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**  Association of Art Museum Directors Calls on Museums to Provide Paid Internships

By failing to pay interns, we ensure that these experiences are only really accessible to those who already financially secure and, often, people who have established career networks available to them.

 

**  Italy To Lend 2,000 Ancient Artifacts To Brazil’s Devastated National Museum

Italian officials will send hundreds of ancient artifacts on long-term loan to Rio de Janeiro, as well as provide expert assistance to help restore salvaged objects.

 

**  The Holocaust Museum's Dreadful Intervention In the Concentration Camp Debate

As the debate over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s characterization of American migrant detention facilities as “concentration camps” enters its second, aneurysm-inducing week, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has entered the fray.

 

**  Imperial War Museum Examines Destruction Of Cultural Heritage

From the German torching of Belgium’s famed Leuven library, to Islamic State’s destruction of ancient Palmyra, the weaponisation of cultural property in conflict, a so-called “culturicide”, has long existed in warfare.

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**  Ghostbusters and stone-age con men

Trawl through all the self-conscious noodling in this high-pedigree collab spanning four galleries and two cities and you’ll glimpse of authentic, balletic brilliance – but is the Yorkshire Sculpture International worth it?

 

**  China Has Hundreds Of Ultra-Modern Museums With Nothing In Them

Like many other sectors of China's unprecedented economic rise, the obsessive drive to build more and more cultural facilities has resulted in a conspicuous dearth of exhibits, let alone demand from people wanting to visit them - leaving hundreds of massive, often opulent, and architecturally iconic buildings sitting underused or even completely empty today.

 

**  St. George Gets Unrestored, And Everyone Breathes A Sigh Of Relief

A 16th-century wooden statue of St. George, venerated as a Christian martyr who killed a dragon to rescue a Libyan king’s daughter, has been unrestored in Spain to all its slightly faded glory after a botched paint job turned it into something resembling the cartoon character Tintin,

 

**  The Woman Behind A Lost Velasquez Was A Baroque-Era Feminist – And The Pope’s Lover

It is also a rare depiction of the most influential, avaricious and manipulative woman in 17th-century Rome; Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj was the power behind the papal throne, and the reputed lover as well as sister-in-law of Pope Innocent X.

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**  Serpentine chief quits after spyware firm controversy

The CEO of the Serpentine Galleries has resigned days after a newspaper exposed her links to a controversial spyware firm used by authoritarian regimes.

 

**  The British Museum details the search for the lost city of Troy

The myth of the Trojan War has captivated people for thousands of years and has led pilgrims, explorers and archaeologists to search for the location where the famed conflict took place; but did the city really exist?

 

**  The invention that saved a million ships

The oldest operating lighthouse in France (construction began in the 16th Century, but beacons had existed there hundreds of years prior) and the world’s first to be built in the open sea, this imposing sentinel of white stone is a Renaissance masterpiece.

 

**  Acropolis Museum opens ancient Athens neighbourhood site below its base

Greece’s Acropolis Museum has opened an excavation site underneath its modern building, allowing visitors for the first time to walk through an ancient Athenian neighbourhood that survived from the Classical era to Byzantine times.

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**  DNA Testing Solves The Case Of The Unknown Skull In Denmark Museum

The skull, which came from Greenland, looked like a narwhal, those whales with unicorn tusks but it had bizarre teeth; DNA tests show the animal's mother was a narwhal, the father a tusk less beluga.

 

**  Hue times two: a second look at the colour of dinosaur eggs

After garnering worldwide attention last year for her research on the origins of egg colour in birds, Yale palaeontologist Jasmina Wiemann has taken a second look at her eggshells.

 

**  Early Celts drank local beer and imported wine from Greece more than 2,000 years ago

It suggests they used both imported and locally made drinking vessels to drink Greek wine and local beer — and while beer was drunk by everyone, warriors drank millet beer while the elites drank ale made from barley or wheat.

 

**  France's Museum of Natural History and Ethnography

In the Alsace town of Colmar, there is a hidden treasure: the Museum of Natural History and Ethnography, a charming little museum founded by the designer of the Statue of Liberty and home to a fascinating array of natural specimens and artifacts from ancient Egypt and beyond.

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**  Moscow's Pushkin Museum presents Modernist art treasures

The treasures hail from the early 20th century collection of Russian businessman Sergei Shchukin, whose collection was confiscated and then divided up by the Soviet state.

 

**  Neanderthals were 'sophisticated hunters'

As well as sharp stabbing and thrusting motions, our ancient cousins also used complex hunting techniques which involved groups of people.

 

**  The Newly Expanded Perfume Museum In Paris

The mainstay, go-to perfume authority in Paris is the Fragonard Musée du Parfum, which has been set in the city’s 9th arrondissement since 1983.

 

**  How an Arctic Hyena Was Found in Canada, Then Lost, Then Found Again

The discovery illustrates how museum collections may be filled with forgotten fossils that could expand knowledge of prehistory.

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**  Blown Away

The Corning Museum of Glass is a proud collaborator on an exciting, new competition series, Blown Away—created by producers marblemedia and a co-production of Netflix and Blue Ant Media of Toronto

 

**  Material Immaterial: Photographs in the 21st Century

September 23 - 25, 2019, Yale University, New Haven, CT

 

**  Image Permanence Institute, Environmental Management Webinars

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

 

**  Anthropomorphologists Find Earliest Known Evidence Of Banana Walking Upright

In a ground-breaking discovery that could shed light on the origins of the delightful species, anthropomorphologists from Cambridge University announced on Friday that they had unearthed the fossilized remains of the earliest known upright-walking banana 

 

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