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** Statues, education centre honour Neil Armstrong at museum

New statues of astronaut Neil Armstrong were unveiled and an education centre was dedicated in his name on Sunday as his Ohio hometown continued celebrating its native son's history-making moon mission 50 years ago this month.

** World invited to watch museum restore Rembrandt's 'Night Watch'

In what has been compared to a military operation, experts at the Rijksmuseum in the Dutch capital will spend a year studying the 1642 masterpiece before embarking on a huge makeover that could take several years more.

** African American museum founder discovered dead in car trunk

A 75-year-old Louisiana woman who founded an African American history museum was discovered dead in the trunk of a car, and police say that investigators were working diligently to find those responsible.

** What and Whom Are Jewish Museums For?

Across Europe, in Paris or Amsterdam, Jewish museums present cultural history in the context of the values and dynamics of their societies, with references to the past, while creating context for the present.

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** How the Potato Changed the World

The first Spaniards in the Andes region—the band led by Francisco Pizarro, who landed in 1532—noticed Indians eating these strange, round objects and emulated them, often reluctantly.

** Is The Director Who Turned The Indianapolis Museum Of Art Into Newfields Democratizing It Or Destroying It?

What struck Venable when he arrived in Indianapolis was the discrepancy between the monumental size of the museum and the modest size of the city it serves, which has about 880,000 residents.

** Art Critic Takes Issue With Architect’s Comments About How Museums Work

The other day, though, you gave an interview about LACMA to your local newspaper in Zurich, Switzerland, and it made me blanch.

** Museums In Britain Are Taking Out And Showing The LGBTQ-Themed Items They Used To Keep Hidden Away

From Michelangelo’s suggestive David to a gender-fluid Hindu deity, cultural institutions are digging into their vaults to display once-hidden objects of same-sex desire and gender nonconformity.

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** Turner: The Sea and the Alps

During his annual visits to Lucerne between 1841 and 1844, the British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) made sketches of the Rigi massif from his hotel room and took steamboat excursions on Lake Lucerne.

** UK removes Sunset clause for restitution of Nazi-looted art

The bill has been welcomed by stakeholders including the National Museum Director’s Council and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe.

** Will This Be the End of the Legendary Egyptian Museum?

With its most famed objects going to a fancy new site, this most iconic of museums is approaching a crossroads, and some worry Egypt isn’t facing up to the very real challenges.

** Marble Pyramid Island Uncovered, Revealing Origins of Ancient Greece

The islet of Daskalio, is located just off the coast of the island of Keros, which is one of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea, and was once part of Keros before sea-levels rose.

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** The Smithsonian Museum is looking to acquire drawings made by migrant children

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History has recently expressed interest in acquiring drawings from formerly detained migrant children.

** Egypt will sue following sale of $5.97 million Tutankhamun statue

The sale of the artifact has been highly controversial, with Egyptian authorities demanding the auction be cancelled and calling for the relic’s repatriation.

** Museum Of Interest - Museum Tinguely

On the banks of the Rhine in Basel, Switzerland, Museum Tinguely houses a permanent collection of drawings, paintings, sculptures, and kinetic automata crafted over four decades by seminal Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

** This Museum Displays Rancid Milk And Diseased Playing Cards

Out of context, a list of the items on display at the International Outbreak Museum reads like the haul from a failed dumpster-diving mission, or the inventory at a hoarder’s estate sale.

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** The Myth of Blubber Town, an Arctic Metropolis

Though the 17th-century whaling station of Smeerenburg was in reality, at its height, just a few dwellings and structures for processing blubber, over the decades and centuries a more extravagant picture took hold — that there once had stood, defying its far-flung Arctic location, a bustling urban centre.

** Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is Te Papa’s freely available, annual peer-reviewed academic journal.

** British Museum to return Buddhist heads looted in Afghan war

Fourth-century Buddhist terracotta heads probably hacked off by the Taliban and found stuffed in poorly made wooden crates at Heathrow are to be returned to Afghanistan where they will be star museum exhibits.

** Museum's Dinosaur hunter returns to oldest dig sites for fresh information

Jordan Mallon, a modern scientist with vast technology at his disposal, is crawling around the mud and rocks of Western Canada’s Badlands guided by smudged pencil notes up to a century old.

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** Frances Hodgkins goes digital

New website gives access to more than 2,600 of Frances Hodgkins’ artworks, letters and related photographs

** Workshop "Curating climate. Museums as ‘contact zones’ of climate research, education and activism

October 28-29th 2019

** Transatlantic Seminar for Museum Curators and Educators

The Smithsonian Office of International Relations is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for a new Transatlantic Seminar for Museum Curators and Educators: “Museums as Spaces for Social Discourse and Learning.”

** Metropolitan Museum Acquires Another Vase

We look forward to our visitors spending 10 or 12 seconds blinking at this excellent example of a vase, and perhaps even reading its placard in the hope of learning something uniquely interesting about it, but most likely it will simply read ‘vase’ and list a general time period for its creation

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