This Week In Global Museum | Celebrating 28 Years Serving The Profession | The #1 Museum Site For Museum News, Museum Jobs, Museum Resources & More! www.globalmuseum.org<http://www.globalmuseum.org/> ** How museum guides are being enlisted in the US culture wars Docents—voluntary educators who are frequently white, of retirement age and middle class—embody the tensions between the status quo and change in US museums. ** What's on at the British Museum in 2023/24? Get the lowdown on the British Museum's upcoming special exhibitions about Michelangelo's last decades, life in the Roman army, the silk roads and 1,500 years of Burma to Myanmar. ** Media coverage of missing objects ‘misleading’, says Museums Association director Museum leaders have warned that the coverage is misleading, saying that missing items in collections numbering millions of objects is not unexpected, and that the movement of objects is a normal part of museum work ** Van Gogh Museum Pulls Limited-Edition Pokémon Cards Over Safety Concerns What was meant to be a charming and delightful Pokemon and Van Gogh Museum collaboration has turned into a scalper's paradise and a fan's worst nightmare. ____________________________________________________________________ 🧑🤝🧑 ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,763? 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 at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** American Museum of Natural History removes all human remains from display The museum holds the remains of more than 12,000 individuals, many of whom are believed to have come from enslaved, indigenous and colonised populations. ** Scientists Winkle New Secret From 'Mona Lisa' X-rays were used to peer into the chemical structure of a tiny speck of Leonardo da Vinci's celebrated work of art. ** Six Stolen Paintings Are Mysteriously Delivered to an Art Detective in Amsterdam Arthur Brand, known for his help in recovering a Van Gogh painting last month as well as a Picasso painting, was watching TV at home on Friday night when the doorbell rang with a delivery. ** From staple to superfood: how seaweed fed prehistoric Europeans Chemical traces found in the remains of ancient Europeans suggest that algae once provided many of the nutrients and protein they needed to survive. _______________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2.6K of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574?<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574> _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Glasgow museum says its £3m Auguste Rodin sculpture is missing The plaster sculpture, bought by Glasgow Museums from the artist in 1901, was exhibited in Kelvingrove Park from 25 June to 30 September 1949, but since then, it seems to have been lost. Switzerland's Cash-Strapped Museum Under Fire For Selling Cezannes Baden, Switzerland’s Museum Langmatt has raised the hackles of the International Council of Museums (ICoM) with its plan to sell off three works by Paul Cézanne in an effort to remain solvent and therefore extant Is a Women’s Museum Still Relevant? The women’s museum occupies more settled ground today than when it first opened in 1987, when Holladay’s vision was seen as ghettoizing by feminists and radical by elites. This May Be the Most Exclusive Museum in the U.S. Inside the cavernous USDA headquarters, a budget analyst has amassed a collection of artifacts that could give the Smithsonian a run for its money; most people can’t visit yet. _______________________________________________________________________________ 🐦Follow Us On X/Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 230.8K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,664 Followers worldwide and growing 🐘 Having a ‘Musk Moment’? Leaving Twitter? – Join us on our new Mastodon network – 568 Followers & growing fast! https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Qatar Museums fly Palestinian flag in the aftermath of Hamas attack on Israel The leadership of the National Museum of Qatar and the Museum of Islamic Art, both in Qatar, Doha, projected images of the Palestinian flag onto the exterior of both museums within 36 hours of the terrorist group Hamas launching an violent invasion of Israel. ** China just had a museum building spree. Here are 6 of the best While its borders were locked during the pandemic, the country began constructing buildings dedicated to art, sound, science fiction, and more. ** Painting stolen in art heist more than 30 years ago returned to Glasgow museum A painting stolen during a museum heist in Glasgow more than 30 years ago has been found after being put up for auction by an unsuspecting seller. ** How ChatGPT and other AI tools could transform the nature of the scientific paper Many researchers expect that generative AI tools will become regular assistants for writing manuscripts, peer-review reports and grant applications. ______________________________________________________________________________ 📌 Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2.6K Pins, 2.7K Followers - http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Getty Conservation Institute's Free Book On Conserving Canvas The most authoritative publication in nearly fifty years on the subject of conserving paintings on canvas. ** Feather report: Researchers develop link between birds and dinosaurs We found that ancient dinosaur feathers like those in 125-million-year-old dinosaur Sinornithosaurus are much more similar in chemistry to the feathers of modern birds than we previously thought. ** The Canadian museum filled with stolen art The Ni'isjoohl memorial pole has been returned to Canada after being stolen by the British in 1928. Here, it will live out its days alongside hundreds of other appropriated items. ** Scrolls were illegible for 2,000 years. A college student read one with AI. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln student was at a party in August when he received a text that would help him decipher a nearly 2,000-year-old message. _______________________________________________________________________________ 🧑🤝🧑 Follow Global Museum on Instagram | 46 Followers and counting! - https://www.instagram.com/globalmuseum6/ 🧑🤝🧑 Global Museum is on TikTok: Follow us here - https://www.tiktok.com/@globalmuseum _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Get funding to borrow from the UK national collections Applications to the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund open on 23 October. ** Conserving Canvas The most authoritative publication in nearly fifty years on the subject of conserving paintings on canvas. ** Petition launched against reimposed 10% cut to Creative Scotland Campaigners warn thousands of jobs are at risk after £6.6m cut was brought back. ** This Week's Horoscopes Pisces, your compassionate nature will be in high demand this week as you console fellow underpaid museum workers who are on the verge of an existential crisis. 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