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** Cartier diamond ring worth £750,000 lost by British Museum

The British Museum has revealed that it lost a £750,000 diamond ring in 2011, raising concerns about the museum’s security procedures.

** How we hid our steamy love affair from co-workers at the Getty museum

Dating another employee wasn’t against museum policy, but at previous jobs I had seen office romances go pear-shaped.

** Why We Shouldn’t Punish Small Museums for Deaccessioning

So in our increasingly winner-take-all, public-sector-give-little society, it’s an inversion of cause and effect to suggest that major gifts won’t flow in to the Berkshire because it’s selling a fraction of its collection to shore up operations.

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** At Environmental Protection Agency museum, history might be in for a change

The museum, which opened just days before President Barack Obama left office, is being reworked to reflect the priorities of the Trump administration.

** The rise in art protests: how the gallery became a new battleground

The unintended benefit of the Trump-Republican disaster has been the generation of new energy in the public to learn about politics, how it affects them and how they can affect it through protests.

** What Did the Ancestor of All Flowers Look Like?

With no fossil flowers older than 130m years, their evolution has long been a mystery: a new structural discovery provides an important piece of the puzzle.

** Michelangelo's unrealized marble dream comes true in Italian quarry

With the blessing of Pope Leo X, Michelangelo designed a path that could get blocks of the white marble down from the mountain to be transported to Florence to be used to decorate the facade of the church of San Lorenzo.

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** Museum showcases stunning Japanese kimono and Obi online

The Baltimore Museum of Art is showcasing Kimono and Obi: Romantic Echoes from Japan’s Golden Age, as part of We wear culture, a Google Arts & Culture project that uses state-of-the-art technology to present 3,000 years of fashion in the world’s largest virtual exhibition of style.

** Boston Museum Was Founded by a Fast-Driving, Cigarette-Smoking Red Sox Fan

At Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, paintings by European heavyweights like Sandro Botticelli and Henri Matisse keep company with panel screens from the Japanese Edo period and wooden statuary from eleventh-century China.

** So you’ve never been to Barts Pathology Museum?

The technical curator at Barts Pathology Museum, is one of the pioneers of the ‘death positivity’ movement, which holds the idea that hiding death and dying behind closed doors does more harm than good.

** Getty's Multicultural Internship Program is changing the face of arts leadership

The idea: Provide students with real-world professional experience at cultural non-profits small and large, be it the Center for the Study of Political Graphics or the Museum of Contemporary Art.

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** After Five Years, What’s Next for Crystal Bridges?

During its run so far, leadership has pivoted around a minefield at the heart of the museum’s raison d’etre: showcasing “the American spirit” on the one hand, while acknowledging the incredible diversity of “America” on the other.

** Fate of Ancient Canaanites Seen in DNA Analysis: They Survived

There is a story in the Hebrew Bible that tells of God’s call for the annihilation of the Canaanites, a people who lived in what are now Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Palestinian territories thousands of years ago.

** Genius crowded out by bric-a-brac

Instead of providing insight into the mind of Matisse, this collection of the artist’s antique chairs and chocolate pots belittles his art and highlights his conservatism

** The Smithsonian art museum dived into VR with Intel's help

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has teamed up with Intel to develop an experience that takes advantage of room-scale VR's immersiveness to let anyone visit its exhibits from anywhere.

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** Stolen Guercino painting will need a year of conservation

A Guercino altarpiece that was stolen from an Italian church in 2014 and recovered in February in Casablanca will now undergo a year of conservation in Rome to reverse the damage.

** Sydney's Powerhouse Museum officially moving to Parramatta

The new world-class Powerhouse in Parramatta will include iconic items currently in Ultimo but it will be better — trains, planes, trams and much more.

** Ancient Vase Seized From Met Museum on Suspicion It Was Looted

For decades it was proudly displayed in the Greco-Roman galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a 2,300-year-old, vividly painted vase that depicts Dionysus, god of the grape harvest, riding in a cart pulled by a satyr.

** Archaeologists Find Frozen Bronze Age Wooden Container with Cereal Remains

Archaeologists have found a well-preserved Early Bronze Age wooden vessel in the Swiss Alps which could help researchers shed new light on the spread and exploitation of cereal grains.

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** Thieves Steal Solid Gold Lunar Lander Model From Armstrong Museum

When officials arrived at the scene, they found that thieves had stolen only one object: a five-inch tall solid-gold replica of the Lunar Excursion Module, or LEM that landed on the moon.

** Paws & Portraits | Animals in Art with Katherine Kovacic

The Johnston Collection, East Melbourne, Australia

** Free Webinars Talking About Millennials

Date: August 17

** Celebration of Textiles: September 2–3

The Textile Museum

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