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 ** Trafalgar Square’s new Fourth Plinth sculpture, depicting ‘impending collapse’, unveiled Heather Phillipson’s artwork, which depicts a whirl of cream topped with a cherry, a drone and two flies, is the latest to appear on the Fourth Plinth following a four-month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic. ** The Romans Called it ‘Alexandrian Glass.’ Where Was It Really From? Now, by studying trace quantities of the element hafnium within the glass, researchers have shown that this prized commodity really did originate in ancient Egypt. ** 'Keep the dist-dance': Design Museum reopens with electronic music exhibition The show explores in detail the story of electronic music and its wild cast of characters including Kraftwerk, Jeff Mills, Frankie Knuckles, Aphex Twin and Jean-Michel Jarre, who has loaned objects from his studio. ** The Gauguin Detective Since January Fabrice Fourmanoir has gained some standing in the art scholarship forbidding world, after playing a leading role in a blush-inducing admission by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles that a Gauguin sculpture, purchased in 2002 for a reported $3 million to $5 million, is not actually by Gauguin. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,544? 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Join Today athttp://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Back to life: literary museums are reopening amid uncertain future The homes of writers including Jane Austen and the Brontës have been acutely hit by coronavirus but with public support and government help they are opening their doors again. ** Researchers Used a Century-old Postcard to Determine Where van Gogh Made His Last Painting Wouter van der Veen, scientific director of the Institut van Gogh, noticed a striking resemblance between van Gogh’s “Tree Roots” (1890) and a postcard from Auvers-sur-Oise, where the painter took his life. ** Museum Of Contemporary Art Detroit Fires Director After current and former employees raised allegations of racism and sexism at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the institution has terminated its executive director, Elysia Borowy-Reeder, who was placed on leave by the museum’s board earlier this month. ** Where Are The Thousands Of Musical Instruments Looted By The Nazis? There has been a lot of research into the Nazis’ plunder of Jewish-owned artwork in Europe during World War II, though far less attention has been paid to the looting of instruments; but a number of scholars have been focused on bringing this facet of Nazi crimes to light. _______________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,584 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Senate Investigation Reveals Russian Billionaires Bought Art Despite Sanctions A new U.S. Senate investigation report has revealed that two Russian billionaire brothers, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, continued buying art even after they were sanctioned by the U.S. in 2014 for their close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. ** Museum and heritage sector faces more redundancies More UK museum and heritage organisations have announced they are making or consulting on redundancies amid fears that the government’s support package will arrive too late to save many jobs in the sector. ** Smithsonian’s accessibility director works to improve museum experience for everyone More support for virtual programs will continue to be a major focus for Ziebarth in order to continue creating beneficial experiences for visitors with disabilities. ** An Italian museum reached a restitution deal with the rightful owners of a Renaissance painting The Cerruti Foundation of Turin, which is part of the Castello di Rivoli art complex, has reached a deal for financial restitution with the rightful heirs of a Renaissance painting in the museum’s collection that was looted by Nazis. ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2.3K Pins, 1.22K Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Why the Aircraft That Dropped the First Atomic Bomb Will Always Inspire Debate On permanent display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, the Enola Gay was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by the U.S. Air Force in 1949 and kept in storage until 1984, when restoration efforts began. ** Museums and historians are navigating how to write the history of Covid-19 when the end isn't in sight Institutions are usually many years removed from the artifact they collect so they must relay on what has survived, but now the pool of material is expansive. ** MIT’s New Evidence on Dinosaur Evolution Geological evidence suggests the known dinosaur groups diverged early on, supporting the traditional dinosaur family tree. ** The Met Museum Appears to Have Mislabelled a Sacred Jewish Artifact A controversy involving the Metropolitan Museum of Art has flared up when a Twitter account representing the website stopantisemitism.org called out the museum for allegedly mislabelling a 6th century amulet from Egypt in its Islamic art department. _______________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 204K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,737 Followers worldwide and growing fast _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Museums Are Battling on Twitter to Find Out Who Has the Artwork With the Best Butt While virtual exhibits are great ways for people to “travel” without really traveling, museum curators on social media also have a wealth of premium content that you might not get on a typical museum visit. ** Forgotten treasures in Te Papa's collection Curator of Invertebrates Rodrigo Salvador tells about the discovery of a small but important collection of land snails that remained unnoticed in our collections since the 1930s. ** Guo Pei: Chinese Art & Couture A dialogue between historical and contemporary Chinese design, juxtaposing 29 embroidered masterworks by China’s foremost couturière with 20 Chinese art masterpieces in Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum’s collection. ** The Best Museums In Dubai If you are looking to explore the history of Dubai here is a list of 11 museums in Dubai that are open to visitors of all ages. _______________________________________________________________________________ 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! _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Just Us at the National Gallery of Art Just Us at the National Gallery of Art provides interactive, discussion-based experiences for people with memory loss and their care partners ** Historic England AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Call for Proposals 2020 Historic England is delighted to announce our 2020 Call for Proposals for our AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) programme ** 6th ARCH_RNT Symposium - Archaeological Research and New Technologies 8 – 10 October 2020, Kalamata, Greece ** Scientists Locate Impact Crater From Asteroid That Destroyed Roman Empire Shedding new light on the demise of the long-extinct sovereignty, archaeologists from Princeton University announced Wednesday that they had located the impact crater made by the asteroid that destroyed the Roman Empire [Humour] _______________________________________________________________________________ Global Museum’s 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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