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** Intimate apparel: a history of lingerie

A new exhibition at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology examines the history of underwear, from 18th century woollen corsets to the invention of the modern bra.

** Taiwan town to lock up its treasures

The city of Tainan plans to build a fine arts museum at the site of a former police station.

** Scientists try save only existing self-portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci

Scientists are close to deciding how to restore a fading chalk sketch believed to be the only existing self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci, following a hi-tech study of the paper.

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** Palaces of The Seas: The Golden Age of French Ocean Liners

Features the golden age of travel on French ocean liners in the late 19th and early 20th century.

** Broad Collection sues engineering firm over museum facade

The Broad Collection is seeking at least $19.8 million in damages from Seele and its insurers because of extra costs stemming from delays

** Te Papa puts part of national collection online for free

From this week, 30,000 high-quality, high-resolution images are available for free download and reuse from Te Papa's Collections Online website, as part of its commitment to providing open access licensing to images in the national collection.

** Vandals destroy prehistoric rock art in Libya's lawless Sahara

The art, painted or carved on rocks sandwiched by spectacular sand dunes, showcase the changing flora and fauna of the Sahara stretching over thousands of years.

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** Oil-soaked rags start museum fire

CCTV footage of a fire at the Waikato Museum which burned carvings and part of a 200-year-old waka showed it started when rags of linseed oil spontaneously combusted

** First Nation offended by Canadian Museum for Human Rights

The use of water as a symbol of healing at Winnipeg's Canadian Museum for Human Rights is "hugely ironic".

** Marilyn Monroe’s World War II Drone Program

Working 10 hours a day for $20 a week in a World War II defence plant 70 years ago was 18-year-old Norma Jeane Dougherty, wife of a young United States merchant seaman assigned overseas.

** The World's Oldest Pair of Pants Are 3,000 Years Old

Hipsters of the world, take note: Drop-crotch pants were in way before MC Hammer and Justin Bieber wore them.

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** Swiss museum to vet Gurlitt inheritance

The Swiss museum designated as the sole heir of German collector Cornelius Gurlitt’s trove of priceless art says it plans to vet the collection first before deciding whether to accept it.

** Picture that proves Man hunted the woolly mammoth

These unique photographs seen by the world for the first time show the wounded vertebrae of the woolly mammoth found in Siberia.

** Artifacts With a Life All Their Own

What gives these objects, documents, books, recordings and images such power?

** Record of largest-ever Nazi art hoard made public for first time

A German auction house has made its records from the Nazi era public for the first time, in what could be a major breakthrough in the quest to recover art works looted during the Second World War

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** The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Chairs for Viewing the World through Time

Valuable exhibits from the collections of museums around the world will be put on display for the first time in Hong Kong.

** Canada’s Titanic: The Sinking of the Empress of Ireland

In 1914, the CPR ship RMS Empress of Ireland sank off the coast of Rimouski, Quebec, just 14 minutes after it was struck by a Norwegian coal ship.

** 2014 International Symposium on Culture, Arts and Literature

The aim of the conference is meant to offer a forum for honourable scholars and well-known professors to meet and discuss the cutting-edge researches on culture, art, and literature.

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** Archaeology’s poisonous past

Most U.S. ethnographic collections are contaminated with toxins. Will new cleaning methods help tribes reclaim artifacts?

** Museum exhibits Van Gogh's ear replica grown from relative's cells

Copy of artist's ear is made of living cells grown from samples provided by the great-great-grandson of Van Gogh's brother

** This Week's Horoscopes

Aries - Love has been compared to many, many things, but thanks to your unique outsider's perspective, you'll be the first to spot its uncanny resemblance to the international bauxite market.

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