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** Berliners wary as €600m super-museum is latest project to overrun

The opening of a €600m super-museum in Berlin has been postponed to next year, raising sceptical eyebrows among locals wary of the German capital’s growing tendency to deliver large public building projects late and over budget.

** Cairo's 'mother of Egyptian museums' set for revamp

Financed by 3.1 million euros of EU funding and backed by a consortium of five European museums including the British Museum and the Louvre, the project will also develop a long-term vision for the museum and, officials hope, allow it to win a listing as a UNESCO world heritage site.

** Huge Number Of Works In East Germany’s Museums Were Stolen From Citizens

A pilot project to assess the scale of art looting from private citizens in East Germany has found that a “surprisingly large number of objects with dubious provenances” linger in eastern German museums.

** Supreme Court Justice Claims That Smithsonian Exhibit (Which He Hasn’t Seen) About Him Is Wrong (Which It Is Not)

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas hasn’t visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture, but he cited one of its exhibits last week to explain how Washington’s rumour mill works.

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** How Conservators Dismantled And Reassembled An Angkor Temple To Save It

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is celebrating a milestone in its ongoing work at the Angkor archaeological park in Cambodia: the completion of a decade-long $4.8m conservation effort on the eastern side of Phnom Bakheng, one of the site’s oldest temples.

** More Than Half The Art In This French Museum Turned Out To Be Fake. How Did It Happen?

The Terrus affair represents a new kind of art crime, driven by what one French radio station has called “low-cost fakes”; as it has become harder for forgers to penetrate the top tiers of a global art market saturated with counterfeits they are thought to have turned to lesser works.

** The Eccentric Cabinets of Curiosity That Captivated Renaissance Europe

Unicorn horns, mermaid skeletons, taxidermied animals, preserved plants, clocks, scientific instruments, celestial globes: these were the contents of the Wunderkammer, or cabinets of curiosities, that became fashionable throughout royal and aristocratic homes across Europe in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

** Poll: Is it time for museums and galleries to drop fossil fuel sponsorship?

In the latest of a series of protests at museums and galleries, guests attending BP Portrait Award ceremony at London’s National Portrait Gallery were forced to climb over a wall after anti-oil activists blocked the main entrance to the institution.

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** Inside The World's Greatest Private Jewellery Collection: The Maharaja Treasures Of Sheikh Al-Thani

The glittering objects of Shah Jahan and other Mughal maharajahs were among the most coveted gems and precious artifacts in the world and no treasure hunter has amassed a more impressive collection than a Qatari prince, Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Thani.

** Meet the Natural History Museum's dinosaur hunters

Prof Paul Barrett and Dr Susie Maidment work in the Museum's Department of Earth Sciences, which is home to one of the world's most important dinosaur collections.

** The art of money: New Paris museum puts economy centre stage

The Citeco, housed in a sumptuous neo-Renaissance palace built by a banker in the 19th century, also takes up a tougher challenge: reconcile the French with a subject often viewed with a mix of suspicion and contempt.

** Director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum Quits After Spat Over B.D.S.

The museum sought to defend the Twitter post, saying that it was only trying to point out the scholars’ argument that the resolution in Parliament would not help in the fight against anti-Semitism, but the post proved the last straw.

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** Colonial ‘time capsule’ found under floors of NC port tavern that burned in 1760's

Archaeologists exploring the site of a recently discovered 18th Century tavern in eastern North Carolina say they were stunned to learn it burned to the ground with a treasure trove of merchandise stored under the floorboards.

** Egypt Demands Christie's Halt Auction of King Tut Statue

Egypt has tried to halt the auction of a 3,000-year-old stone sculpture of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun at Christie's in London, while the auction house said its sale was legal.

** Huge sphinx makes crawling journey to new spot in museum

The monument, which was carved out of a single block of red granite and has the head of a man and the body of a lion, was unearthed in 1913 by famed British archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, whose excavations the museum funded.

** 10 Great New(ish) Museums in the World You Can't Miss

A good museum is interesting, but a great museum can elevate thoughts, open new worlds and change entire perspectives.

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** To Boost Audience Engagement, Museum Tries Something Radically Simple

The process has involved asking the public to weigh in on temporary, handwritten wall texts—including Post-It notes!—exploring alternative ways the institution might talk about its American and Pre-Raphaelite art collections.

** Dubai's Museum of the Future: A new world icon?

The museum is an initiative of the Dubai Future Foundation, led by Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, which has a mandate to make the city a "hub for innovation and a testbed for emerging technologies."

** Māori Settlers Hunted Flightless, 500-Pound Birds

When Polynesians first arrived in the 13th century, an estimated 160,000 moa roamed New Zealand; but they were annihilated within 150 years, in a process one study calls “the most rapid, human-facilitated megafauna extinction documented to date.”

** National Museum of Interventions

Behind the bullet-pocked walls of a former monastery, this unique museum chronicles the history of the foreign invasions and civil wars that Mexico has endured since the fight for independence from Spain.

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** Highland Warriors

Meet the Highland soldier, an almost mythical figure with many faces: fierce protector of clans, adventurous soldier of fortune, defiant rebel, national and international hero

** University Museums and Collections Journal (UMACJ) issues now available in Chinese

In September 2018, UMAC signed an agreement with Shanghai University Museum, China, to provide translations of their journal University Museums and Collections Journal (UMACJ) into Chinese

** Conservation Perspectives, The GCI Newsletter

Spring 2019

** American Museum Of Natural History Acquires Rare Third-Grader Separated From Group On Class Trip

The American Museum of Natural History announced Wednesday the acquisition of Kyle, a unique specimen of a third-grade human male, who was discovered wandering the museum late Tuesday

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