Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online compendium, read weekly since 1998 by 8,000+ readers in more than 201 countries. http://www.globalmuseum.org ** Revealing Stats on Museum Salaries May Make You Reconsider That Arts Degree The latest report from the Association of Art Museum Directors reveals that some jobs pay more than others but even the average median salary has seen an increase. ** Much of Mexican Museum’s pre-Hispanic collection insignificant or fake An evaluation of nearly 2,000 artifacts of the Mexican Museum’s pre-Hispanic collection has found that only 85 are “allegedly” of museum quality. ** How To Save A Museum From Near Death How did this Director change the Watts Gallery’s “Sleeping Beauty look” wherein the gallery “was cold and dark, the roof leaked, the canvases sagged, and the tea room was poisoning its clients”? _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,220? 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We asked several American curators to consider the controversy‘s lessons for the larger museum world; their e-mail responses, which have lightly edited for clarity, set a new tone for how cultural institutions can work with local indigenous communities. ** Great Historical Clock of America the Smartwatch of Its Era Despite being 13 feet tall and more than six feet wide, with moving parts showcasing key aspects of American history the Great Historical Clock of America sat alone and forgotten in a New Hampshire barn. ** Wright’s Living Organism: The Evolution of the Guggenheim Museum Although not Wright’s intention per se, it is fitting that the building he conceived of as a living organism has evolved over time. ** Bone to pick: volunteers to rebuild 157-year-old whale skeleton The public is invited to help reassemble a giant jigsaw in a London museum, 157 years after two Somerset fishermen went out to catch a “great fish” and brought back a northern bottlenosed whale more than eight metres (26ft) long. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,280 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Selfie sticks banned at 46 site museums in India In a move that will not click with selfie enthusiasts, the Archaeological Survey of India, under a new policy, has banned the use of selfie sticks at its 46 site museums across the country. ** Secrets revealed at the American Museum of Magic? The purpose of the program is to give small and medium size museums the opportunity to receive direct consultation from specialists who focus on collections care and building care. ** Mysterious 5,000-Year-Old Race Of Giants Discovered In China Chinese archaeologists have unearthed 5,000-year-old ancient tombs in eastern China containing the remains of a mysterious race of “unusually tall and strong” people. ** British Museum's future plans Detailed The British Museum has announced the publication of its 2016/17 Annual Review which sets out in detail the Museum’s achievements in London, across the UK and the world over the past year. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1.84K Pins, 442 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Putting Doubts to Rest About Lauder’s Gift to the Met Two Mississippi museums in Jackson opened their doors for a preview of the soon-to-be completed, engaging and emotional chronicle of the state's history. ** Ancient concrete: Learning to do as the Romans did A new look inside 2,000-year-old concrete - made from volcanic ash, lime (the product of baked limestone), and seawater - has provided new clues to the evolving chemistry and mineral cements that allow ancient harbour structures to withstand the test of time. ** ‘Her Majesty’s Picture’: circulating a likeness of Elizabeth I Her famous virginity was central to her image in so many portraits, not least in a famous gold medal, the Phoenix Jewel, in which she is compared with the phoenix who, according to legend, was consumed by flames and then rose out of its own ashes to live once more. ** Museum Exhibits Lowrider Cars, the Artwork They've Inspired In their finest format, they have morphed into museum-quality works of art, appearing in shows around the world from Paris' Louvre to Washington's Smithsonian. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles – 193,901 in Circles. 14,327 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** In Neanderthal DNA, Signs of a Mysterious Human Migration With fossils and DNA, scientists are piecing together a picture of humanity’s beginnings, an origin story with more twists than anything you would find at the movie theatre. ** Apocalypse then: Inside the chilling Titan Missile Museum The top-secret nuclear missile silos of the Cold War are either off-limits because they're still in use, or emptied and destroyed; Except for this one. ** Tower of human skulls in Mexico casts new light on Aztecs A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the forbidding structure. ** Art Museum Next Step Toward Making Vegas A Major City No disrespect to Las Vegas’ current art venues, but the proposed multimillion-dollar Art Museum in Symphony Park, adjacent to The Smith Center, would put the city in an entirely different league. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 166K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,777 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** Museum risks wrath of Inuit with display from tragic Arctic voyage After 165 years under icy seas, the lost secrets of Sir John Franklin’s doomed British Arctic expedition in search of the North-West Passage are to form the centrepiece of a major London exhibition, Death in the Ice. ** Stuff and Knowledge: an exploration of the future of teaching and learning within university museums University Museums Group Annual Conference ** Old Collections and New Science A Symposium on the Mütter Museum Collection and Scientific Research ** The Evolution of the Museum Science Museum - London, 14th July 2017 ** This Week's Horoscopes Libra - The natives will shrink in terror when you demonstrate your lighter, as even they know that smoking is not at all good for you. 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