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** The Risky Business of Restoring Leonardos
After a previous Leonardo restoration project at the Louvre resulted in
multiple staff resignations, the recent clean-up of “Saint John the Baptist”
took place under intense scrutiny
** Meet the 20 most influential curators of 2016
These curators created shows that reflected the nuances of human experience
in today’s world, expanded the parameters of art, or engaged in revisionist
histories, redressing systemic biases and enabling us to see past and
present art practices anew
** 6 Mesmerizing Videos of Museum Practitioners at Work
In the last decade, museums have had to embrace the kind of institutional
transparency that social media encourages, taking us behind the scenes as
they research, treat, and install the works of art in their collection
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** When Grown-Ups Party at the Children’s Museum
Museum administrators say it serves as an extra revenue stream, and a way to
reach an audience of younger adults, many of whom don’t have children but
are potential future family guests and philanthropic donors
** The Paleo Diet May Need a Rewrite
So how does the Lake Hula feast stack up to the modern Paleo diet?
Researchers say that the residents of the site probably needed meat to stay
healthy, but not as much as Fred Flintstone used to gobble
** Work On Largest East Africa Human History Museum Nears Completion
It is going to be the largest historical museum in East Africa and the first
to be constructed right at the site of pre-historic archaeological
discoveries
** The 1000-year-old Lost City Beneath The St Louis Suburbs
It was the largest pre-Columbian city in what became the United States,
bigger than London or Paris at the time: majestic urban architecture towered
over the swampy Mississippi River floodplains, blotting out the region's
tiny villages
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** British second world war shipwrecks destroyed by illegal scavenging
The commercial salvaging of war wrecks has caused significant upset among
veterans, historians and governments who want to preserve the final resting
place of sailors who went down with their ships
** Edward Snowden backers beam calls for pardon on Washington news museum
Activists display almost 4,000 notes from backers on the side of the
Newseum, an institution celebrating free speech near the White House
** Forensic technique reveals sex of prehistoric hand stencil artists
Prehistoric ancestors creating human hand stencils in caves 40,000 years ago
can now be identified as male or female with more than 90% accuracy
** Animals of Cuba: Big Bird
About six thousand years ago, Cuba was home to predatory owls,
Ornimegalonyx, that stood more than three feet tall
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** Virtual reality and the museum experience
From digital dinosaurs to simulated time travel – more and more museums are
discovering the benefits of virtual reality; the aim is to enhance visitors’
interactive experience and attract younger visitors
** That Thing With Feathers Trapped in Amber? It Was a Dinosaur Tail
While most palaeontologists dig up prehistoric bones from the ground, Lida
Xing hunts for fossils in the amber markets of Myanmar
** Crimean Artifacts Should Be Sent to Kiev, Amsterdam Court Rules
The judgment is an important moment in the protracted dispute between
Ukraine and the museums in Crimea that lent the pieces, including ancient
Scythian gold and Chinese lacquer boxes
** Henry VIII's lost palace of Nonsuch
The whimsical sounding Palace of Nonsuch was commissioned by Henry VIII in
1538 to rival Fontainebleau, the residence of the king’s arch competitor,
the French king François I
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** Forget the modernists – Turner and Stubbs are Britain's true radicals
Property developer Harry Hyams has left his art collection to the nation in
his will, and – Victorian sentimentality aside – it contains some of the
brightest jewels of British culture
** The Jericho Skull
The 9,500 year old Jericho skull at the British Museum, has been given a new
facial reconstruction, muscle by muscle, to reveal a three-dimensional
portrait of a middle-aged man with the help of CT scans
** Astronomer and Alchemist Tycho Brahe Died Full of Gold
Gold was ubiquitous throughout the higher social circles of Renaissance
Europe, which means there are many possible ways he was exposed: perhaps
scrapings from cutlery or plates of gold added it to his food, or maybe the
wine he drank had gold leaf in it
** How Museums Can Better Serve Local Arts and DIY Venues
Recently, museums have reimagined some of their programs to reach new
demographics, and have aggressively drawn inspiration from the very spaces
that were created as their alternatives
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** A new fragrance museum in Paris
Le Grand Musée du Parfum is divided in three parts: In one of them, visitors
can learn about the history of perfume, in another they get insight into the
profession of a perfume designer and, finally, they can explore some 70
different fragrances
** Heritage, Place, Design: Putting Tradition into Practice
Call for Papers
** International Congress On Wax Modelling
Madrid, 29-30 June 2017
** Mobility of University Heritage
XVIII Universeum Meeting
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius - You’ll balloon up to triple your weight after several months
spent following a diet-book typo that told you to eat 16,000 calories a day
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