#gallerieslibrariesarchivesmuseumsglam_ — Public Fediverse posts
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Southern Methodist University: From rails to revolutions: New windows into the past in digital collections. “What do a sugar railway in Cuba, U.S. soldiers hunting Pancho Villa, and a priest blessing a taxi in Mexico have in common? They’re all part of a fascinating array of newly digitized materials now available in SMU’s Digital Collections.”
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Earthbound Report: The Green Libraries Manifesto. “It’s Green Libraries Week this week, an event that is organised by the library association CILIP. There are a handful of events across the UK, looking at the role that libraries play in climate change. They are also encouraging libraries to sign up to their manifesto.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/03/earthbound-report-the-green-libraries-manifesto/
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Diesachsen: Cameroonian cultural heritage to be researched. “Around 500 cultural objects from Cameroon are being researched in German museums. The aim is to reconstruct their history together with experts from Cameroon. Together with the Linden Museum in Stuttgart, the German Lost Art Foundation wants to continue researching Cameroonian cultural heritage in Germany.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/01/diesachsen-cameroonian-cultural-heritage-to-be-researched/
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BK Reader: Brooklyn’s Fight Against Book Bans Reaches National Milestone. “Books Unbanned, the Brooklyn Public Library initiative launched in 2022 to give young people access to books affected by censorship, has hit a major milestone: cardholders have borrowed over one million e-books.”
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Rubryka: Solutions from Ukraine: Krushelnytska Museum digitizes 500 exhibits, unveils innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums. “The Solomiia Krushelnytska Music and Memorial Museum in Lviv, at 23 S. Krushelnytska Street, has unveiled an innovative digital platform for Ukrainian museums, with the first 500 items from its collection now available for public viewing and study.”
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New York Times: Amid the A.I. Deluge, What Counts as Art? Ask the Curators. This link goes to a gift article. “With the rise of artificial intelligence, machines are increasingly engaged in the creative process, raising the question: What is art if the human hand is no longer involved?… In response, major art museums are wrestling with what, within the kaleidoscope, counts as art, and are […]
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International Business Times: Paris Louvre Heist Lays Bare Museum Security Complaints. “How could robbers with power tools break in and steal crowns and sapphire and emerald necklaces? And how can a museum spanning 73,000 square metres and housing around 35,000 works of art be secured? The government said authorities had already begun reviewing security at the vast Paris venue before the heist. […]
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Liverpool John Moores University: Introducing the Unity Theatre Archive Project. “Hi everyone, my name is Megan and I’ve recently joined LJMU’s Special Collections and Archives as the Unity Theatre Project Archivist. Over the next year I’ll be cataloguing the papers of the Unity Theatre as part of its Heritage Lottery funded project, ‘A Radical Reimagining.’”
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Associated Press: Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation. “For about 30 years, this hair art collection in the Kansas City suburb of Independence attracted an eclectic group of gawkers that included the likes of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne. But the museum’s namesake, Leila Cohoon, died last November at the age of 92. Now her […]
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Daily Tar Heel: UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’. “The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence.” Disgusting.
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Nation Cymru: Thousands of images from Amgueddfa Cymru now available to access online. “Amgueddfa Cymru has released over 2000 images into the public domain making them freely available on a new platform. It puts Wales at the forefront of open access and on par with global museums such as the Natural History Museum, Smithsonian, Rijksmuseum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
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ArchDaily: Reclaiming the Narrative: A New Generation of Museums in West Africa. “Although varying in purpose and form, they have some common goals: addressing the need for restitution of many artifacts taken during colonialism and mostly kept in European museums; and defining a museum with local identity as opposed to a non-contextual import.”
