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** British Museum display focuses on rock art

The display draws on The African Rock Art Image Project which has catalogued and uploaded more than 20,000 images into the Museum’s collections, and presents the museum's understanding of San|Bushmen material culture and belief systems

** Greece's National Archaeological Museum's ‘Odyssey’ Exhibition

What do the Antikythera Mechanism, Nestor’s golden cup and the marble statue of an athlete from Delos all have in common? The answer is that they are all found in the collections of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens

** How the National Gallery capitalised on and missed opportunities to acquire works by Caravaggio

The National Gallery is very fortunate in having three paintings by Caravaggio in its collection, one from each of the distinct phases in the artist’s career, but the circumstances of their acquisition reveal that their arrival in Trafalgar Square was unplanned and fortuitous

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** Exhibition of imperial life opens at Beijing Capital Museum

The Hall of Mental Cultivation inside Beijing's Forbidden City used to serve as an emperors' residence during the Qing dynasty, China's last imperial dynasty

** New museums: the rise of cryptic cathedrals of the cosmos

The growth is not unpredictable but is certainly divergent, as if curators and museum directors were competing as much as artists in trying to pre-empt the zeitgeist

** Grunts and Grapples: The stars who made wrestling great in Britain

Just before the football scores, on the then-new station ITV from 1955, wrestling heralded a new teatime age of grunting beefcakes being scolded by grannies and stylised athleticism

** Major group show of Abstract Expressionism in Europe

Works by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and other artists are being exhibited together for the first time in 57 years

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** Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious

1614, when the telescope was new technology, a young man in Germany published a book filled with illustrations of the exciting new things being discovered telescopically: moons circling Jupiter, moon-like phases of Venus, spots on the Sun, the rough and cratered lunar surface

** Former Director Of The Rijksmuseum Quits Post at New Museum After 2 Months

He began his job at the Museum Voorlinden on July 3, going from overseeing a world-class public institution with more than one million works of art to heading a museum presenting 10,000

** Science Suggests Your Brain Responds to Art Differently Than Real Life

Inspired by a 200-year-old German theory, scientists at Rotterdam’s Erasmus University set out to measure how emotional responses varied to objects and images when subjects were told they were observing art

** How did two Chinese skeletons find their way into a Roman cemetery in London?

A collection of seemingly unremarkable bones discovered in a Roman cemetery in London has provided new insights into the links between the Roman Empire and Imperial China

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** The Eureka, The 19th-Century Proto-Computer That Generated Latin Poetry

In July 1845, British curiosity-seekers headed to London’s Egyptian Hall to try out the novelty of the summer; for the price of one shilling, they could stand in front of a wooden bureau, pull a lever, and look behind a panel where six drums, bristling with metal spokes, revolved

** Metropolitan Museum of Art Lays Off 34 Employees

The Met said that the layoffs do not include any curators or conservators and bring to a close the current phase of its financial restructuring process

** New Museum in Lisbon Pushes the Barriers of Art, Architecture and Light

The museum has been designed so people can walk, or sit, before, behind, between, above and below it, its steel structure sheathed in a skin of seamless tiles designed to make the most of that Portuguese sunlight

** Rudd's lost plan for a national museum of Indigenous Australians

Behind the scenes, the then prime minister instructed bureaucrats in 2009 to begin discussions for a landmark museum dedicated to Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, to be built in Canberra's parliamentary triangle

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** Iraqi dictator’s palace becomes museum

Iraq opened a new antiquities museum in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday with pottery, coins and other artifacts dating back more than 2,000 years

** Why Free Museums Matter

Many institutions struggle to shed the perception that they’re inscrutable and imposing, and that visitors need to wield a specialized, rarefied knowledge to earn entry

** How Cats Conquered the World (and a Few Viking Ships)

Thousands of years before cats came to dominate Internet culture, they swept through ancient Eurasia and Africa carried by early farmers, ancient mariners and even Vikings, finds the first large-scale look at ancient-cat DNA

** As Flagship Returns Museum Aims to Right Its Course

A museum that’s all about ships: Wavertree, the South Street Seaport Museum’s 1885 flagship, will sail into port after a $13 million restoration

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** New Clues About Everyday Life in Ancient Rome

Summer digs at Hadrian’s villa in Italy are ‘opening a window’ on the dynamics of a centre of power in the second century

** Symposium: Hungry eyes

Featuring curators working with some of Australia’s most significant print collections

** International Symposium on Evaluating Digital Cultural Resources (EDCR 2016)

Scottish Network on Digital Cultural Resources Evaluation

** Global Issues in University Museums and Collections: Objects, Ideas, Ideologies, People

17th Annual UMAC Conference

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