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** Art's Most Popular: Exhibition And Museum Visitor Figures 2017

The results of The Art Newspaper's annual survey are in. Who came out on top? Where? And what does it mean for the art market?.

** Mysterious head of female pharaoh discovered by Egyptologist

Egyptology lecturer finds a depiction of one of the most famous pharaoh's in history on an object in the Egypt Centre stores, which had been chosen for an object handling session.

** Campaign launched against privatisation in museums

A UK campaign has been launched by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) to reverse the privatisation of services at museums and galleries.

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** The British Museum Membercast: Cracking the Egyptian code

This month Comedian, podcaster and super-fan Iszi Lawrence presents Jean-François Champollion and his extraordinary life through author Andrew Robinson's exclusive Members' lecture.

** These Signature Artifacts Embody the Giving Spirit of Artist-Philanthropists

Smithsonian curator hopes the museum’s display of artifacts sheds light on a different form of American giving—one that often receives less attention than the artist’s work itself.

** Fourth plinth: how a winged bull made of date syrup cans is defying Isis

Iraqi-American Michael Rakowitz, who once made a work out of Saddam Hussein’s dinner plates, used 10,000 tin cans to rescue a treasure destroyed by Isis.

** Duchess Kate Becomes the First Royal Patron of the V&A

The Duchess of Cambridge is to become the first Royal Patron of the Victoria and Albert Museum; furthering Her Royal Highness's interest in the visual arts, photography and design, she formally takes up the V&A Patronage from today.

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** Getty Completes Study of Paintings at King Tut’s Tomb

For decades, visitors to the world-famous tomb of King Tutankhamen in Egypt have noticed ugly brown spots covering the wall paintings lining the burial chamber.

** Ancient Ruins Reconstructed with Architectural GIFs

In a matter of seconds, centuries of natural and intentional damage and decay are reversed to reveal a rare glimpse at what the original structures would have looked like.

** An Instagram-Baiting Museum in Indonesia Is Ripping Off Artists

Its biggest attractions are installations that look a lot like oft-reproduced works by artists Chris Burden and Yayoi Kusama, as well as carbon copies of several rooms from the ultra-popular the Museum of Ice Cream.

** Historic 1920s voyage stocked Cleveland Museum of Natural History's shelves

On Oct. 29, 1923, under the direction of the newly opened Cleveland Museum of Natural History, George Finlay Simmons, a Texas ornithologist, and a crew of 15 embarked on a nearly three-year Atlantic voyage to fill the museum's shelves with bird, reptile, fish, plant and some geological specimens.

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** A Twist in Our Sexual Encounters With Other Ancient Humans

Scientists deduced that the young woman belonged to a previously unknown group of ancient hominin, whom they called the Denisovans after the cave where the finger was found.

** Sunken Spanish Treasure Lands on Mexican Museum Shelves

In an ironic twist of fate, jewels from a Spanish merchant ship are making shore on a Mexican museum's shelves after sunken treasure was recovered from beneath the turquoise waves of the Caribbean sea.

** Museum's Old Bottle Of Booze Has No Historic Value

The year was 2011, and a curator at the Grant Museum of Zoology at University College London was staring intently at a glass bottle of putrid, yellow liquid with an unidentified round, squishy orb floating inside.

** Clothes Aren’t the Only Highlight At The YSL Museum

Perhaps the most eye-catching items in the Marrakesh vitrine — and among the most valuable — are two pieces of wearable gilded bronze by the French sculptor Claude Lalanne, made from casts of the waist and bustline of the model Veruschka in 1969.

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** 'Hanging' judge's pin purloined from Arkansas museum

A tiny gold and diamond stickpin that belonged to legendary federal Judge Isaac C. Parker has been stolen from the Fort Smith Museum of History.

** Being Brunel museum opens on Bristol harbourside

New £7.2m attraction celebrates Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s work and life through previously unseen artefacts and a journey into the mind of the great engineer.

** New Pompeii excavations a revelation

Major new finds have been unveiled for Friday's 270th anniversary of the discovery of the first remains of the ancient city of Pompeii buried by ash and rock following the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

** Brazil museum selling prized Jackson Pollock to stay afloat

The painting was donated by the late former US vice president Nelson Rockefeller in 1954, and is estimated to be worth around US$25 million.

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** Germany returns 3,000-year-old relics to Mexico

After nearly a decade of litigation, Mexico recovered two Mesoamerican busts that had been missing since the 1980s.

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** Museums as Sites for Intercultural Dialogue

AAMG-PA regional spring conference, Penn Museum at UPENN, on Thursday, May 10

** Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Annual Meeting 2018

Call for Session Papers: Now Open!

** This Week's Horoscopes

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