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** Oldest Brazilian fossil recovered after massive fire at museum

A skull called Luzia, one of the oldest fossils ever found in the Americas, was discovered amid debris following a massive fire at Brazil’s National Museum on Sept. 2.

** Mismanagement, and a Scientology Scandal, Blamed in Munich Museum Chief’s Ouster

An in-house scandal in 2017 revealed that the museum was under surveillance by the intelligence services for harbouring Scientologists in its ranks might have seemed bizarre to outsiders.

** Met and Brooklyn Museums Will Not Use Saudi Money for Programs on the Middle East

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum said on Thursday that they would not use Saudi money for programs on Middle Eastern art that had originally been supported by groups tied to the Saudi government.

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** Bible Museum’s Dead Sea Scrolls Turn Out to Be Forgeries

The controversial museum created by the Hobby Lobby family announced that a third-party test of their fragments had been completed and—shocker—they’re fake.

** Swiss glaciers surrender secrets of the past

Neolithic wooden bows, quartz arrowheads and a prayer book: as Alpine glaciers melt and retreat, well preserved archaeological treasures and human remains are surfacing and a new exhibition presents some of the rare finds.

** A pity to throw it away: insurer stores damaged art in Germany

Up to 300 of them - scratched, torn or punctured works by well-known artists including Gerhard Richter, Christo and Giorgio de Chirico - are stored in an AXA warehouse near the western German city of Cologne.

** Who is Banksy? The suspects linked to the art world’s biggest mystery

Banksy’s street art first appeared in Bristol, where Robert Del Naja hails from, his career beginning as a freehand graffiti artist with the DryBreadZ Crew before he joined The Wild Bunch in the early 1990s.

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** Easter Islanders hope to swap a copy for iconic statue in UK museum

Carved by Polynesian colonizers somewhere between the 13th and 16th centuries, each of the big-headed figures was considered to represent tribal leaders or deified ancestors.

** Canadian Doctors Will Soon Be Able to Prescribe Museum Visits as Treatment

The MdFC vice president explains that museum visits have been shown to increase levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter colloquially known as the “happy chemical” due to its mood-boosting properties.

** V&A to stage UK’s largest ever Christian Dior exhibition

A V&A exhibition celebrating the life and work of the fashion designer Christian Dior is expected to be the largest retrospective on the French fashion house ever staged in the UK when it opens next year.

** Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners

The partnership with the Anglo-Dutch firm has made the London art gallery the target of protests over the years, including Greenpeace dropping a banner off the building’s roof and activists gate-crashing the launch of a flagship Rembrandt exhibition.

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** Italy’s Oldest Instrument Hints at Sounds of Prehistoric Rome

Twelve years later, the enigma appears to have been solved: Dr. Carboni says he believes that the ceramic object, an artifact of the Gaudo culture, a Neolithic society primarily from the region of Campania, is a musical instrument.

** Oops, the Oldest Fossils Ever Found Might Be Just Rocks

A set of cone-like formations in Greenland was said to be the work of 3.7-billion-year-old bacteria, but another team maintains it’s really not.

** A journey through the Islamic world in eight objects

To celebrate the British Museum opening of the new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic world, curators of the gallery take a look at eight highlight objects from the collection.

** Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms – Barbaric Splendour And Fierce Vision

With the Codex Amiatinus, the earliest surviving text of Beowulf and serpents galore, this blockbuster exhibition reveals a Britain not very English at all.

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** Taste Your Way Through Italy, One Ingredient-Specific Museum at a Time

The Emilia Romagna region has 25 food museums, each dedicated to a beloved food item – ranging from balsamic vinegar to Parmesan cheese.

** 'Story of Wales': history museum's six-year revamp completed

St Fagans National Museum of History, Wales’ largest and most beloved heritage attraction, is celebrating the completion of a spectacular £30m, six-year transformation that has added features and revitalised old favourites.

** A New Look At An Old New York Diorama

New label copy describes the history of the Lenni-Lenape and includes a quote from a contemporary Lenape elder, in addition to offering a snapshot of where the Lenape, who were driven from their ancestral homeland, live today.

** Georadar detects a Viking ship in Norway

Archaeologists armed with a motorized high resolution georadar have found a Viking ship and a large number of burial mounds and longhouses in Østfold County in Norway.

** 10 Best Museums in Bangkok

From traditional Thai homes preserved in time to sprawling national museums, and contemporary galleries, Bangkok has an option for every kind of art lover.

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** Displaying Music in the 21st Century

CIMCIM - the ICOM International Committee of Music Museums - is preparing a book proposal to continue the ICOM/Routledge series ‘Advances in Museum Research’

** Museums Climate Change Video Series

A new video series, Taking Action on Climate Change, has been created by the Alberta Museums Association, the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice and Shadow Light Productions

** AAMG 2019 CFP: The Politics and Economics of the Academic Museum

The academic art museum is a unique institution that frames the intersection of artistic production, collecting practices, exhibition programs, education, and public life

** This Week's Horoscopes

Libra - You go down in history as the world’s lousiest criminal when you attempt to escape from police into the pages of a great romance novel

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