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/ ** The Most Famous Collector Of African American Art Is Using The Past To Reframe A Better Future For more than 40 years, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey have amassed one of the largest private collections of Black paintings, letters, books and other artifacts to teach the next generations what history has erased. ** Extending a Lifeline to Museums This year, Masterpiece Online, taking the place of the now-canceled Masterpiece London 2020 art fair, has a philanthropic bent, one that is knocking down an old wall between two spheres of the art world. ** Cook a classical feast: nine recipes from ancient Greece and Rome Bored with banana bread? The British Museum helps you whip up a classical feast with nine recipes from ancient Greece and Rome. ** The “Bernie Madoff Of The Art World” Had Settled Into Vacation Life Bemused locals were left to digest the fact that the pleasant newcomer to their island paradise was in fact a fugitive art dealer who stands accused of, among other things, selling millions of dollars worth of overlapping shares in valuable pieces of art, in one of the greatest art scams this century. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,522? Our Community on the LinkedIn Platform - Join the Global Museum Social Network – Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos & Videos, Blog, Use the Forum. Become one of our first 5,000 members. Join Today athttp://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Dutch art detective says he has 'proof of life' of stolen Van Gogh painting Van Gogh’s masterpiece was stolen in the early hours of 30 March after a thief used a sledgehammer to smash through the reinforced glass front door of the Singer Laren museum, in Laren, a town several miles east of Amsterdam. ** We must confront racist history of UK parliament's art, says curator The curator of parliament’s extensive art collection has acknowledged that many artefacts that adorn the plinths and corridors of Westminster have a “racist history” and were bought with slave-owning and colonial wealth. ** The Group That Created The Google Spreadsheet Showing How Much Museum Employees Actually Make Founded at the end of May 2019 by a ‘non-hierarchical group of arts and museum workers who are friends and colleagues,’ Art + Museum Transparency prefers to answer questions collectively. ** Has Yale’s mysterious Voynich Manuscript finally been deciphered? A German Egyptologist believes he has cracked the code to the enigmatic 15th century illustrated book—but many others have made the same claim in the past and failed. __________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,585 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? __________________________________________________________________________________ ** What Other Governments Are Spending To Save Their Nations’ Arts Sectors From COVID Collapse Cultural recovery programmes amounting to billions of dollars have been established across the globe to shore up museums, theatres, festivals and other arts institutions against economic ruin. ** Why a Muslim woman safeguards Jewish history for all Moroccans In Morocco, which has seen its Jewish population dwindle almost to the point of being forgotten, Ms. Rehihil has been at the vanguard of safeguarding the community’s history and its place in society – tirelessly teaching Moroccans about a shared past she believes will pave the way for a better future ** Director Resigns After Canceling Show on Police Brutality Her departure comes nearly two weeks after she publicly apologized to an artist for canceling his exhibition dealing with police killings of black and Latino boys and men.. ** In Open Letters, Art Workers Demand That Institutions Do More to Fight Racism With many across the United States clamoring for museums to do more to confront systemic racism in the wake of the mass uprisings across the country, art workers have spoken up, issuing a series of powerful open letters. ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2.3K Pins, 1.12K Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Van Gogh and Gauguin letter about brothel visit sells for €210,000 A letter written by two of the greatest artists of the 19th century, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, about their visits to French brothels has been bought for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. ** Half of Scottish visitors concerned about visiting museums post-lockdown Once museums reopen, 90% of those surveyed expect regular cleaning on touch points, such as door handles or interactive exhibits; 87% want safety and hygiene measures put in place; and 85% think spaces should allow for social distancing. ** World's largest museum encourages kids to come up with their own COVID-19 action plan The Smithsonian Science Education Center, which aims to bring science into classrooms, has helped devise projects for 8- to 17-year-olds that line up with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. ** Early dinosaur eggs may have been soft like a turtle's Dinosaur eggs have been found all over the world for the past 20 years, comprising of three groups — theropods, hadrosaurs and sauropods - but no eggs of ceratopsians (which includes Triceratops), which has led him to believe "they were soft-shelled." ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 203K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,730 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Dresden exhibition to focus on legendary activist Angela Davis A major exhibition dedicated to Angela Davis opening in Germany this autumn will focus on the leading civil rights campaigner’s “strategies of female self-empowerment and radical black resistance”. ** Battlefield archaeology helps veterans with physical and mental recovery A new report by the charity Waterloo Uncovered reveals how archaeological work on the battlefield of Waterloo is helping Veterans and Serving Military Personnel with recovery from some of the mental and physical impacts of their service. ** Christie's withdraws 'looted' Greek and Roman treasures A leading archaeologist who spotted their removal from the auction said he had evidence that linked the four items – a Roman marble hare, a bronze Roman eagle and two Attic vases – to convicted traffickers in stolen artefacts. ** Te Papa needs your help to decipher some buggy handwriting Without digitising entomologist George Hudson’s handwritten collection records, they won’t be able to analyse his findings and compare it with the more recent results. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ FACE MASKS | FACE SHIELDS | Plus 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! ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** New Scientific Instruments Collection The collection, founded in 2019, is the result of ETH Library’s archiving of scientific instruments and teaching aids from a diverse range of faculties, institutes and departments. A running inventory is kept of the scientific instruments, devices, models and teaching aids, which are made available to those interested in an E-Pics catalogue. ** The 20th UMAC Annual General Meeting Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the 20th UMAC Annual General Meeting will take place on 27 July, online, at 1 PM Lisbon time. Please save the date for the special gathering! ** Visual Resources Association’s 2021 Annual Conference The VRA’s 2021 Annual Conference will be held in Chicago, IL from Tuesday, March 23th through Friday, March 26th, 2021 at the Westin, Michigan Avenue. ** This Week's Horoscopes Sagittarius - If you’ve ever regretted not pursuing a career in bullfighting, this week may bring an accidental chance to start over. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Global Museum’s New Pandemic Resources Section –https://tinyurl.com/museumpandemic Resources & Important links ____________________________________________________________________________________________ All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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