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** It’s Time to Tell the Unvarnished History of the U.S.

None of us are objective and it’s just nice that now some of these institutions are able to produce excellent scholarship that tells a vastly different story from what most Americans learn.

** How the Dana Schutz Controversy Has Changed Museums Forever

The Whitney is one of a number of institutions, including the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, that have found themselves in the crossfire for presenting art that some have deemed insensitive, exploitative, or even traumatizing.

** Australian Curator Confirms Oldest message in a bottle

Incredibly, an archival search in Germany found Paula's original Meteorological Journal and there was an entry for 12 June 1886 made by the captain, recording a drift bottle having been thrown overboard.

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** The British Museum Membercast: Transforming a gallery

The British Museum Membercast is a monthly podcast made available to ‘all studious and curious persons’ with comedian, podcaster and super-fan Iszi Lawrence presenting snippets from exclusive Members’ lectures at the Museum, artfully woven together with interviews and her own musings.

** Did stolen Caravaggio go to Switzerland?

Italian investigators are following a new lead in the hope of solving one of the most notorious art crimes of the past 50 years: the theft of Caravaggio’s Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence from a Baroque oratory in Palermo, Sicily.

** Conviction Of Picasso’s Electrician Thrown Out

The case stretches back to 2010, when Le Guennec travelled to Paris to ask Claude Picasso, who manages the Picasso Administration, to authenticate the works.

** Mona Lisa could embark on rare museum tour

Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece has left the famed Louvre in Paris only briefly since the 1789 French revolution — but the country’s culture minister has said that a tour is being mulled.

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** Running the Numbers on Attendance at History Museums in the US

In attempting to gauge whether attendance at American cultural institutions is indeed declining, many commentators often conflate “museum” with “art museum,” but art museums comprise only about 4.5% of American museums, while history institutions, comprise about 55.5%.

** Wadsworth Atheneum Artifact Is Fake, Confessed Forger Says

At the time of the purchase, the Museum curator said that the secretary “tells a story so tragic and deeply rooted in our country’s heritage it is a treasure to behold for art and history buffs alike.”.

** Playing Sherlock: How a chair unlocked the story behind a soldier's portrait

How a breakthrough clue, in the form of an ornate chair, led to the intriguing story of the New Zealand Wars soldier’s facial disfiguration and reconstruction.

** Chicago's museums need more diversity at the top

A national survey included in a 2017 report by the American Alliance of Museums reveals that whites hold 84 percent of curator, conservator, educator and other leadership positions in American museums.

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** World's oldest tattoo art found on British Museum's Mummy

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known tattoo art – hidden on an ancient Egyptian mummy which has been on public display at the British Museum for the past 100 years.

** Russian critics challenge Museum director over show of dubious Russian avant-garde works

The recent display of works attributed to the Russian avant-garde and on loan from Igor Toporovsky’s Dieleghem Foundation to the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent continues to make headlines over doubts as to their authenticity.

** A Chance to Wander Museum Galleries All Alone

Museum's #MeTimeMonday initiative in Tulsa, Oklahoma gives one different person each month a chance to wander the museum all by themselves for a whole Monday.

** A Role for Museums in the Urban Renaissance: Reviving Skills of Craftsmanship

How the Albright-Knox Art Gallery used its reputation, knowledge, and community connections to create a sustainable program helping unemployed women and men acquire skills, and jobs.

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** Details of Picasso’s Plan for His Most Massive Work of Art

Now, 45 years later, researchers at University of South Florida have found an audio reel describing the artists’ plan, along with a copy of a composite photograph and sketches.

** T. rex fossil needs a hand battling dust

Trenton's task for the day: ridding the 39-foot-long specimen of dust and dander that accumulates on it from 5 million visitors passing through the museum every year.

** Cleopatra’s Sceptre, Shirley Temple Memorabilia, and Arnie’s Severed Head Under One Roof

The Academy’s collections encompass an unparalleled stash of more than 12 million photographs, 80,000 screenplays, and 2,500 items from the fields of costume and production design, hair and makeup, and filmmaking technology.

** The Art of Chinese Propaganda Posters

Whenever I think about that era, the scene in my mind is a red ocean of posters, with high-volume speakers blasting fighting slogans and songs praising Mao.

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** Museum Librarian Samples The World’s Only Deep-Sea Coffee

Librarian Martin Lewis describes one of his more bizarre coffee breaks at work – drinking Caffe L’affare Primo ground coffee that travelled where no person has been before, 10,000 metres below the sea.

** Visitor Experience Conference 2018

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** The Project Mars Competition is Open

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** National Park Service’s 2018 Archaeological Prospection Workshop

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