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** Three Paintings On Loan From The Louvre Catch Fire

Three paintings from the collection of the Louvre, and another 200 canvases belonging to a local maritime museum, went up in flames, when severe lightning caused a fire on the small island of Tatihou on the French side of the English Channel.

** 50 Years On, Living In The Met Is Still Kids’ Ultimate Fantasy

The museum shares its trove of adorable letters inspired by the beloved children’s book “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.”

** The Great 'Genius' Of Rare-Book Theft

Using expert techniques and fraudulent documents, he would ultimately pillage world-class libraries to the tune of half a million dollars or more.

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** Art Hung Higher Than Eye Level Is Rated Higher Quality

Those who looked up at the work “rated the painting most positively, while participants who looked down gave the lowest aesthetic appraisals,” the researchers report.

** Auschwitz Artifacts to Go on Tour, Very Carefully

More than 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the first traveling exhibition about the Nazi death camp will begin a journey later this year to 14 cities across Europe and North America, bringing heart-breaking artifacts to multitudes who have never seen such horror up close.

** Alice Cooper finds precious Warhol work in storage

Cooper had been given the work as a birthday gift from then girlfriend Cindy Lang, who was part of the New York underground rock scene alongside Warhol, who famously worked with The Velvet Underground.

** Classic Fred Dagg costume on display at Te Papa

Curator Stephanie Gibson says Fred Dagg was an amusing and endearing character who was recognisably from New Zealand, a typical Kiwi bloke who had a smart, satirical view on New Zealand culture and politics.

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** Exhibition features research on racial terror and its effect on the nation today

The exhibition will include video stories featuring testimonies from descendants of lynching victims and a former death-row inmate directly affected by the legacy of lynching.

** New Moomin museum opens in Finland

Moomins fans from all over the world are already making their way to Tampere in southern Finland to see the original artwork by author Tove Jansson and the fantastically detailed models of scenes from the books.

** Postcards from Aden

Curator St John Simpson explores how the Museum's collection of postcards from the port city of Aden in Yemen capture snapshots of social history.

** Britain’s best-loved artwork is a Banksy and proof of our stupidity

Being generous, I could say this fast street-art stencilling technique suggests the ephemerality not only of the image itself, doomed to be whitewashed by the authorities, but of us all, and our feelings.

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** Salvador Dalí’s Moustache Is In Tip-Top Shape, Exhumation Shows

The most astounding detail of the surreal ordeal is that, after all these years, Dalí’s signature moustache hasn’t lost its panache.

** The Old Master Still-Life That Was Looted By A Soviet Spy And Crossed The Atlantic Four Times

The story behind the work, [Balthasar van der Ast’s Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase,] which was originally part of the collection of the Suermondt Ludwig Museum in Aachen and then went missing for 75 years, is fit for Hollywood.

** The Smithsonian Has Discovered The Magic Of Kickstarter

The Smithsonian used Kickstarter to raise money for Neil Armstrong's spacesuit and Dorothy's ruby slippers; was it worth it?

** Museum collecting fish mounts to display

The Destin History and Fishing Museum is close to its goal of collecting 100 fish mounts by the end of the year, an initiative to expand the museum’s fish mounts collection and help educate visitors.

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** Berkshire Museum courts censure from museums groups

The Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, plans to auction 40 works of art from its collection, including two original paintings by Norman Rockwell, to fund a $40m endowment and $20m refurbishment of the 114-year-old museum.

** Oldest manatee in captivity dies a day after celebrating 69th birthday

Early indications are that an access panel door that is normally bolted shut had somehow been knocked loose and that Snooty and was able to swim in but because of his size, was unable to swim back out.

** Spanish wax museum recreates Melania Trump's RNC moment

The wax museum recreated Trump's look from last year's Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where she took to the stage and spoke to party delegates in a rousing speech.

** Why Moscow will never get a museum of migration

Russia has had the largest rate of net migration alongside Germany and the USA, but not a single museum has appeared here to reflect that fact.

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** Museum of Plaster Figurines and Emigration

The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of the Tuscan hill town, Coreglia Antelminelli.

** Evaluating Heritage Education (Workshop)

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** Fish Species Not Seen Since 1960s Thinks It Can Waltz Back Into Marine Biologist’s Life

Apparently thinking nothing of casually showing up in its ecosystem as if everything was hunky-dory, the blackfin cisco, a fish species not seen since the 1960s, reportedly thought it could waltz back into local marine biologist’s life just like that

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