Double issue: EXPOTIME! March-April 2026
110 pages, 105 links, 1 video
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Cover: How does not know him? Albrecht Dürer: European Hare (in English mostly, but wrong, titled: Young Hare, 1502. 25 × 22.5 cm, watercolour and gouache, brush, heightened with white. The original is preserved at the Albertina, Vienna, which was founded 250 years ago. Congratulations! See pp. 35-37
Contents:
The editor’s intro
3 Important Global Security Survey Ends April 30
Preparing spectacular visits
6-11 Utz Anhalt
A City in nature ‒ Singapore’s botanical parks
Museum marketing
12-15 Christian Mueller-Straten
As your museum is not the Louvre: Why museums should refrain from the assertion to be a „museum for all“
Starting new relations
16-17 Tilman Wörtz
The Museum of the University of Tübingen returns ‘Pou of Hinematioro’ to the Māori community
18-19 Team of Bavarian State Painting Collections
Restitution of the Painting “Interior with Children (The Siblings)” by Lesser Ury to the Heirs of Curt Goldschmidt
News
20-25 Museum news
26 Michael Stanic
Is a damp museum being built here right from the start? A commentary on the strange water damage at the unfinished „Berlin Modern“ building
70-74 Repair your network
75-83 From eMail discussion lists: Cultural Heritage Destruction in Iran
106f News from the dark side
Science news
58 Ulrich Meyer
roof for theory of visual perception
59 Philomena Konstantinidis
A piece of Africa in Europe? New insights into plate tectonics of the Balkans
60 Sebastian Hollstein
Exceptionally Well-Preserved Ant in Goethe’s Amber
61 Christfried Dornis
Earliest evidence of wooden tools used by humans
62-63 Oliver Dietrich
7000-year-old deer antler headdress from Eilsleben illustrates contact between hunter-gatherers and early farmers
63-64 Ulrika Lundin
Six newly discovered Bronze Age mines in Spain may explain the origin of Scandinavian bronze
64-65 Johanna Knop
Breathing in the past: how museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life
66 Marietta Fuhrmann-Koch
Sources on the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe
67-68 Rainer Krauß
Hof University of Applied Sciences digitizes historic stage designs of Richard Wagner in 3D
68 Andrea Daschner
Marine heatwaves and coral bleaching: Why some reefs recover faster than others
New exhibitions
28-29 Team of the Getty Villa
The Egyptian Book of the Dead. A remade exhibition
30-34 Team of Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Canaletto & Bellotto
35-37 Team of Albertina, Vienna
250 Years of the Albertina
38-40 Team of Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
FAKE! Early Photo Collages and Photomontages from the Rijksmuseum Collection
41-43 Team of Architekturzentrum Wien
Global – Neutral. Architecture from Austria in Africa and Asia 1955–1989
44-47 Team of Museo de Cádiz and Museo Picasso Málaga
Reflections. Picasso X Barceló: The Ceramic Dialogue Between Two Geniuses
47-50 Team of Städel, Frankfurt/M.
Monet on the Normandy Coast. The Discovery of Étretat
51-55 Barbara Plankensteiner
Cats! Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg
Conservation
84-92 Silvia Skokanová, Ivana Miháliková, Paul-Bernhard Eipper
Looking good after centuries: Conservation of the Portraits of Ferdinand II and Maria Anna of Bavaria
93-99 Irem Güler
Oil paintings on canvas: Deterioration types and its standard conservation and restoration
The dark side
100 Christian Mueller-Straten
Global Warning: Targeted thefts of East Asian ceramics
101ff Zofia Pogoda
False Antiquity: How sciences exposes museum objects. A case study of a mingqi figurine
108 Letters to the editor
109 Contributors and Imprint
