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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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** University Museum Challenges

The Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay, Wales, on the 25-26th June 2014.

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** The Jane Austen Series 2014

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