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/> http://www.globalmuseum.org ** The Growing Tide Against Unpaid Internships Although they share similarities with the medieval concept of apprenticeships (which still exist in the business and government sector and regulated by law), internships are a different and relatively new addition to the labour market. ** Our Arts Patronage Problem – The Scandals And Those Who Fund Keeping track of all the scandals around museum patronage in the United States in the last few years is no easy feat; there are scandals over real estate money, prison money, oil money, funding by climate change deniers, funding by supporters of far-right causes in general, Koch Brothers funding, and more. ** Lucas Museum of Narrative Art gives the Comic-Con crowd a sneak peek Curators from the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art hosted a morning panel that gave a peek at the holdings of the $1-billion project coming to L.A.'s Exposition Park. ** Notre Dame Fire Revives Demand For Skilled Stone Carvers In France A little over three months after Paris' Notre Dame caught fire, French officials say the cathedral is still in a precarious state and needs to be stabilized; ultimately, they aim to restore the monument, a process that will take years. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,506? 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As Europeans increasingly looked outward to the Americas, Africa and Asia from the 1500s, they developed new ways of visualising, identifying and disseminating information about the people they encountered. ** Rembrandt the storyteller The artist was a keen observer of life, and he studied a broad range of society both in the home and in the streets of Amsterdam, where he lived for most of his career. ** Benin received a $22.5-million loan to build a museum for the royal statues The new museum will showcase the 26 sculptures, which were taken from the Abomey palaces by French troops in 1892 and have been in the collection of the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris in recent years. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,557 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574?> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Live and let spy: Inside the KGB Espionage Museum From an umbrella that shoots ricin poison to the "widows kiss" lipstick gun, the KGB developed some of the most innovative — and lethal — gadgets in history. ** Painting, stolen by Nazi soldier, is back in Florence museum The foreign ministers of German and Italy were on hand at Palazzo Pitti, a Renaissance palace that is part of the Uffizi Galleries, for the unveiling of “Flower Vase,” a masterpiece by Jan van Huysum, an early 18th-century artist. ** Dickens museum buys lost portrait 133 years after it went missing Dickens was already an emerging literary star when Gillies painted him and would have been in the thick of writing A Christmas Carol. ** The Louvre Took Down the Sackler Name. Here’s Why Other Museums Probably Won’t When a museum puts a name on the wall, almost always in exchange for a substantial donation, there is often a legal contract that outlines how long that name has to stay. ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2.1K Pins, 678 Followers <http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/> http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** US museum trains apprentices to preserve Asian artwork Despite a lack of Asian art conservationists in the U.S., it’s hoped that programs like this one can help establish a new pathway and ensure the expertise continues to be passed down. ** Museum security guard swiped CNBC “Mad Money” host’s wallet Jim Cramer was passing through the metal detector at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on Battery Place when he left his phone and wallet in the bin and accidentally walked away without the items. ** How Thomas Jefferson's Obsession With Mastodons Partly Fuelled the Lewis and Clark Expedition The Founding Father dreamed of finding a living, breathing mastodon in America, and this lofty goal ended up being a motivating force throughout much of his life. ** Trustee resigns from British Museum over BP sponsorship and artefacts repatriation The Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif has resigned as a trustee of the British Museum because of its position on subjects including BP sponsorship and the repatriation of looted artefacts. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - <http://twitter.com/globalmuseum> http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 199K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,754 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Architect creates app to change how exhibitions are designed For all the advances in technology over the past decade, the experience of curating and viewing museum shows has remained relatively unchanged. ** Angered by This Roosevelt Statue? A Museum Wants Visitors to Weigh In There’s a quote that takes up its own wall at the American Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibition: It’s more important to tell the truth about the president — pleasant or unpleasant — than about anyone else. ** Scientists Find an 'Exceptional Specimen' of a Cretaceous Lizard...Inside a Dinosaur's Belly Scientists found the lizard when they examined the fossil of a feathered dinosaur named Microraptor zhaoianus, a small carnivore from the early Cretaceous period (145.5 million to 65.5 million years ago) in what is now northeastern China. ** Exquisite Artemis and Apollo statues unearthed The two statues, works of exquisite artistic quality, will be exhibited for the first time in their place of origin and will be part of the Chania Archaeological Museum’s permanent collection. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Gifts & All Sorts of Gear In The Global Museum Store – http://www.zazzle.com/thedigitalconsultant T-Shirts, Prints, Mugs & More … You Name It, We’ve Got it, You Can Buy It For Yourself Or For The Museum Shop! ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs National Gallery of Art ** UMAC Off-Site Afternoon Tour Registration ICOM General Conference in Kyoto, UMAC Kyoto 2019 is approaching and we hope that you are getting ready to join this wonderful event. ** 2020 Community Research Program Call for Proposals Recovering Voices is pleased to announce the 2020 Community Research Program Call for Proposals ** This Week's Horoscopes Pisces - The flaw in your plan was the part where your accomplice would start a fire, and in the confusion, you would sneak into the philosophy department and finish writing your dissertation. 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