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** Museum of Government Failure

What should be sold in the gift shop? Perhaps a Lego kit of the Bridge to Nowhere? T-shirts with the humorous “I am not a crook” line? Science kits with experiments in ethanol and other wasteful energy sources? Read more.

** Stolen statues: are art dealers that different from real estate agents?

Those with even a rudimentary knowledge of the art and antiquities market are rarely surprised at stories of fraud, theft or forgery

** Why is Picasso's granddaughter selling off paintings of his worth £200m?

Revenge on whom? Revenge on her celebrated grandfather, who mostly ignored her during his lifetime and let her grow up in near-poverty

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** LACMA to lend Damascus room, Islamic art to new Saudi museum

The Damascus room, dated to 1766, is an example of the reception areas in upper-class homes where the head of household entertained honourable guests

** Gates Foundation Uses Art to Encourage Vaccination

The intent is that their work will spread virally — in the digital sense — and be shared on social media with the hashtag #VaccinesWork to inspire a dialogue and donations

** Barcelona Design Museum - Homage to Catalonia

A lipstick-red, Barcelona-made 1962 Impala motorcycle has plenty of va-va-voom, but a black-and-gold coach (circa 1750) also inspires thoughts of fantasy drives, albeit ones taken in powdered wigs not black leather

** Study of ancient dogs in the Americas yields insights into human, dog migration

A new study suggests that dogs may have first successfully migrated to the Americas only about 10,000 years ago, thousands of years after the first human migrants crossed a land bridge from Siberia to North America

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** British Museum director Neil MacGregor must be saved for the nation

Cultural cross-pollination is all very well, but rumours that MacGregor is planning a move to Germany make a powerful case for a ban on certain human exports

** Elvis Presley's private jets up for sale

Two private planes owned by Elvis Presley - the Lisa Marie and Hound Dog II - are going up for auction

** 33 Million Things: The Secret World of Museums

Shelf Life is a collection for curious minds - opening doors, pulling out drawers, and taking the lids off some of the incredible, rarely-seen items in the American Museum of Natural History

** Silk Road exhibit represents new direction of A Denver Museum

For the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2015 represents not just a new year but also a new phase of its development

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** German museum is devoted to country's beloved sausage

The show about Nuremberg Rostbratwurst fills the first level of Stadtmuseum Fembohaus and is a first step toward deciding whether the city should open a permanent bratwurst museum

** 1.5 million visitors to Auschwitz museum in 2014 sets record

It was the highest attendance ever at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial in Poland, according to its museum

** History of Rapa Nui on Easter Island far more complex than thought

A team of researchers has uncovered evidence that contradicts the conventional view of the demographic collapse of the Rapa Nui people living on Easter Island, both before and after European contact

** Tiny Giants

Tiny Giants follows the titanic challenges that small animals face as they make their way in a much bigger world

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** Japan's Ghibli Museum

From the Cat Bus Room, we climbed up the caged, circular staircase to see the five-meter tall Robot Soldier and replica Command Cube from Laputa Castle in the Sky up close

** A Digital Museum for New York’s Unclaimed Dead

The over one million people buried on New York City’s Hart Island are unified by their invisibility

** A museum to crow about

There are nearly 2,100 taxidermy mounts, including the Pompadour Cotingna, a Blue-tailed Roller, an African Pied Kingfisher, a Manx Shearwater, a pair of Golden Eagles and more species of warbler than you can count

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** Museum apologizes for Lego gunman in front of model police station

A central Ohio art museum has apologized after a visitor examining a Lego model of Columbus noticed it included a Lego figure with a gun pointing at the front door of the model police station

** Atlantis' Legendary Metal Found in Shipwreck

Gleaming cast metal called orichalcum, which was said by Ancient Greeks to be found in Atlantis, has been recovered from a ship that sank 2,600 years ago off the coast of Sicily

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