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UK museum sector addresses impact of Israel-Hamas
conflict
Cultural institutions with links to those on both sides of the conflict
are working to support communities suffering from shock and grief, and to combat rising tensions, antisemitism and anti-Muslim bigotry. Read More
** The Future of the Museum Store
The museum store is a natural extension of our relationship to the objects
we preserve in museums: enabling people to capture and archive their memories, feelings and stories of their visit.
** UK Museums to Measure the Impact of Art with
EEG Monitors
How are we affected by artwork? Art Fund hopes to answer this question,
and inspire more museum visits, by rolling out brainwave scans in several U.K. art institutions.
** A painter, a poet, a novelist: the artists being
killed in Gaza
The territory’s vibrant arts community was testament
to Palestinian resilience, but now it is losing voices central to its spirit
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** The Mythmaking Apparatus of the US National Parks
In quiet yet scrupulous detail, the exhibition asks how the US National
Park Service (NPS) shapes the narratives it tells about this country and the lands it claims. Read More
** Rare ‘Inverted Jenny’ US Postal Stamp Sells
for Record-Breaking $2 M
The was an error made by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in the rush
to print the design commemorating the world’s first regularly scheduled airmail route; the 24-cent stamp was part of a rare sheet of 100 sold to a collector for $24 in 1918. Read More
** How the T. rex built up that bone-crushing bite
Through their analysis of bite forces and the stress all that gobbling put
on tyrannosaur craniums, the researchers showed that tyrannosaurs steadily built up their bone-crunching powers over the eons. Read More
** When is it too early to teach your kids about
genocide? Inside the Imperial War Museum’s harrowing new galleries
From the Somme to Afghanistan and Iraq, 500 works
capture a century of warfare at the museum’s new Blavatnik art, film and photography galleries.
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** Modern Medicine Traces Its Scientific Roots to the Middle Ages
Mixing the bird’s brain with oil and inserting it into the nose was thought
to cure head pain, while wrapping its heart in wolf skin served as an amulet against demonic possession.
** New Rotterdam Museum Of Migration To Open
In 2025
Formerly a key facility for the Holland-America Line, the warehouse witnessed
the movement of millions of migrants in the 19th and 20th centuries.
** UK university returns tribal warrior skulls
to Taiwan after more than 100 years
The skulls were taken as war trophies by Japanese soldiers who invaded southern
Taiwan in 1874 and fought the Paiwan people.
** Activists Take to Guggenheim Museum to Denounce
Israeli Airstrikes
The museum temporarily closed its doors after a group dropped banners depicting
Palestinians grieving over the bodies of dead children.
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** Drip Painting Was Actually Invented by a Ukrainian Grandmother… Not Jackson Pollock
Noah Charney on the Erasure of Women's Revolutionary Contributions to Art
History.
** Great theatre wigs – and their miraculous creators
The RSC storeroom’s wooden doors conceal mop after mop of blondes, browns
and russets; a separate cupboard holds periwigs and judges’ rugs, like a bevy of poodles.
** Stunning Codex Documenting Aztec Culture Now
Fully Digitized
The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective
that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.
** Cézannes auctioned by Swiss museum to keep operating
The future of the museum is thus secured in the long term, as the museum
foundation announced.
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** Could creativity transform medicine? These artists think so
Medicine has a "creativity problem" and too many people working in health
care are resigned to the status quo, the dehumanizing bureaucracy.
** Talks on Museum artifact's repatriation resume
a decade later
Discussions on the return to Korea of the silver-gilt Lamaistic pagoda-shaped
sarira reliquary dating back to the 13th century in the Goryeo era, which is currently on exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, are set to resume, 10 years after the previous talks fell through.
** The Real Lives of People in Dorothea Lange's
Portraits
Meet four everyday Americans who were the subjects of her photographs.
** 202-Million-Year-Old Damsel-Dragonfly Fossil
Unearthed in UK
The new find suggests that Liassophlebiidae — a small extinct family of
damsel-dragonflies known from the Early Mesozoic of Europe, Asia, and Antarctica — arose in the immediate aftermath of the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction.
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** Reach Out: Engaging Younger Audiences with Museums
6 December 2023, 1100-1600
Online, Zoom
** Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 20th Anniversary
Celebration
December 2, 2023 | 10am - 2pm
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway Chantilly,
VA 20151
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