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** The Smithsonian Museums Have Fallen Victim to the Government Shutdown,
Closing Until Further Notice
Visitors to the nation’s capital looking for alternative tourist attractions
should note that the Phillips Collection, the National Museum of Women in
the Arts, the National Building Museum, the Newseum, President Lincoln’s
Cottage, and the Woodrow Wilson House are among the sites open for business
as usual.
** Historic aircraft will be destroyed in move to Putin's 'military
Disneyland,' museum says
In light of a 2015 report linking a £12 million pagoda palace to the defence
minister, whose family's declared income for 2010-12 was only £1.8 million,
some suspect corruption may be involved in the transfer of the Monino
aircraft.
** Beyoncé and Jay-Z help Louvre museum break visitor record in 2018
The Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, broke all ticket office records
last year with more than 10 million people viewing its Paris collection of
fine arts and antiquities, boosted by foreign tourists and the interest in
Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s music video filmed there.
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** Islamabad in need of a museum to house thousands of antiquities
It is pertinent to mention here that Islamabad direly needs a museum to
house thousands of antiquities ruining in the godowns and on floors of
Department of Archaeology and Museums (DoAM).
** How Does a Museum Event Planner Do Her Job?
To do her job right, Tania Abitbol, MoMA’s in-house event planner has to
make sure every detail of each party is interesting, memorable and, just as
important, perfectly executed.
** London Archaeologists Unearth Subterranean Georgian-Era Ice Store
Procuring an ice cube today is as simple as opening the freezer and pulling
out an ice tray but back in Georgian England, the endeavour wasn’t quite so
easy (or cheap).
** Top Curators to Watch
Baldassari, who repertoried the collection in her 22 years at the
institution, is now going over everything with a fine-tooth comb and
updating the records to reflect the advances in Picasso scholarship.
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** French antiquities dealers slam ‘shocking’ report on restituting African
art
Many tribal art dealers feel that their work in restoring and preserving
pieces, documenting information about them and helping to establish
collections, has been misrepresented and point to the lack of a legal
framework around restitution.
** The drought is over: mass US copyright expiry brings flood of works into
public domain
At midnight on New Year’s Eve, all works first published in the United
States in 1923 entered the public domain including hundreds of thousands of
books, musical compositions, paintings, poems, photographs and films.
** Mexican experts discover first temple of god depicted as skinned human
corpse
The Aztec practice was to perform the sacrificial death in one or more
places, but to ritually store the skins in another, after they had been worn
by living humans for some days.
** National Museums Scotland acquire rare sea clock
The Bruce-Oosterwijck longitude pendulum sea clock is one of only two
examples of a clock of its kind in the world, and represents the first
attempt to solve the ‘the longitude problem,’ the issue of measuring
longitude which scientists tried to solve as people began to make
transatlantic voyages.
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** Yellow Vests Protest in Paris Closes Musée d’Orsay
Protests are common in Paris, though it is rare for art museums in the city
to close to the public because of them.
** The fascinating story of Genghis Khan
The new international special exhibition at Moesgaard Museum tells the
fascinating story of Genghis Khan and the nomads of the Mongolian steppes.
** Tougher ivory law to come into force this year
The Ivory Act, which bans UK domestic and international trade in items
containing elephant ivory, has passed through UK parliament and is expected
to come into force in late 2019 but there are exceptions for accredited
museums.
** Museums are battling it out to find out who has the best duck
It’s still the early January, but already museum Twitter is on the very top
of its game – competing to find who has the best duck-based exhibits.
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** Russian Historian Claims To Have Located Napoleon's Long-Lost Buried
Gold
Rumour has it, the fiercely successful French statesman and his soldiers
looted the grand palaces and churches of Moscow during a retreat in his
failed 1812 invasion of Russia before hiding the loot in a secret location.
** Director, former director spar about museum art sale
The Erie Art Museum Director and a retired museum Director clashed in recent
posts on the museum’s Facebook page about whether the museum had the right
to sell some of the 120 items gleaned for the sale from the museum’s more
than 8,000 holdings.
** Florence museum urges Germany to return painting stolen by Nazis
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence has called on the German government to help
return an 18th-century painting stolen by Nazi soldiers during the second
world war.
** Rare Flying Reptile with Mouthful of Fangs Trolled Jurassic Skies
As if a spear-like beak and huge leathery wings weren't freaky enough, a
newly discovered species of Jurassic pterosaur also had a mouthful of fangs.
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** According to historian Scott Swank, who curates the National Museum of
Dentistry, numerous examples of dental restoration may be found even earlier
in history, but they don’t quite qualify as actual dentures.
** Speak with one voice at Museums Advocacy Day
A new Congress convenes in 2019, facing an enormous list of timely policy
debates, including support for museums
** Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) Program
Applications Open through February 1st.
** Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Museums
UMAC Tokyo Seminar
** Body of Aquaman washed up on Irish beach with stomach full of plastic
Dog walkers discovered him yesterday morning, just outside of Dingle, Co.
Kerry, with initial reports suggesting that he had been dead for ‘some
days’.
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