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**  What Is a Museum? A Dispute Erupts Over a New Definition
Answering the question of “What is a museum?” might seem easy to anyone who’s visited one, but it has provoked a furor at the International Council of Museums, a Paris-based nonprofit that aims to represent the interests of museums worldwide.

**  Metropolitan Museum of Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art Make Deep Cuts to Staff
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which laid off more than eighty employees after it closed to the public in March due to concerns around Covid-19, has issued a second round of staff cuts in anticipation of a $150 million drop in revenue.

**  Art museums will never be the same. That’s a good thing
It is worth remembering that the modern European Encyclopedic Museum — the kind of institution that exhibits work across a broad spectrum of geographic regions and eras — began as a revolutionary institution meant to consecrate a newly republican social body.

**  3D reconstruction of Raphael’s face proves he was buried at Pantheon, say experts
The experts at Rome’s Tor Vergata University created the 3D reconstruction by using a plaster cast of his skull that was made after his body was exhumed in 1833.
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**  How has COVID-19 impacted the travelling exhibition industry?
There are multiple headlines at the moment about how the crisis has impacted the leisure industry, from museums to theatres to shopping malls, but the current global situation in 2020 is significantly impacting a subsection of the cultural industry: travelling exhibitions.

**  Trump's mispronunciation of Yosemite brings $30K in sales to Jewish museum with 'Yo Semite' shirt
The president struggled when describing the giant sequoia trees at Yosemite National Park, pronouncing the name as "yo-Semite," which prompted numerous amused reactions from users on social media and caused a surge in sales of a camping T-shirt sold by the National Museum of American Jewish History, so much so that the shop's website crashed due to a spike in traffic.

**  Dolphins Have Hidden Fingers. So Do Seals. These Sea Creatures Did Not
Researchers compared the flipper bone structures of 19 marine species with terrestrial ancestors, from species around today, like dolphins and sea turtles, to now-extinct creatures, like mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs that swam the oceans in the dinosaur era.

**  Call For More Transparency In Choosing Public Art
Several recent initiatives to diversify public art have run aground as community outrage pushes officials to reform a selection process generally regarded as outdated and oblique and the resulting chaos has become an endgame for some elected officials and arts professionals who have found themselves embroiled in months-long controversies.
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**  Installation Art As Big Business Proposition
Superblue, as it is called, will open a series of experiential art centers (EACs for short) that won’t sell precious objects, as conventional galleries do; they’ll present art experiences: deep dives into all-encompassing works.

**  Tourist Fesses Up To Breaking Toes Off Canova Sculpture
An Austrian man has apologized for the damage he caused to a Canova sculpture, saying he didn’t realize he had crunched the foot of the plaster Pauline Bonaparte.

**  UK Police say onus will be on museums to ensure visitors are wearing face coverings
With face coverings set to become mandatory in museums, galleries and indoor heritage sites in England from 8 August, the Metropolitan police have advised the sector that the onus will be on institutions themselves to ensure a high level of compliance with the new regulations. NB: A selection of masks can be found here.

**  Turmoil After a Museum Deletes ‘Black Lives Matter’ From Postings
The deletions and the call that followed created a crisis at the children’s museum that is still unraveling more than two months later; nine employees of the museum, which had been operating online only because of the pandemic, almost immediately went on strike.
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**  A First Diagnosis of Cancer in a Dinosaur
Recent examinations, under a microscope and using advanced technologies, such as high-resolution tomography, revealed that a lump on the bone, the size of an apple, was in fact a cancerous tumour.

**  13,000 images on New Zealand Birds Online – and one funky hairdo
The New Zealand Birds Online website was launched in June 2013, and even then contained an impressive image archive of 6,592 bird photographs taken by 256 photographers; these numbers have more than doubled seven years later.

**  Plumbing the Secrets of the Archives of the Museum of Modern Art
The museum was the idea of these three very visionary women - Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Lillie Bliss, and Mary Quinn Sullivan - and I can’t tell you the amount of times I get asked for the picture of the three ladies together discussing the foundation of the museum, or the three ladies having tea together.

**  Miss Museums? View Art Outdoors in New York
For New Yorkers, one of the most fundamental pleasures we’ve been denied over the course of a very restrictive summer has been the ability to visit an art museum or gallery without the spectral fear of potentially contracting COVID-19.
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**  A $5-million donation will allow the Metropolitan Museum of Art to pay all its interns
The donation is in keeping with the Met’s 13-point plan to address diversity within the institution, which was unveiled earlier last month and includes ensuring that all intern positions are paid in order to foster greater access within the industry.

**  'What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Found?' Real Archaeologists Share Their Favourite Finds
For many archaeologists, their prize discovery helped solve a long-standing research question, overturned what scholars thought they knew, or surfaced at a memorable moment.

**  National Museum of Natural History scans NPS Fossils
The Digitization Program at NMNH has recorded a collection of fossils collected from NPS lands and has put them online for everyone to enjoy.

**  Bacteria live despite burial in seafloor mud for 100 million years
Our results suggest that microbial communities widely distributed in organic-poor abyssal sediment consist mainly of aerobes that retain their metabolic potential under extremely low-energy conditions for up to 101.5 [million years].
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**  New Material Traditions: Weaving a Yup'ik Issran
In 2019, the Alaska office of the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center partnered with Qanirtuuq Inc. of Quinhagak, Alaska, to research and document the Yup’ik tradition of weaving

**  Call for Papers: Objects of Understanding
Europa-Universität Flensburg (Germany), 19 – 23 July, 2021

**  Treasures of the Polish University Heritage
In 2020 the Association of University Museums in Poland is implementing the project "Treasures of the Polish University Heritage".

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius - Ignorance and stupidity will soon be yours when the Tree of Wisdom is cut down to make room for another mall
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