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**  Asante King asks British Museum to return gold to Ghana
Ghana's government has set up a Restitution Committee to look at the return of items taken from the Asante Palace which are now in collections around the world.

**  National Museum of Asian Art Announces Major Gift of Japanese Lacquer Objects
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art announced a major gift of a collection of Japanese lacquer objects from the Avant family, known for their outstanding work in the arts, philanthropy and politics.

**  The monumental move of The Canadian Canoe Museum’s collection
Museum staff and volunteers are preparing over 600 watercraft as well as other artefacts for their 'final portage' to the museum's new home.

**  A Dutch Museum Has Organized a Rare Family Reunion for the Brueghel Art Dynasty 
Art lovers are invited to enjoy all the members of this Old Masters dynasty as they are reunited for a new survey spanning an incredible five generations at the Het Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands.
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**  What priceless museums could do for our education crisis
New Zealand’s museums and galleries have run educational programmes in their communities for years, operating independently of the school system while supporting teachers.

**  China’s Hidden Century review – how opium and Christianity demolished a civilisation
From Looty the stolen dog to the story of the last emperor, via glittering gowns and bloody rebellions, this British Museum show has a shock round every corner.
**  Fashion and photography | Bringing 19th-century China to life
Tasked with pulling out the human stories in the exhibition, the Nissen Richards Studio team came up with the idea of a collaboration with London College of Fashion students to design a series of bespoke costumes.
**  Get Reacquainted with Vienna’s Masterpieces via AI-Augmented Cats
In an effort to inspire the next generation of travellers to visit Austria’s beguiling cultural capital, the Vienna Tourism Board has launched a cheeky new marketing campaign called UnArtificial Art and is asking viewers to dig a bit deeper and rediscover some of the city’s most iconic masterpieces.
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**  Five Men Sentenced for Heist of Royal Jewels from a Dresden Museum
The group, which had previously committed a string of high-profile heists, broke into the palace’s Grünes Gewölbe, or Green Vault, in an audacious night-time heist in November 2019.
**  London’s Hunterian Museum reopens after 6 years
Named after the 18th century surgeon and anatomist, John Hunter (1728-1793), who amassed a collection of 14,000 natural specimens, the Hunterian was keen to portray a fuller story of Hunter’s career in this redevelopment.
**  Etching carnelian beads: understanding and reproducing an ancestral technique
To better understand the traditional process of etching carnelian beads, a placement student tested recipes and processes reported in ethnographic studies from the 1930s in the Department of Scientific Research of the British Museum
**  A predatory dinosaur from Brazil and its surprising anatomy
Irritator challengeri was a two-legged, meat-eating dinosaur, or more precisely - a spinosaurid.
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**  Eight-Year-Old Norwegian Girl Discovers Neolithic Dagger at School Playground
The almost five-inch-long object turned out to be a flint dagger dated to the Neolithic era, which began in the region around 2400 B.C.E., when humans started shifting from hunting and gathering to farming
**  Two Rembrandt portraits, overlooked for nearly 200 years, are unearthed
Two exceptionally rare Rembrandt portraits long forgotten by scholars of the Dutch master have been rediscovered after almost two centuries by a British auctioneer, who stumbled upon the works during a routine valuation of a family’s private art collection.
**  At the Barnes Foundation, the biggest art thieves can be smaller than your thumb
These fluttering prowlers, identifiable by their small, golden bodies and tufts of golden-reddish hair, feast on natural fibres, like wool and silk.
**  Greek PM seeks ‘innovative’ solution to decades-old Parthenon Sculpture dispute with British Museum
"We will never recognize that these sculptures are owned, legally owned by the British Museum".
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**  Archaeologists Uncover 400-Year-Old Skeleton in Sister Colony to Jamestown
The remains belong to a teenage boy buried at the historic city of St. Mary’s, Maryland’s first capital.
**  Who Is I. M. Pei? 10 Things to Know
What inspired the Chinese American architect to make some of the world’s most beautiful buildings?
**  A trove of Inuit art is preserved
A complex machine, developed in collaboration with Factum Arte, processes thousands of drawings from the Cape Dorset collection
**  Controversy over right-wing thinktank dinner at Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum has come under fire for hiring hosting a conference dinner for National Conservatism, a conference organised by a US-based right-wing thinktank that promotes climate denial and anti-immigration policies.
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**  Local History is National History: Collaborations in Action – Webinar
Thursday, June 15, 3:00 pm ET (60 min.)
**  Digital Museums Canada invests in 19 new online projects
Digital Museums Canada (DMC) announces its investment of more than $2 million in 19 new online projects, selected from the 2022 Call for Proposals. 
**  New open access book: St Peter-On-The-Wall: Landscape and heritage on the Essex coast
The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England.
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