This Week In Global Museum | Celebrating 28 Years Serving The Profession | The #1 Museum Site For Museum News, Museum Jobs, Museum Resources & More! http://www.globalmuseum.org/ ** How Ukraine’s Museum Curators Are Risking Life and Limb to Document the War In Tom Mutch's travels through Ukraine as a journalist, he has found the many ways that its citizens are collecting, preserving, and documenting evidence of Russia’s invasion. ** The next urgent -ism: museums must change their ageist ways Museums in the US and beyond are neglecting members of a rapidly expanding demographic who also historically have been the sector’s biggest donors. ** AI is making mincemeat out of art (not to mention intellectual property) The Midjourney list has created a stir among artists, who are learning that their copyrighted works are being used to train programs to mimic their style without their consent. ** When Cats Took Over the British Museum A feral cat colony numbering in the dozens wreaked havoc on the British Museum following World War II; after considering some drastic measures to curtail the population, the museum decided to put the cats to work. ____________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,772? 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A new Utah exhibit wants to address the negative emotions around climate change?. ** How Blue Paper Revolutionized the Art of Drawing Originally made through a process of up-cycling discarded blue rags (cenci neri or stracci tinti) into pulp, blue paper broke onto the art scene as a new material in northern Italy at the end of the 14th century. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Orlando Museum of Art faces financial troubles in Basquiat fiasco’s aftermath? Since it was raided in 2022 by the FBI, which seized 25 purported Basquiat works, the museum’s legal and communications costs have surged while public and private support slowed. ** Art that can be easily copied by AI is ‘meaningless’, says Ai Weiwei Chinese artist responds to debate about data-scraping as he prepares for new collaboration with AI. ** The Creator of FBI’s Art Crime Team Explains How to Spot a Dirty Art Adviser Wittman has a long history recovering stolen works and, as a member of the private sector, teaching the skills required to investigate art-related crime to law enforcement officers and students across the globe. ** Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Table: Breaking Bread in Troubled Times The photograph offers a view into Black, middle-class family life, representing people who are approachable, refined, and elegant. _______________________________________________________________________________ 🐦Follow Us On X/Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 231.3K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,658 Followers worldwide and growing 🐘 Having a ‘Musk Moment’? 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Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2.6K Pins, 2.7K Followers - http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Monumental ancient map re-emerges in new Rome museum The Forma Urbis was a monumental, highly detailed marble map of ancient Rome carved during the reign of the Emperor Septimius Severus between 203 and 211 AD, engraved onto 150 separate slabs and measuring 18 by 13 metres. ** How an Eye-Popping Museum Specimen Boosted the Beleaguered Blue Whale For decades, visitors to the Smithsonian could behold the immense size of the sea mammal with their own eyes. ** How does the RA judge art by children? What links a ceramic sculpture of a crocodile in a bread bun (Hot Croc), a coloured pencil drawing of a tomato locked in jail, and a digital sketch of a cat wearing a large pair of sunglasses? ** Newly Discovered Dinosaur Dethrones T-Rex as Ancient Apex Predator Named Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis, the fossil records of this prehistoric giant predator had been wrongfully classified as a Tyrannosaurus rex. ______________________________________________________________________________ Follow Global Museum on Instagram | 50 Followers and counting! - https://www.instagram.com/globalmuseum6/ Global Museum is on TikTok: Follow us here - https://www.tiktok.com/@globalmuseum _______________________________________________________________________________ ** Curatorial fellowships launched for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people Following on from its Curating for Change scheme, the organisation Screen South is offering six new opportunities for D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent people to launch their careers in the museum sector. ** In Conversation: Rachel Bigsby National Museum of Scotland. 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