Global Museum

Ireland's New Museum for Leprechauns
Slightly disappointed that there won't be any live specimens prancing about, we follow O'Rahilly down a long, tapered tunnel meant to shrink the visitor - psychologically, at least - to leprechaun size

Art Heist Still a Mystery 20 Years Later
At 1:24 in the morning, thieves dressed as cops convinced two security guards to buzz them in before tying them up and roaming the galleries for an infamous 81 minutes

Ancient Texts Present Mayans As Literary Geniuses
His most notable accomplishment is that he establishes for the first time that two millennia of Mayan writings produced in various writing systems and media - from stone glyphs and paper documents produced in the post-Columbian Roman alphabet - constitute a single literary history and tradition

Hoping to Graduate From Guards to Gauguins
A group of Met guards are stepping into the spotlight with a new art journal called Sw!pe Magazine: Guards’ Matter, and an accompanying art exhibit

A bounty of badges
Appointed chief of detectives in 1887, the mustachioed Hazen had been acting police chief during the Civil War and the first detective in the country to get an indictment against Jesse James and other members of the James-Younger Gang

'Old Baldy' horse head going back up in Philly
A museum in Philadelphia will once again showcase the head of Old Baldy, the horse Gen. George Meade rode during many of the Civil War's most infamous battles

Michael Jackson's Hat Among Museum's New Finds
On a recent afternoon inside a studio, Michael Jackson's fedora was carefully removed from a box by two museum handlers and displayed on a mat

American Museum of Natural History Birds of North America (Paperback)

Michelle Obama’s Inaugural Gown Headed for History Museum
The white, one shoulder silk chiffon Jason Wu dress will join the ranks at the American History museum in Washington, D.C. of other First Lady’s famous dresses - Jackie Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Helen Taft, among others

Ansel Adams' Son Sues Museum for Prints
The museum went out of business in January and is liquidating its assets, and Dr. Michael Adams says that he struck out the phrase "the [museum] directors are at liberty to use or dispose of this property at their unrestricted discretion," in the Declaration of Gift in 1983

State museums to sell off bits of history
The auction catalog contains 1,600 items in 500 lots gleaned from seven of 26 museums and historic sites across the commonwealth

First maritime archaeology museum in Sri Lanka
Artifacts relating to Maritime Archaeology, maps, naval craft and a host of articles including artillery guns, ropes, earthenware, beer mugs, smoking pipes, barrels, shoes used by the sailors and items recovered from the wreckage of ships sunk in the sea off the Southern coast nearly 800 years ago

The Virgin Queen, the serpent and the doctored portrait
When this painting of Queen Elizabeth I was last displayed to the country in 1921, curators at the National Portrait Gallery noticed spots of discolouration which cast a spiralling shadow across the Tudor posy the monarch held in her right hand

Polaroids in Peril
Snapshots by legendary photographers Ansel Adams and Robert Mapplethorpe will be on show here before the Polaroid collection is sold to settle the debt of the failed firm

Gordon Brown's 'love inspired' art collection
The Prime Minister's residence is currently decorated with love-inspired slogans, a kissing couple and bold currency symbols, according to details of the artwork on display have revealed

54-year secret of students who went ape in Bristol
The mystery of a 7ft stuffed gorilla’s lost weekend has finally been revealed, 54 years after he was kidnapped from a city museum

Feature Site - The British Museum's Young explorers
This is a great resource if you are covering any of these civilisations in class; as well as gaming skills, your pupils will also learn plenty of historical facts along the way

Stolen Peter the Great pendant found in Seattle returns to Russian museum
A silver medallion with the engraved image of Peter the Great, which was discovered stolen from a Russian museum in 2006, sold online and recovered last year at an antiques dealership in Seattle, has been officially returned to Russian authorities in Moscow

Did the discovery of cooking make us human?
Cooking is something we all take for granted but a new theory suggests that if we had not learned to cook food, not only would we still look like chimps but, like them, we would also be compelled to spend most of the day chewing

