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**  Tate, V&A And Pompidou Museums Defend Projects In China
They say that sharing their collections and expertise in this way “can help to foster tolerance and curiosity” (Pompidou); “generates greater understanding between global cultures and communities” (V&A), and helps “increase Chinese people’s access to the possibilities of international art” (Tate).

**  Memory, Museums, and the Once Known
National Gallery of Art Director Kaywin Feldman reflects on the importance of names in honoring the memory of artists and subjects in monuments and museums.

**  After the explosion – at the Sursock Palace and Museum in Beirut
At the Sursock Museum, where the portrait of Nicolas Sursock by Kees van Dongen had been ripped from one side to the other, director Zeina Arida guided us around the basement; a folded black object made of iron was stuck to the ceiling, as if it were a modern sculpture, but it turned out to be a door.

**  Exhibitions during Covid-19: museums turn to 'virtual couriers' to protect unchaperoned art
Museum registrars have developed an innovative way to overcome travel restrictions and sudden changes in quarantine rules; works of art that would normally be chaperoned in transit by a specialist will instead be monitored by “virtual couriers”.
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**  Hackers Steal Donor Info From Smithsonian, UK National Trust, Other Nonprofits
In a ransomware attack in May on the computer security company Blackbaud, hackers copied names, contact info and donation summaries from the databases of the Smithsonian, Britain’s National Trust, and numerous museums, universities, and other not-for-profit organizations.

**  Powerhouse Museum asks its community: give us your ideas
While Australian stories would remain central to the museum's programs museum's chief executive Lisa Havilah wanted to hear how the museum could improve, from "how you enter, to how long you stay, and what exhibitions you move through".

**  Museum of Homelessness creates ‘streetmuseum’ to protest treatment of migrants
The Museum of Homelessness used items from its collection to create a "streetmuseum" outside the Home Office over the bank holiday weekend in protest at the inhumane treatment of migrants.

**  Taiwan's National Palace Museum historic, but not to be designated a historic site
A coalition of museum employees and nearby residents had petitioned the city to recognize the building as a historic site, citing that the younger Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall had been classified as such.
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**  11 Unusual Museums You Didn’t Know Existed
There are dozens of famous collections around the world, and sometimes smaller museums get overlooked in favor more popular options like the Met or the Tate Modern, but if you’re willing to venture off the beaten path, these unusual museums will surprise and delight you.

**  Working class under-represented in curator and archivist roles
People from working class backgrounds are under-represented in curator, archivist and librarian jobs, new UK research has found. The report is here.

**  Wave hello: the British Museum has bought 103 ‘lost’ Hokusai drawings
The British Museum, which boasts one of the world’s largest Hokusai collections outside Japan, said they were especially significant coming from a period when the artist was thought to be creatively quiet following a series of personal crises.

**  Museum Sells Its Only Jackson Pollock Painting To Fund Acquisitions of Work by Women and Artists of Colour
The Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York, has become the latest institution to sell off a major artwork to fund its efforts to diversify its collection.
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**  WWII expatriate concentration camp in China turned into a museum
The Weihsien concentration camp, located in the city of Weifang, Shandong Province, was used by Japanese invaders from March 1942 to August 1945 to detain over 2,000 expatriates, including more than 300 children, from the United States, Britain, Canada and other countries.

**  A museum in Spain showcases Caliphate-era Islamic craft
The strong bond that the Spanish city of Cordoba enjoys with Arab and Muslim culture is epitomized by a museum that showcases an art form popular during the 10th-century Arab Caliphate.

**  World’s largest underpants returned to City Museum
The World’s Largest Underpants is one of the museum’s most popular exhibits and Erwin said it’s return will "warm the hearts of many."

**  First You Clean the Dinosaur’s Teeth. Then You Open the Museum
One recent weekday, a worker was perched atop a lift, swabbing a far back corner of the tippity-top of a prosauropod’s glass case; the floors are ultra polished and so are the T. rex’s teeth.
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**  Unusual Museums - The Vegan Museum
Founded in 2017 The Vegan Museum is the only institution of its kind, dedicated to chronicling the rich history of the vegetarian movement in the United States.

**  15 Unmissable Black History Museums Across America
These 15 Black history museums across America will help you build a more accurate and intimate understanding of the country’s past, present, and future.

**  Happiness Museum looks at brighter feelings in uncertain times
The world's first museum dedicated explicitly to the concept of happiness had a quiet debut on July 14 in a cosy 240-square-meter (2,585 square foot) space in Copenhagen's pastel-perfect historic centre.

**  Driven to Abstraction: the inside story of a $60m art forgery hoax
At the heart of a scandal was a remarkably homespun, given the status and moneyed anonymity of the fine art world, scheme to pass forgeries off as lost works by masters of abstract expressionism, run primarily by a Long Island woman named Glafira Rosales.
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**  Textile Care & Display
Professionals around the world seek the The Textile Museum's advice on best practices in textile care and display in museums and galleries.

**  28th ICOFOM LAM Regional Meeting
Virtual mode, November 4-6

**  Black Americans and the Nazi Olympics 
Antisemitism in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and anti-Black racism in Jim Crow-era America had profound consequences for communities in these countries.

**  New Evidence Reveals Ancient Mesopotamians Invented Concept of Zero After Catching Sight of Total Loser
We have unearthed multiple ancient cuneiforms confirming that the Sumerians came up with the idea of a number that lacks any value after they encountered a shepherd who was just a complete dud
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