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** World's most valuable private coin collection to be revealed

The existence of a previously unreported collection of the world’s most famous and valuable ancient, world and United States rare coins is being revealed for the first time.

** The Hidden Biases That Shape Natural History Museums

Here’s why museum visitors rarely see lady animals, penis bones or cats floating in formaldehyde.

** Harvard student cracks mystery of Inca code

For all the achievements of the Inca Empire, including a massive roadway system, sophisticated farming methods, and jaw-dropping architecture, it was the only pre-Columbian state that did not invent a system of writing.

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** The Woman who Leads the Vatican Museums is shaking things Up

Her mother and sister are art restorers; her grandmother, who was originally from Russia, was a painter; and her paternal ancestors founded an archaeological museum named after the family in Ruvo di Puglia, in southern Italy.

** V&A Designer defends new museum uniform

The eye-catching blue and orange clothes were inspired by the famous museum's collections and give the staff "visibility", but one art critic said they were "awful", while other people said staff now looked like supermarket workers.

** Archaeology as blood sport

How the discovery of an ancient mastodon ignited debate over humans’ arrival in North America.

** Ravi Shankar's sitar: bringing India to the world

The gift of the sitar to the British Museum enables them to tell both the human story of Ravi Shankar’s life and work, both in the west and in India, but also to place him, and other cultural ambassadors, within the context of the discovery of the cultural achievements of the entire world.

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** Imagining What Museums Might Become

An increasingly frequent topic of discussion among museum scholars, workers, and visitors centres around questions of what museums can be and what they should be.

** Restoration Of Gardner Museum's Rich, Red, Raphael Room

About 50 historic objects – including precious Renaissance paintings, furniture, antiquities and textiles – have been assessed, cleaned, repaired and rejuvenated to bring the space back to the way it looked in Isabella Stewart Gardner’s day.

** Exhibition celebrates wartime artist famous for Mills & Boon covers

Few will recognise the name Elizabeth Friedlander but many may be surprised to discover they have examples of the artist’s work at home, in the thousands of books, cards, posters and advertisements she designed, or even text set in Elizabeth-Antiqua, the font she created.

** The best museum in every US state

To determine which museums were truly deserving of being deemed the "best" in every state, we consulted travel websites, read through reviews of various visitors, and took into consideration the impact and acclaim each museum had to boast.

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** Museum Highlights Role of Religion in Early America

The role of religion in the formation and development of the United States is at the heart of an exhibition at the National Museum of American History and explores the themes of religious diversity, freedom and growth from America's colonial era through the 1840s.

** Squirrel fur trade and England's medieval leprosy outbreak

Genetic analysis of a pre-Norman skull unearthed in a garden in Suffolk has added to a growing body of evidence that East Anglia may have been the epicentre of an epidemic of leprosy that spread through medieval England.

** The Louvre Abu Dhabi: Are Museums Going Global?

It’s too soon to know whether the Louvre Abu Dhabi and related moves by the Centre Pompidou marks an important new trend in the globalisation of museums, whether other overseas Louvres are forthcoming or whether other national museums may follow that trend.

** Neurodiversifying the Museum

Museums have an opportunity to not only give people with autism meaningful work experiences, but have a chance to impact the mindset of employees by diversifying the workplace.

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** Outcry over Polish government’s changes to Second World War museum

Five hundred Polish and foreign academics have signed an open letter criticising the administration of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland and describing the changes being made to the permanent exhibition as “barbaric” and an attempt to turn the museum into a “propaganda institution”.

** Activism, homelessness and a new kind of museum

The Museum of Homelessness is the first museum devoted to this topic in the UK; the museum was founded on the premise that society needs an organisation like this to help us learn what has gone before in order to make a difference today.

** Ancient Tomb Full of 'Soup Bowls' & Food Vessels Discovered in China

A 3,100-year-old tomb filled with bronze "soup bowls" and other food vessels covered in incredible designs has been discovered in Baoji City in Shaanxi province, China.

** Secret Documents Reveal How Museum Manipulated Its Board Into Liquidating Its Collection

To look at the handout distributed to board members during this meeting is to watch management making it very clear which direction it wanted to go in; it’s clear why the museum wanted to keep it secret.

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** How museum work can combine research and public engagement

Museum jobs offer the chance to pull fresh insights from collections; they also provide an opportunity to work with a diverse group of people — including not just researchers in other specialities, but exhibition designers and communications specialists.

** Working Together: Partnerships, Co-creation, Co-curation

Call for Papers - Universeum Annual Conference 2018

** "GlassBarge," a Mobile Glassblowing Studio on Water

The Corning Museum of Glass

** “Wonder Materials - Graphene and Beyond” exhibition

Special Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong Science Museum

** Researchers Grow Massive Frankenstein Brain in Lab For First The Time

A research team in Germany have managed to grow massive brains of human and ape genetic sources from scratch to find out the inner workings of the mind and development cycle in a lab environment

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