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Claudia Urru
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Museum management | History |
Social & Climate Justice | Nature | Art | Psychology | Dachshunds | Sci-Fi
Dislikes : memes, reels & cat content
I work @ Zeeuws Museum
Opinions are my own |
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UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.
LATEST: At least 45 student visas across the state have been revoked by the Trump administration, California universities report, as numbers grow. A lawsuit has been filed in a Los Angeles federal court against DHS and Kristi Noem www.latimes.com/california/s...
Caught off-guard, California colleges scramble to determine scope of student visa cancellations
More universities are discovering that international student visas were cancelled last week, causing growing concern and confusion at UCLA and other California campuses.
www.latimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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The Temple of Flora — stunning 200-year-old botanical illustrations inspired by Erasmus Darwin's epic poem about the sexual reproduction of plants that scandalized Victorian England www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/07/t...
April 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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‘The absence of women in history is man-made’

Feminist March in Amsterdam

©️iAnnet #WomensDay #WomensDay2025 #InternationalWomensDay #feminismo #InternationaleVrouwendag
March 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The Blue Ghost has landed thus virtual museum on the moon. I would be interested in hearing opinions about this new phenomena. www.moonmars.com#about
MMM - Home
Welcome to the MoonMars Museum, a visionary fusion of art and space exploration.
www.moonmars.com
March 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
So we dont forget the suffering of the children in Gaza. Listen to the brave 8 year old narrator Banias sharing her life with us through her calls with producer Chana open.spotify.com/episode/2B7J...
849: The Narrator
This American Life · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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NIEUWS | Zeker twaalf pensioenfondsen beleggen in het uitsterven van bedreigde diersoorten. Het gaat om beleggingen in Chinese farmaceutische bedrijven die traditionele medicijnen maken van diersoorten als luipaarden en schubdieren. Lees verder: argos.vpro.nl/artikelen/ne...
March 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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How to grow up – Nick Cave's life-advice to a 13-year-old (which is excellent advice to the inner teenager we are all living with, whether we like it or not)
How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old
“Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world… Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being.”
www.themarginalian.org
February 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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What the fuck is going on with our national cultural institutions??

First Creative Australia and now the National Gallery betrays artists and their very raison d'etres with these utterly shameful acts of artistic censorship.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
With all the talk about Defense budgets being too low I was looking for data on profits in the arms industry. This article shows how the budgets are really spent and who profits from higher defense budgets. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/f...
watson.brown.edu
February 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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❓Have you booked into the *free* Visitor Research Forum on Friday 7 March at Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ??

👏 We have an awesome lot of speakers so don't miss out!

🏃‍➡️ Hurry and book here: www.tepapa.govt.nz/sites-screen...

#VRF2025 #museumeval #visitorstudies #GLAM
February 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley on the source of music's secret and singular power
Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
www.themarginalian.org
February 18, 2025 at 5:47 AM
AI 'brain decoder' can read a person's thoughts with just a quick brain scan and almost no training
February 18, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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FRANCE: Neo-Nazi attack Turkish Migrant Workers Cultural Association in Paris, one young member injured anfenglish.com/news/neo-naz...
Neo-Nazi attack Turkish Migrant Workers Cultural Association in Paris, one young member injured
The Turkish Migrant Workers Cultural Association (ACTIT), which operates under the Confederation of Oppressed Migrants in Europe (AVEG-KON) in Paris, was attacked by the French fascist neo-Nazi KOB...
anfenglish.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I’ve experience deep connection with strangers in even less time. Maybe the 8 minute boundary will make it easier to ask for help with feelings of loneliness and to offer it.
How The ‘8-Minute Rule’ Can Help Us Fight Loneliness—By A Psychologist
The “8-minute rule” is a simple yet powerful gesture that can prevent isolation in friendships, reminding us that even a brief check-in can make a world of difference.
www.forbes.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Can a museum be a space for protest? Can art stitched onto fabric carry the weight of societal frustration, hope, and resilience? At the Zeeuws Museum in the Netherlands, these questions were brought to life through the impactful project, Protest Procession Parade. www.museumnext.com/article/how-...
How the Zeeuws Museum Used Art to Amplify Voices of Fear, Anger, and Injustice
Can a museum be a space for protest? Can art stitched onto fabric carry the weight of societal frustration, hope, and resilience? At the Zeeuws...
www.museumnext.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Saddening news: important Dacia treasures stolen from Dutch museum after breaking in by using explosives. My sympathy goes out the the Museum of Boekarest and Drenths Museum drentsmuseum.nl/en/news/clos...
Archaeological masterpieces stolen from Drents Museum in Assen
In the night of 24 to 25 January 2025, several archaeological pieces were stolen from the Drents Museum. The museum is closed this weekend.
drentsmuseum.nl
January 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Poland’s first queer museum – and only the fifth of its kind in the world – has opened in Warsaw.
New Polish queer museum opens to packed crowds
The museum documents the history and culture of Poland’s LGBT+ community.
tvpworld.com
December 9, 2024 at 8:43 AM
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Today is Thanksgiving in the US, or National Day of Mourning or "Unthanksgiving Day" for some Native Americans. Wampanoag people shared food with pilgrims in 1621 but were repaid with centuries of genocide. Learn about Indigenous resistance in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com...
November 28, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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🎶 Does your museum have a playlist? The National Trust’s Colour the Mind used music to connect emotions with heritage, reaching 5.4M people! Explore how soundtracks can amplify storytelling.

youtu.be/QYrbym768fQ?...
DJ Pun1t talks identity, music and curating a personal playlist for the National Trust
YouTube video by National Trust
youtu.be
November 28, 2024 at 4:48 PM