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** Can museum taxidermy help primate conservation?

More than 50 new taxidermy specimens of monkeys, apes, lemurs, lorises and bush-babies are to be revealed in the most comprehensive museum exhibition on primates ever staged

** Facebook Censors Caravaggio’s Nude Cupid, Then Changes Mind

This is just the latest instance of artworks of varying degrees of provocativeness being censored on the social media platform, from art critic Jerry Saltz’s racy medieval images to an anodyne sculpture of a mermaid in Copenhagen and an iconic Vietnam War photograph

** This Art Gallery raised more than $100m in just three months

As large institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York struggle to raise funds for ambitious expansions, the Albright-Knox’s rapid-fire campaign stands out

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** Why Do Colleges Have So Much Art?

Not everyone agrees that school museums should compete with their mainstream counterparts or that students necessarily benefit more from having art of such magnitude as opposed to more modest collections

** Museum embroiled in planning row after building an 'eyesore' anti-terror tent

The British Museum recently erected two large white structures in front of its front and back entrances, where members of the public must queue up and present their bags to be checked

** Van Gogh cut off his ear after learning brother was to marry

It is the most famous act of self-mutilation in the history of art, but the exact motivation – love? Jealousy? Rage? – for Vincent van Gogh’s decision to cut off his ear has remained unknown for more than a century

** Louvre may safeguard artefacts from war-torn areas

Last year, Hollande asked the president of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez, to prepare a report for protecting heritage in areas of conflict after the destruction of the ancient site of Palmyra in Syria by Isis last year

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** New Analysis Strengthens Claims That Amelia Earhart Died as a Castaway

Re-examination of data from a 1940 skeleton, suggests that the long forearms may match those of the missing aviator

** Archaeologist discovers a new style of Viking combat

Experimental archaeologists donned their armour and took to the battlefield to test out shield fighting techniques

** The Emperor’s New Museum

Powerful Chinese businessmen tend to be circumspect and wary of attention, because their success depends on not attracting government disfavor; Liu however, is known for a brash, flamboyant style

** Museum Of Airlines When Flying Was A Treat

How fast air travel has moved in the public perception from fantastic to frightful was made clear on a recent visit to the 1940s Air Terminal Museum at Houston’s Hobby Airport

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** Maradona's former house turned into museum in Argentina

Officials say the museum sheds light on a little-known era of his life, before he became an internationally known superstar who led Argentina to victory at the 1986 World Cup tournament

** Egypt wants sanctions against museum for selling antiquities

The Egyptian government is seeking sanctions against the Toledo Museum of Art for its decision to sell dozens of antiquities from its country, including asking local school districts not to include the museum in its educational field trip schedules for students

** Buffalo's Brain Museum

The Brain Museum, formally known as the University at Buffalo Museum of Neuroanatomy, features more than 90 specimens

** A Phoenician wreck that just keeps giving

A jug unearthed at the oldest shipwreck in the central Mediterranean could prove that the Maltese islands were an integral part of the Phoenician trade network

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** Replica of Adolf Hitler's bunker unveiled by private Berlin museum divides opinion

A private Berlin museum has unveiled a replica of part of the bunker where Adolf Hitler spent the final phase of World War II, a project that hasn't been universally welcomed

** Today’s genital warts came from trysts between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens

This lends further credence to the hypothesis that the Pleistocene was packed with hominin hanky-panky

** Lebanon's national museum reveals long-hidden treasures

Beirut's National Museum has opened its basement of ancient treasures for the first time in four decades to show the public its stunning array of funerary art, including the world's largest collection of anthropoid sarcophagi

** Tank battles and Stalin selfies at Belarussian war museum

At Belarus's Stalin Line museum visitors can watch re-enactments of World War Two battles, fire Soviet-era weapons and even pose for photographs next to a wreath-decked monument to Josef Stalin himself

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** British Museum marks 50th anniversary of Sexual Offences Act with LGBTQ show

An exhibition exploring gay love and sexuality based on objects in the collection of the British Museum in London is due to open next spring

** Development of China's Maritime Silk Road

Showcasing about 170 sets of cultural relics from eight major Maritime Silk Road cities

** Personal Digital Archiving 2017

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** Bake Off: Black Country Style!

The team at Black Country Living Museum have created their own version of the popular baking show

** This Week's Horoscopes

Cancer - Attempts to run away from the problem will fail this week when the problem turns out to be a short-circuited treadmill.

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