Weekly News Roundup: June 16, 2014
With an ongoing imbalance at museum director level and discrepancies in pay, gender issues deserve more mind space. Protestors invade British Museum, with Viking boat, to protest BP’s sponsorship of...
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UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee inscribes new cultural and natural sites to the World Heritage List including the six-nation nomination in South America, the Qhapac Ñan, Andean Road System; Bolgar...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: June 30, 2014
London’s Foundling Museum reaches settlement with its connected children’s charity. Museums in Sarajevo mark anniversary of archduke’s assassination; and the legacy that continues. Gulag Museum in...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: July 9, 2014
An art exhibition with work depicting Roma musicians has triggered a flood of racist threats in Bucharest including a death threat to the director. Internships: learning or exploitation? Labor laws...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: July 14, 2014
Fury as Egyptian statue Sekhemka sells for nearly £16 million. See also the statements of ICOM CIPEG and British Museums Association. Should a photographer’s unseen, unedited work be shown...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: July 21, 2014
Imperial War Museum reopens in London after £40m revamp Helsinki divided on plans for Guggenheim outpost. US institutions hold workshop for Syrian cultural sites, in undisclosed location. Some in Italy...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: July 28, 2014
Objects continue to make news by their return ,their sale, and their collection. Painted panel looted from Egypt returns from Germany. Museum of Death in Los Angeles acquires Jack Kevorkian’s “Death...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: August 4, 2014
Temple or forum? A spirited online debate on the Portland Art Museum’s Parklandia social media project. What do you think? The big European museums are straining at the seams with millions of...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: August 11, 2014
Check out this website on Cold War era tourist sites in Europe and the United States, ranging from the UK’s Radar Museum to the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas. Despite being censured by...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: August 19, 2014
Is there a drone in your museum’s future? Tate Gallery: Robots as guides through the museum. Kyiv’s New Year’s tree, a symbol of the Maidan protests, is taken down and will become a part of museum...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: June 16, 2014
With an ongoing imbalance at museum director level and discrepancies in pay, gender issues deserve more mind space. Protestors invade British Museum, with Viking boat, to protest BP’s sponsorship of...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: June 23, 2014
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee inscribes new cultural and natural sites to the World Heritage List including the six-nation nomination in South America, the Qhapac Ñan, Andean Road System; Bolgar...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: June 30, 2014
London’s Foundling Museum reaches settlement with its connected children’s charity. Museums in Sarajevo mark anniversary of archduke’s assassination; and the legacy that continues. Gulag Museum in...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: July 9, 2014
An art exhibition with work depicting Roma musicians has triggered a flood of racist threats in Bucharest including a death threat to the director. Internships: learning or exploitation? Labor laws...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: July 14, 2014
Fury as Egyptian statue Sekhemka sells for nearly £16 million. See also the statements of ICOM CIPEG and British Museums Association. Should a photographer’s unseen, unedited work be shown...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: July 21, 2014
Imperial War Museum reopens in London after £40m revamp Helsinki divided on plans for Guggenheim outpost. US institutions hold workshop for Syrian cultural sites, in undisclosed location. Some in Italy...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: July 28, 2014
Objects continue to make news by their return ,their sale, and their collection. Painted panel looted from Egypt returns from Germany. Museum of Death in Los Angeles acquires Jack Kevorkian’s “Death...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: August 4, 2014
Temple or forum? A spirited online debate on the Portland Art Museum’s Parklandia social media project. What do you think? The big European museums are straining at the seams with millions of...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: August 11, 2014
Check out this website on Cold War era tourist sites in Europe and the United States, ranging from the UK’s Radar Museum to the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas. Despite being censured by...
View ArticleWeekly News Roundup: August 19, 2014
Is there a drone in your museum’s future? Tate Gallery: Robots as guides through the museum. Kyiv’s New Year’s tree, a symbol of the Maidan protests, is taken down and will become a part of museum...
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