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 ** UK Museum pay gap favours men despite more women in top quartile The median hourly rate for female staff is lower than that of men at all but nine of the 24 UK museums, galleries and heritage organisations that have filed gender pay gap information for 2017-18. ** Queen's 'heart of gold' stolen from French museum It narrowly escaped being melted down after the French Revolution, but a 16th century gold case containing the heart of the only woman to have twice been crowned queen of France has now been stolen. ** The Personal Data of 346,000 People, Hung on a Museum Wall Last week, the authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan shut down Mr. Deng’s exhibition in a local museum after two days and told him that he was being investigated on suspicion of amassing the information through illegal means. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,324? 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We spoke with Lucas Museum director Don Bacigalupi about the building’s design, plans for the collection, and what it means to be a museum of narrative art. ** Stop Treating the Berkshire Museum as a Sacred Space for Masterpieces Too often, those who fought the sale of 40 artworks also forgot that this is an institution stuck with an outdated, catch-all mission that never had the resources to sharpen or adjust its course. ** Danish king Bluetooth's treasure unearthed A 13-year-old boy and an amateur archaeologist have unearthed a “significant” trove in Germany which may have belonged to the Danish king Harald Bluetooth who brought Christianity to Denmark. ** Wanted: $17,500 Rock Lifted From Yoko Ono Installation An installation at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto is more hands-on than your typical exhibition. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,339 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** The history of purple, from ancient Rome to women’s rights Much further back in time, purple clothing indicated the status, power and wealth of the wearer in ancient Western cultures; it was associated with and often restricted to elites. ** The ambitious proposal to create a space museum in orbit Rather than bring it back to Earth – a costly and challenging mission - Stuart Eves is urging the US to preserve the Hubble telescope in space. ** 9/11 Museum designer still ‘deeply moved’ Some of the exhibits include the slurry wall, a retaining wall built to hold back the Hudson River; a portion of the north tower; a fire truck that was destroyed when the north tower collapsed; an elevator motor; victims’ shoes; and remnants of wallets. ** There are no foreigners here – the British Museum is a world country The museum’s job, Fischer says, is to take the long view, to confront the whole of human history, to understand that Brexit is a moment in the turbulent story of the world. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. 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Conserving Kinetic Art Proceedings from a meeting organized by the GCI, the ICOM-CC Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Working Group, and Museum del Novcento ** UMAC AWARD 2018 The UMAC Award Committee announces the shortlist of three nominees for the UMAC Award 2018 ** 2018 TEG Preparing to Borrow Workshop Dates Ulster Folk and Transport Museum - 15 May 2018 ** Controversial Theory Suggests Aliens May Have Built Ancient Egypt’s Intergalactic Spaceport Archaeologists say the Great Starport of Philopator was built by slaves, but it’s hard to believe that ancient humans could have dragged those zero-point energy generators and quantum vacuum storage toroids across the landscape with flax-fibre ropes and palm logs All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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