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25.01.2022 Coming soon!! https://www.amaga.org.au/cultural-capability-training-progr

23.01.2022 "Thieves forced their way into Dresden’s Gruenes Gewoelbe, or Green Vault museum, in November last year and got away with at least three sets of early 18th-century jewellery, some set with diamonds and rubies, in what German media described as the biggest art heist in modern history." https://www.aljazeera.com//three-arrested-over-spectacular

22.01.2022 Some lovely case studies from the US about keeping your museum volunteers engaged and involved. We love our volunteers - you are the heart of our association, and indeed our entire sector https://www.aam-us.org//giving-back-three-model-practices/

21.01.2022 From an ancient Egyptian prosthetic to 19th-century artworks through to a modern badge, here’s a small selection of British Museum objects that have been researched by volunteers and staff recently as part of a wider project to uncover histories of disability in the collection. https://blog.britishmuseum.org/disability-and-the-british-/

19.01.2022 tl/dr 1. Community knowledge is a powerful force 2. Science communication can enhance the integration of science with other beliefs 3. Pursue and debate science for the public good

19.01.2022 AMaGA recognises and supports #TransAwarenessWeek (November 13-19) and the international Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20) which commemorates trans lives lost to violence. As cultural workers, a major aspect of our work is educating and interacting with our communities. As teachers, how can we support trans students? And what can researchers do to respect trans colleagues?... 1. Educate ourselves 2. Educate others 3. Take care https://theconversation.com/supporting-trans-people-3-simpl

19.01.2022 In September, a couple out for a stroll in the eastern French Alsace region, came across a tiny aluminium capsule in a field.

18.01.2022 By the 16th century, European painters had become masterful at crafting illusions of perspective, giving viewers an impression of lifelike, three-dimensional depth on flat surfaces. Building on this well of Renaissance knowledge, a small handful of artists began pushing linear perspective further still, crafting works that required the viewer to occupy a single vantage point or series of vantage points in order to be fully understood. Today, this sort of visual illusion, ...known as anamorphosis, is responsible for viral internet phenomena such as the 3D street paintings of the Rome-based artist Kurt Wenner. At its inception, however, the technique was used to both provocative and whimsical effect, often adding subversive new meanings to works once revealed. In this short film, the celebrated US animation team Stephen and Timothy Quay, better known as ‘the Brothers Quay’, evoke a dark fairytale with their exploration of the technique, which combines stop-motion puppetry with some notable examples of anamorphosis from the 16th and 17th centuries. https://aeon.co//the-renaissance-art-illusion-that-proved-

18.01.2022 The Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation project ‘Make history at home’, is a free ‘how to do your own history’ series presented by historians Dr Susan Marsden and Sandra Kearney. They currently present 7 sessions: 1. Start with yourself...Continue reading

13.01.2022 Which collection item in your museum do you think should be preserved for millennia in the Arctic? https://www.smithsonianmag.com//norway-national-museum-bu/

12.01.2022 The discoveries were made using light detection and ranging technology that mapped the landscape and penetrated vegetation to reveal features that are invisible to the naked eye. The scans uncovered a 115-metre extension of the previously found fish trap complex, and groups of huts hidden beneath the scrub. https://www.theage.com.au//more-ancient-wonders-revealed-a

11.01.2022 And we're open for applications! https://www.amaga.org.au/cultural-capability-training-progr You are eligible for free online cultural capability training if: You are from a volunteer-run organisation... You are a volunteer in a regional or community museum or gallery* You are a consultant who works primarily with community museums and galleries You are Indigenous You may be eligible if: You work in Local Government cultural services and do not have access to cultural capability training You are a student in a relevant field of study where the university does not offer cultural capability training * A community museum or gallery can be regional, remote or metropolitan Note You do not need to be an individual AMaGA member or work for an organisational member of AMaGA to apply, however members will be given priority placement. Murrimatters AIATSIS

