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** Why Isn’t Anyone Searching for Montreal’s Stolen Masterpieces?

As massive as their bounty was, it was nearly worse: the thieves left behind 15 additional paintings they had taken from the walls before they inadvertently tripped an alarm.

** Palace Museum pioneers work in keeping ancient civilizations alive

Over the course of five months, Curator Shan Jixiang has set foot in every one of the 9,000-plus rooms, wearing out 20 pairs of cloth shoes

** Director of Stedelijk resigns 'in interests of museum'

Dutch press reports say that her departure was prompted by a potential conflict of business interests, relating to Ruf’s own art advisory company.

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** Everything in This Museum Is Fake

Each forger featured in the museum learned their trade a different way—whether through schooling, self-teaching, or simply a desire to learn to paint.

** Head gardener who tried to remodel water lily glory is turfed out

With its limpid pools of dreamy water lilies, its brightly coloured flowerbeds and its Japanese-inspired bridge, Claude Monet's garden at Giverny has for more than a century been regarded as a high temple of French art.

** Study reshapes understanding of climate change's impact on early societies

A new study linking paleoclimatology -- the reconstruction of past global climates -- with historical analysis shows a link between environmental stress and its impact on the economy, political stability, and war-fighting capacity of ancient Egypt.

** Town realizes it had a multi-million dollar Rodin bust

The art world lost track of acclaimed sculptor Auguste Rodin's bust of Napoleon in the 1930s, but it's apparently been on display for the past 85 years in the most unlikely of places — the council chambers in Madison Borough Hall.

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** How Can Contemporary Art Be More Inclusive of Native Voices?

A familiar rebuke for lack of representation of Native artists and art professionals in the field is a perceived lack of availability, or a lack of familiarity with who those players are

** The world of espionage featured in this new New York museum

Visitors can hear lots of real-life spy stories from the Enigma code-breakers to the teenager who hacked the CIA’s website, all told through immersive multi-media and a range of rare, historical artefacts, many of which will be on display for the first time.

** Why a Local Museum Keeps Burying Whales Under Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh has become the unlikely—if only temporary—resting place of dozens of marine mammals over the last century, although the exact number is unknown.

** New Museum Devoted to Albert Einstein Will Open in Jerusalem

The Hebrew University in Jerusalem has announced the creation of a museum dedicated to Albert Einstein, which will be established in the university’s abandoned planetarium building.

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** Gynaecology museum's 4,500 items tell an interesting and odd medical tale

The museum's collection tells a story that's as much political as it is scientific; it's fascinating, horrifying and hopeful all at once.

** Last Concorde goes on show at new Aerospace Bristol museum

Supersonic plane, known as Alpha Foxtrot, is the star attraction at £19m museum that showcases Bristol’s aviation achievements.

** Art Historian Says ‘Allah’ Does Not Appear on Ancient Viking Garment

Islamic art historians and archaeologists are calling into question a Swedish medieval textile expert’s claim that the word “Allah” has been found on a 10th century Viking funeral garment discovered in Sweden.

** Santa Rosa museum honouring ‘Peanuts’ cartoonist Charles Schulz safe for now

The museum honouring legendary “Peanuts” cartoonist Charles M. Schulz remains safe from the wildfires consuming Wine Country.

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** Printing the Past: 3D Printed Artifact Replicas Aid in Research, Education

If you own a 3D printer, or can access one through a school, local library or 3D printing service bureau, then you can 3D print a replica of George Washington’s false teeth.

** Chinese museum yanks racist exhibit

A Chinese museum was forced to yank an exhibit comparing Africans to animals — when critics pointed out how “astonishingly offensive” it was.

** Art Museum reviews thousands of works for removal from collection

The St. Louis Art Museum has removed more than 1,000 pieces from its collection since 2014, and another 1,000 are slated for review as the museum takes steps to improve and diversify its inventory.

** Unusual Museums - The Lee Maxwell Washing Machine Museum

In 2000, Lee Maxwell was awarded the Guinness World Record for world’s largest washing machine collection and stores most of it on his farm in a 20,000-square-foot building decorated to look like an antique laundromat.

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** Rice so nice it was domesticated thrice

Rice is unique among wild plants for having been domesticated independently on three continents: Asia, Africa, and now South America.

** NEXTGEN 2018

Online: March 5-10, 2018

** Second Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference

4-6 June 2018

** International Course on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture

October 14–November 9, 2018

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