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** Archaeologists reunite Ice Age lion figurine with its head

An ivory fragment discovered in a German cave has been revealed as the missing piece of the lion’s head and has been reunited with the intricately carved animal figure, just over 80 years since the Ice Age sculpture was found.

** These People Love to Collect Radioactive Glass. Are They Nuts?

Everyone who collects Vaseline glass knows it’s got uranium in it, which means everyone who comes in contact with Vaseline glass understands they’re being irradiated.

** Taking Punk To The Masses

The world's most extensive exhibition of memorabilia celebrating the music and history of Seattle grunge luminaries, Nirvana

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** When can I take my kid to a museum?

People think that they should not start bringing their children to museums until elementary school, but that is so not true.

** Huntington Library acquires rare Chinese illustrated book

It was published in 1633 by Hu Zhengyan, a calligrapher and seal-carver who named the book after his studio in Nanjing, which was a gathering place for his many artistic friends

** The Great Giant Flea Hunt

The flea, Hystrichopsylla schefferi, is an awe-inspiring colossus that can reach nearly half an inch, its head alone the size of a cat or dog flea.

** Possible Rodin and Degas works found at Gurlitt home

Two sculptures, possibly by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas, have been discovered in the home of the late art hoarder Cornelius Gurlitt.

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** Discarded Museum is Resurrected at Brown

In 1945, Brown University’s natural history museum, which included multitudes of animal skeletons and specimens among its 50,000 items, as well as anthropological curiosities like rope made from human hair, was thrown away.

** Fitzwilliam Museum bids for weeping virgin sculpture

A museum has revealed plans to acquire a 17th Century wooden bust of the weeping virgin, said to be one of the finest examples of its kind.

** Museum honours Cuba's revolutionaries

A former rebel's museum keeps alive memories of the July 26, 1953 veterans who launched Cuba's revolution

** Private Chinese museum to display Japanese invasion evidence

The evidence includes letters of Japanese soldiers, official documents during the bombings, propaganda pictorials boasting of military achievements, shell debris and Japanese officers' swords.

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** Asian Art Collector Sues Museum Built for Her Collection

The collector is suing the museum to which she pledged her $30 million collection - some 1,700 objects including jades, bronzes, stone sculptures, and photographs.

** Fickle art market hurts Delaware Art Museum sales

Facing an October deadline from creditors, the museum board voted last spring to sell up to four artworks in its 12,500-piece collection to raise $30 million to repay the construction debt and replenish the endowment, which had been depleted for years to cover operational expenses.

** S.Africa shantytown forces anti-apartheid museum to close

South African shantytown residents have forced the closure of a museum honouring anti-apartheid heroes, accusing the authorities of building "a house for dead people" while they live in squalor.

** Kabul museum workers 'risked death' to protect priceless Afghan treasures now on display

Five workers from the Kabul Museum risked their lives to protect the objects during the country's bloody civil war, and one of the workers has now come to Perth to share his story.

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** Mammoth and mastodon behaviour was less roam, more stay at home

Their scruffy beards weren't ironic, but there are reasons mammoths and mastodons could have been the hipsters of the Ice Age.

** Bloodshed Can’t Derail Construction of Palestinian Museum

New cultural institutions often run into unexpected difficulties and setbacks during construction, but the new Palestinian Museum in the West Bank is facing a uniquely threatening challenge because of the worsening fighting between Israel and Palestine.

** The Posters That Sold World War I to the American Public

The government didn’t have time to waste while its citizens made up their minds about joining the fight..

** Viking warriors and treasures are buried beneath Dublin

A massive research project, 15 years in the making, has revealed that beneath Dublin’s modern streets lies a trove of buried Viking warriors and artifacts.

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** Siena Charter proposed by ICOM Italy

More than 250 museum professionals from Italy, Europe and Japan, as well as a number of Italian and international cultural organisations, met in Siena, Italy for discussions on “Museums and Cultural Landscapes”, the theme of the 2016 ICOM General Conference

** Lost Museums: Colloquium on the Ephemerality and Afterlives of Museum Collections

Call for Proposals. Brown University, Providence, R.I.

** This Week's Horoscopes

Aries - Your fear of change means that spending the next few centuries in a block of ice will be extremely soothing, at least until the New Reformed Xalfraxian Alliance thaws you out

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