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** Te Papa restructure risks loss of irreplaceable science expertise

Another restructure threatens another tranche of collection management expertise and passion, which critics say is both crucial and irreplaceable; it's also rekindled concerns about the New Zealand's commitment to its nationally significant collections.

** The British Museum Says It Will Never Return the Elgin Marbles

British Museum director Hartwig Fischer is facing international backlash after defending an English nobleman’s removal of sculptures from the Parthenon in the early 1800s as a “creative act,” and reiterated that the museum’s trustees would not support repatriating them to Athens

** Queen Victoria's travelling bed to go on show in May

Claims that Prince Charles took his own mattress when visiting friends may have been met with incredulity, but the Prince of Wales may have been following in his great-great-great-grandmother’s footsteps.

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** Zuul Makes A Big Splash At Toronto Museum

A fantastically preserved, 75 million-year-old plant-eater named Zuul — discovered over the hill from Chagnon’s house in 2014 — has gone on display in Toronto’s Royal Museum of Ontario in a special exhibit.

** Museum blog offers a cutting-edge look at the history of surgery

North America’s only museum solely devoted to surgery is in a historic mansion in Chicago; it has more than 10,000 square feet of public galleries and a large collection of surgical artifacts, art and rare texts detailing centuries of surgical progress.

** Ten-Year Restoration Of Tutankhamen’s Tomb Is Finally Complete

In 2009, with help from the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, the Getty Conservation Institute brought in a team of environmental engineers, architects and designers to improve the tomb’s infrastructure, an Egyptologist to conduct background research, microbiologists to study the brown spots, and conservators to treat the walls.

** That Shredded Banksy Will Rotate Through Galleries In A German Museum

Ultimately the still-anonymous bidder decided to move forward with her purchase of the piece, now renamed “Love is in the Bin” (2018), and it has landed a long-term public showcase at the German art museum, Stuttgart Staatsgalerie.

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** The Fight Over Repatriating African Skulls From European Museums

For centuries, African bones have lay in boxes all across Europe, placed under microscopes or displayed in some attempt to better understand the role of humans through scientific endeavours.

** And You Thought the Platypus Was Odd

Like the platypus, this recently discovered prehistoric creature had a duckbill, but then nature made it even weirder, adding plates on its back like a stegosaurus, a long tail like a crocodile, large paddle-like limbs and a tiny head with teeny eyes.

** Russian painting stolen from Moscow gallery during exhibition

A 20th century landscape painting by a Russian artist was stolen from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in a brazen act of theft during an exhibition.

** National Portrait Gallery announces redevelopment plans

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London has announced plans for a redevelopment which will include a new entrance, new public galleries in the building’s east wing, and a new learning space.

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** When Modern Men Throw Ancient Weapons

It’s abundantly clear that Neanderthals and other early hominins were capable hunters who made and used spears; but many researchers have argued that such weapons were too heavy and clunky to be thrown quickly or accurately, and could only be thrust into prey from close range.

** Polish billionaire opens art museum in Switzerland

A Polish billionaire and art aficionado has opened a museum in a small Swiss village after her idea was turned down in Poland.

** Asian Art Museum Explores The Kimono's Global Influence

When Japan reopened to trade with the West, a tidal wave of Japanese imports, including woodblock prints, fans, ceramics, and, yes, kimonos, flooded European markets.

** Museum of Medieval Stockholm

Enter the museum, and you’ll receive a crash-course on life in medieval Stockholm as well as the area’s general history, which includes information about Sweden’s past royals and all the drama that surrounded their lives.

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** Newseum: journalism museum sells Washington home to balance losses

The Newseum, one of the preeminent institutions dedicated to journalism in America, is relocating from its home in Washington after suffering significant losses in recent years.

** Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ staying put in Amsterdam museum

A “full body scan” carried out on the Van Gogh Museum’s version of the Dutch master’s iconic “Sunflowers” has shown the painting is not fit to travel because it’s in “stable but vulnerable” condition.

** The Embroidered Computer

The Embroidered Computer is an exploration into using historic gold embroidery materials and knowledge to craft a programmable 8 bit computer.

** Theft, vandalism prompt no-entry signs at Railway Museum

Miyagi said he is “enraged” over the actions that have poured cold water on the museum’s philosophy of allowing maximum public access to car interiors so that visitors can “touch, ride and directly feel” trains and other railroad equipment

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** A Museum for K.G.B. Aficionados? Da!

The museum is the culmination of three decades' worth of collecting by Mr. Urbaitis, who, after acquiring a listening device that belonged to Adolf Hitler, grew fascinated with espionage.

** XXXVIII Scientific Instrument Symposium

23 - 27 September, 2019,Havana, Cuba

** Call For Papers: Social History Curators Group Annual Conference

18/19 July in Edinburgh

** Images Objects Archives: The Multiple Lives of Photographs

Symposium, March 22, 2019

** This Week's Horoscopes

Sagittarius - While pleased with the progress you’ve been making in your anger-management course, you will suffer a tremendous setback this week after realizing it’s actually a basket-weaving class you’ve been attending all this time.

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