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** Experts say painting bought for $25 in 1899 could be an original Raphael

BBC experts examining the amazing art collection at the National Trust for Scotland’s Haddo House in Aberdeenshire have discovered two very important paintings, including a piece that is ‘probably by’ Raphael

** British Museum broke own rules over BP sponsorship Campaigners say

The British Museum rejects accusation they have broken their own rules by not allowing trustees to help decide whether or not to renew a five-year sponsorship deal with BP, activists have claimed

** Researchers reconstruct beautiful house in Pompeii by using 3D technology

By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius thousands of years ago

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** Is It Ethical For A Museum To Mount A Show Where The ‘Guest Curator’ Owns Most Of The Art?

When a museum turns over its exhibition galleries to a private collector, you begin to wonder just what professional purpose the museum serves

** Fate Catches Up to a Cultural Revolution Museum in China

Workers arrived bearing concrete, propaganda banners and metal scaffolding; they smoothed concrete over the names of victims, wrapped “Socialist Core Values” banners around the main exhibition hall, placed red-and-yellow propaganda posters over stone memorials to the terror, and raised scaffolding around statues of critics of Mao

** How the Brooklyn Museum Cares for Its Collection

Walking through the conservation lab is like getting an overview of the different specialties in the field: textiles over here, ceramics over there, paintings down this way, and paper-based works in the back

** Hats, Apples, Umbrellas, A Pipe That Is Not A Pipe

The Belgian philosopher/surrealist/manipulative artist who gave us a laugh with a chicken looking at a soft-boiled egg, or a hat without a head resting on a stiff shirt collar

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** The rise of museum stores as retail destinations

Forget exit through the gift shop, the latest wave of museum shops are retail destinations, rather than exhibition afterthoughts

** Trump denied use of NC civil rights museum

The International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro denied Donald Trump’s request to hold an event at the museum – and has faced retaliation from his supporters because of it, according to the museum’s CEO

** Beautiful, Stirring, and Overcrowded

The many small successes, and one large failure, of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

** The Met Gets Sued For One Of Its Best Picassos

The Met curators describe it as a “simple yet haunting” work that marked the beginning of Picasso’s interest in “the theatrical world of acrobats and saltimbanques.”

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** The Ancient City Of Petra Had Gardens, Fountains, And A Swimming Pool

Cool fountains and a huge pool in mid-desert enabled by strikingly advanced stone-carved irrigation and water storage system

** Will Our Phones Be Essential Tools When We Visit The Museum?

About five years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art took a small step that has proved monumental: It stopped entreating visitors not to use their cell phones

** Walls that gave up Nazi secrets to be preserved in new museum

Several of the rooms at Trent Park where the German prisoners socialised – and the walls through which their conversations were recorded – will now be restored and preserved for posterity

** Van Gogh masterpieces stolen 14 years ago recovered from barn

Italian police have found two Van Gogh paintings that were stolen from an Amsterdam museum in 2002 hidden in a farmhouse near an organized crime syndicate’s Naples-area stronghold

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** The Story Behind the Bulletproof Photo Craze

Before internet memes, before Reddit, even before performance artists like Chris Burden took aim, swaths of vest salesmen hawked their wares with such proto-viral stunts

** ‘Wee museum’ appeal

Unique exhibits include the only stuffed Highland cow in Scotland, the 8ft high Caledonian Shield for Scottish rifle shooting and a letter from Canada in 1906, clearly written on birch bark by local emigrant to his relations in Killiecrankie

** How Rival Gardens of Eden in Iraq Survived ISIS, Dwindling Tourists, And Each Other

Even those who concede the mythological nature of the Garden of Eden still have the desire to locate it, as I did last May while driving to the frontline in northern Iraq

** Site Of Interest - Surprises from the Ice

Website says that although there were only a few recorded discoveries made on the ice in Norway at the end of the 20th century, things changed with a warmer autumn in 2006

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** Seafaring and Shipbuilding in Greece from antiquity to modern times

The history of Greek seafaring and shipbuilding gives visitors a chance to take a mental trip back in time, to discover the close and timeless relationship of the Greek people with the sea

** 2017 NAEA Museum Education Preconference

“Diversity and Inclusion: Art Museum Museum Educators as Levers of Change ” will take place on Wednesday, March 1, 2017

** Across the Oceans: the Local Connections and Global Dimensions of China's Maritime Silk Road

Special Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of History

** Archives, Advocacy and Change: Tales from Four New York City Collections

Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2016

** Science News - James Dyson Meets In Secret With Alien Ambassador To Receive Technology For New Hand Dryer

I bring you our newest design, the Cyclinox, the most powerful hand dryer in the Virgo Supercluster

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