10.01.2022 The Voyager 2 spacecraft has been gone from Earth for more than 43 years, and it now lies 125 astronomical units from our planet. That is 125 times the distance between the Earth and Sun. Voyager 2 has dipped so far south of the plane of the Solar System, it can now only communicate by line of sight with the 70m-wide antenna in Canberra (DSS43). Because this facility is nearly 50 years old, it needed to undergo some refurbishment, which began in March. NASA has been unable to... send signals to Voyager 2 since that time. Last week some key equipment was installed and tested, including sending a call to Voyager 2. Voyager 2 returned a signal confirming it had received the call and executed the commands without issue. Everything is looking good for DSS43 to be back online in February. More info: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=121 https://www.nasa.gov//nasa-contacts-voyager-2-using-upgrad

09.01.2022 AMaGA National Director, Alex Marsden, will be addressing the Senate inquiry into Nationhood, National Identity and Democracy at Australian Parliament House today. You can tune in to the 11.15-12.15 session by clicking below and selecting: Senate, Legal & Constitutional Affairs References Committee (Nationhood, national identity and democracy) The House of Reps Standing Committee, Communications and the Arts is also discussing the Australia’s creative and cultural industries... and institutions inquiry today. https://www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Events/Watch_Parliament

08.01.2022 National NAIDOC Week is being celebrated this week. Keep an eye out for an exciting Roadmap training announcement coming soon! Maybe remind yourself of AMaGA's #AboriginalLivesMatter statement (www.amaga.org.au//amaga-supports-blacklivesmatter-and-abor) or revisit some of the incredible part conference presentations, particularly from Alice Springs last year (www.amaga.org.au/amaga2019-alice-springs-mparntwe). Don't forget to have a copy of the Indigenous Roadmap easily av...ailable at all times (www.amaga-indigenous.org.au/ Check out what is happening for #NAIDOC2020 in your area here: https://www.naidoc.org.au/

08.01.2022 AMaGA supports the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material - AICCM statement on the felling of the Djab Wurrung ‘Directions’ Tree in Victoria. We extend our sympathy to the Djab Wurrung people, for whom this is a devastating loss. https://aiccm.org.au/advocacy/submissions-and-statements/

04.01.2022 A long period of relative peace, prosperity, and globalisation after the Cold War had lulled the museum field into complacency not only about its financial viability, but also about its relevance and credibility. The Covid-19 crisiswhich coincided with a painful reckoning with the intertwined legacies of colonialism and racial injusticehas accelerated a push to adapt and innovate, in six principal ways. TL/DR 1. establishing a new connection with the audience 2. to come up ...with a new definition of the museum, one that goes beyond the custodianship of objects to position it as an institution committed to serving communities and addressing social needs 3. confront entrenched economic and racial inequities 4. reframe their missions and redress prior wrongs 5. explore new business models such as developing lucrative collaborations with major commercial brands 6. rethinking institutional posture and attitude. Museums, some directors warned, need to stop being so high-minded and let go of this obnoxious attitude that they are an authority on all things. As one director put it, we need to get off of our own pedestals. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/future-of-museums

04.01.2022 Did you participate in the last two surveys throughout 2020? Even if you didn't, we invite you to complete our third and final survey on the impact of Covid on Australian museums and galleries as well as how cultural workers are coping under extreme and compounding crises.

03.01.2022 If you are in need of a good podcast this weekend: "Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today those objects are housed in genteel institutions across the UK and the world. They usually come with polite plaques. This is a series about the not-so-polite history behind those objects. Each episode award-winning journalist, author and genetic-potluck Marc Fennell picks one artifact and takes you on the wild, evocative, sometimes funny, often tragic adven...ture of how it got to where it is today." https://www.abc.net.au/radionati//stuff-the-british-stole/

01.01.2022 "Now, as the world confronts another widespread outbreak, a team of historians and scientists from six European countries is seeking to identify and categorize the most common scents of daily life across Europe from the 16th century to the early 20th century, and to study what changes in scents over time reveal about society... The three-year project, which is funded by the European Union, will also include a guide for how museums can use smells in exhibits. The use of smells in exhibits could also make museums more accessible for people who are blind or who have limited sight, historians said."