Of Looted Antiquities Discovered
After an investigation by the BBC and a Syrian-American archaeologist found a network of groups trading in ancient objects stolen from Middle Eastern war zones the social media colossus says it will block all sale and trading of antiquities on its flagship site and Instagram.

**  Ex-Curator At Louvre Arrested In Major Antiquities Trafficking Case
French art police arrested five art experts as part of an investigation into the widespread trafficking of looted antiquities from the Near and the Middle East.

**  Cultural institutions reopen with a more hands-off approach
To better understand how attractions are re-imagining their experiences, we reached out to several museums, aquariums, zoos and wildlife centers in the country; here is a snapshot of their look-Ma-no-hands plans.

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**  Uffizi Gallery Becomes High Art’s Top TikTok Jester
Until just a few years ago, the august Florence museum “acted like the internet didn’t exist”: it didn’t even launch a website until 2015 and only got itself a Facebook page after the COVID lockdown started this past spring.

**  Louvre To Reopen With A Fraction Of Its Usual Visitors
When the museum reopens, 70 percent will be accessible, including the large galleries of French and Italian paintings, the sculpture courtyards and the Egyptian antiquities section.

**  Canadian Museum for Human Rights president to stand down amid discrimination crisis
The issue of homophobia will be included in an external review into systemic racism and discrimination at the institution, which had already been commissioned following a series of recent allegations.

**  Museums from home across the UK
As museums and galleries look towards reopening, the British Museum shows how some of their partner venues across the UK have responded to the COVID-19 crisis – from collecting memories of lockdown to virtual exhibitions.

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**  The Barber Who Created a Picasso Museum
Since the artist believed his hair and nails contained some of his creative strength and anyone who touched them could have power over him, he only allowed Arias to be his barber.

**  Dog Breeding in the Neolithic Age
A 35-person team, including a who’s who of ancient DNA experts, has now uncovered a vivid and genetically detailed picture of the oldest known case of selective breeding, the creation of Arctic sled dogs at least 9,500 years ago.

**  What Museum Education Students Learned at #AAMvirtual
With the AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo transitioning to a virtual format this year, a new crop of colleagues was able to attend, participate, and share their reactions on social media.

**  Carnivorous Dinosaurs as Big as T. rex Lived in Jurassic Australia
We estimate these tracks were made by large-bodied carnivorous dinosaurs, some of which were up to 3 m high at the hips and probably around 10 m long.

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**  The volcano that caused famines in ancient Rome? It was in Alaska
Roman writers described unusual weather and famines in the years following Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 BCE, adding to the turbulence of the civil war that marked the transition from Republic to Empire.

**  Nothing captures a small town’s character, soul and past like its museum
Securing multiple streams of funding is the top recommendation to keep small-town museums strong, says The Summerlee Foundation report in 2015, listing donations from individuals and local businesses, events, a building from the city, and tax-supported funding from the county or state.

**  The Penn Museum must end abuse of the Morton collection
My exposure to his collection of crania, housed in the Penn Museum’s Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Materials labs, has made it abundantly clear that the Museum keeping the crania of the Morton collection is racist, oppressive, and a violation of basic human rights

**  Experts call for regulation after latest botched art restoration in Spain
A private art collector in Valencia was reportedly charged €1,200 by a furniture restorer to have the picture of the Immaculate Conception cleaned.

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**  Museum reopening guidance
New guidance on reopening museums has been published by the National Museum Directors’ Council (NMDC) with support from DCMS and the Museums and Galleries Working Group

**  Caring for Heritage Collections during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Canadian Conservation Institute released a note on preparing to reopen collections spaces. It recommends isolation as the best method for decontamination, and that disinfecting solutions are not recommended and may damage heritage material.

**  SDASM TV Launched
The San Diego Air & Space Museum’s video channel showcasing insider stories, features exciting archival footage, personal and oral histories and STEM challenges in pursuit of their mission to preserve, inspire, educate and celebrate aviation and space flight history and innovation.

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - Well, the stars tried, but somehow, you’ve been left more or less in control of your own destiny this week.

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