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**  Sacred objects: From police evidence to museum pieces
Seventy-seven boxes which had been gathering dust at the premises of the police in Rio de Janeiro were transferred to the Museum of the Republic; they contained more than 500 objects of worship seized by the authorities between 1889 and 1945.

**  Changes made after Colston exhibition hit by block booking protests
Bristol City Council has been forced to make changes to its online booking system after its display of the torn-down statue of slave-trader Edward Colston was hit by block booking protests.

**  The Financial Reasons For Abolishing Museum Boards
Why is it that the endowments of the major New York art museums yield worse returns than your retirement fund?

**  Remembering the Supermarine Spitfire, Iconic Fighter Plane of World War II
A “Spit” is held in the collections of the Air and Space Museum, currently undergoing a massive renovation and slated to fully reopen in the fall of 2022; the museum’s HF Mk VIIc was built in 1943 and given to the U.S. Army Air Force so it could study this high-altitude version of the plane.
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**  Did Modernist Master Modigliani Paint a New Portrait Over a Likeness of His Ex?
More than a century after Modigliani covered it up, Bourached and Cann trained an algorithm to simulate what the original portrait might have looked like; a 3-D-printed physical rendering of their creation, complete with computer-simulated “brushstrokes” and texture, will soon go on display.

**  Pigeons drop in on Raphael exhibition in Madrid
The exquisite set of Raphael tapestries currently on display in the grand gallery of Madrid’s royal palace has survived five tumultuous centuries of wars, rebellions, bombs, bullets and fire – only to find itself menaced by the more quotidian threat of opportunistic pigeons and their droppings.

**  14 of my favourite items from the British Museum Archive
Archivist Francesca Hillier reveals her 14 favourite items and the incredible stories they tell about the Museum, the history of the collection, and the people who worked here..

**  Should You Become An Art Critic? Take This Test!
Can the theory-heavy jibber jabber you ingested and regurgitated in graduate school actually be spun into by-lines, pay cheques, and a platform to tell people what you think and why it matters?
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**  How Did We Finally Get To A Consensus On Repatriating The Benin Bronzes?
After many decades of inaction, many museums in the West have been forced to recognize that tucked into their storage facilities are a stunning array of wonders that were forcibly taken from the Benin Royal Palace in 1897 by the British on a so-called punitive expedition.

**  NFTs Of Artists Vandalizing Their Art — What Could Go Wrong?
When the artist is the instigator of damage (to their own work, or that of another, such as Robert Rauschenberg erasing a Willem de Kooning work), the act of vandalism becomes part of an artistic strategy.

**  German Democratic Plastics in Design: A Research Project on Material, Technology, and Conservation
Research into conservation of plastic objects, which only emerged in the 1990s, has been primarily focused on the identification of plastics, their degradation, and possible conservation and restoration methods.

**  Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain
The discovery of the shackled male skeleton by workers in Rutland – thought to have been aged in his late 20s or early 30s – has been identified as rare and important evidence of slavery in Roman Britain and “an internationally significant find”.
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**  Scientists Are Trying to Revive Woolly Mammoths With CRISPR
As CRISPR allows scientists to splice individual genes that program for specific characteristics into the genome of living species, it could be used to create new, hybrid animals that exhibit at least some of the physical and behavioural traits of their extinct brethren.

**  Wisconsin lawmaker compares museum's mask policy to Nazis
A Wisconsin state lawmaker compared a non-profit children's museum's mask policy to the Nazi Party in a social media post that generated outrage and calls for an apology.

**  Movie Museum Rethinks Exhibitions in Response to a Changing World
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, opening in September, has redesigned its galleries amid social movements like Black Lives Matter.

**  Scientists say new dinosaur species is largest found in Australia
The team found the Australotitan was closely related to three other sauropod species - the Wintonotitan, Diamantinasaurus and Savannasaurus.
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**  Forty percent of UK heritage organisations have no volunteering strategy
As heritage sites across the UK begin to reopen, volunteer managers are concerned about the impact of shielding on the scale and capacity of the volunteer workforce.

**  Centre Pompidou plans to open a US satellite museum in Jersey City in 2024
The venue, the French institution’s first in North America, will exhibit borrowed works and serve as an “art laboratory”.

**  Egypt traces relics of Ramses III back to Saudi Arabia
An Egyptian archaeological mission is preparing to launch an excavation project in Saudi Arabia after several discoveries showed that ancient Egyptian King Ramses III had a presence in the Arabian Peninsula.

**  The National Museum Of Ireland's 'Dead Zoo'
These 3D gallery viewers get you up close to the fascinating zoological collection of the Museum, while it remains closed to the public for essential works.
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**  Conservation and the Pandemic
Spring 2021.
**  Colloquium on Medical Objects
We are very happy to introduce to you the latest catalogue of the Association of University Museums in Poland.
**  Museums, Mixing and Myths of Origin
We invite you to participate in the XXIX Meeting of ICOFOM LAC.
**  Children’s Museum Docent Reminds Guests Not To Touch The Kids
In an effort to prevent any potential damage to the priceless collection, Layla Pehl, a docent at Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum, issued a reminder to guests Wednesday not to touch the kids.
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