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West Virginia, USA Legislature: Removing bona fide schools, public libraries, and museums from the list of exemptions from criminal liability relating to distribution and display to minor of obscene matter (www.wvlegislature.gov)

Bill status tracking link: https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4654&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill...

Imaginary museums: What mainstream museums can learn from them? Rachel Morris. (journals.openedition.org)

The world is full of museums that don’t exist fully in three dimensions – museums described in words or drawn on paper; museum catalogues; museums on the web. There are also many museums that are the creation of artists, novelists and poets, and so have a strong thread of imagination running through them. The latter cast an...

'A Historic Moment': The Netherlands Is Repatriating Nearly 500 Cultural Artifacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka | Artnet News (news.artnet.com)

The Netherlands announced a major repatriation of nearly 500 looted cultural objects dating to the colonial era.

National Museum of Denmark returns glorious 1600s feather cape to Brazil (www.thehistoryblog.com)

The National Museum of Denmark has donated its most exceptional 17th century Brazilian feather cape to the new National Museum of Brazil to help rebuild the museum’s patrimony after its entire ethnographic collection of 20 million irreplaceable artifacts was destroyed in a fire in 2018. Interestingly, the iconic scarlet ibis...

Harvard Art Museums Now Admission-Free (www.harvardmagazine.com)

The new policy includes all visitors, effective immediately.