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**  Brazil's first Indigenous Curator Resigns as Museum Faces Censorship Controversy
The Museu de Arte de São Paulo, one of Brazil’s most important museums, is facing allegations of censorship after reports that its curators decided not to display works related to a land reform movement.

**  Questions raised about UK arts & Museum donations of Leonard Blavatnik
While not on any sanctions list, the Ukrainian-born billionaire’s links to sanctioned Russian oligarchs were the focus of discussion among officials involved in a multimillion pound donation by him that helped ensure a trove of literary treasures were saved for the nation.

**  Did Henry VIII Regret Executing Anne Boleyn? Some Historians Think So
As death loomed, he may have revisited their romance and lamented his own role in rather rashly snuffing it—and Anne’s life—out.

**  You’ve Been to the Brooklyn Museum. But Have You Seen It Like This?
A revamping of the display of some 19th and 20th-century European art is intended to encourage visitors to explore issues of race and gender.
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**  British geologist facing death penalty in Iraq for collecting broken pottery 'did not know it broke law'
A retired British geologist who faces the death penalty over accusations he tried to smuggle artefacts out of Iraq has told a court he had no idea he was breaking the law.

**  Amsterdam Museum’s rebrand switches up a classic symbol of the Dutch capital
To reflect the museum’s aim of being a “connector” (a place for visitors across age groups, backgrounds and cultures), the designers came up with the idea of forming four lines in different colours.

**  Old girl’s tooth fills gap in human family tree
The discovery of a girl’s molar in Laos puts Denisovans on the path of modern humans who arrived in Southeast Asia tens of thousands of years later.

**  V&A at centre of row over auction of private tour as prize at Tory fundraising event
It has survived over 150 years on the basis of its ground-breaking exhibitions, housed in one of the most historic Victorian buildings in Britain; it would be unacceptable for the museum, charity and public body to be brought into disrepute by a rogue trustee and his links to Conservative party sleaze.
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**  Palace Museum exhibition highlights evolution of Chinese civilization
At the Hall of Literary Brilliance, more than 130 precious cultural relics showcase the wisdom of the people in their time; many of them date back thousands of years.

**  Delegation from the Siksika Nation in Canada take possession of sacred regalia
The regalia and other belongings which had been housed in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery in Exeter since 1878, included a buckskin shirt, pair of leggings, a knife with feather bundle, two beaded bags and a horsewhip.

**  Latona of Veio to be restored at Etruscan Museum in Rome
The famed Latona of Veio, an Etruscan statue of the Greek goddess with her son Apollo in her arms, is to be restored at the Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia in Rome.

**  V&A sews up deal with Bayeux Museum
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and the City of Bayeux have signed a memorandum of understanding to share research and expertise around the Bayeux Tapestry.
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**  Dinosaur fossil dating back 125 mln years found in north China
Researchers from the Natural History Museum of Bayannur City, Inner Mongolia, discovered it during a regular inspection of Urad Back Banner.

**  A Beatles exhibit aims to make ‘Get Back’ a museum experience
How do you cater to both the band’s die-hards, the folks who can break down every demo on the “White Album,” and the newcomers who wouldn’t know the difference between John Lennon’s Rickenbacker and a Black & Decker weed whacker?

**  Leeds museum's dental detectives find huge hippo's missing tooth
The Leeds Museums and Galleries curator of natural sciences said it took a lengthy search through a collection of possible candidates for the dental detectives to correctly pinpoint the correct tooth and carefully put it back into place.

**  Renovated NYC Museum Hall Showcases Indigenous Perspectives
The museum brought together the representatives of the Indigenous communities to talk about what the gallery should contain and what it should look like for the showcase of 10 Pacific Northwest tribal nations.
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**  Royal BC Museum to close in September as province plans new inclusive building for 2030
The B.C. government is set to spend three quarters of a billion dollars to build a brand new Royal BC Museum in Victoria.

**  An Intimate Museum Pushes Senegal’s Cultural Sphere Forward
Bët-bi, a state-of-the-art museum commissioned by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, will host African art and repatriated African objects, further bolstering Senegal’s thriving cultural sphere when it opens in 2025.

**  Houston’s weirdest museum houses Abraham Lincoln’s hair and 'fantasy coffins'
At the National Museum of Funeral History, “any day above ground is a good one.” 

**  Bob Dylan Museum Debuts in Tulsa
The new centre takes visitors on an immersive journey through the artist’s decades-long legacy and indelible mark on music and pop culture history. 
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**  Thinking with Scientific Instruments
Yale University, June 2 ‐ 3, 2022

**  Climate Change & Archaeology
Explore how archaeologists and conservation architects are tracking, and responding to the threats and changes in the environment that are being caused by the Climate Crisis. 

**  Support for Ukraine
The Museums Association supports the International Council of Museums’ (ICOM) condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian Federation military forces and echoes its concern about the risks faced by museum professionals on the ground in Ukraine.

**  Dad Reads Menu With Restaurant Candle Like Archaeologist Deciphering Ancient Runes
The 56-year-old father of three, as though translating Sumerian from the cuneiform script of a weathered clay tablet in a recently unearthed tomb, was said to have slowly mouthed the words “chicken fettuccine” before moving on to the next line of cryptic symbols.
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