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** Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery?
During the height of the interstate slave trade, when Richmond trailed only
New Orleans in sales, Lumpkin's was arguably the most infamous slave jail in
the center of the city's chattel business
** Kakiemon and 400 years of porcelain
Historically, the Kakiemon workshop produced some of the most exquisite
porcelain for export to Europe and the Middle East, notably in the later
1600s
** Escape Tunnel, Dug by Hand, Is Found at Holocaust Massacre Site
A team of archaeologists and mapmakers say they have uncovered a forgotten
tunnel that 80 Jews dug largely by hand as they tried to escape from a Nazi
extermination site in Lithuania about 70 years ago
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** The Great British seaside museum collections come together
Visits to Britain's fabled seaside locations are soaring as Brits rediscover
the peculiar attraction of crazy golf, piers, candy floss, donkey poo and
something quintessentially British
** Art Experts Blast Bavarian Museums' Attempt to Rebut Nazi Loot Claims
Report shows that after World War II, Germany returned Nazi-looted artworks
to Nazi-connected families, rather than the victims they were stolen from
** What are the implications of Brexit for museums?
The Museums Association predicts that the financial impact on the sector is
likely to be substantial, with further tightening of public spending likely,
valuable cultural and scientific links severed, and the loss of EU culture,
education and research funding streams
** Scientists Do A Detailed Exam Of The Body Of One Of The Greatest-Ever
Castrati
The remains of Pacchierotti were exhumed for the first time in 2013, for a
research in the reconstruction of his biological profile, to understand the
secrets behind his sublime voice and how the castration influenced the body
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** Isil rampage continues with destruction of the Temple of Nabu
The destruction of the Temple of Nabu in the Assyrian city of Nimrud in
northern Iraq by the Islamic State (Isil) has been condemned by UNESCO and a
leading UK archaeologist
** An Immigrant's Contribution to Mount Rushmore Is Recognized
Set in stone is supposed to mean immutable, but Luigi Del Bianco's
determined descendants just now appear to be winning the official
affirmation that the Italian-American from Westchester County deserved long
ago for shaping one of the nation's most famous monuments
** Revisiting Hubert Robert and His Romantic Ruins
In the 1780s, Robert chronicled the breakdown of aristocratic society in
images of the destruction of royalist monuments, and he was imprisoned
during the French Revolution
** Lake Ontario shipwreck discovered
Shipwreck explorers affiliated with the National Museum of the Great Lakes
have discovered the wreckage of a ship that sank in Lake Ontario in 1868
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** Museum of Natural History adds new mystery to Bird Hall
Mops and brooms have been replaced with 3-D holograms of random animals that
appear when a visitor opens the door, located in the museum's Bird Hall
** Deeper underground: a new Czech museum is a Palaeolithic treasure trove
The excavation of a complex of settlements from the Palaeolithic era in
Lower Vestonice and Pavlov in Southern Moravia, near the Czech-Austrian
borders, revealed a number of stone and bone tools, art objects and human
skeletal remains, worth decades of extensive research
** Museum marks Somme centenary with tribute to 'inglorious wounded'
A simple Victorian leg splint saved many more lives: before it was
reintroduced 80% of those with fractured thigh bones died from blood loss as
they were carried from the battlefield over rough ground
** Largest Urartian Museum to open in Turkey's east
The Urartian Museum, the construction of which started in 2012 after the
main museum in the city was badly damaged during the major earthquake in the
eastern province of Van in 2011, will house thousands of artifacts from the
Urartian civilization
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** Aging Air and Space Museum could be grounded without new money
The National Air and Space Museum is asking Congress for the largest
investment of federal funding in Smithsonian history - and if Congress can't
deliver, America's most popular museum might in time have to close its doors
** Museum struggles to keep wax figures cool after thieves steal AC units
Nearly 20 floor fans were positioned throughout the museum, blowing near the
life-sized wax figures created in the image of notables such as Miles Davis,
Percy Green and Dred Scott
** Lt. Gov. suggests selling State Museum's French Quarter storage building
Tucked inside an unmarked, nondescript corner building on Chartres Street in
the French Quarter are hundreds of thousands of carefully catalogued
artifacts spanning more than three centuries of Louisiana's cultural
heritage
** The party's over as New York's top museums feel the pinch
One wants to be at an institution that's aspirational, that's pushing
boundaries, so there's always going to be recalibration
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** Denver Shadow Catching
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS) traces its beginnings to a
single log cabin that Edwin Carter's collections were originally housed in a
log cabin
** Gendering Museum Histories
The Museums and Galleries History Group (MGHG)
** Virtual Museum of Canada's 11 New Projects
The Internet is about to get a little more Canadian
** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn - There are certain species of bear which mind their own business
and don't attack or eat humans. You will not meet any such bears this week.
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