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**  Why a white woman's discrimination lawsuit against the Getty is no joke
and could set a precedent

Since 1993, the Getty Foundation's Multicultural Undergraduate Internship
program has funded thousands of internships at dozens of cultural
organizations around Los Angeles County.

 

**  'Antiques Roadshow' Mistakenly Values High School Art Project at $50,000

An Oregon man who presented a clay jug to one of the program's apparent
expert appraisers received word that it dated to the late 19th century, had
emerged somewhere in the "Middle Atlantic states headed southward," and had
a value of up to $50,000.

 

**  Hanging Shoes Honour Thousands of Missing People in Mexico Museum

A museum in Mexico City is exhibiting the shoes of missing citizens as a
symbol of the disappeared persons crisis that has plagued the country for
decades.

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**  From drones to fair use: the hottest topics in museum law

New media, copyright law and museum ethics were among key issues raised at
the American Law Institute's annual course on museum law. 

 

**  $7.25 million for injuries suffered inside Philly art museum

A worker who sued the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia for injuries he suffered
after falling through a glass floor while inspecting lighting will receive a
settlement of $7.25 million, according to his lawyers

 

**  Science Museum Wants to Recreate Eric the Robot, One of the First
Humanoid Machines

The robot was relegated to the dustbin of history after touring Europe and
the U.S. in the 1920s but now, after stumbling upon the original plans for
Eric, the Science Museum in London has launched a Kickstarter campaign to
bring this man of steel back to life.

 

**  Tate suffers blow in efforts to keep amount of BP funding secret

Attempts by Tate to keep secret the scale of its funding from BP suffered a
setback when the information commissioner withdrew his support for the arts
institution at a legal hearing in London. 

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**  Puget Sound exhibit explores revitalization of local Native food
traditions

Salish Bounty reminds us that food isn't solitary; cooking and eating are
things we do with other people and express our cultural history and values.

 

**  Explore ancient British Museum artefacts from home with Sketchfab's 3D
player

Two years ago the British Museum released 3D scans of some of its prized
artefacts, including millennia-old busts, sarcophagi and statues, as part of
a downloadable collection that people could 3D print at home. 

 

**  Evel Knievel Museum to Show Virtual Jumps, Physics

An X-ray display will show all the bones Knievel broke - with 433 broken
bones, he is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most broken bones
in a lifetime - and viewers can touch a break and see an explanation of what
Knievel was doing when it occurred. 

 

**  Sydney's little museum of horrors reveals the city's sordid past

Intimate and highly detailed, the walls of this little museum practically
heave with stories of crooks and cops, serial killers and petty criminals,
the guilty, the innocent and the poor families who stood by them come hell
or high water. 

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**  Getty Museum Recreates China's Cave Temples of Dunhuang

In an exhibition curators say is unprecedented, three full-scale,
hand-painted replica caves have been erected on The Getty Center museum's
hilltop campus overlooking LA.

 

**  Anne Frank's Copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales Bought by American Museum

The Museum of World War II outside Boston has paid $50,000 for Anne Frank's
inscribed copy of Grimm's fairy tales, in what the museum is calling the
first major offering of material connected directly with Frank in nearly 20
years.

 

**  Museum displays Abe Lincoln's last poop

In the late 19th century, a visit to a whole museum full of similar
sensational oddities would have only cost you a dime - hence the term "dime
museum."

 

**  Seven Highlights of the International Banana Museum

In recent years the collection has grown to well over twenty thousand items,
thanks to eBay and acquisitions from noted banana-merchandise collector
Charles Stansifer, a history professor at the University of Kansas with a
dubious degree in bananaology. 

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**  Lenin's four-tonne head goes on show in Medieval Berlin Fortress

The monumental granite head, weighing nearly 4 tonnes, was buried in a
woodland, the symbol of a fallen political regime that many wanted to put
behind them. 

 

**  The Hunt For Poland's Buried Nazi Gold Trains

The train was loaded with gold bars, silver jewellery, stolen art,
biological weapons, chemical weapons, advanced military technology, dead
bodies, and even the Amber Room depending on whom you ask. 

 

**  That cursed new-fangled technology, "electric lights" 

The light, which flooded a large area, was so strong that ladies opened up
their umbrellas - not as a tribute to the inventors, but in order to protect
themselves from the rays of this mysterious new sun.

 

**  ARCHI-DEPOT Museum Opens In Tokyo

It is the only museum in Japan that specializes in architectural models,
with a unique attempt of combining "exhibition" and "preservation". 

 

**  The four major challenges that await the British Museum's new director

There is plenty to be done at the UK's largest and most popular museum,
which drew a record 6.8 million visitors last year .

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**  Monet's masterpieces go on display in Hong Kong

The major exhibition presented this year by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum

 

**  Hockey in Canada - More Than Just a Game

Canadian Museum of History 

 

**  Crustumerium

Death and Afterlife at the Gates of Rome

 

**  Preserving the World's Monuments, One Digital Scan at a Time 

CyArk wants to preserve our world's important cultural heritage sites

 

**  This Weeks' Horoscopes

Virgo - Approaching police sirens combined with your naturally paranoid
tendencies will significantly alter the stuffing of tonight's honeysuckle
white turkey

 

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