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** Metropolitan Museum’s Director Resigns Under Pressure

Thomas P. Campbell resigned under pressure as the director and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, after months of growing concerns among staff members and some trustees about its financial health and his capacity to lead the largest museum in the country

** Why We're Marching for Science

The Field Museum will be participating in the Chicago chapter of the nationwide March for Science on April 22; a non-partisan demonstration for supporters of science to voice their passion for and commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, facts, and discovery

** Oldest fossil ever found on Earth dates back 4.2 billion years

The oldest fossil ever discovered on Earth shows that organisms were thriving 4.2 billion years ago, hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought

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** Will This Be The First Art Museum On The Moon?

The Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon has drawn together a group of artists to create work for a speculative museum that might one day exist on the moon

** China Plans One Museum For Every 250,000 Citizens by 2020

The plan is part of a comprehensive blueprint to nurture China's protection of cultural heritage and improve public participation in the process

** Selfie-Taker Busts Museum's Pricey Pumpkin

A visitor to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, tried to take a selfie inside Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's mirrored room full of spotted glass pumpkin sculptures over the weekend and fell into one

** Not Everyone Can Name 5 Women Artists, And One Museum Wants To Change That

This year, over 150 institutions from 41 states in the U.S., 16 countries and five continents have already signed on as contributors in 2017, helping to spread the #5WomenArtists challenge far and wide

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** A Sunken Treasure Will Appear in New York Despite Its Controversial Excavation

A trove of porcelain and other items excavated from an Arab cargo ship will go on view in the U.S. for the first time next month in an exhibition at the Asia Society Museum in New York, six years after another planned display was cancelled amid ethical concerns

** How A Gin Craze Nearly Destroyed 18th Century London

Between 1700 and 1760, London was involved in a passionate but staggeringly destructive love affair with gin, popularly known as “the mother’s ruin.”

** When The Met Museum Sold This Painting, It Changed The Way Every Museum In The U.S. Operates

Beckmann’s “Self-Portrait with Cigarette” belonged to the Metropolitan Museum until 1971, when its deaccession set off a series of disputes that reshaped museum practices

** The Animal Soldiers of World War I

Recent photos digitized by the National Archives reveal the range of animal mascots employed during World War I and the relationships soldiers had with these creatures

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** The Hero Monk Who Saves Ancient Manuscripts From ISIS

Rescuing the world’s most precious antiquities from destruction is a painstaking project—and a Benedictine monk may seem like an unlikely person to lead the charge

** Camille Claudel May Finally Be Getting The Recognition She Longed For

After an apprenticeship, and a relationship, with Rodin, Claudel’s art was overshadowed by his and she was committed to a mental institution by her family

** East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography

Celebrating natural wonders such as Niagara Falls and the White Mountains, as well as capturing a cultural landscape fundamentally altered by industrialization, the Civil War, and tourism, these photographs not only helped shape America’s national identity but also played a role in the emergence of environmentalism

** The Factious, High-Drama World of Bird Taxonomy

Perhaps because the lines between species are so blurry, the project of naming birds at times degenerates into internecine squabbling over more black-and-white matters of English usage and grammar

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** California’s Only Black Whaling Captain, William Shorey

Under headlines that inevitably blared his nickname “Black Ahab,” articles described him as hero who battled typhoons and saved his crew from horrific disasters

** Archaeologists excavate 1,000-year-old toy boat

A thousand-year-old toy boat from an abandoned water well gives archaeologists tantalizing clues about the culture that produced the object

** How did our ancestors discover butter?

Among the rolling hills of ancient Africa, sometime around 8000 B.C., a dusty traveller was making gastronomic history, quite by accident

** Want to be a forest ranger? Head to the Singapore ArtScience Museum

Through simple challenges, such as freeing a trapped mousedeer, they can learn about issues such as which species are endangered and the effects of environmental degradation

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** Museum volunteer killed by exploding tire

73 year old Eric Heselbarth was knocked unconscious at the Museum of Transportation after a piece of the wheel struck him in the forehead and knocked him backward

** Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM) 2017 Annual Meeting

June 9-13, 2017

** CultureShop TV Launches

The Association for Cultural Enterprises have recently launched a new film series on their CultureShop.tv Vimeo channel

** Difficult Issues

International Conference

** This Week's Horoscopes

Pisces - The presence of Jupiter in your fourth house indicates newfound personal maturity. The presence of empty pizza boxes in your first apartment, however, suggests otherwise

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