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**  Germany arrests Tunisian asylum-seeker linked to Tunis museum attack
A 36-year-old Tunisian asylum-seeker arrested in Germany is also wanted in his homeland over a deadly 2015 assault on a Tunis museum favoured by Western tourists

**  Why Single-Collector Museums So Often Fail
With the recent approval in Los Angeles of George Lucas’ proposed $1 billion Museum of Narrative Art, yet another collector will now be able to affix his name on a museum devoted to what he did with his money

**  Museum Displays the Weasel that Brought Down Particle Physics
A stone marten that disrupted the Large Hadron Collider in November goes on display in Rotterdam in an exhibit about human-animal mishaps
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**  'Spiderman' art thief stole €100m of masterpieces from Paris museum with 'disconcerting ease'
All Mr Tomic had to do was break one pane of glass and a puny padlock to carry out his daring heist, a special Paris court for serious financial crimes was told 

**  Restoration reveals human remains in famous Carnegie diorama
For nine months, Anderson and her team have been restoring the dramatic diorama - one of the very few to feature a human figure, which is riding a dromedary camel being attacked by what are believed to be Barbary lions, a species now extinct

**  Blog - Museums are the Biggest Job Creator You’ve Never Heard Of
I often hear museum workers fretting that the impact museums have is unquantifiable, hindering their grant applications and fundraising drives

**  Young Collectors: Who Are They and Where Are They Buying Art?
Many start young, some with intrinsic passion for the arts, while others are influenced by their parent’s involvement in the art world as collectors themselves 
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**  Finding the Speed of Evolution in a Study of Bird Beaks 
When the ancestors of Darwin’s finches arrived on the Galápagos two million years ago, they gained access to a world of new morsels, untapped by other animals

**  For First Time In A Decade, UK Museum Attendance Falls
Although visits by UK nationals have held steady, visitor numbers from overseas have fallen despite an overall increase in tourism 

**  San Francisco Asian Art Museum Facebook Link Taken Down For Being Too Racy
Facebook robots that determined that the story, headlined “Bronze Dildos and Jade Butt Plugs Show Life and Death in Ancient China,” was unfit for the platform 

**  The Pompidou At 40: Here’s The Impact It’s Had
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Pompidou, also known as Beaubourg, we asked leading cultural figures to ponder its legacies, artistic and architectural, and to highlight moments in its history of particular cultural or personal significance 
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**  What London’s National Gallery Learned Giving Live-Streaming Gallery Tours
In a short space of time, live video , via Facebook Live, has also become a key way we communicate with our global digital audience, allowing us to share with thousands of people art and the knowledge of those who work here

**  Nine New Must-See Museums Opening This Year
In the coming months, the new museums opening across the world—many the first of their ilk in their respective countries—will highlight everything from Swiss banking and French fashion, to American writers and Lebanese civil war

**  Museum At The Birthplace Of Vaccination Needs Booster Dose Of Funds
The United Kingdom has strict requirements for maintaining historical buildings, and the Jenner Trust’s funds have been gradually dwindling

**  Holocaust Museum Poster Listing Fascism’s Warning Signs Goes Viral 
A United States Holocaust Memorial Museum poster detailing the “early warning signs of fascism” has gone viral on Twitter, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes and res 
What London’s National Gallery Learned Giving Live-Streaming Gallery Tours
In a short space of time, live video , via Facebook Live, has also become a key way we communicate with our global digital audience, allowing us to share with thousands of people art and the knowledge of those who work here
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**  100-Million-Year-Old Insect Trapped in Amber Defines New Order
New insect species are discovered on a regular basis—just this month researchers detailed a wasp that takes over another species' mind, a moth that was named after Donald Trump and two species of katydid in Borneo whose females are pink 

**  Trump travel ban could scuttle LA museum exhibits
Scholarly exchanges and international collaborations are key to our ongoing work, and we are very concerned that a number of programs we have in place could be threatened, just at a time when the world needs more, not less, exchange and mutual understanding

**  Singapore's one-man museum
The 54-year-old is a hoarder, and his collection of more than one million items fills up his flat, his parent's flat, and a space rented at a nearby industrial unit

**  Museum head defies Russian Orthodox Church over cathedral
The director of a museums' association has urged the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church to recall its bid to take control of St. Petersburg's landmark cathedral, a move that has inflamed public passions in Russia 
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**  Scientists Find DNA Of Human Ancestors In Cave Floor Dirt
Imagine being able to collect the DNA of a human ancestor who's been dead for tens of thousands of years from the dirt on the floor of a cave

**  2017 ICEE Annual Conference Call for Papers
Call for Papers for the 2017 ICEE Annual Conference, which will be hosted by the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico

**  Can We Do That?: Intellectual Property Rights and Visual Media
The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF)

**  Technical Heritage and Cultural Identity
ICOM-CIMUSET 45th annual Conference, Rabat, Morocco

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn - Fears of being exposed as a fraud will be realized this week when you’re revealed to lack the fluid colour, strong lines, and playful style of Matisse’s trademark works

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