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Recovering Cultural Property Across the World: Interview with the FBI Art Crime program manager Tim Carpenter
Ever wonder what happens when the FBI finds stolen or looted art and artifacts? In this article, Betty Vine discusses how the FBI Art Crime Team manages the process of repatriation and …
Summary: Moments at Reimagining the Museum
Watch a summary of the Reimagining the Museum conference held in Medellin, Colombia, November…
After Louvre Abu Dhabi: Dreams of Potential Partnerships for Cultural Exchange
We watched the opening of Louvre Abu Dhabi a few months ago, many having followed the saga surrounding the establishment of the new museum in the Gulf since its official announcement in …
Māori ancestors repatriated to New Zealand by the Peabody Museum
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History worked with TePapa Tongarewa (Museum of New Zealand) on the voluntary repatriation of kōiwi and koimi tangata (Māori and Moriori skeletal …
Designing an AI Voice for the Museum
This is the second of two posts exploring IRIS+, an AI chatbot at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In part one, Daniel Morena, founder and creative technologist at of …
Interested in International Museum Partnerships? Download the Museums Connect Evaluation Report
Download your free copy of the Museums Connect Evaluation Findings. In 2017, the Alliance received funding from the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural …
Fifteen years after looting, thousands of artefacts are still missing from Iraq’s national museum
The article discusses the theft of artworks from Iraq’s National Museum and how the illegal trade of stolen antiquities persists, in part, due to the scale of demand for these …
Tate Director delivers hard line on the future of museums
In this post, Gina Fairley interviews Tate Director Maria Balshaw about the current state and future of museums concerning gender equity, the ways that museums can effectively connect with …
A Journey to China
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2018 issue of Museum magazine. The American Alliance of Museums strives to foster global connections and exchange to spark relationships …
UK museum collecting at risk from lack of funding, report warns
The article highlights a study by Sir David Cannadine that examines the status of collecting in UK museums in the midst of declining public funding. Cannadine argues the fact that many …
Do museum directors need curatorial experience?
What skills does it take to run a top museum? As many museums look towards increasing their outreach to new audiences and are facing challenges to their long-term financial sustainability, …
Reimagining the Museum in Medellín 2017
This week the Reimagining the Museum Conference of the Americas kicked off in Medellín, Colombia bringing together more than 600 museum professionals, from Argentina to Canada and around …