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Genetic information that could help finger the next infectious threat is stored in museums around the world.
The COVID-19 pandemic has closed museums and cultural sites worldwide. Meanwhile, curators are already working hard to preserve the current moment so that future generations may understand it.
Tomanowos, aka the Willamette Meteorite, may be the world’s most interesting rock. Its story includes catastrophic ice age floods, theft of Native American cultural heritage and plenty of human folly.
Galleries and musuems are rapidly moving online in response to social distancing measures, but the digital divide means regional and remote organisations could be left behind.
COVID-19 is dragging some arts institutions into the 21st century. Others are already well down this path. What we win and lose when culture goes online and a bunch of links you can enjoy today.
The government must respect the arm’s-length principle which ensures institutions like the British Museum are independent from government control.
Dinosaurs are malleable beasts: so much so that their constant reshaping has often been driven by cultural and political trends.
Why shouting diversity just doesn’t cut it if the system is designed to keep people out.
Repatriations cannot be made solely on the terms and timeframes that suit European political whims.
While both parties are championing the arts and culture sector, after years of swingeing cuts these promises dazzle but offer little hope to struggling institutions
Performances of prison life are commonplace nowadays in gulag museums. Visitors can vividly imagine it all – the tears, pain and despair.
Libraries, archives, museums and galleries have finally been included in South Africa’s contested new proposed copyright bill.
Away from the state capitals, small museums are out of step with big city curators - presenting tourists with stories that give a blinkered view of local history.
New multisensory approaches to presenting visual art propose solutions to barriers that limit access for marginalized audiences.
Looking back at Lviv’s Soviet past, there are clues about how to preserve history for everyone – not just the affluent.
Ennigaldi-Nanna is largely unknown in the modern day. But in 530BC, this Mesopotamian priestess worked to arrange and label various artefacts in the world’s first museum.
Museums are experimenting with 3D printed replicas of artefacts – meaning that the public can get closer to cultural heritage than ever.
There are limits to what charities can do now about past donors who are accused of morally reprehensible behavior.
Museums’ collections are a priceless resource for scientists, but they’re not easy to access. Digitizing specimens – like the 700 bat skulls the author studied – is a way to let everyone in.
Top contributors
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Macquarie University
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Professor of History, UMass Amherst
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Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology and Tourism, University of Nigeria
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Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, National Gallery of Victoria, The University of Melbourne
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Eminent Scholar and Professor of Economics Emeritus, Auburn University
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Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer School of Art History and Art Education, UNSW Sydney
