- The first woman to start a bank, Maggie L. Walker, the daughter of a slave, gets a statue commemorating her in Richmond, Virginia. [via WAPO]
- A pop-up museum in Amsterdam is helping refugees work with their past. [via NY Times]
- The new Wikipedia podcast, Wikipedia Weekly #123, discusses WikiCite, Wikidata, and how Zotero is getting added to the mix! [via Wikipedia Weekly]
- Two great reasons to visit the Hirshhorn; hundreds of love notes to moms compliments of Yoko Ono, and a pop-up coffee and gelato truck! [via WUSA9]
- I am so jealous that Chicagoans can record voices for the Field Museum's dinosaurs and other specimen. [via Ad Week]
- New York mayor Bill de Blasio proposes that future funding for arts organizations and museums would be dependent on the diversity of their employees and boards. via [NY Times]
- A new study looking at the mobile behaviors of visitors in museums. [via Carnegie Studio]
- Saving one outdoor sculpture at a time with dry ice at the Smithsonian's Freer Sackler! [via WAPO]
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