Some time ago, MAA alumnus Jesse Dart sent in this article from by Phillip Rothstein on the concept of “cultural property” and the way it has changed in significance since it was introduced by UNESCO in 1954. Although the article is mainly focused on the impact of the concept on archaeology, there is a lot [...]
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Here is a press release regarding a new exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Yinalung Yenu: women’s journey
An exhibition celebrating Australian Indigenous women
Discover Indigenous women’s contribution to the Australian community through a new exhibition – Yinalung Yenu: women’s journey – opening at the Powerhouse Museum on 21 March.
Yinalung Yenu: women’s journey will take visitors on a [...]
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There is an interesting exhibition at Macleay Museum of Sydney University called ‘People, power and politics: the first generation of anthropologists at the University of Sydney’. The exhibition explores the history of anthropological study of Aboriginal people in Australia; and the methods used and the research done by the first anthropologists from 1923 to 1947. [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I posted about the Chinese terracotta warriors on display at the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology in Germany. Now here’s another interesting case of cultural heritage, authenticity, and profit sharing: the CBC and the BBC are both reporting that the Egyptian government is considering copyrighting pharaonic antiquities, “from the pyramids to [...]
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Reuters reports on Chinese claims that the supposedly ancient statues currently on display in the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology are fake. Some 7,000 life-size “terracotta warriors” from the reign of Qin Shihuangdi, China’s first emperor, were found in a necropolis in the 1970s and are amongst China’s most famous archaeological relics. [...]
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Hallelujah! The Creation Museum has just opened its doors this week in Kentucky, U.S.A, with 4,000 visitors the first day. Armed guards dressed in black with attack dogs patrolled the grounds, presumably to deter the handful of atheist protestors who showed up from thinking they could get away with sabotage. Inside, animatronic, [...]
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A place that is doing very interesting work on Australia’s migration history is the Migration Heritage Centre operating out of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. I haven’tvisited the physical exhibitions but they are providing an enormous amount of beautifully constructed online exhibitions. Recent content includes the following:
BELONGINGS: POST-WORLD WAR 2 MIGRATION MEMORIES AND [...]
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Partnership forged to expand a UBC museum is a study in human creativity
ALEXANDRA GILL
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060606.BCMUSEUM06/TPStory/Education
VANCOUVER — Anthropology is commonly perceived as the dusty exploration of past cultures and extinct peoples. A huge renewal project at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology proves that notion dead wrong.
The Partnership of Peoples, a [...]
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In brief
