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**  New documentary about the Metropolitan Museum of Art asks good questions, but not enough tough ones
It feels like a bit of a palimpsest, with the residue of a simpler, more purely hagiographic film poking through now and then, despite an admirable focus on how the events of 2020 challenged the institution financially, culturally and intellectually.

**  How to Bring a Museum Back to Life
Head taxidermist Tim Bovard carefully vacuumed the massive ears of the African elephants and lovingly brushed dust off the prideful neck of a Sumatran tiger to ready them for their public debut.

**  Is It Time to Abolish Museums?
As I read Culture Strike, I found myself agreeing with Raicovich’s position on the various crises she discusses and yet frustrated by the analysis she extrapolates from these events.

**  French Heiress Ends Years-Long Legal Battle Over Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting
After a three-year-long negotiation period, French heiress Léone Meyer and the University of Oklahoma agreed in 2016 that the work would return to France, where it would be exhibited for five years, then rotate every three years between the university and a French institution.
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**  After warnings that a third of US museums could close, a survey indicates that just 15% are at significant risk
Despite poll researchers’ warnings last year that a third of US museums could shut down permanently by this autumn because of financial troubles related to the coronavirus pandemic, the picture has improved somewhat.

**  Te Papa's Surrealist Art exhibition unveils 'magical' immersive installation
Visitors will leave the exhibition with a unique delight - an immersive installation inspired by Rene Magritte's 1937 "Not to be reproduced", a provocative work featuring a man staring into a mirror that reflects the back of his own head.

**  Visiting the British Museum as a family
Whether it's your first visit or you're seasoned regulars, there's plenty for families to do at the British Museum and they've rounded up everything on offer onsite as well as their top picks for at-home fun.

**  Italian Art Restorers Used Bacteria to Clean Michelangelo Masterpiece
Over the centuries, stains and dirt have accumulated on the statue-lined mausoleum in the Florentine San Lorenzo complex’s Medici Chapels, leaving its once-spotless sarcophagi the worse for wear.
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**  Newark’s Quirks: Examining the Museum’s (& Sotheby’s) Art Sale Shenanigans
A better solution for monumental works that a museum can’t exhibit (especially those that have been publicly funded) would be collection-sharing with other public institutions.

**  When ISIS Made Off With A Magritte Nude (Which Made It Back Intact!)
In 2009, a pair of thieves got into the René Magritte Museum in the Brussels suburb of Jette, located in the artist’s former home, and stole Olympia, a reclining nude portrait of his wife.

**  There Is No Such Thing As Renaissance Philosophy
Perhaps one conclusion is that classifications like “the Renaissance” are not great mechanisms for understanding the world of ideas, or the historical world either.

**  The Prado Is Taking Its Art To The Streets
Exact replicas of masterpieces from the Prado museum, including paintings by Goya, El Greco, and Fra Angelico, have been installed behind tree branches, inside airport security stations, on the sides of buildings, and along wrought-iron fences.
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**  A New Report Shows Museums Had A Bad Year — But Not The Worst Possible
Of the 1,000 museum directors the AAM surveyed, three-quarters reported their operating incomes fell by an average of 40% in 2020, and half said their total staff size had decreased by an average of 29% compared with pre-pandemic levels.

**  Thai museum unveils ancient sandstone artefacts of Hindu deities Indra and Yama
1000-year-old sandstone artefacts of Hindu deities Indra and Yama finally returned to Thailand from the US after being stolen half-a century ago.

**  Colston statue to go on display a year after it was torn down
The statue will sit alongside a selection of placards from the Black Lives Matter protest that took place on the day it was pulled down, as well as a timeline of key events.

**  Hermitage Museum proposal divides Barcelona authorities
The exhibition draws on the British Museum’s vast trove of Roman artefacts, as well as items from collections in Italy, France, Germany and other countries, loaned despite pandemic-related restrictions.
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**  The scary truth about Velociraptors
The real Velociraptor had feathers all over its body, and even wings on its arms, made up of quill pen feathers lined up along the arm and hand.

**  Searching for Miss Bell: Archaeologist who drew Iraq's borders
Her greatest pride was the construction of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, a treasure trove of priceless items from some of the most ancient civilisations.

**  Archaeologists looking for ceramics stumbled upon priceless treasure trove instead
While stories of secret tunnels and deathbed confessions about gold trains, the amber room, and looted art make for exhilarating adventures, the treasure discovered 60 years ago today in the village of Skrwilna has a very real history.

**  London Zoo donates Giraffe House NHS sign to Museum of London
It was created by the zoo as a symbolic thank you to front-line NHS staff and was deliberately positioned to be in the direct line of sight of paramedics who were parking outside the locked-down zoo during their lunch breaks.
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**  Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap, 6-9 of September, Online
The CPEG meeting - Crossing the Palaeontological-Ecological Gap - is designed to bring palaeontologists and ecologists together to share ideas, data and methods in areas that are studied by both, but typically independently.

**  Colloquium on Medical Objects
We are very happy to introduce to you the latest catalogue of the Association of University Museums in Poland. It was published at the end of December 2020.

**  Oral History Society (UK) Annual Conference Oral History and the Media Online Conference
2021, on Oral History and the Media, will take place on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th July 2021 in an online format, and that bookings are now open.

**  Nature Filmmaker Accused Of Staging Scene Where Bird Uses Tiny Fork To Twirl Worm Up Like Spaghetti
Following the release of a documentary that tracks the Italian sparrow’s migration in never-before-seen detail, nature filmmaker David Leonne came under fire Wednesday for allegedly staging a scene in which a bird is seen using a tiny fork to twirl up a worm as if it were spaghetti.
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