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** How Do We Fix the Museum Diversity Problem?

One of the clearest lessons from these case studies is that cultural institutions need to look not only to their human resources departments, but beyond, to the structural barriers that exist and are currently preventing them from diversifying.

** MET commemorates Olympics with Korean exhibition

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is commemorating the Games with an exhibition of Korean art, much of it displayed for the first time in the United States, and which introduces an acclaimed Korean natural wonder to a new audience.

** Unusual Museums - The Micro Wonder Museum

The Micro Wonder Museum, located just 30 minutes north of central Budapest, is a grand collection of miniature art so tiny you can only see it through the lens of a microscope.

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** Director On His Data-Driven (and Maybe Crazy) Quest to Save the Art Museum

These days, as the digital revolution has reshaped the way that audiences consume practically everything, the museum world is furiously trying to keep up with the shifting expectations visitors have for in-person experiences.

** 3-D image of Egyptian queen ‘not Nefertiti’

Social media reaction to what many describe as European features on a reconstruction of a mummy believed to be Egyptian Queen Nefertiti has led to accusations of historical “white washing.”

** New York Museums Accused in Suit of Conspiring Against Artists

A painter known for thumbing his nose at the art establishment sued five New York City museums, accusing them of conspiring to eliminate competition for contemporary art and increasing prices for some works while suppressing those of others.

** Swiss 'witch' museum receives CHF1 million anonymous gift

The museum first opened in August 2017 and shows the history of the maid Anna Göldi, who was famously tried and executed as the “last witch of Europe” in 1782 by the local courts in the canton of Glarus.

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** Removal of Waterhouse’s naked nymphs painting was art in action

It is very rare that a range of museum workers (public events programmers, volunteers, gallery invigilators and security staff, conservation and gallery technicians and cleaners), let alone visitors, are invited into a dialogue about what goes on or comes off the walls, or why.

** Dog artefact exhibition heralds Chinese new year

The National Museum of China has a wide range of canine-inspired pieces on display, including a Neolithic pitcher, to mark the Year of the Dog.

** ‘Screaming mummy’ could be hanged prince who plotted to kill his pharaoh father

DNA analysis of the remains suggests they belong to Prince Pentewere, a son of the pharaoh Ramses III who was involved in a conspiracy to murder his father.

** Lost wreckage of 'British Roswell' flying saucer discovered in Science Museum

The remains were sent to the Natural History Museum in London where experts concluded it was probably an elaborate hoax as there was no evidence the metal had come from elsewhere in the Solar System, nor had suffered high temperatures of entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

** Ancient kids’ toys have been hiding in the archaeological record

Youngsters have probably been playing their way into cultural competence for at least tens of thousands of years, so why are signs of children largely absent from the archaeological record?

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** Skeleton of the Pirate "Black Sam" Bellamy Found?

Researchers in Massachusetts announced they'd found a human skeleton near the wreck of a ship that went down off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717—and they think it just might be the remains of New England's greatest pirate, Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy.

** Museum reports Emerald theft weeks after it disappeared

A large emerald is missing from the Asheville Museum of Science, which reported the gem stolen late last month, more than three weeks after it was last seen.

** Is This the most woke museum in America?

This insight into the museum’s audience, along with a sense that the museum needed a more flexible strategy than its original, encyclopaedic approach, has led to ongoing changes at Crystal Bridges.

** Cambodia's Genocide Museum Conserves Clothing of Khmer Rouge Victims

For the first time, the clothes will be sorted, preserved, and, in some cases, displayed as part of the memorial to the 1.7 million Cambodians who died, about 25 percent of the population, during Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime between 1975-1979.

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** New Picasso Museum to Open in France

Pablo Picasso’s stepdaughter, Catherine Hutin-Blay, is planning to open a new museum dedicated to the artist and his second wife, her mother Jacqueline Roque, in the French southern town of Aix-en-Provence, where the couple is buried.

** Condoms, critics, and controversies: Te Papa’s early days

The museum’s forecourt was now witness to angry crowds with placards clamouring for the museum to respect their faith, when, they implied, the museum did exactly that for the sacred treasures of the Maori people.

** Economic collapse: The real message of the fall of Troy

The fall and sack of the city of Troy at the hands of an avenging Greek army is one that has been told for some 3,000 years, but contained within it are clues to a much wider global collapse - with lessons for our own 21st Century.

** Italy’s Far Right Targets a Museum Discount for Arabic Speakers

When the Egyptian Museum in the northern Italian city of Turin began offering two-for-one admissions for Arabic speakers last month, the offer seemed innocuous enough.

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** Imagining India

The Johnston Collection, Melbourne

** San Diego Air & Space Museum Brings "Speed" to San Diego in 2018

The San Diego Air & Space Museum

** Documenting Painted Surfaces for Outdoor Painted Sculptures

A Manual of Laboratory and Field Test Methods

** This Week's Horoscopes

Virgo - You’ll never be able to express your love for others, so take what comfort you can in your ability to express a need for more stuffed potato skins

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