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** CT scan finds mummified monk inside 1,000-year-old Buddha

A Chinese statue of the Buddha dating back to around 1100 AD is more than just a statue -- it's the final resting place of a Buddhist master

** Two New Cézanne Works Discovered by Barnes Foundation Museum

A conservation treatment of some Barnes watercolours has revealed two previously unknown Cézanne works — a graphite drawing and a watercolour with graphite — on the verso (the reverse side) of two of the watercolors

** Museum lets 'Imitation Game' fans encrypt their own codes

A little-known war museum outside Boston is drawing back the curtain on a key secret of "The Imitation Game," giving visitors a rare chance to use the complex Nazi Enigma coding machines

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** Rothschild Family Treasures Find a Resting Place in Boston

The George Romney painting, confiscated by the Nazis in 1938 along with some 3,500 other treasures from the family’s palaces, was discovered in Austria’s salt mines by Allied forces after the war

** How a Museum Can Help Make Science Accessible

Behind the scenes, the American Museum of Natural History is a mix of education, teaching and research that uses some 33 million artifacts—everything from bones to textiles—to spark discovery

** Museum staff thought this fossil was a plaster model, but it turned out to be a new species

A newly discovered species of ichthyosaur — an aquatic reptile resembling a toothy dolphin that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs — languished in a British museum for 30 years

** Scientists use modern techniques to unearth the secrets of ancient Indian sword making

The process, known as neutron diffraction, involves placing the material in a beam of the particles and studying the resulting pattern

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** Just How Does a Wax Museum Survive in the Digital Age?

After taking down the ropes that once separated wax figures from their admirers in the 1990s, the houses have become a tactile, interactive celebrity experience that counteracts our digital lives

** Solving a Museum’s Bug Problem With Lego

An entomologist from London is using his favourite childhood toy to build a device that holds fragile insect specimens

** Death of the art museum?

Art museums are a holdover from an elitist, patriarchal society that force-fed us hand-picked culture

** A sneak peek at the Broad museum

Curious artists, journalists and art world figures streamed through the airy, light-filled space for a one-day sneak peek inside the museum

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** Estonian museum apologizes for exhibit making light of Holocaust

Controversial installations featured nude men and women playing tag in a gas chamber and man pointing to a sign proclaiming Holocaust in the style of the Hollywood sign

** Norwegian Artisan Creates 3D Printed Replica of 6th-Century Sword

Nils Anderssen used his expertise to produce a stunningly accurate reproduction of a 6th-century, double-edged, iron sword with a bronze hilt, which was originally crafted in Snartemo in Southern Norway

** The men who smuggle the loot that funds IS

The trade in antiquities is one of Islamic State's main sources of funding, along with oil and kidnapping

** NYC museum wants to honour ‘bank-robbing’ professor

He robbed banks, saying it was for “art” — and now the curator of the taxpayer-funded Queens Museum wants to honour him

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** Possible leads in $500 million Boston museum robbery 25 years later

A new book reveals that a small-time gangster may have masterminded the audacious 1990 robbery that relieved Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of a $500 million haul of masterworks

** Major archaeological dig underway at Empress Place

The project organised by the National Heritage Board hopes to unearth artefacts from the Temasek period to Singapore's early colonial days, to add to the understanding of the Republic's early beginnings

** Toledo Museum to return 450-year-old astrological tool to German museum

The astrolabe was used to tell time and make astronomical calculations less than 50 years after Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition circumnavigated the globe by sea for the first time

** Beyond Bedlam: infamous mental hospital's new museum opens

Bethlem Museum of the Mind tackles hospital’s history head on with displays of shackles and ankle tags, striking sculptures and paintings by patients past and present

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** Did aliens send this metal orb to seed life on Earth?

Riddle of microscopic sphere found 16 miles up, oozing slime which may contain microorganisms

** Rethinking University Museums: Bridging Theory and Practice

15th Annual Conference of University Museum and Collections (UMAC)

** Rubens in Private. The master portrays his family

In the spring of 2015, the Rubens House will be holding a unique exhibition of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) as the portrait painter of his relatives

** American Material Culture: Nineteenth-Century New York

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** Archaeologists Uncover Greek Amphitheatre Where First Man Saved Seats

While excavating the amphitheatre, we found a length of linen fibres spread across multiple seats, suggesting that an ancient dickhead most likely arrived early and laid down his tunic to designate that the spaces beside him were taken

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