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**  Museums stick with safety measures as England’s Covid rules ease

Many venues are continuing to limit capacity and ask visitors to wear masks.

**  Using NFTs for Tickets and Supporter Development

When thinking about fan development, which we will define (just for this article) as a collection of purpose-built tools designed to grow communities of interest, perhaps the most obvious use for an NFT is as a ticket to an event.

**  Understanding Why a Harvard Museum Will Return Standing Bear’s Tomahawk

Attorney Brett Chapman explains why this Ponca heirloom should be returned to Native Americans.

**  Italy’s Art Museums Are Open Again, and Big Data Is Watching

As Italy’s museums and galleries welcome back tourists and try to recoup some of the 190 million euros ($225 million) in revenue they lost last year, a new data project could help curators understand which paintings and sculptures will be their biggest draws.

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**  Long-awaited $800M museum opens in Berlin's former Royal Palace

The Humboldt Forum, a vast new museum complex in a partial reconstruction of the Prussian royal palace in the center of Berlin, has opened after almost two years of postponements caused first by construction delays, then by Covid-19.

**  Amateur Metal-Detectorist Finds Viking ‘Piggy Bank’ Filled With 1,000-Year-Old Silver Coins

A retired police officer and metal detecting enthusiast has unearthed a Viking-era "piggy bank" filled with 1,000-year-old silver coins, jewelry and other artefacts on Isle of Man, a British dependency located off the northwest coast of England.

**  How László Moholy-Nagy Tried to Launch Bauhaus 2.0 in Chicago

László Moholy-Nagy, one of the most famous artists associated with the Bauhaus, was never much liked by his colleagues at the famed German art school that lent the 1920s European movement its name.

**  Britain’s five best museums – featuring space ports, Covid jabs and free dinners

The Museum of the Year shortlist has just been announced; we look at the five finalists, from the Essex gallery feeding deprived children to the wee museum with big plans up near John O’Groats.

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**  The Getty’s must-see 14th century Venetian art and the mystery that lies within it

Many art historians regard the late-medieval artist as the first great painter in a city that would go on to produce some of the greatest in European art history.

**  What the Medieval Olympics Looked Like

The Middle Ages didn’t kill the Games, as international sporting competitions thrived with chariot races and jousts.

**  Adoptions Help Keep The RAF Museum Flying

Within its first year, the Royal Air Force Museum’s Adopt an Artefact initiative has helped raise more than £65,000 to help keep the Museum flying, with over 200 adoptees supporting the Museum in one of the toughest years faced by visitor attractions.

**  Scientists Find Evidence Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Caused Mile-High Tsunami

Scientists have discovered enormous fossilized ripples underground in Louisiana, supporting the theory that a giant asteroid hit the sea near Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago and causing a mile-high tsunami.

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**  £7.6m of UK national treasures saved from export in two years

A new Arts Council England report outlines the £7.6m of “national treasures” saved from export by the intervention of their Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest.

**  Outrage as Sheffield University confirms closure of archaeology department

Sheffield Archaeology departmental staff condemned the way the process had been conducted, saying they had been informed of the closure in a 13-minute online meeting and were not given an opportunity to respond because their microphones and cameras were turned off.

**  A Museum's 100 Year Moth Project

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, George Hudson collected and identified thousands of moth specimens, now part of one of the largest insect collections in New Zealand.

**  Cuts at SFMOMA: Artists Gallery and film programs will close

In addition to the confirmed closures and pandemic-related financial difficulties, SFMOMA has also been dealing with ongoing internal issues relating to the institution’s handling of race and bias.

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**  Controversial Redesign Plan for the Hirshhorn Museum’s Sculpture Garden Gets an Important Green Light

The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts has voted to approve Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto’s proposed redesign of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.

**  This Anglo-Saxon cave dwelling may have been home to an English king who became a saint

Archaeologists in England have identified a near-complete Anglo-Saxon cave house, which, they say, may once have been the home of a king who became a saint.

**  Explosive picric acid found in museum collections

Discovery of potentially explosive picric acid in a number of museum collections has highlighted the need for museums to have their collections checked for this hazardous substance.

**  British Museum to show more than 100 unseen Hokusai works

More than 100 picture postcard-sized drawings by the great Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai are to go on public display for the first time in two centuries after being acquired by the British Museum.

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**  UMAC Award 2021 Presentations and Announcement
Date/Time of the presentation sessions by UMAC Award 2021 finalists are now set.

**  Programme revealed for Museums Association Conference 2021: Brave New World
Discover what's in store when you join us in November – unmissable keynotes, practical sessions, networking opportunities, tours and more.

**  What is camouflage?
Join National Museum of Ireland Educator Emma Murphy for this short and interesting educational video all about camouflage in the animal kingdom.

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius- They say you can never step into the same river twice, but thanks to crocodiles and your refusal to learn how to swim, once is all you’ll need.
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