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As Museums Desperately Try to Diversify Their Collections, They Now Face Another Problem: How to Pay for It in a Financial Crisis

In recent years, the public has increasingly scrutinized museum collections that disproportionately represent dead white male artists—a process that was accelerated radically in 2020 after a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Interested in Using Museum Collections to Better Understand Freshwater Mussels? There’s Now an App for That

A new online resource combines data from 45 different natural history collections to provide easy-to-use information on America’s threatened freshwater mussels Jack Tamisiea The National Museum of ...
Berlin.de

Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection

The Egyptian Museum with its papyrus collection houses the most significant collection of Egyptian high culture. Among its ...
Salon

Neglect of a museum’s collection could cause scientific setbacks

This article originally appeared on Undark. In a dusty room in central Florida, countless millipedes, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies sit in specimen jars, rotting. The invertebrates are part of ...

How stolen Cambodian artifacts ended up in American museums

Looters stole thousands of priceless artifacts from religious sites across Cambodia. An American lawyer is working with the ...
The Conversation

Museums have tons of data, and AI could make it more accessible − but standardizing and organizing it across fields won’t be easy

Ice cores in freezers, dinosaurs on display, fish in jars, birds in boxes, human remains and ancient artifacts from long gone civilizations that few people ever see – museum collections are filled ...
Purdue University

Museum Curator

Museum curators oversee museum collections by managing the acquisition, preservation and display of museum artifacts. They may conduct instructional, research, or public service activities of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Brazil Lost 80 Percent of Its National Museum Collection in One Night. Here’s How It’s Fighting to Rebuild

An aerial view shows the construction at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. Felipe Cohen / Project Museu Nacional Vive The news arrived with both excitement and a pang of grief: The oldest ...
Artnet

Museums Are Urgently Collecting Homemade Masks and Other Ephemera From the Coronavirus Pandemic to Document History as It Unfolds

As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the globe, non-essential businesses have shuttered and most people are forced to self-isolate at home. But as many of our minds are focused on how to fight the ...
Hyperallergic

Images of 100,000 Artworks From Paris Museum Collections Now Freely Available to the Public

Pierre Bonnard, “Nu dans le bain” (1936), oil on canvas, from the collection of the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, an image now available as Open Access (CC0 Paris Musées / Musée d’art ...
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PPHM art collection to move to satellite location in Amarillo

The Panhandle-Plains Historical Society plans to move its art collection to a downtown Amarillo building while Canyon talks ...

Guangdong Museum releases landmark collection series on Chinese cultural treasures

This is a news report from South: Home to one of China's most outstanding cultural relic collections, Guangdong Museum brings its p ...