Happy 2023 everyone! We hope you enjoyed the holiday season-and visited plenty of museums and heritage sites-and we wish you a brilliant start to 2023! Here is our reading list for the month of December 2022:
News
Development
Developing Anti-Racist Practice in Museums
News in Conservation, Issue 93, December-January 2023
Community
Western Sudan Community Museums Project
Ukraine
How museum workers are tracking cultural destruction during the war in Ukraine
ICOM launches the Emergency Red List of Cultural Objects at Risk – Ukraine
Decolonisation/Conflict/Looting/Illicit Trafficking/Repatriation
EU proposals to increase security and tackle serious crime
Egypt returns 176 recovered coin artefacts to Iraq, China, Saudi Arabia & Jordan
Police recover bulk of objects stolen in audacious £100m art heist from Dresden museum
and a few more
Climate change ‘main threat’ for world heritage sites
Heritage Could Help Add £2.7 Billion to Northern Economy
Why Wellcome closed its Medicine Man exhibition – and others should follow suit
Books
The Access Audit Handbook: An inclusive approach to auditing buildings
Landscape, Materiality and Heritage
Share with us which topic was most fascinating to you!
