Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online compendium, read weekly since 1998 by 8,000+ readers in more than 201 countries. www.globalmuseum.org ** The Risky Business of Restoring Leonardos After a previous Leonardo restoration project at the Louvre resulted in multiple staff resignations, the recent clean-up of “Saint John the Baptist” took place under intense scrutiny ** Meet the 20 most influential curators of 2016 These curators created shows that reflected the nuances of human experience in today’s world, expanded the parameters of art, or engaged in revisionist histories, redressing systemic biases and enabling us to see past and present art practices anew ** 6 Mesmerizing Videos of Museum Practitioners at Work In the last decade, museums have had to embrace the kind of institutional transparency that social media encourages, taking us behind the scenes as they research, treat, and install the works of art in their collection _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,065? 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Researchers say that the residents of the site probably needed meat to stay healthy, but not as much as Fred Flintstone used to gobble ** Work On Largest East Africa Human History Museum Nears Completion It is going to be the largest historical museum in East Africa and the first to be constructed right at the site of pre-historic archaeological discoveries ** The 1000-year-old Lost City Beneath The St Louis Suburbs It was the largest pre-Columbian city in what became the United States, bigger than London or Paris at the time: majestic urban architecture towered over the swampy Mississippi River floodplains, blotting out the region's tiny villages ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 143K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,632 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** British second world war shipwrecks destroyed by illegal scavenging The commercial salvaging of war wrecks has caused significant upset among veterans, historians and governments who want to preserve the final resting place of sailors who went down with their ships ** Edward Snowden backers beam calls for pardon on Washington news museum Activists display almost 4,000 notes from backers on the side of the Newseum, an institution celebrating free speech near the White House ** Forensic technique reveals sex of prehistoric hand stencil artists Prehistoric ancestors creating human hand stencils in caves 40,000 years ago can now be identified as male or female with more than 90% accuracy ** Animals of Cuba: Big Bird About six thousand years ago, Cuba was home to predatory owls, Ornimegalonyx, that stood more than three feet tall ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,234 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Virtual reality and the museum experience From digital dinosaurs to simulated time travel – more and more museums are discovering the benefits of virtual reality; the aim is to enhance visitors’ interactive experience and attract younger visitors ** That Thing With Feathers Trapped in Amber? It Was a Dinosaur Tail While most palaeontologists dig up prehistoric bones from the ground, Lida Xing hunts for fossils in the amber markets of Myanmar ** Crimean Artifacts Should Be Sent to Kiev, Amsterdam Court Rules The judgment is an important moment in the protracted dispute between Ukraine and the museums in Crimea that lent the pieces, including ancient Scythian gold and Chinese lacquer boxes ** Henry VIII's lost palace of Nonsuch The whimsical sounding Palace of Nonsuch was commissioned by Henry VIII in 1538 to rival Fontainebleau, the residence of the king’s arch competitor, the French king François I ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. 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