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<http://www.globalmuseum.org/> ** The Van Gogh Museum Fires Four Staff Members Over Pokémon Chaos The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has fired four workers over the chaos surrounding last year’s collaborative exhibition with the Pokémon Company. ** Iran Calls for Halt of British Museum’s Planned Loan of 2,600-Year-Old Babylonian Artifact to Jerusalem Iranian officials are calling to halt the planned transfer of a significant Babylonian artifact from the British Museum to Jerusalem, raising concern that relocating the 6th century artifact to the city amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza war poses “risk” to it. ** Bayeux Museum lands 1872 reproduction of tapestry from Rolling Stone’s estate Lifesize replica of 70-metre work, which cost museum £16,000, was part of sale of late drummer Charlie Watts’s estate. ** V&A and British Museum to loan Asante gold to Ghana The agreement between the two London institutions and the Manhyia Palace Museum, which is in Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region, relates to items of gold and silver associated with the Asante royal court. ____________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,777? 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