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**  Powerhouse Museum backflip as Ultimo site saved by Berejiklian government
Sydney's Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo has been thrown an extraordinary 11th-hour lifeline and will not close but instead operate across two sites, including one in western Sydney.

**  The Case of the Empty Frames Remains Art World’s Biggest Mystery
What happened at the Gardner has become the most famous art heist ever, not only because of the money involved—the value of the missing works, now estimated at $500 million, makes it the largest art theft in history, and the museum’s $10 million reward makes it the most lucrative for anyone who solves it—but also because of the countless FBI agents, private detectives, art dealers, and armchair sleuths who’ve tried and failed to solve it.

**  The Museum of Ice Cream’s Not Only an Instagram Fantasy, It’s Also a Nightmare Workplace
A new report from Forbes alleges an environment of abuse created by founder Maryellis Bunn, in which hourly employees weren’t allowed to wear coats outside in the winter or go to the bathroom for hours during shifts.

**  The Data Shows That Most People Want Cultural Entities to Require Masks
Over 70% of likely visitors in the US indicate that requiring face coverings will make them feel safer attending a museum or performing arts organization. See Global Museum's store Masks here.
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**  Blockbuster King Tut Show In London May Violate Egypt’s Antiquities Laws
Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, a touring show conceived by a“swashbuckling” Egyptian archaeologist and U.S. management and events company IMG, was pulling in big crowds at London’s Saatchi Gallery before the COVID lockdown.

**  FBI Raids Alleged Art Forgery Factory Deep In Michigan's North Woods
FBI agents have raided a home in northern Michigan while investigating a sophisticated art forgery ring that allegedly tricked connoisseurs into buying phony paintings purported to be from top American artists.

**  MoMA Education Workers Speak Out About Contract Cuts
The problem, however, is not solely economic: freelance educators tend to be more racially and ethnically diverse than the museums’ overwhelmingly white staff.

**  Buried treasure: top 10 finds
The British Museum marks a milestone of 1.5 million finds recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme with a look back at the top 10 treasures from the last 23 years.
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**  Decolonising museums: the new network opening up the diversity debate in the Netherlands
A grassroots movement for cultural change in the Netherlands, which had been simmering for years before global protests against racism erupted in June, is now finding an institutional foothold.
**  Why Doesn’t Iceland Have a Museum of Napkins?
It’s the Icelandic predilection for museums, for turning private collections into public displays—evident in places such as Petra’s Stone Collection, Sigurgeir’s Bird Museum, the Icelandic Phallological Museum, and the toy museums in Akureyri, Borgarnes, and Grudafjörđur, or the transportation collections, which can be found in the north and west and south.
**  Scientists investigate how Arctic plant was brought back to life after 32,000 years
The silene stenophylla, a plant with white flowers native to Siberia, was revived from 32,000-year-old seeds by Russian scientists.
**  Musée Rodin in Paris casts new bronzes to offset losses from Covid-19 crisis
The Musée Rodin in Paris is relying on its right to sell bronze cast editions of Auguste Rodin's sculptures in order to offset part of the financial loss caused by the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis.
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**  An Opportunity to Listen as Our “Unheard” Project Becomes a Museum Installation
An outdoor installation at the Anchorage Museum will feature 27 sexual violence survivors who chose to tell their stories publicly.

**  Fossilized remains of a baby dinosaur discovered in Alaska may alter how they're viewed
The researchers analysed the jawbone of juvenile dromaeosaurid, which was found in the Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska, and concluded that it was born close to where it was discovered.

**  Chinese National Silk Museum
In this talk Carina Jaatinen talks about the Hanfu traditional Chinese costume festival in Hangzhou with Zhao Feng, Director of the Chinese National Silk Museum; it received the Most Innovative Museums in China Award in 2019, given out by the Chinese Museums Association each year.

**  Museum: ‘Dukes’ Confederate flag car to stay
A northern Illinois auto museum has no plan to stop displaying a Dodge Charger from the “Dukes of Hazzard” television show with the Confederate battle flag painted atop the vehicle.
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**  Long-lost relatives: Joining the dots in snail superfamilies
Using DNA sequences Te Papa and other scientists produced an evolutionary tree showing the relationships among each of the seven families that make up Superfamily Punctoidea. 
**  Picasso show sells out before it even reopens—but Royal Academy of Arts is still making a loss
Regardless of the apparent appetite for museum-going from the public, the academy will continue to lose money because, unlike institutions such as the Tate or National Gallery, it does not get direct public funding and instead relies heavily on getting people through the door.
**  Giant sea scorpions were the underwater titans of prehistoric Australia
If you were to take a swim in the Paleozoic oceans, you may have been fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to find one of the most fearsome of these extinct arthropods: the sea scorpions, Eurypterida.
**  Railway park in Taipei opens to public
Through the restoration, the nation is able to not only preserve tangible cultural assets, but also pass down intangible assets, such as architectural knowledge, craftsmanship and railway culture.
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**  EVA London 2020: Proceedings available online
The EVA London 2020 conference proceedings are available online

**  UAAC-AAUC Annual Conference Call for Papers
Session: Updating the Account: Women Artists in Museums and Beyond

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius - Don’t let other people influence your future. That’s what a vague and arbitrary set of cosmic indicators is for.
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