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** Homeless art, lost jobs and low enrollment

Whether you consider it a civic tragedy or the preservation of a legacy, the breakup of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and its College of Art & Design still haunts the city

** Knot possible! 3,000-year-old thread found in UK

An unusually delicate pair of artifacts recently emerged from a dig site in the United Kingdom: a tiny ball of thread and another length of thread wound around a bobbin

** Conservation of the "Chinese Cabinets" in Schönbrunn Palace

DNA analyses revealed that the ground used for the panels from China contains pig blood: The use of pig's blood as a component of the lacquer ground is part of the traditional Chinese manufacturing process

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** Why This Van Gogh Painting Was Stolen Not Once But Twice

But the negligence goes even deeper; according to Egyptian officials, at the time of the theft, only seven of the museum’s 43 security cameras were operational and none of the security alarms were actually active

** UK Museum Ethics Committee Rejects Allegations of Corruption

The Committee dismissed the report’s allegations that shared intel of anti-oil protests and BP’s influence on museum programming as well as on curatorial decision-making were suspect, describing these practices as “common practice” and “appropriate.”

** New species of extinct river dolphin discovered in Smithsonian Collection

A fossil that has been in the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History since it was discovered in 1951 is today helping scientists piece together the evolutionary history of whales and dolphins, including the origins of the endangered South Asian river dolphin

** Emperors’ Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei

The current trend in museum exhibitions is away from displays of objects chosen primarily for their beauty or aesthetic importance and toward ones that offer an “experience,” something more than the visually stunning

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** Innocent Looking Museum In Thailand Hides Something Truly Terrifying

In Bangkok, Thailand, there is something hidden away down of one the bustling side streets, a museum that is both spine shockingly terrifying as its is fascinating

** Exhibition of theatre costumes from Russian museum opens in U.S.

Because of a current embargo on the exchange of exhibits between Russian and American museums due to the Schneerson Library controversy, the original exposits of Bakhrushin museum will be replaced with copies

** How France and Monaco Inspired Francis Bacon

Art historians interpret the popes as depictions of dictatorial figures, but also as evocations of Bacon’s father, a retired army major with whom the artist had a difficult relationship

** Discovery of shipwrecked 18th-century sloop that sailed Lake Erie

The Washington was the first ship built on Lake Erie in 1797, and became the first to sail on both Lake Erie and Lake Ontario - after being fitted with runners and transported to that lake, around Niagara Falls, via a system of rollers and towed by teams of oxen

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** Shaking Up Italy’s Most Popular Museum

Overseeing the Uffizi, with its world-class holdings and public-sector staffing, is a bit like running the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority at the same time

** The Met Museum’s Latest Exhibit Is a Masterclass in Textiles

Conservators are usually the people who hide in a museum’s wings, offering essential research for curators, but they are rarely the public face for any given exhibition

** 3,200-Year-Old Tomb with Stunning Artifacts Discovered on Cyprus

Professor Fischer and his colleagues assign the greatest importance to the more than 140 complete ceramic vessels, most of which were decorated with spectacular illustrations of for example people sitting in a chariot drawn by two horses and a woman wearing a beautiful dress

** Museum's Science Festival hands-on forensic experience

Seeing tiger bones, teeth and claws – some of which were part of the Roosevelt Collection, dating back to 1893 – shows the value of collections such as that at the Smithsonian and at the Australian Museum Research Institute

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** Life on stilts: The Lake Dwelling Museum

The Lake Dwelling Museum in Unteruhldingen on the German shores of Lake Constance has painstakingly reconstructed small villages towering on wooden poles

** Here's how one man faked one of the biggest archaeological discoveries in history

A new paper published in the Royal Society of Open Science names just one man as the culprit behind one of the biggest scientific crimes ever committed

** The Sharks That Live to 400

In 1620, the Mayflower set off from Plymouth, carrying hopeful pilgrims to the New World and as it sailed over the Atlantic, it passed over deep, cold waters, where baby Greenland sharks were starting out their lives

** The Natural History Museum’s taxidermy is super creepy

Like many natural history museums, the Smithsonian devotes a lot of floor space to dead animals, stuffed and posed; this dates back to the 1800s, when scientists used taxidermy to study exotic animals

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** The Search for Joan of Arc’s Hair

Joan of Arc's claim to fame — the mysterious voices she heard and visions she saw during the Hundred Years' War — may actually have been due to a form of epilepsy

** Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference

5-6 June 2017

** 2016 World Congress-Saving the Now: Crossing Boundaries to Conserve Contemporary Works

Sept 12-16, 2016 Los Angeles

** Smith Leadership Symposium: Meaningful Community Engagement

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

** This Week's Horoscopes

Capricorn - While teaching the lowland gorilla how to communicate is entirely possible, getting the self-obsessed primate to shut the hell up is a whole other story

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