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** Why Museums Are Very Cool and Should Be Visited Often

Museums are like being on Wikipedia, except you're in the real world, and you're not just clicking links that lead you to pages with more information, but looking at the actual work of art itself.

** UK museums send loans to Kremlin Museums

An exhibition celebrating the work of the Scottish designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, featuring loans from leading UK museums, has opened in the Kremlin Museums, Moscow, despite rising tension between the UK and Russian governments.

** Brian May's collection of 3D stereoscopic photography at Tate Britain

The Victorian craze for 3D stereoscopic photography is to be the subject of a major gallery exhibition for the first time - thanks to former Queen guitarist Brian May.

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** Renaissance masterpiece warped by Rome museum's faulty air conditioning

A Renaissance masterpiece by Raphael has warped because the air conditioning in a Rome museum has not worked for six months, raising questions once again over.

** Pocahontas' First Marriage

Pocahontas's first marriage was to an Indian warrior named Kocoum and that this first marriage produced her first son, whose ancestors survive today.

** German museum agrees to study on contested Native American scalp

Scientists from the Karl May Museum in the eastern town of Radebeul near Dresden will begin an investigation to shed light on the provenance of one of 17 scalps in its collections.

** Scientist discusses his research on the world's largest-ever flying bird

These spectacular, giant birds occurred all over the globe for tens of millions of years, but vanished during the Pliocene, just three million years ago.

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** Would you confess your fears... at an exhibition?

If there's one lesson to take away, it's how obscure human nature is, and what a struggle it is to shine even a little light on ourselves.

** Richard III's Rich Diet of Fish and Exotic Birds

A chemical analysis of the teeth and bones of King Richard III reveals that his diet was decadent even by standards of medieval royalty.

** Shirt worn by bin Laden's killer bound for museum

The shirt worn by the Navy SEAL who fatally shot Osama bin Laden in 2011 will be put on display at the 9/11 Memorial Museum ..

** German museum holds show on departing Soviet troops

The German-Russian Museum in Berlin is marking a harmonious event not long ago that hardly seems real when set against the tensions between the two countries today.

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** Consultants Warn of "Explosive" Gas Danger at Proposed Oscar Museum

The risk, they declare, could potentially harm construction workers and, eventually, visitors.

** Two Singapore museums closing many areas for big revamps

Heritage lovers have expressed disappointment after hearing that two of Singapore's popular museums will be closing many of their exhibits for major revamps through most of next year - the country's 50th anniversary.

** London's Imperial War Museum revisits horrors of World War I

In "Feeding the Front," visitors of all ages can "make" food, boots, and shells through digital animations at the "Supply Line," a 13-foot-long interactive table that demonstrates the unprecedented scale of homeland production required to keep the troops fed and fighting.

** Psychedelic Culture Tripped Circa 500 A.D.

Sophisticated drug paraphernalia, complete with a hippy-looking headband, provide evidence that an elite, hallucinogen-using culture flourished at around 500 A.D. in the south-central Andes and lasted there for at least another 600 years

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** Several injured in Reno as experiment goes awry at Discovery Museum

A minor explosion during a science experiment at a children's museum in Reno has burned several children and forced the evacuation of the museum.

** World's Oldest Wine Cellar Fuelled Palatial Parties

Israel isn't particularly famous for its wine today, but four thousand years ago, during the Bronze Age, vineyards in the region produced vintages that were prized throughout the Mediterranean and imported by the Egyptian elite.

** America's best small town museums

Many small towns also offer detour-worthy museums, some housed in spectacular historic spaces-old factories, former army bases, Beaux-Arts estates, Victorian mansions-and others built from scratch by internationally renowned architects like Zaha Hadid and Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron.

** Adolf Hitler's birthplace to be Holocaust museum

Under the new plan, proposed by Austrian historian Andreas Maislinger, the building will be dedicated to depicting the crimes against humanity committed by Hitler's Third Reich.

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** China's museum boom hatches roast duck tribute

Among the country's more bizarre offerings are museums dedicated to watermelons, socks and even concrete

** International Conference: Ancient Cultures in the Lands of the Bible

Jerusalem, June 2015

** Building Global Citizens Through Literature

April 9 & 10, 2015

** This Week's Horoscopes

Sagittarius - Next week will be a joyful whirlwind of magic, laughter, and romance, so it's too bad you're going to miss the whole thing.

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