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** The New York Times Tells You How To Navigate A Museum
A common mistake people make is to stay at a museum too long to try to see
as much as possible, but this will only result in sensory overload and leave
you overwhelmed
** Forgeries are hurting the art market – but I'd buy ones this good
How can you tell when the art market is terrified? Perhaps when a leading
auction house sets up its own forensic department, so it can offer art
collectors the additional reassurance of a battery of scientific tests when
they fork out hundreds of thousands, or even millions, on a painting that
may be a masterpiece – or may be a fake
** Rijksmuseum unveils 18th-century South Africa through comprehensive
digital portrait
As a zoologist, cartographer, geographer, linguist, meteorologist and
anthropologist, Robert Jacob Gordon recorded his discoveries in an ‘Atlas’ –
a treasure trove of 450 drawings along with spectacular panoramas, multiple
metres in length, that show precisely how Gordon portrayed the land, its
inhabitants and the flora and fauna
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** Ancient Jars Hold Clues About Earth’s Fluctuating Magnetic Fields
Like volcanic rocks, these wine and olive oil ceramic jars recorded the
Earth’s magnetic field when they were fired in kilns and then cooled
** How This Museum Found Its Groovy
If she made her jeans a little longer, her bare feet would be hidden' so she
sewed flowery patches onto the bottom of the jeans, letting her walk
barefoot into shops undetected by the manager
** Wealthy Collector And Powerful Museum Are About To Go To War Over Old
Master Portrait
Tom Hill, the American hedge fund manager who paid over £30m for a Pontormo
portrait, is refusing to accept a matching offer from London’s National
Gallery
** The True History of Fake News
Procopius, the Byzantine historian of the sixth century AD churned out
dubious information, known as Anecdota, which he kept secret until his
death, in order to smear the reputation of the Emperor Justinian after
lionizing the emperor in his official histories
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** German Museum Discovers It Has Owned A Rembrandt… For 250 Years
Experts made comparisons, including microscopic analyses, with other
Rembrandt originals in Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna to confirm that the chalk
drawing indeed came from the world-renowned Dutch master’s hand
** Paris museum gets an Airbus A380 superjumbo
France honoured the A380 superjumbo with a place in its national aerospace
museum, granting it equal status with the Boeing 747 even as questions pile
up over the future of the industry's biggest jets
** It's Not Always Easy Being Iceland's Best Witchcraft Museum
Tucked away in a small, unassuming building in the town of Hólmavík, in
Iceland’s Westfjords, is a museum that holds some truly gruesome displays of
17th century sorcery
** Museum To Open A 'Women In Games' Exhibit
For many decades, women have played key roles in the design, production,
manufacture, marketing, and writing of video games, and yet their history in
the gaming industry is too little preserved and too often underappreciated
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** Egypt's Museum of Islamic Art Triumphantly Re-Opens
The museum has restored 160 artifacts damaged by a 2014 truck bomb and has
expanded, putting three times as many artworks on display
** 35 Notable Moustaches of the West
Shaving with stone razors was technologically possible from Neolithic times,
but the oldest portrait showing a shaved man with a moustache is an ancient
Iranian (Scythian) horseman from 300 BC
** The Pottery Princess
Researchers find ancient tomb of Chinese General and his wife filled with
over 100 tiny figurines - and it could shed light on a little-known Chinese
dynasty
** Making American Great Again At Historic Sites?
History can be presented as a nice warm blanket of nostalgia, a graveyard of
irrelevance, or as messy and challenging as current day life
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** Wife Discovered With Husband’s Heart, Centuries After Death
The 17th-century burial of a French noblewoman that included the embalmed
heart of her husband is not only a trés romantic gesture, but also a
scientific phenomenon that has never been seen before in archaeology
** Rare plane unveiled at Kansas Aviation Museum
This is the only one in the world to survive — and it took more than a dozen
years and countless hours by Kansas Aviation Museum volunteers to rebuild
and restore
** Iranian museum welcomes collection home from abroad
The National Museum of Iran is putting over 500 objects on display from
Iran's history, all of which were repatriated from four Western countries;
the return of the objects is due in part to the spirit of cooperation
following the 2015 nuclear deal
** Mark Twain Museum Battles Mold
A malfunctioning HVAC system led to mold contaminating 5,000 artifacts in a
storage room, which will be restored over the next four months
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** Concorde's last journey
After 13 years languishing at the side of an airfield in Bristol, the iconic
supersonic plane was towed across an airfield to an indoor hangar in
preparation for it becoming the centrepiece of a new £19million aerospace
museum
** 3rd International Conference on Science and Engineering in Arts,
Heritage, and Archaeology (SEAHA)
The University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
** Call for Hosts/Venue for the ICOM Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC)
19th Triennial Conference in 2020
The Directory Board of ICOM-CC invites organisations to submit proposals
** Collection Care Audit Scheme For Smaller UK Museums
AIM has just launched a new scheme in partnership with Icon to enable small
museums to undertake a basic, professional collections care audit
** Aeroplanes reliant on magic to fly
The scientific world has been stunned by revelations that the principles of
aeronautics are a hoax and aeroplanes stay in the air simply by using good
old fashioned magic
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