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** Anthrax Letters, Now on View, Represent the Serious Threats Faced by the Post Office

The National Postal Museum's "Behind the Badge" exhibit explores the history and legacy of the United States Postal Inspection Service.

** The 10 Un-Politically Correct Museums That Might Offend You

These museums have — sometimes on purpose, more often not — amassed collections of some of the world’s most politically incorrect artifacts.

** The Early Days: Bugs Bunny

He looks spry enough, but your old friend Bugs Bunny is over the hill

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** Museum hosts annual turtle walks

The Museum of Discovery and Science hosted its annual series of turtle walks, where participants can follow guides from the museum while they search out loggerhead sea turtles as they climb ashore to lay eggs.

** Couple who Stole Baby Dinosaur Replica from Museum Arrested, Charged

Before that theft, the pair had stolen small props from a few exhibits at the Museum of History across the street.

** Festival of Archaeology 2014: Medieval rings, Bronze Age hoards and Iron Age discoveries

So it begins to ask questions of what we understand about money and who is making the coins – are they being made here rather than being brought over?.

** Helsinki Divided on Plan for a Guggenheim Satellite

City boosters in this Nordic capital dream of a Guggenheim museum of Finnish wood rising near the Baltic Sea and one day drawing millions of tourists and cruise passengers.

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** A Duke’s Gilded Haven, Recreated in Paris

The pieces came from the interior of a townhouse built near the Louvre around 1707 for Philippe II, the duke of Orléans, a nephew of Louis XIV.

** Thinking of applying for an Italian museum job? Don't

Every now and again they appoint a foreigner in the hope of getting a bit of that magical know-how, and then they get rid of him or her in humiliating, destructive and unprofessional ways that in the UK or US would be inconceivable.

** Original copies of Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights to be displayed on 800th anniversary of Magna Carta

In its 2015 exhibition, Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, marking the 800th anniversary of the immortal document, the British Library will show original copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights

** Inside the new WWI galleries at the Imperial War Museum

Objects on display rang from a Sopwith Camel fighter plane to a button from a German tunic that was given to a British soldier as a gift during the 1914 Christmas Truce.

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** Repentant counterfeiter finds a second artistic wind

The former art teacher from Staffordshire, was once one of Britain’s most prolific forgers – an activity which earned him a 12-month prison sentence and provided the inspiration for his jail painting Pigeon and Apple View from E Wing

** Cape Town carves out major new African art museum

On Cape Town's waterfront at the southern tip of Africa, the world's biggest museum of contemporary art from across the continent is being carved from a conglomeration of concrete tubes nine storeys high.

** Newly Discovered Extinct Fox Used Tibet as Training Ground for Ice Age

The finding lends support to the idea that the evolution of present-day animals of the Arctic region is intimately connected to ancestors that first became adapted for life in cold regions in the high-altitude environments of the Tibetan plateau.

** What the 9/11 museum could learn from two Latin American memorials

It is difficult to say at which point during my visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum I went from sombre to irritated

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** Museum raises $80M toward Detroit bankruptcy deal

The Detroit Institute of Arts says it has pledges for about 80 percent of the $100 million it promised toward an effort involving the state of Michigan and major foundations to prevent the sale of art and soften cuts to city retirees during Detroit's bankruptcy.

** Museum displays skull of pro-Nazi officer who was executed with his own gun after WW2 atrocities

The display also features gold teeth extracted from Jews as they entered Auschwitz, muzzles used to German Shepherd dogs who patrolled the camps and attacked prisoners, and a series of syringes used in brutal medical tests on prisoners

** Ancient Native Americans Ate Pachyderms

At a Mexican site known as the End of the World, archaeologists have unearthed a Native American first: the bones of two extinct elephant-like animals that sported four tusks apiece, surrounded by 13,400-year-old spear points.

** How presidential museums become propaganda palaces

At presidential museums, even the cynical melt before multimillion-dollar efforts to portray scoundrels as leaders.

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** Assimilation into Han Culture: The Ancient Funerary Pottery of Guangxi

Features 76 items/sets of rare burial pottery dating from the Western Han to the Southern Dynasties including model houses, granaries, wells, stoves, and boat and animal figurines

** The Future of Natural History Museums: Relevance, Balance and Innovation

The 2014 ICOM NATHIST conference is kindly being hosted The Croatian Museums of Zagorje from 11 to 16 October.

** 2014 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage

The Museum of Underwater Archaeology is proud to announce the launch of the online proceedings for the 2014 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage

** Memory and Learning in a Changing World

Annual Conference of IC Memo (International Committee of Memorial Museums)

** New Study Finds Most Of Earth’s Oxygen Used For Complaining

By carefully measuring the processes of gas exchange, the respiratory capacities of living organisms, and resulting metabolic activities, we discovered that most oxygen molecules in Earth’s troposphere are used for the purposes of sighing, whining, and most commonly, complaining

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