Scientists Keep Finding Major Discoveries Lurking in Museum Backrooms.

To celebrate International Museum Day, here are some of our favorite recent discoveries that only emerged when the right person came along to make them,

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-keep-finding-major-discoveries-lurking-in-museum-backrooms #globalmuseum #museums #InternationalMuseumsDay

Lack of staff is biggest challenge facing museum directors this year.

Leadership survey finds stretched resources are leading to long-term decline in core collections activity.

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2026/05/lack-of-staff-is-biggest-challenge-facing-museum-directors-this-year/ #globalmuseum #museums

Lanarkshire tourism businesses raise their profile through Scotland’s flagship travel trade event

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/in-your-area/lanarkshire/lanarkshire-tourism-businesses-raise-profile-37171229

📚 Book review by Yaroslava Kutsai on Janice Baker’s Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency.

The review examines how museums and galleries represent — or fail to represent — the climate crisis, colonial histories, fossil-fuel dependency, and environmental injustice.

👉 Published in LSE Review of Books:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2025/01/23/book-review-museums-art-and-inclusion-in-a-climate-emergency-janice-baker/

#CULCORC #ClimateCrisis #Museums #EnvironmentalPolitics #BookReview

#CULCORC #ClimateCrisis #Museums #EnvironmentalPolitics #BookReview

Yale Sustainability: VIDEO: How Yale is Reducing Energy Use in Museums and Collections Spaces. “Museums and collection storage spaces are famously energy intensive. To preserve artifacts, they often rely on strict, round-the-clock setpoints for temperature, relative humidity, and light. Across large buildings and multiple collections, those standards come with a steep energy cost—putting […]

Aeroplane (PB0020/10), c1938

Aero club field day. Aeroplane
V.C. Browne & Son via DigitalNZ

http://api.digitalnz.org/records/1399277/source

#Museums #DigitalNZ

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🏛️🧱 Before #Rome became an empire that ruled on three continents, it was a small Italian city-state surrounded by a thriving yet often uncredited civilization known as the Etruscans.

These #ancient Italians were industrious artists and skilled engineers who built great roads, #bridges, and underground #water tunnels. They laid the foundation for present-day #architecture, engineering, and artistic achievements, establishing technologies like winemaking and hydraulic systems in Italy from around 900 to 100 BCE.

👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/who-were-the-etruscans

#history #animation #anthropology #archaeology #art #museums #books #culture #egypt #europe #inventions #italy #languages #mediterranian #mummy #statue #tksst #video