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** Bed, bath and beyond: Napoleon's dying days brought back to life

From the iron cot in which he died to the flagstones that covered his grave, a Paris exhibition recreates the emperor Bonaparte’s exile to remote St Helena

** Damien Hirst Tate exhibition found to have leaked cancer-causing fumes

Damien Hirst’s pickled animal exhibition might have won him kudos from the critics, but investigators have revealed that it leaked dangerous fumes

** Gauguin’s unknown 'readymade' brooch is revealed

An extraordinary brooch made by Paul Gauguin for his wife Mette has gone on display at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen

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** 20 Ways For Non-profits To Be Nicer To Job Applicants And Stop Treating Them Like Crap

Even if they are not a good fit for our organization, all of us have an obligation to the field to ensure that good candidates remain in the field and grow into their potential

** The Guggenheim's monstrous golden toilet sums up the obscene art world

Everyone who makes use of this public facility (the Guggenheim expects queues) will participate in its Italian creator’s none too subtle comment on the obscene wealth of the art world and the wider society beyond

** Researchers Identify 35 Living Descendants Of Leonardo (Including Someone We All Know)

Although Da Vinci didn’t have any children, a project – started in 1973 – sort to create his family tree starting from the children of his siblings

** Face Swapping With Museum Statues Is Now a Real and Terrifying Thing

A museum-goer transformed his visit from an intellectual exercise into a way of testing Snapchat's Face Swap filter to its limit

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** The Famous Museum That’s Redefining Aging

MoMA has been working with doctors who might prescribe “art” instead of medication for loneliness-induced depression

** German Museum Exhibits Racist Stickers Spanning 130 Years

Small, but poisonous and often effective: one of Germany's main history museums is exhibiting racist and anti-Semitic stickers spanning more than a century in a show that comes as the country worries about racism amid the migrant crisis

** Unconventional Museum Sparks Tasmanian Renaissance

One the most popular exhibits at what may be Australia’s most remarkable museum stinks—literally

** African American museum designed with emotions in mind

The visitor experience has been a priority from the beginning, addressed in the design of the building, the organization of exhibitions, and the text and videos that supplement the displays

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** Asian Art Museum rising to put tough days behind

To mark its first half century, the Asian has raised $50 million in fresh donations and pledges, which is impressive, considering it was able to build an endowment of only $40 million in its first 49 years

** Inside Oakland Museum’s 'Altered State' Mega-Marijuana Exhibition

It feels like a museum exhibit — complete with the museum tropes: the wide hallways, blown-up pictures with quotes on the wall, explanatory placards next to installations, and key objects behind glass

** If it rained I went to the museum

It has been a bit of a bad joke at British museums that they are so often dominated, at senior level, by experienced middle-aged women who never actually get the chance to run the show

** "Catastrophe" say experts after seeing Palmyra museum

The first foreign experts who visited the museum in Palmyra after it was taken over from Islamic State militants said they spent a week collecting fragments of priceless broken sculptures from the museum grounds and preparing them for transportation to Damascus in a rescue mission they hope will help salvage most of its contents

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** Mass graves could be filled with an ancient Greek tyrant’s followers

Archaeologists have stumbled upon mass graves near Athens containing the skeletal remains of 80 men who the researchers believe may have been followers of that wannabe tyrant, Cylon of Athens

** Hong Kong's Tiananmen museum to close amid claims of China pressure

Organisers believe they are being targeted for political reasons as China seeks to cast more influence on the city

** Learn How to Bronze Statues in One Fascinating Video

To make it as explainable as they did, the pair researched a great deal, even attending a bronze-casting workshop, and was in constant communication with the exhibit curator and museum restoration department

** German museum poses sensory perception challenges

Rather than being told to stay quiet and not touch the displays, as is normal in a typical museum, visitors are encouraged to immerse themselves in the sensations of the more than 100 exhibits, touching, listening, tasting, smelling and seeing

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** Researchers Discover New Bat

The research describes the mysterious bat, named Synemporion keana, whose remains were first discovered in a lava tube more than 30 years ago

** The Architecture of the Iranian World 1000-1250

21–24 April 2016, St Andrews, UK

** To See Anew: Experiencing American Art in the 21st Century Initiatives in Art and Culture

21st Annual American Art Conference

** The Human-Centered Museum

Call for proposals - MCN 2016

** This Week's Horoscopes

Cancer - Jupiter is in your sun sign this week, making it pretty crowded in there, what with Jupiter being the largest of the planets and all.

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