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** Why I don't believe in a code of behaviour for museums
There may be a list of 'don'ts' pinned up at the door - banning buggies and
mobile phones, for example; but there is no fixed set of rules on how to
appreciate art and artefacts
** Matisse exhibition reunites 'Blue Nude' paper cut-outs
Even when he was in his 80s and in frail health, the French painter,
sculptor and, latterly, master of painted cut-out paper Henri Matisse, still
had it
** V&A's Cakespeare has bakers making Bard inspired cakes
Celebrating the 450th birthday of Shakespeare on April 23 and the launch of
their own Shakespeare Festival, the museum is inviting bakers with a
literary bent to get baking Shakey-cakes and upload pictures of them to
social media
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** T. rex gets new home in Smithsonian dinosaur hall
It will take five years for the museum to overhaul its dinosaur hall, with
the T. rex mounted as the centrepiece of a $48 million gallery devoted to
the history of life on Earth
** Cave bodies reveal good parenting skills and caring side of Neanderthals
Neanderthals lived in small groups, cared for the disabled, elderly and sick
and engaged playfully with their offspring during lengthy infancies and
childhoods, according to new research dispelling traditional preconceptions
about early man
** Record-setting capsule, pressure suit and parachute donated to the
Smithsonian
Baumgartner's record-breaking jump from a height of 24 miles (127,852 feet)
at a speed of 843.6 mph (Mach 1.25), distinguished him as the first human to
break the speed of sound in free fall
** Museums unite to buy back taonga
A medal gifted to a Ngapuhi chief in 1806 feared to be lost to his
descendants forever after it was sold at auction in Sydney is on its way
back to New Zealand after Te Papa and the Auckland Museum joined forces on
the winning bid
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** The importance of being a director-curator
Serota's entry in Who's Who, the annual list of notable Britons, once drily
acknowledged the too-rare opportunities he has to handle art: he declared
that "hanging pictures" was his hobby
** Birmingham Museum of Art to Open Renovated African Galleries
The African collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art comprises more than
1,600 objects from across the continent of Africa, representing all major
regions and artistic styles from 1500 BC forward
** Delaware Art Museum works vandalized
The Delaware Museum of Art is on the lookout for a group of visitors who
recently vandalized a number of the museum's rare and expensive
Pre-Raphaelite paintings and an outdoor statue with stickers
** The Tiananmen Square Museum China Doesn't Want to See
Organizers behind a planned museum in Hong Kong dedicated to the bloody 1989
Tiananmen Square crackdown are vowing to press on despite running into
threat of legal challenge that they call politically motivated
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** The die that struck Britain's first coins?
The earliest coins found in Iron Age Britain date from around the second
century BC and, until recently, it was believed that they were produced in
Gaul (a region roughly equivalent to modern day France and Belgium) and
imported into south-east England
** Iceland's Penis Museum Got a New Specimen - And a Documentary
Hjartarson is adamant that his museum is a scientific and cultural
undertaking about which there's no reason to be squeamish, and that there's
nothing erotic or pornographic about it
** The Field Museum Uses Advanced Technologies to Engage Visitors
The upgraded internet service gives the iconic natural history and research
institution the bandwidth to support interactive technologies that give
visitors new ways to explore and engage with its collections, content and
exhibits, and helps enhance its business operations
** No evidence of modern forgery in ancient text mentioning 'Jesus' wife'
New scientific tests have turned up no evidence of modern forgery in a text
written on ancient Egyptian papyrus that refers to Jesus as being married,
according to a long-awaited article published in the Harvard Theological
Review
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** Tiny Minnesota museum's canoe a 1,000-year-old historic find
This app sets up a game, A Gift for Athena, which rewards the visitor for
finding certain statues from their outlines by telling them more about the
exhibit and directing them into the next stage of the game
** DC museums look to movies to expand their audience
Archaeologists who conducted radio carbon tests on the canoe said it was
crafted almost 1,000 years ago, making it the oldest canoe in the state and
shedding light on early navigation of Minnesota lakes
** From Russia with love: a baby mammoth
The beautifully preserved body of the world's most complete woolly mammoth
is on its way to the Natural History Museum from the Shemanovsky Museum in
Russia as part of a new exhibition opening on 23 May
** Museum buys photo of Civil War soldier who saw Abraham Lincoln
assassinated
When Bronson read in a newspaper that President Abraham Lincoln, General
Ulysses S. Grant and their wives were going to see "Our American Cousin" at
Ford's Theatre that evening, April 14, 1865, he bought a ticket and walked
three blocks from the hospital to the theatre
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** Sifting Through The Arctic's Second Largest Butterfly Collection
The donor kept his specimens in a fire-proof lab he built next to a house
filled with microscopes, old computers and piles of field notes, not to
mention an endless supply of moth balls - an adventure for someone like
Derek Sikes, who was charged with transporting the entire collection to the
Museum
** Progressive Zoo Houses Animals In Natural Destroyed Habitat
The cutting-edge zoological park, which houses some 3,000 animals from more
than 500 species within its grimy and litter-strewn enclosures, reportedly
spends tens of millions of dollars each year to maintain a vast variety of
polluted and decimated habitats that closely replicate living conditions in
the outside world (satire)
** A Stop for Supplies, and Sweets, in Saigon
To protect yourself, you put thigh-high leech socks on over your socks and
pants before putting on your shoes-the idea being that they will prevent the
leeches from being able to find any skin
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