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** Why Museums Are Very Cool and Should Be Visited Often
Museums are like being on Wikipedia, except you're in the real world, and
you're not just clicking links that lead you to pages with more information,
but looking at the actual work of art itself.
** UK museums send loans to Kremlin Museums
An exhibition celebrating the work of the Scottish designer and architect
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, featuring loans from leading UK museums, has
opened in the Kremlin Museums, Moscow, despite rising tension between the UK
and Russian governments.
** Brian May's collection of 3D stereoscopic photography at Tate Britain
The Victorian craze for 3D stereoscopic photography is to be the subject of
a major gallery exhibition for the first time - thanks to former Queen
guitarist Brian May.
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** Renaissance masterpiece warped by Rome museum's faulty air conditioning
A Renaissance masterpiece by Raphael has warped because the air conditioning
in a Rome museum has not worked for six months, raising questions once again
over.
** Pocahontas' First Marriage
Pocahontas's first marriage was to an Indian warrior named Kocoum and that
this first marriage produced her first son, whose ancestors survive today.
** German museum agrees to study on contested Native American scalp
Scientists from the Karl May Museum in the eastern town of Radebeul near
Dresden will begin an investigation to shed light on the provenance of one
of 17 scalps in its collections.
** Scientist discusses his research on the world's largest-ever flying bird
These spectacular, giant birds occurred all over the globe for tens of
millions of years, but vanished during the Pliocene, just three million
years ago.
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** Would you confess your fears... at an exhibition?
If there's one lesson to take away, it's how obscure human nature is, and
what a struggle it is to shine even a little light on ourselves.
** Richard III's Rich Diet of Fish and Exotic Birds
A chemical analysis of the teeth and bones of King Richard III reveals that
his diet was decadent even by standards of medieval royalty.
** Shirt worn by bin Laden's killer bound for museum
The shirt worn by the Navy SEAL who fatally shot Osama bin Laden in 2011
will be put on display at the 9/11 Memorial Museum .
** German museum holds show on departing Soviet troops
The German-Russian Museum in Berlin is marking a harmonious event not long
ago that hardly seems real when set against the tensions between the two
countries today.
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** Consultants Warn of "Explosive" Gas Danger at Proposed Oscar Museum
The risk, they declare, could potentially harm construction workers and,
eventually, visitors.
** Two Singapore museums closing many areas for big revamps
Heritage lovers have expressed disappointment after hearing that two of
Singapore's popular museums will be closing many of their exhibits for major
revamps through most of next year - the country's 50th anniversary.
** London's Imperial War Museum revisits horrors of World War I
In "Feeding the Front," visitors of all ages can "make" food, boots, and
shells through digital animations at the "Supply Line," a 13-foot-long
interactive table that demonstrates the unprecedented scale of homeland
production required to keep the troops fed and fighting.
** Psychedelic Culture Tripped Circa 500 A.D.
Sophisticated drug paraphernalia, complete with a hippy-looking headband,
provide evidence that an elite, hallucinogen-using culture flourished at
around 500 A.D. in the south-central Andes and lasted there for at least
another 600 years
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** Several injured in Reno as experiment goes awry at Discovery Museum
A minor explosion during a science experiment at a children's museum in Reno
has burned several children and forced the evacuation of the museum.
** World's Oldest Wine Cellar Fuelled Palatial Parties
Israel isn't particularly famous for its wine today, but four thousand years
ago, during the Bronze Age, vineyards in the region produced vintages that
were prized throughout the Mediterranean and imported by the Egyptian elite.
** America's best small town museums
Many small towns also offer detour-worthy museums, some housed in
spectacular historic spaces-old factories, former army bases, Beaux-Arts
estates, Victorian mansions-and others built from scratch by internationally
renowned architects like Zaha Hadid and Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron.
** Adolf Hitler's birthplace to be Holocaust museum
Under the new plan, proposed by Austrian historian Andreas Maislinger, the
building will be dedicated to depicting the crimes against humanity
committed by Hitler's Third Reich.
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** China's museum boom hatches roast duck tribute
Among the country's more bizarre offerings are museums dedicated to
watermelons, socks and even concrete
** International Conference: Ancient Cultures in the Lands of the Bible
Jerusalem, June 2015
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