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** How Much Should the Met Cost You?

The Met’s decision to curtail pay-what-you-wish signals to museums everywhere that when the budget demands, the public should take a backseat to other priorities and stakeholders.

** Vase found in French attic sells for £14.3m at auction

Discovered in the attic of a French family home, it was removed from the container it was found in and taken into the auction house in Paris in a shoe box.

** A Sip Of History: British Museum Brews Ancient Egyptian Beer

It’s said that beer was not invented but discovered, yet the manufacturing of beer was an active choice and the ancient Egyptians produced and consumed it in huge volumes.

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** How Fish Meant for Market Might End Up in a Museum

Mark Sabaj is responsible for about 1.6 million fish specimens—from giant sea bass to a tiny minnow that is among the smallest fish in the world—floating in jars on shelves in the academy’s basement.

** Why a London museum should return the stolen bones of an Irish giant

When the sea burial occurred at Margate on the south coast of England, surgeon-anatomist John Hunter, of whom the Hunterian Museum is named, had already bribed an undertaker to switch the corpse en route for dead weight and bring him the body.

** V&A hits back at criticism of council housing installation

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) director has hit back at the “keyboard warriors and ‘art-wash’ agitators” who have criticised the museum’s decision to display a section of the demolished Robin Hood Gardens council estate.

** Newton, Goethe, an Ornithologist & a Board Game Designer Help Us Understand Colour

To explain how we perceive and understand colour, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum exhibition showcases almost 200 objects, from a 19th century peacock-feather fan to an iMac computer, drawn from the museum’s vast design collections.

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** Dazzling works of art from the Indian subcontinent go on display

Two exhibitions on view now at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace bring together some of the finest examples of craftsmanship and literary and artistic production from the Indian subcontinent.

** Rembrandt Was a Genius, a Sage, and a Snob — and He Left behind a Mysterious Legacy

His most substantial contemporary biography, no more than a few paragraphs in all, reveals little beyond the human capacity for understatement.

** These Portuguese Libraries Are Infested With Bats—and They Like It That Way

They swoop through the stacks, winging over a first-edition of Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s “Roman Antiquities” and past a 15th-century book of hours and Homer’s “Opera Omnia” — snapping up bugs as they go.

** The Man Who Stole Bird Feathers

In June 2009, Edwin Rist, a 20-year-old American flutist studying at the Royal Academy of Music, smashed a window at the Museum of Natural History in Tring, near London, and pulled off one of the more bizarre robberies of recent decades.

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** Single White Feminism, part 3: Fear and loathing in Encinitas

After complaints about the former director, Lux Art Institute is ready for a change in leadership.

** Website Of Interest - Open Up Museums For Everyone

The UK project and resulting resources were designed to help all size museums to increase the diversity of their visitors to make real and lasting change in the museum sector.

** Frida Kahlo and the birth of Fridolatry

Frida Kahlo has been subject to global scrutiny and commercial exploitation; she has been appropriated by curators, historians, artists, actors, activists, Mexican consulates, museums and Madonna.

** Not licensed to offend: a new Bond museum will cut the sexism and casual racism

A museum devoted to the superspy is set to open in Austria – minus any stereotyping or misogyny; what 007 scenes could be on the chopping block?.

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** Why using lasers to clean feathers is not a bird-brained idea

After learning that the Vatican Museums had used infrared lasers to clean some of its feathered works, conservators from Milan decided to try the method on this ceremonial cape made by the Tupinambá—a cannibalistic tribe from Brazil.

** The 10 Best Museums in Amsterdam

While the Golden Age art, ingenious design, and Van Gogh self-portraits tend to hog visitors' attention, there's new local competition in the form of pop art darling Moco, with its vast Banksy collection.

** I Love My Job: Making Lightning at the Museum of Science

A few times a day, educators at the museum take the stage to showcase crackling electrical doodads, teach you how to survive a thunderstorm, and, for the grand finale, climb into a giant metal birdcage that is zapped again and again.

** German museum and auctioneer over looted glass goblet

A multicoloured marbled glass goblet dating from around 1800, which was stolen at the end of the Second World War, is the subject of a dispute between the Vienna auction house Im Kinsky and Berlin’s Märkisches Museum.

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** Viking Raid Preserved Artifacts From Mysterious Pictish Culture

According to the 13th-century Nordic history Historia Norvegiae, the first Viking invaders described the Picts as a pygmy-like people who worked hard morning and evening, but hid away mid-day in underground homes.

** Call For Session Proposals For 2019 AAMC Conference

The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) is seeking session proposals

** Chatbots in museums: hype or opportunity?

What can they do for museums and their audiences?

** Power and Splendour

The Canadian Museum of History

** This Weeks' Horoscopes

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