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**  Museum organisations pledge support following earthquakes

Museums Association launches humanitarian fund as ICOM says it is 'ready to offer all possible support'.

**  Site of Interest - HistoryMaps

When you show a map or a timeline, you know where things fit, both in time and place; visual learning is intuitive, retentive and engaging.

**  Greece approves disputed museum law seen as antiquity 'export' plan

Greece's parliament has approved a new law enabling the exhibition of rare antiquities outside the country, with archaeologists warning it could lead to the long-term "export" of rare items.

((  The Brauer Museum Is Under Fire for a $20 Million Deaccessioning Scheme Its Founding Director Deems ‘Utterly Disgraceful’

The museum aims to fund improvements to freshman dorms through the sale of works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Childe Hassam, and Frederic Edwin Church.
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**  Can a museum embody environmental justice?

Storm King, the celebrated outdoor sculpture collection in upstate New York, is overhauling itself in a bid to improve accessibility and landscape protection.

**  How one Derbyshire museum took initiative in returning Indigenous artefacts

Buxton’s offer to the Haida was part of a remarkable year-long initiative in which the small local museum has returned an entire collection of Native American and First Nation artefacts – 51 items in total – to their original communities.

**  The Biggest Penguin That Ever Existed Was a ‘Monster Bird’

A palaeontologist at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, discovered the supersize seabird’s bones in 2017; at almost 160kg, it weighed as much as an adult gorilla and is the heaviest penguin known to science.

**  Met Museum Reclassifies Three Painters Formerly Labelled Russians as Ukrainians

After facing pressure online, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has changed the wall text for at least three artists who were formerly labelled as Russians.

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**  Hirshhorn’s New Reality Show Looks for America’s Next Top Artist

Seven artists will compete for a cash prize and a chance to exhibit their work at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum.

**  The mysterious doodles hidden in a 1,300-year-old book

Centuries-old books, manuscripts and printing plates often contain invisible etchings, mysterious letters – and even doodles; a new technology that maps the surface of these objects is bringing them to light.

**  Vermeer Retrospective Sells Out All Tickets Within Days of Opening

Every single available ticket to see the Rijksmuseum’s Johannes Vermeer retrospective is already gone, the Amsterdam institution says, dashing the hopes of many far and wide who had hoped to see the unprecedented show.

**  LACMA Has Acquired a Who’s Who of Blockchain Art by Important Generative Artists

LACMA has acquired 22 NFTs of generative artworks, all donated by the mysterious and prolific NFT collector who goes by the pseudonym Cozomo de’ Medici.

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**  Fears for ancient sites in Türkiye and Syria after devastating earthquakes

A number of ancient heritage sites in Türkiye and Syria are believed to be at risk following the devastating earthquakes in the region on 6 February, according to an initial survey by UNESCO.

**  Code Breakers Discover—and Decipher—Long-Lost Letters by Mary, Queen of Scots

The deposed monarch wrote the 57 encrypted messages during her captivity in England.

**  The Reference Photographs for Norman Rockwell’s ‘The Runaway’, 1958

Before Norman Rockwell ever put paint to brush, he called in a photographer and each photograph became the template for his final paintings.

**  The ‘Archaeology’ of Plastics Is an Exercise in Nostalgia and Dread

Archaeologists have always been interested in rubbish—sites such as waste heaps, middens, and latrines can be some of the richest places to learn about the human past.

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**  Anti-Semitic text projected on Anne Frank museum

Dutch police say they were investigating the projection of an anti-Semitic laser message onto the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam - an incident the prime minister condemned as "reprehensible".

**  Did more than one ancient human relative use early stone tools?

Scientists find oldest Oldowan butchery tools—long seen as a hallmark of our own genus—with Paranthropus fossils.

**  Celebrating 25 years of Te Papa Tongarewa

Thousands of people have worked at Te Papa – while it was being designed, then constructed, and since it opened to the people of New Zealand on 14 February 1998.

**  Hero the Elephant and the Heintz Airship

Every town needs a timeless champion; someone to put their metropolis on the map and leave a permanent mark in the ledger of history.

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**  UK Drought may be behind sharp fall in clothes moths

Overall insect pest numbers dropped 3% last year, according to annual pests report

**  Conservation of Outdoor Painted Sculpture Workshop

September 4–8, 2023

**  Ask the National Gallery Anything

The National Gallery’s Harry Cooper and LaStarsha McGarity debate whether Picasso is overrated and whether Bob Ross should be in our collection.

**  Study: 1 In 20 Americans Develop Carpal Tunnel Syndrome From Repetitive Chip Dipping

Carpal tunnel problems have become extremely common in the United States, where people’s continuous swiping of chips through various salsas and dips, day in and day out, causes extensive wrist damage
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