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**  Do you really need a degree to secure a low paid job in a UK museum?
This organisation uses “keyboard warrior” tactics to call out unfair recruitment practices at leading museums in the UK, including salary cloaking , credentialism and unreasonable qualification criteria for entry-level positions.

**  Austrian museum skews paintings to reflect climate change
The museum is turning the paintings by the number of degrees by which temperatures at the locations they depict could rise if far-reaching action isn’t taken against climate change

**  Multimillion-pound Anglo-Saxon venue opens in The UK
Ad Gefrin, meaning “at the hill of the goats” in Old English, has opened to the public and offers an immersive Anglo-Saxon experience, a compact museum, restaurant and whisky distillery.

**  Have we got Ancient Egypt's mummies all wrong? 
A British exhibition aims to shed new light on this ancient practice – and maybe even shift our perspective.
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**  New York’s Met Museum sees reputation erode over collection practices
Over the last two years, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its news media partners have reported on the Met’s acquisition practices.

**  New Museum Planned for Mexico’s Ancient Maya Complex Chichén Itzá
Though the museum is early in its development, it is expected to replace a smaller structure that closed over a decade ago and will highlight some of the Yucatán Peninsula’s latest archaeological discoveries.

**  As the Met reclassifies Russian art as Ukrainian, not everyone is convinced
The moves are described by some as part of an effort to correctly attribute the contribution of Ukrainian artists to art history but they have also been denounced by others.

**  Fire destroys museum dedicated to preserving North Texas history
The Lost Battalion Room, which featured photos and uniforms of Texas soldiers who were imprisoned for 42 months after being captured by Japanese troops during World War II, was just one of many exhibits housed in the facility
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**  The Museum Director Who Stayed Behind to Defend Ukrainian Literature
History told the staff that Russians would once again use violence and terror to enforce this vision of history, in which neither the country nor the language exists.

**  Hi-res art scans from famous Taiwan museum leak online… and turn up for sale on Chinese online shopping platform
A Taiwanese museum that houses some of the world’s most precious Chinese artworks has confirmed that up to 100,000 high-resolution images of paintings and calligraphy leaked online – some of them turning up for sale on a Chinese shopping platform for less than $1.

**  Europe’s Oldest Map Shows Tiny Bronze Age Kingdom
Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.

**  Museum visits up 158% but still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels
Visitor numbers are picking up post-pandemic with many UK museums celebrating rises of more than 200% in footfall last year, according to the annual figures from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions 
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**  Scottish Artist Behind Picasso Hoax Accused of Attempting to Sell More Forged Artwork
In 2015, Dominic Currie made headlines when he claimed to have discovered a rolled-up Picasso inside his late mother’s suitcase, which he said was a gift to her from a Soviet soldier.

**  9 year old and mother fall over railing to their death in Shanghai museum
A nine-year-old girl and her mother were found dead after falling from the third floor of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum.

**  If You Can Decipher These 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls, You Could Win $250K
Teams that enter the Vesuvius Challenge will get access to digital scans of two Herculaneum scrolls.

**  OCMA is (finally) finished — and it’s as good as it’s gonna get
Why, exactly, the museum’s stewards thought that a modestly budgeted institution such as OCMA was in need of such a complicated design is beyond perplexing.
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**  AI Will Make Human Art More Valuable
Time and again, technical advances change our sense of what is appealing or valuable and, as in 19th century Britain, the change often runs against the grain of technology, rather than with it.

**  ‘Nobody has ever been astonished by an apple’ – sorry Cézanne, but still lifes are dull as hell
Painters of still lifes have a lot to answer for – and today’s new breed would be better off tackling air fryers or discarded Deliveroo packaging.

**  Is the Future of Museums a Decentralized One?
Museums are non-profits, they are mission-based organizations set up for the public good, which is why they have tax-exempt status.

**  Whatever happened to North America’s lions?
Cave lions and their larger relatives, American lions, first entered North America during the last ice age, toward the end of the Pleistocene.
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**  Radical Museums.
The Museums Association has been exploring what radical practice and activism means for museums for a number of years.

**  Vibratory Impacts of Music and Transport on Museum Collections
November 7-10, 2023, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

**  All Inclusive: Championing Accessible Museums
26 April 2023, 1100-1600. Online, Zoom

**  Locksmith Called After Man Loses Incantation Used To Open Ancient Stone Chamber
“It took him 45 minutes to get here, which is fine, but now he wants to charge me $200 just to blast through the 4,000-year-old rune-covered doors with shadow magic”.
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