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** Meet the robotic museum guide that will turn art into sound for the
visually impaired
Later this fall, the Smithsonian hopes to roll out accessibility programs
with Pepper; with the robot, the museum can establish a direct correlation
between the painting and sound waves.
** Israeli minister seeks budgetary power to control historical narrative
The proposed legislation, if passed, would give her ministry various powers
to prevent or cut funding for cultural organisations that criticise Israel
or stage events discussing Palestinian history and rights.
** How Titanoboa, the 40-Foot-Long Snake, Was Found
It was the largest snake ever, and if its astounding size alone wasn't
enough to dazzle the most sunburned fossil hunter, the fact of its existence
may have implications for understanding the history of life on earth and
possibly even for anticipating the future.
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** Tate's watercolour is upgraded to a Gauguin
The Tate now owns a watercolour by Gauguin, thanks to the upgrading of a
work previously thought to be from the artist's circle.
** How Banksy's Prank Might Boost His Prices: 'It's a Part of Art History'
Everybody's talking about it; how did the world's most famous street artist
manage to shred - or rather half shred - one of his iconic "Girl With
Balloon" paintings moments after it had sold for $1.4 million at auction?
** Dead animals and their gruesome stories star in bizarre museum exhibit
From a black-headed gull that collided with a helicopter to a pigeon that
caused power outages across the northern Netherlands, Moeliker's seen plenty
of rare birds in his 30 years with the museum.
** What's One of the Hottest Attractions at Museums? The Restaurant
In recent years, major art museums across the U.S. have been ditching
run-of-the-mill cafeterias and making way for restaurants that are
destinations in their own right, with top chefs and unique menus.
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** More Museums Are Popping Up, Annoying Their Neighbours
Grouping museums together helps reduce the disturbance to the surrounding
community experts say, and the concept is starting to catch on.
** National Museum in Rio starts rebuilding efforts with temporary
exhibitions
The museum recently installed tents outside of the charred building to hold
a temporary outdoor exhibition of pieces from its collection that were
stored in other facilities in Brazil, totalling around 1.5 million objects.
** Metropolitan Museum of Art reclassifies status of Native American art
An exhibition of Native American artefacts will take place in the American
wing of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for the first time in its
history.
** Museum Might Buy Meteorite Doorstop
A Michigan man curious about a rock he'd used for decades as a doorstop now
knows its secret: it's a meteorite worth $100,000.
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** Vienna Bags Bruegel Blockbuster
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is mounting the largest ever
exhibition devoted to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, uniting more than
three-quarters of the artist's surviving paintings and presenting the
results of important research into his working methods.
** We're Hardly Using Any of Our Fossils
The study calculated that of all the specimens housed in collections in
institutions, in California, Washington and Oregon, more than 95 percent are
from locations that have never been written about.
** The Fabric of India
Organized by the prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum in London, this
exhibition is the first to fully explore the dynamic and multifaceted world
of handmade textiles from India.
** Britain's Fleet Air Arm Museum is an awesome show of sea air power
Celebrating over 100 years of naval air power, the stunning museum has loads
of biplanes, iconic jets and legendary supersonic aircraft.
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** 60,000 New Maya Structures Found
Laser tech known as LiDAR that can peer through the dense jungle and create
a topographic map of thousands of square miles.
** English Museums Action Plan
Today marks the next major step, the publication of the Action Plan: how
government supports museums in England.
** Underwater museum threatened by invasive species
The preserve, maintained by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is made up of
nine Vermont vessels and one New York vessel.
** When visiting, it must be a museum with a view
Most of Denmark's palaces are occupied, unfortunately (maybe not for
arch-royalists), but the country still manages to offer many museums with
mesmerising views.
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** Exhibits at the Disgusting Food Museum
One man's meat is another man's poison, or so goes the ancient Roman adage;
it's a premise that the upcoming Disgusting Food Museum in Sweden was
designed to explore.
** Getty Leadership Institute - Call for 2019 Applications
NEXTGEN 2019
** Workshop: Working Together- Fire Managers & Archaeologists
The Southwest Fire Science Consortium
** UMAC AWARD 2019 | Nominations open
UMAC celebrates the dedication, the creativity, the transferability and,
more importantly, the impact of university museums and collections on their
host universities, their communities and contemporary society through the
UMAC AWARD
** Art Experts Confirm Guggenheim Museum A Forgery
Suspicious after many patrons noted the hollow thunking noise produced by
knocking on the building's exterior, a group of forensic architects
confirmed Friday that the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is in fact, a
forgery.
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