A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Remembering MARTY FELDMAN - who left us 43yrs ago today, aged just 48 - here with John Cleese in the wonderful Bookshop sketch for ‘At Last The 1948 Show’ in 1967.
@TheMonologist #globalmuseum #humour #humor

How are museums faring as 2025 comes to an end?

Canceled grants, a chill on philanthropy and soft attendance roiled museums across the country this year. And leaders are readying for an even tougher 2026.

NPR’s Andrew Limbong reports.👇

🎧 https://traffic.megaphone.fm/BUR3103329140.mp3 #globalmuseum #museums #podcast

Almost 530 museums have closed since 2000, study finds.
Research project shows that first decade after opening is the most precarious for museums

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2025/12/almost-530-museums-have-closed-since-2000-study-finds/# #globalmuseum #museums

Good vibrations: Terms of Bayeux Tapestry loan arrangement revealed.

Government publishes full copy of agreement signed by Britain and France in July.

Technical experts must find a way to reduce travel vibrations to “less than two millimetres per second” during the Bayeux Tapestry’s journey to London next year, according to the terms of the loan agreement between Britain and France

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2025/12/good-vibrations-terms-of-bayeux-tapestry-loan-arrangement-revealed/ #globalmuseum #museums

Remembering MARTY FELDMAN - who left us 43yrs ago today, aged just 48 - here with John Cleese in the wonderful Bookshop sketch for ‘At Last The 1948 Show’ in 1967.
@TheMonologist #globalmuseum #humour #humor

The Farnese Hercules was unearthed in Rome in 1546 without its legs and Guglielmo della Porta sculpted replacements so impressive the owners kept them.

The real ancient legs, found soon after, stayed in the Borghese Gallery for 200 years before being reattached in 1787.
@xmuse_ #globalmuseum #art #sculpture

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Webinar on Historic House Climate Control.
New England Museum Association Webinar.
Don’t Touch the Thermostat!: Temperature and Climate Control for Historic Buildings and Collections
December 4, 2025, 1:00 p.m. (AZ)

https://nemanet.org/event/ecop_dec25 #globalmuseum #webinar #Climatecontrol

How are ideas about Roman and Iron Age pasts relevant to people in contemporary Britain?
Ancient Identities in Britain.
Exploring heritage in the making.
UCL Press.
Richard Hingley, Kate Sharpe and Tom Yarrow
Free download: https://bit.ly/46a4FGK #globalmuseum #heritage #books

The female blanket #octopus unfurls a long cape when threatened to intimidate predators, and will tear tentacles off the poisonous Portuguese man-of-war to use as weapons.
📽: Joseph Elayani #globalmuseum

Tea time with a twist! This Davenport rococo revival teapot (1830–37) surprises with its asymmetric form, twig handles, oak branches, acorns & leaves, a rare, playful rebel among the factory’s mostly conventional 19th-century ceramics.
@V_and_A #globalmuseum #museums #teapots #ceramics #rococorevival

New Sculpture Journal Special Issue – Monuments in Conversation: Westminster Abbey in the Long Eighteenth Century.
Liverpool University Press.
Read the Q&A and browse this new issue online 👇
https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/12/01/monuments-in-conversation-inside-the-westminster-abbey-special-issue-of-sculpture-journal/ #globalmuseum #sculpture #journals

Exploring practical #AI use cases: upcoming peer showcase on conversational insight.
Cultural institutions & commercial attractions will be discussing their early experiences and how they're applying this type of AI to support forecasting and operational planning, visitor experience and organisational workflows.
Thursday, December 4 (4 PM ET / 1 PM PT)
https://dexibit.com/ask-showcase/ #globalmuseum #museums