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** Met Museum Sets Record With 7.35 Million Visitors in a Year

Due in part to the blockbuster exhibition on Michelangelo’s drawings, and despite a new mandatory admission fee for non-New Yorkers effective in March, the Metropolitan Museum of Art set yet another attendance record for the fiscal year.

** Long Hidden From View, Longest Painting in North America Returns To Museum

On July 14, an artwork equal in length to 14 blue whales placed in a line will go on display in its entirety for the first time in more than half a century.

** Why Are Artists Poor? Research Suggests It Could Be Hardwired Into Their Brain Chemistry

The research team watched for activity in the parts of the brain that produce dopamine—the chemical that delivers rushes of excitement often associated with sex, drugs, and gambling—when groups of both artists and non-artists were presented with offers of free cash.

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** Ancient find may be earliest extract of epic Homer poem Odyssey

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tablet engraved with 13 verses of the Odyssey in the ancient city of Olympia, southern Greece, in what could be the earliest record of the epic poem.

** Nearly 1,000 paintings and drawings by Vincent van Gogh now digitized and put online

The digitized collection showcases a vast amount of Van Gogh’s work—including not only landscapes, but also his many portraits, self-portraits, drawings, city scenes, and still-lifes

** LACMA Is Hosting the Country’s First-Ever Show Dedicated to 3-D Art

The exhibition traces the lineage of 3-D imagery—from its 19th century inception to the World War II-era View-Master to its Hollywood heyday in the ’50s and beyond—through more than 60 photographs, videos, and holographic sculptures.

** Bayeux Tapestry loan To UK set for 2022

The deal includes an agreement to translate the tapestry into English for the first time, and to digitise the artefact with the help of British and French universities.

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** Franciscan museum in Jerusalem shows life in Jesus' time

The Terra Sancta Museum's new wing, built into the ruined remains of Crusader and Mamluk buildings along the Via Dolorosa in the Old City, showcases objects discovered in excavations at biblical sites over the past century.

** New James Bond museum to open in Austria

The Austrian museum, located where much of the latest Bond movie - Spectre - was filmed, seeks to provide both a cinematic Bond experience and break down the magic and show how the films are made.

** This Museum Tries to Make Death Seem Less Frightening

The reason the museum kind of started was the lack of education of death in our society, the taboo nature, and the inquisitiveness of it.

** The Lost Dogs of the Americas

Before Europeans began to colonize the Americas about 500 years ago, the land, north and south, was populated with people who had been here for thousands of years; and their dogs.

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** Museum of the Year: Tate St Ives wins £100,000 prize

A "breathtakingly beautiful" £20m extension to Cornwall's Tate St Ives gallery has earned it the prestigious award for Museum of the Year.

** Arsenic-Laced Books Discovered in University Library

Researchers were struggling to make sense of medieval manuscript fragments detected within the covers of three tomes dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries when they made a deadly discovery—poison, lurking in the guise of an emerald green pigment.

** A Museum’s Treasured Tradition of Identifying Fossils for the Public

The American Museum of Natural History in New York began hosting annual identification days in 1979, inviting the general public to unwrap their most intriguing or befuddling fossils, rocks, feathers, and more for an assessment.

** Unpacking 263,000 visitor photos at the Royal Ontario Museum

Museums need to stop forcing people down a path of engagement that they assume people will follow, and start reacting to what people actually do in their spaces.

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** Finally, a mobile guide that makes pulling your phone out in a museum worth it

When you hold your phone up to a piece of art in the museum, the program will scan the work and begin playing a video with the artist talking specifically about that work; it’s not an app and works with computer vision and connectivity technology.

** New national museum explores human psychology

Wonder Woman’s striking visage on large, bright screens just inside the new National Museum of Psychology tells visitors there’s more here than dusty books and esoteric curiosities.

** IRS Deems Transfer of Artwork to Museum a Completed Gift

The donor and her spouse, who owned a collection of artwork, entered into deeds of transfer as Agreements with two museums located in a foreign countries.

** Frick's fourth expansion plan gets green light

But the preservationist group Stop Irresponsible Frick Development has protested the project, saying "the public has not been given a fair opportunity to provide feedback".

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** The Gloriously Inappropriate Restoration of a 16th-Century Wooden Icon

The polychrome statue now has the rosy glow of a Pixar character, with arching eyebrows in a near-constant state of surprise.

** Asteroid: Mission Extreme 3D

The Hong Kong Space Museum's new 3D dome show

** Call for Papers for the Panel: European Cultural Heritage – Celebrating Diversity

Part of 8th Euroacademia International Conference

** Promoting your Museum: Make it relevant and attractive

This will be the topic of the next workshop organised by the ICOM International Training Centre (ICOM-ITC)

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