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 ** Paris Rodin Museum celebrates centenary The Rodin Museum, home to the works of the famed French sculptor François-Auguste René Rodin, celebrated its 100th birthday on 4 August. ** German Museum Removes Wartime Sex Slave Statue Following Japan’s Pressure Japan has allegedly pressured a German museum to remove a statue of a girl representing victims of Japan’s World War II-era sexual slavery from display, a South Korean civic group has said amid escalating political and trade tensions between the two neighbouring countries. ** Museum Collection Highlights the days of male impersonators Today it is common for women to wear trousers, but a little over 100 years ago a woman wearing trousers in public was scandalous, unless it was for a breeches role, in which case it was hilarious. ** Teenager Arrested After Boy, 6, Is Thrown From Tate Modern A teenager was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a 6-year-old boy was thrown from Tate Modern museum in London; the victim was treated at the site and then airlifted to the hospital in critical condition. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,504? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Collecting histories The way the Museum collects today is incredibly varied - objects enter the collection directly, in other instances they have passed through different owners, sometimes over a long period of time, before finally coming to the Museum. ** Picasso Show Captivates Beijing, Whose Art Scene Hums as Censors Hover For the under-35-year-olds flocking to the Picasso show, some of them artists themselves, the young Spaniard’s wild imagination during the first three decades of his career touched a nerve. ** Lessons From The Whitney Biennial Debacle For too long, patronage of the arts has come with patronizing attitudes toward artists—that they should be grateful for funding, no matter its source. ** The Forbidden City Isn’t So Forbidden Anymore As the Forbidden City approaches its 600th birthday next year, a dramatic change has been taking place, with even dark and dusty corners of the palace restored to their former glories for all to see. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,560 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574?> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** More Than A Year After 40 Artists Withdrew From A London Museum, They’re Still Demanding Answers A year ago, more than 40 artists removed their work from the exhibition Hope to Nope at the Design Museum in London after the museum housed an event hosted by the arms manufacturer Leonardo. ** An Art Museum in Your Hotel Lobby Procuring and exhibiting art in all forms has been synonymous with the hotel experience for several decades now, with both luxury and midlevel brands highlighting local artwork and museum-quality pieces rather than predictable poster reprints. ** National Gallery reveals conserved Italian altarpiece An Italian altarpiece has gone on display for the first time in more than 100 years, following a 7-year conservation treatment – one of the longest and most complex in the history of the National Gallery. ** Horniman Museum and Gardens declares climate emergency As part of the declaration, the museum has committed to several public-facing initiatives to inspire audiences by placing ecology and climate issues at the heart of its programming, introducing more planting schemes to encourage biodiversity, and encouraging visitors to consider their own environmental impact. ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2.1K Pins, 705 Followers <http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/> http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Creating inspiring national partnerships British Museum Director Hartwig Fischer writes about his visit to some of the Museum's National Partners and how the Museum collaborates with institutions all around the UK. ** The quirkiest museums in and around Seattle From showcases full of rubber chickens, some in Santa suits and some reported haunted, to thousands of nutcrackers nestled amid the Bavarian beers of Leavenworth, Washington has opened its doors to a handful of quirky museums across the state. ** Instagram launches donation stickers for charities Charities and their supporters in the UK can now create 24-hour fundraising campaigns in Instagram Stories using a new Instagram donation sticker with 100% of the money raised going to the charity concerned. ** Your Museum Membership Scheme: How To Recruit, Retain And Engage Your Audiences Creating a membership scheme as a fundraising strategy for a museum is very common but they can be tough to create and administer; if positioned correctly, membership can provide a great tool for engaging multiple audiences, widening the appeal of other fundraising and income generating activity. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - <http://twitter.com/globalmuseum> http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 199K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,752 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** These other Duchamp siblings are something to see The only family artist missing from this otherwise excellent show is the Duchamp siblings’ maternal grandfather, Emile Frédéric Nicolle, a prominent printmaker in 19th-century France. ** Everything We Know About Cairo's New Grand Egyptian Museum The GEM is built on a slope and straddles the 162 foot difference in levels between the Nile valley, where you enter, and the Giza plateau, where the main galleries are situated. ** The Mysterious Colmar Treasure Dazzles at the Met Cloisters The Colmar Treasure speaks to a tragic history—a tale of love, riches, discrimination, and mass murder in Medieval Europe; hidden for 500 years, it was discovered concealed behind a wall in the 19th century ** A Museum’s Quest to Find a Looted Yorùbá Costume’s Original Owners Although this is not the first time the museum has displayed the costume, it is the first time such thorough research has been conducted to contextualize the object’s meanings and origins. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 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! ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Striking the Balance: Access vs Preservation in Museums CCAHA's December Conference ** Material Immaterial: Photographs in the 21st Century Symposium and Seminars September 23-25, 2019, Yale University, New Haven, CT ** 2019-20 ICOM UK - British Council Travel Grant Scheme ICOM UK, with support from the British Council, is offering travel grants to support staff from UK organisations seeking to build reciprocally beneficial international projects and partnerships. ** This Week's Horoscopes Aries - After taxes, overhead, and legal fees, that million-dollar idea you’ve been working on for years will wind up costing you several thousand dollars. 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