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**  Saving art in Ukraine with foam, crates and cries for help

They contacted a dozen Polish museums and palaces and on March 27 a train arrived from Warsaw, loaded with cardboard boxes and bags of Styrofoam beads and on April 4, another emergency shipment with packing material and protective gloves arrived from Norway and Denmark.

**  Could a Perfect 3-D Copy Solve the Quandary Over Who Gets the Parthenon Marbles?

An Oxford University Scholar says the British Museum should display replicas and return the originals to Greece.

**  How to Save Panel Paintings Conservators, a Disappearing Profession

When Aleksandra Hola visited the Getty Centre for the first time in 2009 as a young paintings conservator, there was only one way for her to describe the experience.

**  Charles Dickens sought house where he would meet a real ghost

From October, Dickens had a lifelong fascination with the paranormal – an interest reflected in the inclusion of spirits, spectres and phantoms in his stories - will be the subject of an exhibition at the house in central London where the author and his family lived in the late 1830s, now the Charles Dickens Museum.

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**  British Museum highlights a pagan perspective on Feminine power: the divine to the demonic

The museum asked five community consultants, who contributed to the development of the exhibition, to respond to an object in the exhibition that relates to them as women but also to their pagan and witchcraft beliefs and practices.

**  The Repatriation Wave Continues, as a London Museum Returns 72 Artifacts to Nigeria

Days after a set of guidelines outlining how English museums should approach restitution and repatriation cases was released, London's Horniman Museum announced it will return more than 70 looted antiquities to Nigeria,

**  Museum of Interest - The Muntok Memorial Peace Museum

The Muntok Peace Memorial Museum at Kampong Menjelang in Indonesia is the site of the former Women’s prison Camp for Singapore evacuees and prisoners, many of whom died there.

**  Physicist’s Awe-Inspiring Photo of a Distant Red Star Revealed As a Slice of Chorizo

The scientist’s image, it turns out, was just a photograph of a slice of chorizo sausage on a black background—a fact he only disclosed after the post scored thousands of views, likes, and res.

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**  Renovated museum recounts Egyptian postal history throughout ages

The old-style, palace-like building of the renovated Egyptian Postal Museum in the heart of downtown Cairo is home to thousands of items recounting the country’s postal history from the times of ancient Egypt until the modern Egyptian mail service established in the 19th Century.

**  Uffizi Launches $51 M. Project to Safeguard Boboli Gardens Against Climate Change

Dubbed “Boboli 2030” the redesign plan will be carried out across 40 separate projects, some of which will also upgrade the gardens’ energy efficiency.

**  Tate Reaches Six-Figure Settlement with Artists in Lawsuit Over Discrimination Allegations

The Tate in London has reached a settlement agreement involving three artists who sued the British museum for breach of contract and discrimination earlier this year.

**  ‘What a Horrible Place This Would Have Been’

Archaeologists found the remains of 14 soldiers who died in a pivotal Revolutionary War battle — a fresh reminder of the violence of war.

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**  Investigators Say Collector Had Suspect Art and Lots of chutzpah

Georges Lotfi was for many years a valuable source of information for prosecutors investigating the global trade in looted antiquities but now an arrest warrant has been issued for Mr Lotfi, who is accused of criminally possessing stolen goods.

**  Chocolate Museum seeks new home as London rents bite

The privately run museum, which was established in 2012 by chocolatier Isabelle Alaya, has an extensive collection of objects that trace the history of chocolate in Britain and internationally.

**  Podcast - Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles

Ruscha discusses how he became an artist, his thoughts on his career today, and his decades-long project documenting Sunset Boulevard.

**  How Bird Collecting Evolved Into Bird-Watching

In the early 1900s, newfound empathy for avian creatures helped wildlife observation displace dispassionate killing.

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**  Researchers discover extinct bone-crushing dog

The ambush hunting strategy of bone-crushing dogs might have been particularly well-suited for hunting large herbivores in the ancient forests of the Appalachian Mountains.

**  I Can’t Believe It’s Butter That Was Buried in a Bog!

For thousands of years people have been burying butter under the spongy surface of boglands, where organic matter doesn’t rot as it does elsewhere.

**  Questioning the place of black art in a white man’s collection

Barnes believed that an appreciation of African masterpieces would also advance the cause he passionately promoted alongside modern art: the advancement of African Americans in society.

**  ‘Alleged’ Fabergé Egg Found Aboard a Seized Russian Oligarch’s Yacht

It’s not clear yet if the Fabergé egg is authentic; but if it is, it could be worth millions.

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**  The ice age giant deer Megaloceros

This Heritage Week join a recently retired Keeper, National Museum of Ireland - Natural History, for a short online talk about Megaloceros, Ireland’s most famous extinct animal.

**  Gulag History Museum

Deputy Director for Development at the Gulag History Museum Anna Stadinchuk talks to TBIH's Jens Beutmann about this Moscow based institution

**  Future of Museums: Collections

Museums Association. 22 September 2022, 1100-1600

**  Great Britain Returns Looted Stonehenge Back To India

In its most significant acknowledgement yet of the British Empire’s well-documented appropriation of cultural relics, sources reported Tuesday that Great Britain returned the looted Stonehenge monument back to India.
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