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** How to Turn a $1,000 Art-Auction Pickup Into a $450 Million Masterpiece

The picture has since sold once for $127.5?million and again, in a record-setting auction at Christie's, for close to half a billion dollars.

** Spire atop Notre Dame cathedral in Paris collapses in fire

The fire rapidly spread and took over the iconic cathedral as onlookers scrambled to get a view of the destruction, even as soot and cinder fell onto them.

** The Greatest Art Forger of Modern Times Might Have Been Killed By The Mafia

Film-makers have unearthed evidence that Eric Hebborn, the greatest art forger of modern times, was working for the mafia towards the end of his life and may even have been murdered by them.

** Neolithic Britain: where did the first farmers come from?

This is the first time the full genome of a Mesolithic Briton has been sequenced - that of Britain's oldest mostly-complete skeleton, Cheddar Man.

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** Museum in legal threat to take back Campbell's Bluebird

A Cumbrian museum is at odds with the man given the task of restoring the Bluebird's wreck over whether it should go on display in Coniston or undergo further test runs on a Scottish loch.

** The Controversy Over the Planned Le Corbusier Museum

In recent years, his legacy has come under fire as a surge of evidence suggests he was not simply an opportunistic creative seeking financial support wherever he could find it, but a fascist with strong anti-Semitic views.

** The Controversial House of Fates Holocaust Museum

Rather than deny the existence of the Holocaust as some others have done, a cadre of Hungarian “experts” began to minimize the role of Hungarians in the murder, by shifting the blame from Hungarians to Nazi Germany.

** New Statue of Liberty Museum to open this May

The new 26,000-square-foot Statue of Liberty Museum features three gallery spaces, each one meant to inspire visitors and educate them about the Statue of Liberty in interactive and thought-provoking ways.

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** Ohio Museums Share Ideas for Inclusivity

At the association's annual conference this week in Akron, staff from zoos, historical centres and museums are sharing ideas about what's worked for them to engage minority populations and visitors with special needs.

** The Work of Art Begins to Wobble: Guggenheim Stares Down Heady Questions

It's the era of the end of the unique object and the beginning of a period when work was made not by artists but by others—by professional shops, studio assistants, technicians, and other agents assigned to fabricate the work.

** How Arp Kickstarted Major US Collections

The seven works by Arp nowadays belonging to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection provide a rich starting point for this exhibition, as Arp was the first artist to enter Peggy Guggenheim's collection.

** Frescoes and faeces as Nero's palace opens in Rome

The ruins of the sumptuous "Domus Transitoria", once decorated with gold leaf, precious stones and mother of pearl, lie next to a well-preserved 50-seat latrine used communally by builders and slaves.

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** Ancient 'Texas Serengeti' had elephant-like animals, rhinos, alligators and more

During the Great Depression, Texans were put to work as fossil hunters; the workers retrieved tens of thousands of specimens that have been studied in small bits and pieces while stored in the state collections of The University of Texas at Austin.

** V&A Dundee reaches 500,000 visitors and boosts local attractions

The new V&A Dundee has contributed to an upsurge in visitors to other heritage attractions in the area, according to a recent report into visitor attendance.

** U.S. natural history museum cancels event honouring Brazil president

The American Museum of Natural History had come under fire, when news emerged that on May 14 it would serve as the venue for a black-tie gala dinner honouring Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's newly elected, ultranationalist president.

** Archaeologists discover 3,600-year-old shipwreck that sunk in a storm

The boat, which contained 1.5 tonnes of copper ingots, was found by frogmen researchers from Antalya University's Underwater Research Department.

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** Germany's Museum of Livestock Science

Thousands of skulls, taxidermy animals, skeletons, and coat samples are now on display at the university's Museum of Livestock Science (Museum der Haustierkunde), telling the story of 150 years of breeding activities.

** Intricate Dinosaur Skin Impressions

Fossilized dinosaur footprints are fairly common in the paleontological record, but a mere 1 per cent of these tracks exhibit evidence of skin.

** Air Conditioning Caused the Fire That Claimed Brazil's National Museum

Police and fire officials have been working with an ensemble of anthropologists, archaeologists, palaeontologists, and more, both to determine how the fire got so out of control, and to recover as much as possible from the rubble.

** German museum returns indigenous remains to Australia

A total of 53 Australian indigenous remains are scheduled to be repatriated from Germany in April, with Stuttgart's Linden Museum, Saxony's state ethnographic collection and Martin Luther University near Leipzig also set to return remains in their possession.

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** Learning Laboratory and Community Center: Positioning the Academic Museum for Success

AAMG's Annual Conference

** European Cultural Heritage – Celebrating Diversity

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** 2019 SPNHC Meeting

The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) is holding their 34th annual meeting May 25th to the 31st

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