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** Can museums create common ground in diverse societies?

Cultural institutions are not an obvious tool for advancing immigration reform and promoting tolerance; but museums have long played a starring role in creating nations and spreading national values

** Gardner Museum heist video has led to tips but still no arrests

Even though the statute of limitations for prosecuting the two men who dressed as police officers in 1990 and pulled off the heist is up, the FBI, Justice Department and the museum want the art back

** 3D-printed classic paintings allow the blind to 'see' fine art for the first time

The real power of this initiative comes with the fact using 3D-printing technology creates the opportunity for global reach; the low cost-renditions could potentially be printed across the world, wherever there's a 3D-printer at hand

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** Frozen Lion Cubs Still Have Their Fur 12,000 Years Later

It’s the first time in history that a cave lion, although it is a cub and not a grown-up animal, was found with all the fur, internal organs and soft parts of the body so well-preserved

** The Bankrupt Irishman Who Created The Dollar Sign By Accident

Just as swiftly as he found himself among the upper echelon of American revolutionaries, Pollock disappeared from their ranks, becoming only a footnote in their successful quest for independence from Britain

** Frescoes stolen from ancient tomb go on display in Italy

Police were led to the pieces, all dating from around 400 BC, after an international trafficker known as "The Captain" died in a road accident, leaving thousands of photographs of archaeological finds in his car

** Australian Museum includes controversial choices among its top 50 explorers

The exhibition draws from the museum's 18 million artefacts, and features more than 360 artefacts, including the coat given to Captain Cook in Hawaii and a 100-year-old traditional silver-plated wooden saddle brought back from Kazakhstan by Cope

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** Beijing shuts down art exhibition on violence against women

Gallery planning to exhibit feminist works celebrating attempts to combat violence against women forced to close down hours before opening

The Clockmakers' Museum: Keeping Time

The world’s oldest clock and watch collection recently found itself facing a very contemporary crisis: homelessness, a victim of the scorching-hot London real estate market

** Italy art critics, politicians recriminate after $16 million paintings heist

Recent visits to museums and galleries have no statistically significant link with how happy people feel, according to a new analysis published by UK's department of culture, media and sport

** Painting saved by 16th century recycling and 21st century conservation

Painted in bright oil colours, with details picked out in silver and gold leaf, the lively scene from c.1460 is all the more astonishing as it depicts the moment of Christ’s betrayal, by Judas Iscariot

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** DNA study confirms London was an ethnically diverse city from its very beginnings

A DNA analysis of four ancient Roman skeletons found in London shows the first inhabitants of the city were a multi-ethnic mix similar to contemporary Londoners, the Museum of London says

** UK Arts leaders relieved at better-than-expected funding agreement

The elephant in what was a pretty happy room is what now happens to local authority funding, as the arts and museums have proved something of a soft target for cash-strapped councils

** Andy Warhol, Ai Wei Wei - the odd couple

Curiously enough, although both men were artists living in the same city not far from each other, had friends in common and sometimes attended the same exhibitions, they never met

** Poland’s richest woman plans new contemporary art museum for Warsaw

The entrepreneur told the Polish edition of Forbes magazine that her planned Museum of Contemporary Art and Performance will have 6,000 sq. m of exhibition space and will be located near the city’s Copernicus Science Centre on the banks of the Vistula river

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** Science museum out of seized venomous snake business

The museum has a number of venomous snakes on display, but the confiscated serpents were housed separately; at one point, the museum had to put some in a converted bathroom in the basement

** Cuban suspected of Havana museum heist arrested in Greece

Police in Greece say they have arrested a 36-year-old Cuban suspected of masterminding a massive art heist at the Havana National Museum of Fine Arts

** National Gallery Singapore finds first home for unseen art

The gallery combines two of the city-state's most historic buildings -- the former Supreme Court and City Hall -- and is home to the largest public collection of Singaporean and Southeast Asian art in the region

** Museum Asks Visitors to Put Down Cameras and Pick Up Pencils and Sketch Pads

Rijksmuseum recently launched a new campaign called “The Big Draw” in an effort to get museum visitors to ditch cameras and simple snapshots in favor of drawing the artworks in order to more fully appreciate the easy-to-miss details

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** Man Admits Stealing Brain Tissue from Museum

A man who sold brain tissue to a San Diego resident has admitted stealing the human brain samples and other tissue from a medical museum

** Exhibit Design for Girls Engagement

Upcoming Free Workshop at the Exploratorium

** A Rare Archive Of Circus Posters

Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum has acquired Enquirer Printing’s collection of nearly 500 rare circus, fair and carnival posters

** The 2015 Origami Holiday Tree: Mighty to Microscopic Life

One of New York's most beloved displays, the American Museum of Natural History's Origami Holiday Tree

** FilmCare.org has launched

FilmCare.org, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a central resource for best practices in film preservation that provides guidelines for dealing with the preservation of all types

** This Week's Horoscopes

Virgo - You’ve never really thought of yourself as a cat-person, but the splicing, trans-binding, and DNA re-sequencing will soon change all of that.

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