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** From Napoleon to the Nazis: the 10 most notorious looted artworks

After the Romans it became standard practice for a victor to remove all treasure from the vanquished, to weaken their status

** Conserving Stained-Glass Records at Corning Museum

British stained-glass scholars largely ignore Victorian manufacturers, concentrating instead on their country’s less-plentiful medieval and Arts and Crafts windows

** Smithsonian unveils $2 billion plan to revamp part of National Mall

The $2 billion project would be paid for by private and federal funds, but Smithsonian officials were uncertain of the exact sources

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** Glittering world: Navajo jewellery of the Yazzie family

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the National Museum of the American Indian is displaying 300 pieces of jewellery made by one Native American family in New Mexico

** Victorian art 'comes home' to London house

The heady scent of roses and a billionaire’s collection of Victorian art have filled one of the most startling interiors in London – the flamboyant former home and studio of the 19th-century painter Sir Frederick Leighton

** Artist searches for needle in haystack at Paris museum

In the past he has eaten poisonous mushrooms in front of a rapt audience, and spent 24 hours in a locked room with a cow

** Mapping Mistake Threatens 1,400 Chimpanzees and Newly Discovered Endangered Plant

How’s this for irony?: A newly discovered plant named after the reserve in which it is supposedly found is endangered because the reserve isn’t actually located where people thought it was

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** Signs of the Evolutionary Step From Land to Sea

The Ichthyosaur specimen, which lived about 248 million years ago, had unusually large flippers that could have been used to walk on land

** How mobile tech is changing the way we make and enjoy art

We’re already so accustomed to mobile technology that experiencing art through it feels as natural as any other interface

** All those new museums? Now, the facts…

No fudge on budget: Guido Guerzoni, the project manager for Venice’s M9 museum, provides valuable data on more than 600 museums built since 1995

** Rembrandt: the artist giving philosemitism a good name

Philosemitism – the appreciation of Jewish culture – has been hotly debated of late, in the wake of a new book and against a backdrop of Middle Eastern conflict

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** $250 Million Turkish Museum Heist Was an Inside Job

An anonymous caller has cracked open an organized crime syndicate that stole up to 302 works of art from Turkey's State Art and Sculpture Museum, located in the capital, Ankara

** Met Unveils 15th-Century Statue Restored After It Shattered

It was one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s greatest embarrassments: On a Sunday evening in 2002, the pedestal housing Adam, a 15th-century marble statue, gave way, sending the 770-pound nude crashing to the ground

** A toast for a museum back from the brink

No museum in American history has ever gone through anything like what the DIA just endured in Detroit's historic bankruptcy

** Dance With Death Through Victorian Mourning Culture

For those visitors who want to do more than admire, or acquire, the Morbid Anatomy Museum has lectures and workshops on making a bat in a jar and Victorian hair art

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** Aluminium Debris Identified as Amelia Earhart Artifact

A piece of aluminium recovered from an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific Ocean has been identified to a high degree of certainty as a patch that had been applied to Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra on a stop during her attempt to circumnavigate the globe

** The British Museum shows off Germany's technical brilliance – and its hard-won soul

As the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall arrives, a British Museum exhibition is a reminder of the incredible richness of German arts and crafts – and shows us how history can have a happy ending

** 10 Best Military museums that bring battles to life

Despite their dramatic topic, military museums used to be dry stuffy collections, mainly appealing to soldiers and scholars

** Woolly Mammoth Mummy Yields Well-Preserved Brain

The mummified carcass of the 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth, which included the brain with folds and blood vessels visible, was found in August 2010 on the Laptev Sea coast near Yukagir, Russia

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** Gunpowder Plot 'Demon Trap Witchmark' Carvings To Protect A King

A collection of 17th century engraved “witchmarks” intended to ward off evil spirits has been discovered

** Engaging Spaces - Interpretation, Design and Digital Strategies

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