Gender and the Museum
UK article on the ongoing imbalance at museum director level.
Future Closures for Canterbury
The following item first appeared on Radio New Zealand 3 June 2014 Parts of Canterbury Museum could be closed for up to three years for earthquake-strengthening and maintenance work. Museum director Anthony Wright said maintenance work was planned before the earthquakes, and future strengthening is also needed. The museum is hoping the Government will contribute […]
IDCA Awards – deadline extended
2014 IDCA Awards AWARDING CREATIVE EXCELLENCE IN THE MUSEUM AND ART WORLD The International Design & Communication Awards have announced a deadline extension for the submission of entries to 30 July 2014. Due to popular demand, all cultural organisations, museums and design and advertising agencies can submit their entries until 30 July, for the final […]
Prehistory at risk
Concern at lack of protection for significant Australian fossil sites.
EU on returning cultural objects
Patrick Steel, ‘EU makes it easier to return looted cultural objects’ 21 May 2014, Museums Association (UK) website. The European Parliament has approved changes to a directive aimed at helping EU countries organise the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from one member state to another. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) believes […]
Stopping the Illegal Fossil Trade
The following item: ‘It’s time to stop the fossil trade in in its tracks and here’s how’ by Sam Arman (PhD student in Palaeontology, Flinders University) was first published in The Conversation, 12 May 2014 Collecting fossils helps raise interest in palaeontology and the natural history of Australia, and many important fossil discoveries have been […]
Museums and the Box Office
A Daily Review interview with Patrick Greene, CEO, Museum Victoria.
Wildlife ‘Detectives’
Preventing wildlife poaching with DNA forensic science.
Copyright Conflict
The following excerpt is from Gina Fairley, ‘Conflict over copyright – is it fair?’, ArtsHub, Friday 13 June 2014 The arts sector is deeply divided over the introduction of fair use into the Australian Copyright Act, as was evident during the VIVID panel discussion on copyright in the digital economy. The Australian Law Reform Commissions […]
Training Indigenous Leaders
The following article by Gina Fairley, ‘British Council accelerates Aboriginal alliance’ was published in ArtsHub, 20 July 2014 Search on for four Indigenous creative leaders to head to the UK to realise an ambitious career pathway. The British Council is on the lookout for four indigenous creative leaders to travel to the UK on its […]