Ideas For Future Museums | The British Museum 260 Years In Numbers | Eccentric Former Museum Director Deaccessions | The Daunting Task Of Preserving Auschwitz | The Salvation Army worker & A 55K Gnome

 
From: "Roger Smith globalmuseum@gmail.com [talk at museum-ed.org]" <talk@museum-ed.org>
Date: January 27th 2019
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**  Everything Is (Could Be) A Museum Now | Ideas For Future Museums
The Museum of Memory-Foam Fossils; Visitors to momff will gather around glass vitrines containing foam fragments that bear the physical traces of personal massagers, unfinished novels, wine glasses (from nasa-endorsed spill tests), and, most often, impressions of human butt cheeks.

**  Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps?
Geneticists have begun using old bones to make sweeping claims about the distant past, but their revisions to the human story are making some scholars of prehistory uneasy.

**  Israeli museum removes McJesus sculpture after protests
Christian Arabs, who make up about 2% of the Jewish-majority country’s population, found a champion for their anger in Miri Regev, the culture minister whose censure of art deemed pro-Palestinian has made her a darling of the Israeli right
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**  Did The People Around Robert Indiana Kidnap His “Brand” Before He Died?
In the days before the artist Robert Indiana died last May at 89, two of his close associates were brainstorming just what sort of art might be sold under the Indiana brand during his last years.

**  260 years – the British Museum in numbers
The Museum is the oldest national public museum in the world, and has been free to visit for ‘all studious and curious persons’ since 1759; to mark the occasion, instead of cutting cake, they’ve been crunching numbers

**  The Daunting Task Of Preserving Auschwitz
In the museum's storage areas and display rooms, there are some 3,800 suitcases, along with 5,000 toothbrushes and 110,000 shoes and shoe remnants; there are also mountains of human hair, prosthetic limbs, eyeglasses and other things left behind by the prisoners.

**  UK Artists Earn An Average Of £16,150 – Only 1/3 Comes From Their Art
Just one third of the money earned by visual artists comes from producing art, and almost seven in ten (68%) artists have to take on additional jobs to make ends meet, a newly-published report by Arts Council England (ACE) reveals.
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**  Bauhaus design turns 100 as disputes over its legacy churn
Bauhaus, the design school that left its mark on everything from teapots to tower blocks and iPhones to Ikea, marks its centenary this year, touching off a politically charged debate about its lasting impact.

**  Illuminating women's role in the creation of medieval manuscripts
An international team of researchers has shed light on the role of women in the creation of such manuscripts with a surprising discovery -- the identification of lapis lazuli pigment embedded in the calcified dental plaque of a middle-aged woman.

**  The British Museum Is Leading The Fight Against The Illicit Trade in Egyptian Antiquities
The museum is employing a team of curators solely dedicated to spotting looted ancient treasure—a move that will have far-reaching implications for collectors, dealers, and other museums.

**  Museum photographs show the animals that once lived in Sydney Harbour
Incredible archived photographs which captured enormous marine life pulled from Sydney Harbour and surrounds will finally be shown to the public for the first time in 150 years.
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**  Shutdown jeopardizes museum’s celebration of 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote
Depending on the length of the shutdown, the government could push back the grant application deadline, which could push back distribution of the grants.

**  An eccentric former museum director lets go of a lifetime of curios
An art-and-antiques dealer, former high-school teacher, past director of Rotorua Museum, coffee maker and keen Gingernut dunker, John Perry sells curios from a ramshackle shop called Global Village Antiques at the front of the building most weekends and public holidays.

**  Ancient carpet shark discovered with 'spaceship-shaped' teeth
The world of the dinosaurs just got a bit more bizarre with a newly discovered species of freshwater shark whose tiny teeth resemble the alien ships from the popular 1980s video game Galaga.

**  Auschwitz Museum director awarded highest honour from France
The director of the Auschwitz Museum, Piotr Cywinski, was honoured with the National Order of the Legion of Honora, the highest decoration awarded by the French state.
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**  Kanye West to donate $10 million to volcano crater art project
The funds will aid the Roden Crater Project, which supports the work of James Turrell, who has been embedding art pieces into an extinct volcano in northern Arizona for more than four decades.

**  When a hat is not just a hat
The Pussyhat, like this one on display in the British Museum’s exhibition, is shaped like an abstract pussycat, and was a play on Donald Trump’s words.

**  Salvation Army worker who found $55k gnome thought someone was joking
Arnold said as he walked towards the gnome this morning he discovered it had a note on it asking for it to be returned to the gallery from which it was taken.

**  The De Young Museum tries, and fails, to trace Paul Gauguin’s ‘spiritual journey’
To support a show about Gauguin’s spiritual leanings, the curators would have needed to borrow more of his works that directly engage spiritual matters and focus less on the “dialogues” they suggest between Pacific and Maori art and Gauguin’s oeuvre.
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**  How Do an Art Handler and a Museum Registrar Do Their Jobs?
Of all the people who work at MOMA, very few who get as up close and personal with the artwork as the museum’s art handlers and registrars.

**  Call for Conference Papers
Museums in Arabia 2019

**  Community and Empathy: Reaching Out to Serve
The Mountain-Plains Museums Association is joining forces with the New Mexico Association of Museums for the 2019 conference

**  2019 Working Internationally Conference: Working Together to Achieve More
Mon 11 March, British Library, London

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Leo - Secretly tape-recording your private conversations is something you might be able to forgive, but not splitting the profits of their sale with you is a different thing entirely

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