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** Billionaires have franchised the modern art museum

By the time the daylight has been filtered, security systems to guard the precious stock installed, and costly climate control systems fitted, they are expensively and immaculately bland.

** From The Blogs - Bardo Museum-Must-See

The Bardo is the second largest museum in Africa after the Egyptian Museum and follows the history of Tunisia over several millennia through the many people and civilizations who have lived on this land.

** Artist & Academic aims to hold US museum boards to account

Clocking in at nearly 950 pages, the document is “a physical manifestation of this sort of scale of the intersection between campaign finance and cultural patronage and governance”.

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** Should Art Be Insured Against Terrorism? The Industry Is Split

Whenever I negotiate a loan agreement of an object to a museum in another country for a client, I insist on terrorism insurance, and I do get it.

** Egyptian curators denied visas to attend ICOM conference in Wales

Three Egyptian curators who were invited to present research at an international museum conference in Swansea have been denied entry to the UK.

** Behind the scenes at a fundraising powerhouse

The amount of money flowing into Art Institute of Chicago raises the question: How does the museum do it? A little bit art, a little bit science and some alchemy.

** Brexit through the gift shop: Museum of European history divides critics

Some of the earliest critics were British tabloids and Ukip MEPs, who described the museum as a “house of horrors” and “an expensive, wrong-headed palace of propaganda”.

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** A Behind-the-Scenes Peek at the Smithsonian’s New Dinosaur Hall

This is the fun bit, when the hall starts coming to life—when long-imagined exhibits are finally constructed, and when the museum’s specimens come home to be reassembled.

** British Museum To Return Looted 5,000-year-old artefacts To Iraq

Eight 5,000-year-old artefacts looted from Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein will be returned after being identified by the British Museum. See also

** The U.S. Pizza Museum to Open in Chicago This Fall

Spoiler alert: no pizza will be served on-site, but the 3,000-square-foot space will reportedly explore the history of pizza-making in the U.S., as well as display paraphernalia like pizza-themed toys, menus, and clothing.

** Dot, the new Akron Art Museum chatbot, wants to get you talking about art and life

She's got dark-frame glasses and a pink pageboy hairdo, and she's been designed to spark conversations among museum visitors via texts on Facebook Messenger app.

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** In a Historic Building, Your Feet Might as Well Be Jackhammers

Museums want visitors, but many must also grapple with the vibrations they cause.

** With New Urgency, Museums Cultivate Curators of Colour

For decades the country’s mainstream art museums have excluded people of colour — from their top leadership to the curators who create shows to the artists they display on their walls.

** Easter Island seeks return of 'stolen' Moai statue from the British Museum

Easter Island’s indigenous community want the British Museum to return a unique Moai statue that was taken from them 150 years ago and given to Queen Victoria as a gift.

** What Happens When Artists Get Trolled, Doxed and Threatened for Their Work

Artists and art works that attract attention for their political message are frequent targets of alt-right trolls, whose out-of-proportion reactions to perceived transgressions often result in death threats, abuse and harassment.

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** Chengdu MoCA quashes rumours of demise but its problems are endemic in China’s art museums

The museum was considered a promising addition to the emerging Sichuan art scene when it was founded in 2011 by a state-owned investment company, but reports of its closure have circulated since 2015.

** Why MIT Has an Art Museum

People are surprised sometimes that there’s a contemporary museum at MIT because they associate MIT with physics and engineering.

** Archaeologist uses Burning Man to learn about humanity’s past settlements

The weeklong festival’s leave-no-trace ethos has not stopped archaeologist Carolyn White from studying the city as she would any other vanished civilization.

** Russian Authorities Order the Destruction of a Digital Artwork

In what may be the first recent case of Russian authorities ordering the destruction of a specific work of art, a St. Petersburg court is in the midst of hearing an appeal into the case of a work that shows the disintegration of a photo of President Vladimir Putin.

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** Ancient Romans treated this fish as a recreational drug

This small, inconspicuous fish, holds a nasty secret: its head is riddled with hallucinogenic substances which give people days of vivid, creepy, LSD-like hallucinations.

** Surrealism Now

Exhibition with more than 110 artists from 50 countries

** Two Free Museum Publications

Promoting open access to current research relevant to the museum field

** Symposium: Material Culture and the Holocaust

How do the things we leave behind tell the story of a life?

** This Week's Horoscopes

Scorpio - You’ll try to play both sides against each other for personal gain, proving again why you are the worst chess player ever

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