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** Designs revealed for new Museum of London site set to open in 2024

Designs have been revealed for the Museum of London’s new site, which is being redeveloped in the hopes of creating a “world-class, 24-hour cultural destination” with the capacity to welcome over two million visitors a year.

** Crowding at the African American Museum is the result of poor layout more than popularity

Visits to NMAAHC begin with bottleneck after bottleneck: There’s just one escalator to get to the one glass elevator to get to the beginning of the history exhibit.

** Who Bought That Caravaggio That Was Found In An Attic? This Guy

The American billionaire hedge fund manager and art collector J. Tomilson Hill is the mysterious buyer of an early 17th-century canvas billed as a rediscovered masterpiece by Caravaggio, according to a person with knowledge of the sale.

** A Thorough Consideration Of Access To The Arts In The Internet Age

If your personal circumstances are such that you may never have been given the opportunity to think about what you’re consuming, to examine it in detail or explore beyond what major organisations want to feed us through powerful communication channels, access is not equal.

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** Smithsonian says no to senator’s request to strip Sackler name from museum

In a letter to Merkley, new Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III reiterated the institution’s position that it is legally bound to keep the name of the late benefactor, Arthur M. Sackler, who, in 1982, donated 1,000 objects and $4 million toward the construction of the museum.

** Museum Notebook: Huia, a lost treasure

In the Whanganui Regional Museum collection is a rare and precious recording of a huia call, a bird that was last seen alive in the early 1900s; the recording is actually a man whistling, imitating the hauntingly beautiful sounds made by the bird.

** At Historic House Museums In The South, A New Focus On The Lives Of The Enslaved

There is a growing consensus among the interpreters who guide people through historic properties that by excluding stories of the enslaved, institutions like historical societies, museums and tour companies have sent the message that power and wealth were not directly connected to slavery, and racism, and erased the stories of the black people.

** A Creepy Way Of Thinking About Art: Investing In It

A large portion of this dark matter comes in the form of museum accessions, which in effect serve as primordial black holes that sequester masterpieces from the marketplace through donations and museum acquisitions, but for the most part they will never be sold again.

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** Is It Better To See Tintoretto In A Museum Or In The Original Setting?

Yes, go see Tintoretto in Venice, but never slight the power of a museum to present art with a clarity and care one rarely finds in the ordinary world in which that art was made.

** That’s the snuff!

Snuff bottles are containers designed to carry small quantities of snuff – a form of powdered tobacco popularized in China during the Qing Dynasty for its health benefits.

** Rebuilding the past

British Museum curator Peter Higgs discusses how ancient Greek buildings and sculptures were assembled - and how they were destroyed.

** The Last of Its Kind

The biologist David Sischo has a tragic assignment: keeping vigil over a species’ sole survivor, then marking its extinction in real time.

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** London's Cartoon Museum reopens with a fresh look at comic art

The exhibition is the first of what will be three temporary shows a year at the museum, which opens at its new home near Oxford Circus, a year after it was forced to leave its previous premises near the British Museum.

** How a Catholic priest was the first to discover dinosaur eggs

Father Pouech was the head of Pamiers Seminary in southern France, but in his free time he explored the geology and palaeontology of the Late Cretaceous rock preserved in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains.

** Louisiana dry cleaner helps military museum unravel history

As one pressed on a foot peddle, steam was released onto the photo, allowing the other volunteer to slowly roll it flat onto the steam press’ ironing board-like surface.

** New York museum wins case to keep Picasso sold during Nazi era

A Pablo Picasso masterpiece will remain at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York despite the claims of a descendant of a Jewish businessman who sold the painting to fund his escape from the Nazis.

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** Fossils bust myth about mammals in dinosaur age

Palaeontologists are trying to dispel the myth that a world crowded with dinosaurs left little room for mammals and their relatives.

** Life of the Party podcast: How to act right in a museum

The manager of communications and public relations at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg offers a crash course on museum etiquette, from taking photos to waiting your turn and more.

** 8 Best Museums In Tokyo

From anime to world-class art, Tokyo has a legion of amazing museums to explore while you're in town.

** Old fishes telling new stories

Te Papa has an internationally important fish collection, notably because of its capacity to hold large numbers of large specimens, and also because some of these fishes were collected over 100 years ago.

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** The Art and Literature of the Great War

National Gallery of Art lecture from March 27, 2019

** Summer Lecture Series: Writs of passage

15 August - The National Archives

** Image Permanence Institute, Environmental Management Webinars

Registration is now open for two, hour-long webinars designed for institutions beginning an environmental management program

** Historians Reveal Aqueducts Were Only Small Portion Of Ancient Rome’s Intricate Water Park System

Historians write that the ancient aqueducts are all that remain of a much larger infrastructure of recreational water slides, the first sections of which were built in 312 B.C. when a Roman censor decreed all citizens of the Republic deserved access to fun-filled aquatic adventures the whole family could enjoy.

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