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** Fireworks ignited and eggs thrown as Holocaust museum opens in Amsterdam
Jewish protesters joined pro-Palestinians to protest against Israeli president Isaac Herzog as he attended the opening of a new Holocaust museum
** Ruskin Museum Says Donald Campbell's Bluebird 'will run again'
Donald Campbell's boat, Bluebird K7, will run again on Coniston Water, the Ruskin Museum has announced.
** The English heiress who became an IRA bomber and art thief, even burgling her own family estate
Rose Dugdale’s unlikely journey from reluctant debutante to dedicated IRA volunteer, whose reckless escapades and commitment to the cause of violent republicanism made headlines
** Museums or mean girls? Societal worship of public art museums
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** Protestor Spray Paints, Slashes Portrait of Lord, Who Established UK Support for Israel
A painting of Lord Balfour, whose eponymous doctrine is considered the catalyst for the 1948 establishment of Israel and the subsequent Nakba, the Palestinian term referring to the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, has been defaced in England
** Fate of precious Henry VIII stained glass in dispute
The fate of precious Tudor stained glass marking the union of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn is in dispute after its last-minute withdrawal from a private auction.
** Who is Banksy?
Wild theories over identity of world-famous artist as legal row threatens to reveal his name.
** Major UK museum redevelopments to benefit from Levelling Up funding
The V&A Dundee, the National Railway Museum in York and National Museums Liverpool have received grants from the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund
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** The Vindolanda tablets
Some 1,700 tablets from Roman Britain tell us the intimate details of fort life at Vindolanda in the words of the people who lived there.
** The Curious Case of the 222 Other Artists Who Just Landed on the Moon Who Are Not Jeff Koons
The Lunaprise Museum, and its art, is a set of nickel disks that resemble a DVD, which have hitched a ride on the Odysseus mission.
** This Rare Scientific Artifact Was Long Overlooked in an Italian Museum’s Collection
The astronomical instrument bears markings bearing out 11th-century cultural exchanges.
** Abandoned Ancestors
Already bearing evidence of use as target practice by German soldiers occupying a Belgian chateau during World War I, the lace-bedecked Madame Delcour was jettisoned by her Christchurch kin as forbidding and unattractive.
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** Museum attempts world record for underwear worn on head
The museum previously earned Guinness World Records titles for the largest pencil, the longest seesaw and the largest tennis racket.
** A new Olympic Museum website
Whether people are looking to visit the museum in Lausanne or experience the vast collections of Olympic heritage, knowledge and programmes, the museum hopes they will find new inspiration in the stories and information now available online.
** A Curator Happy to Shift the Museum Landscape
From the start of my graduate career, I always felt this reservation about the elitism of art history — it doesn’t have the reputation for being a field of social service.
** Spinosaurus might not have been a swimming dinosaur after all
Paleontologists haven’t always agreed on how the dinosaur went about catching its meals and whether or not the giant dinosaur could actually dive under the water.
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** What To Expect At Alabama's Legacy Museum
The museum takes you on the journey from capture in Africa and the dangerous middle passage across the Atlantic, to trading of enslaved people and emancipation, to segregation and civil rights, to the war on drugs and mass incarceration.
** Unusual exhibits from a digital ‘cabinet of curiosities’
Five years after its start, the openVertebrate project has made thousands of 3D natural history specimens available for free online.
** A new Holocaust Museum shows how three-quarters of Dutch Jews were deported and killed
The Dutch resistance spirited newborn Flip Delmonte away after his parents were detained by Nazi occupiers of the Netherlands in World War II.
** Scientists say they’re a step closer to reviving mammoths. What could go wrong?
A company aiming to bring extinct animals back from the dead said it has taken an elephant-sized step toward genetically resurrecting the woolly mammoth, a wild if contentious goal to repopulate the Arctic tundra with a missing titan.
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** What is Furniture History?
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** Museum Tech: A Digital Festival for Museums
17 April 2024, Museum of London, London.
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