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Fifteen years after looting, thousands of artefacts are still missing from Iraq’s national museum

On April 10 2003, the first looters broke into the National Museum of Iraq. Staff had vacated two days earlier, ahead of the advance of US forces on Baghdad. The museum was effectively …
By Craig Barker, The Conversation

Commerce vs. Curation: Lessons From Today’s Museums World

By Scott Reyburn, Nytimes

Even plastic art decays, but museum curators are on the case

By Eleanor Cummins, Popular Science

The mirage of riches in museums’ vaults

By Martin Gammon, The Art Newspaper

The Persistent Crime of Nazi-Looted Art

By Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic

The New Face of Provenance Research

By Kelly Davis, The Getty Iris

UK museum collecting at risk from lack of funding, report warns

By Mark Brown, The Guardian

With Big Gift and Tighter Oversight, the Met Gains Solid Ground

By Robin Pogrebin, Nytimes

The Worcester Art Museum: A Re-envision Case Study

By Valerie Fletcher

Don’t Raid the Cookie Jar: creating early interventions for deaccessioning crises

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By The Alliance's Center for the Future of Museums

Statement on The Berkshire Museum Proposal to Deaccession Works of Art for Its Endowment, Operations, and to Fund Capital Investments

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By American Alliance of Museums

Wordless Wednesday: Bringing Taxidermy to Life

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By The Alliance's Center for the Future of Museums
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Futurist Friday: Critical Thinking

By Elizabeth Merritt
Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
It’s time for CFM’s weekly micro-tutorial in strategic foresight! Today’s lesson: how to evaluate forecasts that “in the future…this or that will be …

Gorilla Warfare: How to Handle Exhibition Errors

By David Whitemyer
Alliance Blog
It’s not a matter of if, but when. Whether an exhibition is 500 square feet with a few labels and a curator’s catalogue, or a whopping 50,000 square feet with hundreds of graphic panels and …

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By The Alliance's Center for the Future of Museums
Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
This year the Alliance Resource Center will feature an installation celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Center for the Future of Museums. In addition to an installation reviewing our …