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** 6 Shockingly Brutal Realities Of Working For A Museum
Since donors know they've got us by our charity balls, they can be really
demanding before, during, and even after their donation
** Dutch museum renaming art for cultural sensitivity
Amsterdam's acclaimed Rijksmuseum has started renaming works of art in its
vast collection whose titles could be considered inappropriate by a modern
audience
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** Roman Treasure Trove Found in Swiss Molehill
A farmer in the country’s northern municipality of Ueken made the find of
third century Roman coins earlier this year in his cherry orchard, after
spotting something glimmering in a molehill
** Title Fights: How Museums Name Their Shows
In reality, curators and members of museum marketing, communications, and
publications departments put a great deal of thought into naming their
shows, and the process can take months, even years
** UK mission to locate publicly subsidised art that has disappeared from
view
From the nine-ton fibreglass bulls that adorned an unloved shopping mall to
the 300ft needle that was the centrepiece of the Festival of Britain, they
are works of art once seen by millions which have mysteriously disappeared
from view
** Planners Hope to Open N.Y. Climate Change Museum in 2020
The Climate Museum will focus on solutions and the need for collective
action and such action could be as small as switching to energy-efficient
light bulbs or as big as signing up to work for an environmental cause
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** Private arts: Bangkok museum celebrates Thai sex industry and its
workers
At the door to the museum, sewing machines sit discarded, the rejected
relics of multiple aid projects to teach textile skills to sex workers to
get them to change their profession
** MoMA to Organize Collections That Cross Artistic Boundaries
While curatorial activities used to be highly segregated by department, with
paintings and sculpture considered the most important, the museum has
gradually been upending that traditional hierarchy, organizing exhibitions
in a more fluid fashion across disciplinary lines and redefining its
practice of showing art from a linear historical perspective
** Yelp's Top 20 museums in the USA
No. 3 on the list is one of the world's biggest and best, New York's
Metropolitan Museum of Art but it's topped in Yelp's five-star ratings by a
military museum in Virginia and a modern art museum in Kansas City
** Tutankhamun’s gold mask back on display in Egypt after beard restoration
Egypt has put the restored gold mask of Tutankhamun back on display after
German experts removed glue applied in a botched repair when the priceless
artefact’s beard fell off
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Exhibition Title Generator
** ‘Peace Reigns’ in Spain as Prado and a New Museum Settle Dispute
In an accord signed at the Royal Palace in Madrid, the leaders of the Prado
and the Patrimonio Nacional, the agency that administers all royal holdings
from palaces to artworks, agreed that four major paintings would remain
permanently on display at the Prado and that the two institutions would
cooperate in the future
** An Old Alsatian Museum’s Modern Makeover
Located in a cloistered 13th-century Dominican convent, the museum is one of
the most visited small museums in France and is best known for its Isenheim
Altarpiece, which was sculpted and painted by the German artists Niclaus of
Haugenau and Matthias Grünewald respectively between 1512 and 1516
** 'Lost' Treasure Ship Is Also a War Grave
A 2013 law in Colombia declared wrecks found in its waters as its own
national heritage but whatever the outcome, the human tragedy at the center
of the San José wreck shouldn't be lost amid visions of silver and gold
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** How Snakes Lost Their Legs
New work by AMNH scientists on a 90-million-year old reptile fossil
indicates that snakes lost their legs when their ancestors evolved to live
and hunt in burrows, which many snakes still do today
** Hairy Findings
Prehistoric people had fur to keep them warm and engaged in raucous fireside
rituals near the modern site of Ebbsfleet International railway station, say
archaeologists who will use ancient snail shells and vole bones to determine
the Kent climate around 250,000 years ago
** 10 of the best museum shops around the world
It’s not always a case of avoiding the ‘exit through the gift store’ bit;
these striking and creatively stocked museum shops are worth a visit in
their own right
** Doing Justice to Modern Art: Inside Singapore's New $380 Million Gallery
The occupying Japanese army surrendered here, Singapore's first cabinet was
sworn in here, criminals were sentenced to be hanged here and now, after a
10-year renovation costing S$532 million ($380 million), people can stroll
through the former courtrooms and government offices, looking at Southeast
Asia's largest public collection of modern art
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** Former Field Museum employee accused of stealing $900,000 over 7 years
The museum has been strapped for cash in recent years and has had to lay off
employees as it struggled to repay debts incurred by big recent building
projects
** ICOM NATHIST Student Bursary for the 2016 General Assembly
ICOM NATHIST is delighted to announce its inaugural student bursary for the
2016 General Assembly in Italy.
** The Radiant Ming 1368-1644 through the Min Chiu Society Collection
Hong Kong Museum of History
** Soldier, Son, Service - an authentic research experience
The Jewish Museum of Australia’s new cutting-edge education program
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius - Don’t let other people influence your future. That’s what a
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