😡Museums Cyber Criminals' Newest target? | The Fabulous Fake That Even Fooled The Louvre | Highest-Value Treasure Find Ever Recorded | Old Master Forgeries As Teaching Tools | Ancient Creatures Beneath Your Feet | Making Good Museum Labels

😡Museums Cyber Criminals' Newest target? | The Fabulous Fake That Even Fooled The Louvre | Highest-Value Treasure Find Ever Recorded | Old Master Forgeries As Teaching Tools | Ancient Creatures Beneath Your Feet | Making Good Museum Labels | More Museum News

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Date: November 1st 2024

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** Museums Around the USA Explore Democracy

Inspired by the presidential election, there are exhibitions, forums and voter registrations.

** What's on at the British Museum in 2024/25?

Join Japanese artist Hiroshige on a journey through Edo Japan, explore the early sacred art of India, travel the Silk Roads and check out Picasso's printmaking.

** These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women’s Stories in Their Own Words

A new exhibition at the British Library tells some of these long-overlooked tales through a selection of more than 140 documents and artifacts spanning roughly 1100 to 1500.

** The Ornate Tiara - and Fabulous Fake - That Fooled Even the Louvre

The tiara of Saitaphernes, a golden crown that depicts scenes from the Iliad, was once considered one of the Louvre’s most prized artifacts but now holds the Guinness World Record for the greatest goldsmith fraud of all time.
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** Artist's descendant backs Museum's acquisition of Perspex vandalised by climate protesters

The museum acquired the protest spraypainted Perspex glass that had protected a famous McCubbin painting, from the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

** A glimpse into 2125 with Microsoft and the Natural History Museum London

A new immersive experience hosted at the Natural History Museum in London will give audiences a glimpse 100 years into the future, enabled by Microsoft mixed reality headsets.

** Museum highlights 90 years of duck stamps and their billion-dollar impact on wildlife habitat conservation

Since its launch in 1934, the Federal Duck Stamp has raised more than $1.2 billion to preserve over 6.5 million acres of wetlands across the United States.

** Old Master forgeries’ second lives as teaching tools

Museums, universities and other art organisations have tapped into the enduring fascination with forgeries for pedagogic purposes.
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** Art Museums Reach Out to Visitors From Behind Closed Doors

Museums have adopted creative engagement strategies when renovation work keeps visitors away.

** The high-pressure world of moving priceless museum art

Art moving, involving security escorts and heist-like intricacy, is where manual labor meets the sublime.

** A Wave of Exhibits That Appeal to Visitors’ Noses

Museum and gallery shows in Seattle, New York, England and beyond are engaging visitors’ hearts and minds through all of their senses.

** The best small art museums in America

The Washington Post’s art critics pick their 10 favorite smaller museums dotted across the country.
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** Who Decides What Makes a Museum Label Good?

Debates continue to rage over what the placards hung next to paintings should or shouldn’t be and say.

** Internet Archive hack a signal that cultural institutions are cyber criminals' newest target

Increasingly, in our geopolitical climate, we have state actors who are behind some of these cyberattacks, and they do it to disrupt our institutions, to create mistrust and in some cases, the nefarious objective of destroying the cultural heritage of the nation.

** World heritage Ancient Babylon in peril as historic treasures face neglect

The ancient city, which was once the world's cultural and developmental hub, contains dozens of important archaeological sites testifying to its past grandeur.

** See the Ancient Creatures That Might Have Been Beneath Your Feet

Celebrating its 150th anniversary, the San Diego Natural History Museum has opened more of its vast paleontology exhibit to visitors.
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** The Whitney Museum Will Be Free for All Visitors 25 Years Old and Younger

Artist Julie Mehretu donated over $2 million so the museum could waive the entrance fee for anyone 25 and younger for the next three years.

** Discovery of dinosaur fossils a giant step in history of Hong Kong

Find on island off Hong Kong challenges long-held view that creatures never roamed the area and raises hopes of even more remains.

** Highest-value treasure find ever recorded is acquired by South West Heritage Trust

£4.3m Norman Conquest coin hoard will be displayed at British Museum before returning to Somerset.

** Attorneys Weigh In on New Legislation Affecting Collectors, Museums, and Artists

Provenance investigations in certain areas of collecting rank among the most significant affected by recent changes to US art laws.
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** Digital Heritage

2025 London Heritage(s): Critical Questions – Contemporary Practice

** Human Remains Database

UK Museums invited to update entries on human remains database.

** This Week's Horoscopes

By Celestia Stardust, Senior Astrologer & Purveyor Of Stargazing Wisdom

Scorpio: Your Venusian need for beauty and harmony will be tested this week as you try to convince museum staff that "Body Bags Through History" may not be the ideal vibe for the Learning Corner. Expect heated debates involving phrases like, "No, toddlers won’t know they’re empty," and "body bag Halloween decorations won't work either". Read the full horoscopes here.

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