News
Australia Council new CEO Adrian Collette
enters arts funding fracas
Humboldt Forum
A New Museum opens old wounds in Germany
Island Story: Tasmania in Object and Text
TMAG objects testimony to beauty & terror
AWMM’s draft annual plan 2019-20
presented to community for comment
Decolonising the museum round-up
Howarth on decolonising the museum mind
DCMS moves forward with Mendoza Review
Museums Action Plan outlines steps
He changed the future – AM’s Kim McKay AO
on the Ian Kiernan AO she knew
Australian Citizen Science Network news
incl call for committee nominations
MGA2019 abstracts close, early reg opens
& Sen Pat Dodson announced as Keynote
Melbourne Museum’s 9.3% o/s tourists
76% increase in Chinese visits tied to BD
SHMA announces 2019 AURA sound & light
“gold changes everything”
Famous Banksy self-destructs live
as Sotheby’s sales fetch $91.5M in London
Pop-up museum craze at Comic Con
Blurry line between art and merchandise
6% drop in last 3 yrs – why are attendance
rates decreasing at London’s museums?
SOH Everest decision – governance, process
& outcome
2018 Telstra NATSIAA winner Wakun Wanambi
shares story behind work @ MAGNT
AWM launches The Western Front Diaries
of Charles Bean – terror & tragedy
AWM installs 62,000 hand-crafted poppies
to mark centenary of Armistice Day
QVMAG & Wellways exhibition
Tracy Puklowski opens Minds do Matter
WAM 350 yr old dead dingo
contributes to knowledge & conservation
Lost Trades Fair, QMN’s Cobb & Co Museum
craftsmanship remains relevant
Etched in Bone – chronicling Australia’s
shameful trade in Indigenous remains
I object – BM explores dissent
Ian Hislop, Editor, Private Eye co-curator
David Attenborough seeks BBC arts priority
& ‘broad spectrum of human interest’
MG Scotland’s 20 paid 1 yr placements
for non-graduates Skills for Success
What is resilience anyway? ACE report
on evolution, adaptation, transformation
After Brazil museum fire
– could what was destroyed be restored?
Post-Rio fire ICOM warns public funding
cuts threaten existence of museums
Post Rio – ICOM statement on the necessity
for adequate public funding for museums
QM & citizen scientists Cooloola BioBlitz
Robert Whyte identifies 37 new spp