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The Register: Ransomware attack linked to museum break-in and theft of golden exhibits. “Dozens of French museums fell victim to a ransomware attack in August 2024, and the nation’s Natural History Museum copped another attack in July 2025…. Last week the Museum discovered that thieves had broken into its minerals display section by using an angle grinder to cut through a door, before […]
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UNESCO: UNESCO launches the World’s First Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects at a global scale at MONDIACULT 2025. “Three years after its announcement at MONDIACULT 2022, UNESCO is launching an innovative initiative: the Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. This global platform harnesses cutting-edge digital technology to raise awareness of the illicit trafficking of cultural property, one of […]
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Times-Colonist: A ‘magnificent obsession’: Maritime Museum acquires virtual encyclopedia of nautical history. “The Nauticapedia’s vessel databases, articles, reference tables and images attract four million web hits from 130 countries annually. [John] MacFarlane recently donated the comprehensive resource, including all of its rights and contents, to the Maritime Museum of B.C. to be the […]
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AFP: Viking ships make final high-risk voyage to new Oslo home. “The first to relocate is the Oseberg, which on Wednesday slowly made its way from its current location in the old Viking Ship Museum, arriving intact a newly built addition that will house the national treasures in optimal conditions. The extremely fragile oak hull inched forward so slowly its movement was almost undetectable to […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/11/afp-viking-ships-make-final-high-risk-voyage-to-new-oslo-home/
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New York Times: A World Reshaped by A.I. Needs Museums More Than Ever. This link goes to a gift article. “It remains an open question which trend will ultimately seem the anomalous one. Is it the idea that the art museum as we’ve understood it is under genuine existential threat, a relic of a battered Enlightenment worldview? Or is it the decision by so many museums in a period of extreme […]
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Dallas Morning News: African American Museum in Dallas gets $3 million to digitize 50-year-old collection. “The African American Museum in Dallas has secured $3 million to preserve and digitize its 50-year-old collection. The museum announced the donation from the Texas Historical Commission on Tuesday.”
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Odessa Journal: In Mykolaiv, 300 exhibits from the collections of two museums will be digitized. “The digital collection will include items from the funds of the Mykolaiv Regional Art Museum named after Vereshchagin and the Mykolaiv Regional Museum of Local History. According to the MY ART Platform, the collection features 20th-century paintings by famous Ukrainian artists such as Oleksandr […]
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Minna Takala: New Archetype for Museums. “The most obvious new aspect of the Storehouse is that it is totally transparent, exposing the collection of 250,000 objects to public viewing. The building is literally a warehouse (like Amazon) where you can walk inside the corridors like in an IKEA store to see the objects placed on shelves.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/21/minna-takala-new-archetype-for-museums/
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Hindustan Times: Initiative launched to compile comprehensive national-level database of public libraries: Govt to LS. “The government, through the Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation under the Ministry of Culture, has recently launched a significant initiative to compile and maintain a comprehensive, ‘national-level dynamic database’ of public libraries across the country, Parliament was […]
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Romania Journal: ISVOR Announces the Launch of the “Museum of Whistles of the World” Project. “The Museum of Whistles of the World aims to build a dynamic cultural ecosystem in which the Romanian whistle is revalued in dialogue with the universal whistle — not as a relic, but as a living, expressive, and relevant language. Bringing together researchers, artists, craftsmen, teachers, and […]
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Museums + Heritage Advisor: Museum Data Service secures new funding to expand collections database. “The Museum Data Service has received three years of funding worth £800,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to continue developing digital infrastructure that connects object records across UK museums. The joint venture between the University of Leicester, Art UK and Collections […]
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New York Times: A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds. This link goes to a gift article. “First it was the British. Then the Christian missionaries. Then the Indian state they had never asked to be a part of. For centuries, the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent have struggled to preserve their culture against external forces. Now, Nagas are trying to […]
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Internet Archive Blog: IFLA Signs Statement Supporting Digital Rights of Memory Institutions. “…the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)—the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services—has signed the Statement on Four Digital Rights of Memory Institutions, joining more than 130 signatories from around the […]
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KQED: SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?. “The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ongoing legal challenges pose an existential threat to the organization.”
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Digital Preservation Coalition: Digital Preservation at the National Museum of Australia: Introducing the Changeable and Digital Team. “This month marks the first-year anniversary for the Changeable and Digital team at the National Museum of Australia (NMA). The team are now embedded in the Collections Platform Business Unit within the Growth and Engagement Division. Digital collections […]
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arXiv: Archiverse: an Approach for Immersive Cultural Heritage. “Visualization of material culture exemplified by archaeological sites and architecture can be particularly useful when only ruins or archaeological remains survive. However, these advancements also bring significant challenges, especially in the area of transdisciplinary cooperation between specialists from many, often distant, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/archiverse-an-approach-for-immersive-cultural-heritage-arxiv/
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Architectural Record: David Chipperfield’s River & Rowing Museum Will Close in September. “Citing financial pressures, the David Chipperfield–designed River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, announced earlier this month that it will permanently close its doors on September 21 and seek new homes for its roughly 35,000-item collections.”
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PIX 11: American Museum of Natural History offers free membership to SNAP beneficiaries. “A new museum membership level called Discoverer has launched for beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)…. The Discoverer membership includes general Museum admission as well as admission to one ticketed exhibition. Cardholders are also able to bring up to four guests on […]