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Still pondering final presentation from #nccpp2020 yesterday. I kept asking myself "How is this relevant?" as I was watching.
It was like watching someone describe how they built a museum on Mars. 1/
It was like watching someone describe how they built a museum on Mars. 1/
"Yes! If you ALSO have infinite money at your disposal, you can build a safe haven in the middle of a landscape that wants to destroy you!"
That's what the Getty Center feels like. A museum that's just attempting to give a big middle finger to natural forces. #nccpp2020 2/
That's what the Getty Center feels like. A museum that's just attempting to give a big middle finger to natural forces. #nccpp2020 2/
So few cultural institutions have the resources the @GettyMuseum does. I think it would have behooved #NCCPP2020 to have a follow-up roundtable on "Which of these practices are practical for smaller institutions?" 3/
Of the 64 museum security incidents in the past year reported in the annual review of museum security issues during @ProtectMuseums #NCCPP2020, only two had political motivations. 
In one of these, involving damage to a museum near the Wisconsin statehouse during a BLM protest, it seems like the museum itself wasn't a target (the damage focused on the street front gift shop).
The other was Mwazulu Diyabanza's protest, attempting to remove an artifact from the Quai Branly Museum: nytimes.com/2020/09/21/art… Actually, he did this at two other museums in the last year, so the survey was undercounting: nltimes.nl/2020/09/11/act…
In May, a man broke into an Australian natural history museum at 1am and spent 40 minutes strolling around, taking a selfie with his head inside a dino skull, and stealing a staffer's cowboy hat off a coat rack. I should condemn museum heists, but, hey. Living his best life.
I learned about this in the annual review of museum security issues at @ProtectMuseums #NCCPP2020, led by Bob Combs, Director of Security and Visitor Services for the J. Paul Getty Trust. Thanks!
Another highlight - hackers hopped into the middle of an email exchange between a gallery and a museum about the purchase of a painting, persuading the museum to wire the purchase price of more than $3 million into a fraudulent account: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
