Double issue: EXPOTIME! July/August 2025
88 pages, 76 links, 1 video, 196 mentioned institutions
This issue was published Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
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Contents:
The editor's intro
3 Next step of the coup d'etat: Introducing censorship to the Land of the Free
A familiar term becomes vague
5-9 Karina Grömer: Hallstatt is much older. Austrian archaeologists discover
Neolithic traces of settlements of early farming communities
Preparing spectacular visits
10-13 Utz Anhalt: Ribe Viking Center: Living History at a historic location
Starting new relations
14-15 Lenka Marxova (CZ) talks to Benjamin Ouedraogo: Conservation by restitution.
Returning colonial collections to Burkina Faso
16-20 Museum News
38-40 Repair your Network!
70-73 Selected from discussion lists. This time: Cleaning of glass inside showcases
86 News from the dark side
New Museums
21-23 Michael Stanic: With Arab money. A commentary
24-29 Utz Anhalt: The new Natural History Museum Leipzig. Part 2: Future
30-31 Wolf Schiantir: The “monstrous carbuncle” has got a new entrace area
32-35 Michael Stanic: The upcoming SS United States Museum and Visitor Center
in Mobile AL will recall times when travel encountered nature and culture
and a great narrative as well
New exhibitions
41-42 Virginie Guichon; Manuelle Vignes: Paleobotanica - Aux racines du vivant
[PALEOBOTANICA - AT THE ROOTS OF LIFE]
43-44 Daniel Blau and team of Les Franciscaines: Bleu profond, les artistes et l'invention des fonds marins
45-47 Constanze Werner: The exhibition “100 Years of Werdenfels Museum:
Thousands of Objects and Even More Hi-stories”
49-50 Team of Buchheim Museum : Max Pechstein – Vision and Work
51-57 Team of National Gallery of Victoria International:
Kimono: the artistry and elegance of the iconic Japanese garment
58-59 Sarah Ditlinger : Indigo and the Art of Quiltmaking
New museum technologies
61-63 Katharina Hersel: The Digital Future of Mummy Research.
A High-Resolution 3D Twin of "Oetzi" and its Associated Finds
64-69 Jochen Kaeferhaus: Artificially created dust and mold, immense costs,
and damage to artworks and the environment. The consequences of improper air conditioning
in art museums, galleries, and depositories
Best practice in conservation
74-81 Branislav Schwarz; Paul-Bernhard Eipper: Closing the gap.
Materials and methods for treating gaping tears on canvas supports
The dark side
84-85 Team of EUROPOL: 80 arrests and more than 37 700 cultural goods
seized in major art trafficking bust
87 Contributors of the issue; imprint and contacts
