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** Trump Outed on Lie That Renoir Painting Resides in Trump Tower

An impressionistic painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir that the president asserted resided in his apartment in Trump Tower actually hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago.

** Nepali pilot revives crashed plane as aviation museum

A Turkish Airlines plane that crash landed at Kathmandu airport two years ago will be welcoming ticket holders on board again -- not for a flight but as the Nepali capital's first aviation museum.

** Did Hobby Lobby Buy a Piece of the Bible Illegally Sold on eBay?

Sketchy doesn't even begin to describe the controversy surrounding artifacts in the new Museum of the Bible, which is backed by evangelicals investigated for illicit artifacts.

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** Museum safari: The myriad unknown species lost in dusty drawers

The rediscovery of Darwin’s long-lost beetle was a remarkable stroke of fortune, but the wider story – of a new species being found in a museum collection – is surprisingly common.

** Study Digs into Sexual Harassment During Fieldwork

A study based on interviews with 26 researchers in the physical, social, and life sciences who had done fieldwork, sought to determine the factors associated with harassment at fieldwork sites.

** Uncovering an Overlooked Source for Iconic Alabaster Statues

The team asked museums and galleries across Europe and in the United States if they could take samples from their alabaster artwork for chemical analysis.

** Native American Secrets Lie Buried in Huge Shell Mounds

While many of New England’s Native American artifacts have decomposed in acidic soils, those in middens are often well preserved, as the calcium carbonate in the shells creates more alkaline conditions.

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** Peer into the World of Framers, Fabricators, Conservators, and More

Anyone who visits a museum or gallery on install days can attest to the mass of crates and many multipurpose professionals ushering artworks into place.

** Cryptic letter taunts museum curator looking for missing masterpiece

A painting by famed 18th century Mexican artist Miguel Cabrera – long believed lost to history - may have been hanging in obscurity on the wall of a Los Angeles home for the last 60 years.

** How lead poisoning affected the Roman Empire

In the Roman world, lead was a valuable and abundant commodity with many uses that are described in ancient written sources and through the recovery of artefacts from archaeological sites.

** University of Wyoming museum's fossil collection is going digital

A Wyoming museum and library plan to make digital files of thousands of mammal fossils, hoping to increase access to the information for researchers and the public.

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** Japan oil artist back to 'frozen' Iran museum 40 years on

Forty years after his "oil pool" sculpture became the centrepiece of Tehran's first-ever modern art museum, its Japanese creator returned for its restoration Saturday to find a place "frozen in time”.

** Norman Rockwell’s Sons Sue Berkshire Museum, Seeking Halt to Sotheby’s Sale

Museum organizations, including the Association of Art Museum Directors and the Alliance of American Museums, have argued strongly against the sale.

** This Hip Hop Museum Is Finally Coming to the Bronx

Planned highlights include a recording studio, a virtual graffiti wall and dozens of photos and records highlighting the music genre’s growth.

** At the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

While her father lies on an operating table in Ankara, Aysegul Savas unravels eight thousand years of history.

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** Grammy museum pays homage to New Jersey musical legacy

Newark is joining Los Angeles, Nashville and Cleveland, Mississippi, as a host of a museum celebrating the Grammy music awards, a tip of the hat to the state’s rich musical legacy.

** Photographer Spends An Eternity Waiting For Museum Visitors To Match Artworks

The photographer enjoys visiting different museums mostly in Paris, Vienna and Berlin where he waits for visitors to suddenly match with a piece of art in a funny way.

** Bring Back The Mammoth

His de-extinction project aims to genetically introduce woolly mammoth traits—subcutaneous fat, thick hair, and haemoglobin adapted to the cold—into the genome of the Asian Elephant, which already shares 99.96 percent of woolly mammoth DNA.

** Building the V&A Dundee Museum of Design

In the decade from concept to concrete, Dundonians have watched waterfront landmarks flattened and cleared before construction eventually began in March 2015.

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** Behind Australia's Multi-Million Dollar Museum Boom

Australia is in the middle of a cultural boom; in 2017 alone, plans for museums, galleries or other arts spaces have been unveiled in all six of Australia's states.

** Call for Proposals: Digital Initiatives Symposium 2018

The Digital Initiatives Symposium at the University of San Diego

** The World Cycling Revival Seeks Museum Partners To Celebrate 200 Years Of The Bicycle

A new festival of cycling, its glamour and its history, will be taking place in June 2018

** Professionalising museum work in higher education: A Global Survey (P-MUS)

The consortium UMAC-ICTOP-AAMG-Universeum

** This Week's Horoscopes

Scorpio - An angel will appear to you in glory and foretell that you shall have happiness, peace, and the riches of the world, which would be better if he didn’t keep getting your name wrong

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