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More hand-holding, longer hours, no Rocky statue up top: 10 ideas to get the PMA back on the right track.
The museum today is focused on the fact that fewer visitors are coming now than before the pandemic, and the concern is legitimate.
www.msn.com/en-us/travel... #globalmuseum #museums
Museums looted of priceless artifacts as Sudan counts the cost of a deadly conflict.
Once containing treasures from the Stone Age to the arrival of Islam, Sudan's National Museum now lies mostly bare
www.nbcnews.com/world/africa... #globalmuseum #museums #Sudan
Venice Biennale Faces Mass Outcry Over Return of Russian Pavilion: ‘Normalizing What Cannot Be Normalized’
“The claim that ‘culture is above politics’ is never neutral".
www.artnews.com/art-news/new... #art #globalmuseum
Italy buys rare Caravaggio portrait of nobleman who became a pope.
Italy has paid €30 million ($58.7m) for a Caravaggio painting of the future pope Urban VIII, a work that will enter the Barberini museum collection in Rome
www.nzherald.co.nz/world/italy-... #globalmuseum #art #Caravaggio
⭐ JOB POSTING⭐
Collections Manager
Coastal Discovery Museum
Hilton Head Island, SC
Position Application Due: March 31, 2026
#globalmuseum #museumjobs
In 1757, during an attempt to remove the Pantheon's doors to replace their pins, an 8.5-ton door fell on the foreman, Corsini, killing him. Mo one dared to touch the doors again. It wasn't until 1998 that the doors were finally set back into place using soap and custom-made plates
⭐ INTERNSHIP⭐
Historic Sites' Intern
Macon County Conservation District
Decatur, Illinois, USA
Due Date/Deadline: March 31, 2026
Salary: $16/hour plus free housing
For job description and to apply, go here👇
www.maconccd.org/get-involved...
#globalmuseum #museumjobs #Internship
From pre-Confederation conflicts through to the war in Afghanistan, Black Canadians have had a proud tradition of military service. They have fought and died for freedom abroad, even as they have struggled against discrimination at home.
www.warmuseum.ca/exhibitions/... #globalmuseum #exhibitions
Opening July 2 at The Branch Museum of Design, Americana examines America as a brand. Through design, photography, textiles, sculpture, and art, the exhibition explores the images and archetypes that have come to define our national identity.
#globalmuseum #BranchMuseum #Americana #exhibitions
Who is Emily Kam Kngwarray?
This prolific Aboriginal artist began making art in her 60s—and produced nearly 3,000 works before her death. Kngwarray was deeply connected to her community and their land.
www.nga.gov/stories/arti... #globalmuseum #Aboriginalart #art
PaleoFest returns for its 27th year at the Burpee Museum of Natural History.
The celebration features lectures, workshops and hands-on activities designed to make science accessible to all ages.
www.wifr.com/2026/03/07/p... #globalmuseum #museums #paleontology #fossils
⭐ JOB POSTING⭐
Exhibits Development Specialist
Kentucky Museum
Western Kentucky University
👇
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British Museum staff member stole over 300 pieces of art before being caught red-handed.
Former employee smuggled out and sold hundreds of prints during the early 1990s, new book reveals.
www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home... #globalmuseum #BritishMuseum #museums #crime
Tree Rings Reveal Origins of Some of the World’s Best Violins.
A study of over 275 violins suggests that Antonio Stradivari used wood from high-altitude forests in northern Italy to craft some of his most renowned instruments.
archive.ph/yoXj0 #globalmuseum #music #violin #Stradivari
I'm waiting for the AI text version🤣
🍚 RECIPE - One for the busy museum professional!
Ping Coombes’ baked honey and soy chicken rice.
A wholesome, one-pot chicken-and-rice dish that’s rammed with flavour thanks to a zingy marinade.
www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ma... #globalmuseum #recipes #food #cooking
Prague Castle Archives, an archivist examining the "Velká Knihovna" (Great Library)
These massive, hand-scribed volumes are primarily medieval choir books, that were crafted at this scale so an entire congregation or choir could read the music and lyrics
@BluebellRaven #globalmuseum #books
Report calls for protection for cultural industries from ‘danger’ of generative AI.
UK Government urged to create a ‘fair and inclusive UK licensing market’.
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour... #AI #globalmuseum
The Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art invites applications for grants supporting publications in the field of modern art and theory, and modern visual culture.
Details:👇
www.metmuseum.org/research-cen...
#globalmuseum #museums #art #publications #modernart
Irish Folklife Curator Tiernan Gaffney explores the remarkable skill of a third‑generation cooper, whose collaboration with #Ireland 's National Museum helped preserve rare tools, traditional techniques & a beautifully reconstructed cooper’s workshop.
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #globalmuseum
Butter dish with cover (part of a service) (ca. 1775) by Worcester factory.
Butter dish with cover (part of a service) (ca. 1775)
Creator: Worcester factory
🏛️ The Metropolitan Museum of Art (object 198542)
#MuseumObjects #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt #TheMet
“Look, my lad, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.”
‘No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!’
“The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.”
13th C, BnF Fra. 95, f.177v @MedMilMedicine
🎧LISTEN NOW | New Release 'Shining Moon' by Orangezeuss | Music For Relaxation music.youtube.com/watch?v=vKN-... #music #relaxation #meditaton #NewAge #electronica #soundscoutHQ
Believe it or not, this critter is a legless #amphibian! Meet Beddome’s caecilian (Ichthyophis beddomei). It which grows up to 10.8 in (27.5 cm) long, can secrete smelly fluids from its skin before burrowing into the soil to make its escape
American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #globalmuseum
The Trier Gold Hoard! 🤩
More than 2,650 #Roman gold ‘aurei’, weighing 18.5 kg, were discovered inside a bronze vessel during construction work in 1993. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier 📷 by @AlisonFisk@mastodon.sdf.org
kulturerbe.kreuz-rad-loewe.de/item:museumd...
#Archaeology #globalmuseum
Are you interested in innovative ways museums are using digital technology?
Museum Tech: A Digital Festival for Museums
22 April 2026, Barbican Centre, London.
www.museumsassociation.org/events/museu... #globalmuseum #museums #technology
⭐ JOB POSTING⭐
Executive Director at Southern Utah Museum of Art.
Provides visionary leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for SUMA—an award-winning museum that serves as a cultural anchor for SUU, Cedar City & the region
www.schooljobs.com/careers/suu/... #globalmuseum
Copenhagen’s iconic museum awarded landmark funding for restoration on a historical scale.
The Glyptotek is celebrating almost 130 years of the museum’s history. With a grant of 1.5 billion Danish kroner the museum can now embark on implementing an ambitious restoration project
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This week the Getty Villa Museum will begin offering a rare look at scrolls from its ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” collection.
The 19 manuscripts written on scrolls of papyrus & linen fragments are fragile, with one of them dating back nearly 3,500 years
archive.ph/fD9eJ
#globalmuseum #museums
When Scientists Are Dinosaurs.
At the paleontology conference, her new theory was shouted down.
...I had once been a part of this tribe. Long ago they welcomed me as one of their own.
nautil.us/when-scienti... #globalmuseum #dinosaurs #science
