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** 'Waterloo? That's an Abba song, not a battle'
The Duke’s leather wellington boots will be on display, along with his
battle sword, campaign silver, and a collection of handwritten battle orders
never shown in public before
** Museum Hats explores the Silk Road
The exhibition presents a colourful selection of headdresses, hats and,
skullcaps from the Fling Collection and examines the history, provenance
and, cultural backgrounds from which the works come
** First in Flight? Connecticut Stakes a Claim
Mr. Whitehead’s supporters say the Smithsonian’s opinion is coloured by
politics, and that its curators are bound by a contract that requires them
to deny that anyone flew before the Wrights
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** A Patronizing Argument Against Cultural Repatriation
One of the most patronizing arguments used by supporters to defend museums’
rights to keep such artifacts is that had colonial powers not taken these
objects, they would have been destroyed in the conflicts and disasters
** Bearded men bottles to ward off 17th century witches
Typical contents included bent bronze pins, bent nails, human hair, nail
clippings and urine
** The horror of it was more than I can describe
Force-feeding was used in British prisons against hunger-striking
suffragettes from 1909 and against hunger-striking conscientious objectors
during and after World War I
** Conservation of a clove boat
My workbench temporarily turned into something close to a shipyard when a
model boat made of cloves arrived in the Organic Artefacts Conservation
Studio
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** After Losing His Sight This Painter Feels The Colours On His Canvas
Through sense of touch he is able to determine the correct paint colour,
noting that "because oil paints are made from different substances they have
a viscosity and texture that varies slightly from colour to colour."
** Fake bats, non-people and soccer tips from Chairman Mao
From the cult of Mao to Tiananmen Square and the man who sifted through half
a million discarded negatives at a dump in Beijing, a new exhibition traces
over a century of strange and sensational Chinese visuals
** Aboriginal Australian Art Tells the Most Important Ancient Stories
Most of what we call Aboriginal art is a modern solution to the desperate
problem of communicating with an uncomprehending world
** Why I require FBI agents to visit the Holocaust Museum
The Holocaust was also the most horrific display in world history of our
humanity, of our capacity for evil and for moral surrender
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** Elton John’s glasses stolen from Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum
Sir Elton John watches over the Rock N Soul Museum, but someone wasn’t
watching when a crook took off with his famous heart-shaped shades
** How ISIS created a terrorist art market
The ideologically-driven destruction of priceless Iraqi artifacts by Islamic
State may be a ruse that actually hides a much more cynical operation, in
which fakes are smashed to pieces while real treasures are smuggled out of
the country and sold on the black market to fund the terrorist army
** How Einstein's Brain Ended Up at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia
It’s hard to say what Einstein would have thought about his brain’s ultimate
destination: He was rather direct about what he wanted to happen to his body
after he died
** Feds Disclose Recording Of Gardner Museum Heist Suspect Negotiating Sale
Of Art
The Hartford mobster the FBI believes may be the last, best hope for
tracking down hundreds of millions of dollars in art stolen from Boston's
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, has been arrested again, and a prosecutor
disclosed that the FBI has a recording of Gentile negotiating the sale of
stolen Gardner paintings with an undercover operative
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** Peter Jackson opens World War I museum in New Zealand
Taking a break from filmmaking, Peter Jackson has created a museum
exhibition he hopes will broaden people's perception of World War I from
monochrome to colour
** Residents outraged as History Museum sells artifacts to auction firm
Last week, a dumpster appeared in front of the Victorian and Craemer said
prized museum relics were thrown out as trash
** Rethinking extinction
Viewing every conservation issue through the lens of extinction threat is
simplistic and usually irrelevant
** Top scientist at Natural History Museum sacked for insisting 'I've seen
Nessie'
Secret files reveal how eminent zoologist Dr Denys Tucker fired from Natural
History Museum in 1960 after claiming to have spotted Loch Ness Monster
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** New museum showcases history of Indians in Singapore
Nestled in the heart of Little India, amid its busy streets and alleyways,
is a new museum that houses ancient artefacts dating back to Indian empires
of yore
** Belonging
Galway International Summer School on the Arts and Human Rights
** Victorian Futures: Culture, democracy and the state on the road to
Olympicopolis
Thursday 14 May - Friday 15 May 2015
** Culture across Boundaries
Conference on museum challenges and possibilities for future Nordic
collaboration
** This Week's Horoscope
Libra - You thought whale-watching sounded harmless enough, but now that
they've decided to watch you back, it's really starting to become a problem
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