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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

Tate Director delivers hard line on the future of museums

By Gina Fairley, ArtsHub United Kingdom

A Journey to China

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By American Alliance of Museums

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

By Mark Brown, The Guardian

Do museum directors need curatorial experience?

By Rober Hewison and Nicholas Penny, Apollo Magazine

Reimagining the Museum in Medellín 2017

Liz Neely headshot, Senior Director of Integrated Content at AAM
By Liz Neely

When the global is local: building a world-class museum in Mogadishu, Minnesota

By Sarah Larsson

Gabriela’s Bridge: Connecting Connecticut and Amazonian Brazil

By William E. Jeffries

Museum Education: China’s Next Big Build-Out?

By Sarah Jesse

The Importance of And

By Elaine Heumann Gurian, MuseumNext

What Are You Going to Build?: Creating a ‘Brighter World’ through International Exchange

By Alexandra Roe

Reflections on the Museums Connect program and its impact in Ukraine

By Ksenya Kyrychenko
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