Underwater Cultural Heritage in Belgium
Cogs in general were sea-going vessels during the middle ages, which were mostly used in the northern and northwestern areas of Europe

Digital Imaging for Conservators and Museum Professionals
The University of Delaware, in partnership with the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, presents the course, Digital Imaging for Conservators and Museum Professionals.
Dates:April 19-22, 2010, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily
Location: University of Delaware Downtown Center
13 East 8th Street, Wilmington, DE 19801
Instructors: Dawn Heller and Tim Vitale
Course description: Digital Imaging for Conservators and Museum Professionals teaches how to use digital photography to document the conservation process, and how to create photographic images to document objects and collections. Participants will learn to produce and archive documentation images as well as operate a digital SLR (dSLR) camera.
For more information about the instructors, course requirements, a list of course objectives, and a preliminary course outline, as well as to register online, please visit www.pcs.udel.edu/art/digital-imaging/. To register by phone, call 302-831-1171, Mon-Fri, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
This program was created with financial assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the FAIC Endowment for Professional Development.

Historic acquisition of Inuit prints
The Canadian Museum of Civilization has expanded its collection of Inuit prints with two major sets of acquisitions. The largest comprises 554 original, limited-edition works of art from the renowned Cape Dorset studio — an exceptionally large and important acquisition. The other comprises three rare and historically significant stonecut and stencil prints from the earliest days of Inuit printmaking in the 1950s. Together, these acquisitions will help the Museum comprehensively document five decades of Inuit art, culture and society.
The 554 prints include the Cape Dorset studio’s complete annual collections for 1994, and for the 14 years from 1996 to 2009. Their acquisition completes a collection the Museum has been building since the 1950s, providing an unbroken record of the first half-century of Inuit printmaking. Among the three prints acquired separately is an early work by Kenojuak Ashevak, one of Canada’s most celebrated and influential artists.
The 554 prints were purchased from the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative in Cape Dorset with the assistance of its marketing office in Toronto, Dorset Fine Arts.
The recent prints were created during a time of great change at the Cape Dorset print studio, an era marked by the passing of many of the celebrated first-generation graphic artists. “This acquisition documents the gradual emergence over the past 15 years of an exciting and sophisticated group of graphic artists in Cape Dorset,” said the Museum’s Curator of Contemporary Inuit Art, Norman Vorano. “These artists are unabashedly cosmopolitan, modern and traditional in their own way. They represent the future of Inuit art and bring the Canadian Museum of Civilization collection into the 21st century.”
The three older prints were purchased at auction in Toronto. Created between 1957 and 1960, they help document the beginning of Inuit printmaking, a transformative event for many Arctic communities and for Canadian art and culture.
The Museum is currently working to make images of this treasured collection available online.

I-CHORA 5: Fifth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives
London, 1-3 July 2010
Registration is now open for I-CHORA 5, co- organized by The National Archives of England, Wales and the United Kingdom, Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies and the Department of Information Studies at University College London. The I-CHORA series began in Toronto in 2003 and continued in Amsterdam, Boston and Perth; it has become the pre-eminent conference for the history of all aspects of recordkeeping principles and practice.
I-CHORA5 will be held in London, with the theme 'Records, archives and technology: interdependence over time'. Thirty speakers from throughout Europe, North America and Australia will address subjects ranging from the early recordkeeping technologies of Peru, through medieval recordkeeping in Venice and Tudor recordkeeping in England, to the nineteenth century British civil service and twentieth century Spain. Keynote papers will be given by Gary Urton (Harvard University), Barbara Craig (University of Toronto), and Paul Luff and Christian Heath (King’s College London).
A special rate of £150 is available for delegates registering before 30th April, and covers all conference sessions, visits, and the conference dinner and reception. Day rates of £75 are available, with a concessionary day rate of £25 for students.
The full conference programme and online registration form is available at http://www.liv.ac.uk/ichora5/. Further enquiries should be addressed to the conference administrator Charlotte Harrison .


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