News
UK museum leaders recognised in NY hons
incl Mendoza, Morris (Tate) & Stringer (NHM)
Louvre to limit daily visitor numbers by one third
to create ‘more pleasurable viewing experience’
ArtsHub on Australian museum must-sees 2023
– blockbuster exhibns from Cairo to Warmun
TAN’s view of the big museum openings
& must-see art exhibitions in 2023
WAM SeadragonSearch project tracks >3,000
using volunteer divers & facial recognition
Dr John Vallance @ Museums of History NSW
as interim CE pending global search
Aus Arts Min on Cultural Policy release 30-Jan
& “systematic underfunding” of major instns
Te Papa’s Hia Hia Whenua – Landscape and Desire
seen from Dunedin in links to Southland & Otago
Te Papa Mataaho Collective exhibition
Te Puni Aroaro incl 200sqm commission
Australian Science Review, museums & science
ARC funding barrier for museum scientists
ACMI’s Museum Soft Power Map project
developing with Data To Power Prototype
NZ report on value of M&G sector to economy,
environment, society & culture
What makes a good museum and gallery shop?
ArtsHub’s Celina Lei takes a look
So you want a telescope for Christmas?
OM’s Ian Griffin provides a viewpoint
‘Will it end up on a yacht—or in a museum?’
UK Arts Min on export licences & reform
UK-wide digital collections database
project launched to pool object records
ACMI’s ‘Goddess ‘& NMA’s ‘Feared & Revered’
seek to explore feminine power
IWM’s new DG Caro Howell has ‘transformed
ways conflict & its impact are explored’
Aus Env Min responds to Samuels EPBC Review
Nature Positive Plan for env & business
The Age/SMH “Neglect of our cultural heritage
will be to the nation’s peril” (Editorial)
QM, SAM & WAM Insect investigators collab
– scientists & schools collecting & recording
MVRI, WAM & CSIRO RV Investigator Cocos NP
survey reveals new species & ‘shark graveyard’
Australian Frog Calls #3 on ARIA charts
– AM FrogID, Bowerbird & c. collaboration
MAAS Powerhouse Ultimo design released
– initial works scheduled for December 2023
Egyptians petition for BM to return
the Rosetta Stone
BM pledges ‘not to dismantle’ Parthenon
sculptures amid reports of talks with Greece
NHM to install life-size Titanosaur
cast The world’s largest dinosaur to fit (- just)
Gallerie d’Italia’s Art & Finance exhibition
– a long & mutually beneficial history
TMAG’s ‘Lost’ last Tasmanian tiger remains
found! … cataloguing collections matters
NM Scotland, WAM & Menang Noongar on 1839
Albany fish colln’s cultural & natural history