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** Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history
Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient
world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask.
** Museum's Queen Victoria bust smeared with jam and porridge by climate protesters
Two women have been charged after environmental protesters targeted a marble bust of Queen Victoria in one
of Scotland’s largest museums.
** Museum Searching For Lost Victoria Cross Medals
Chelmsford Museum is continuing its search for two lost medals, each valued in the region of £250,000–£300,000.
** Evacuated Ukraine students help out A-bomb museum
Ukrainian students who fled the war in their homeland have translated the audio guide at the Hiroshima Peace
Memorial Museum into their native language.
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** Rising costs force museums to cut opening hours and education
programmes
New research shows four in five heritage bodies hit by
budget pressures.
** Italy's Domenica al Museo Initiative
Opened Museum Doors Free
As more visitors from diverse backgrounds discover these
cultural jewels, it not only enriches their lives but also supports the preservation of these sites for future generations.
** An icon turns 65: Barbie’s
changing style showcased in London exhibition
As doll’s fame hits a new high, Design Museum will explore
the impact her changing appearance has had.
** Before AI, Two Japanese Artists
Took the Human Hand out of Gestural Brushstrokes
To craft his dense drizzles, Kanayama outfitted a toy car
with cans of paint that leaked their contents, dispersing webs of black, red, green, and more across his medium-sized canvases.
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** Introduction to 'Michelangelo: the last decades'
In the last three decades of his life, until his death
at the age of almost 89, he was busier than he had ever been, as successive popes drew on his expertise and imagination to commission a series of increasingly demanding projects.
** Liang Yi Museum — where you
can touch the exhibits
Its collections range from Ming furniture to Japanese silverware
— and visitors can even sit on the chairs.
** Anchorage Museum – How to Survive
I feel that this communal nature comes easier to us than
many Americans because the vast and harsh nature here will kill us if we don’t work together, especially when we’re in a pinch.
** Unusual Museums - Pencil Sharpener
Museum
The Pencil Sharpener Museum welcomes visitors to donate
new sharpeners to the collection - but don’t be sad if your sharpener fails to meet the museum’s tough standards.
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** Instagram is vital to art and museum culture, say gallery
founders
Instagram is now vital to art gallery and museum culture
and can be used to bring in younger audiences, according to the founders of a Dutch contemporary art space.
** Tornado Damages U.S. Air Force
Museum
The 100-year-old National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
is the world’s largest military aviation museum and features hundreds of aircraft and spacecraft spread over 20 indoor acres and outdoor parks.
** How Museums, Zoos and Public
Gardens Lead by Example on Climate Change
The Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Pittsburgh
boast some of the world's greenest buildings; their star is the Center for Sustainable Landscapes building, which generates all its own energy and captures and treats all its wastewater.
** New Stories New Audiences case
studies
A look at how the Field Museum in Chicago is responding
to recent federal regulations that have led officials to cover objects they may need to return to tribes.
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** Night watchman during notorious 1990 Gardner heist has died
The thieves bound Abath and another watchman with duct
tape, then quickly maneuvered through the museum, cherry-picking what's estimated to be a stash worth well more than $500 million.
** How Alligators and Humans Became
Friends—Kind Of
A new museum delves into our cute and terrifying relationship
with gators.
** The Bruce Dice Mineralogical
Museum
A lot of mineral museums are organized by chemical families,
but the purpose of the Dice Museum is to group things mainly on aesthetics.
** Fossils of new armored dinosaur
species found in east China
The discovery of the new dinosaur is an important addition
to the fossil record of Ankylosaurine, an iconic armored dinosaur species in the early Late Cretaceous.
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** Free Book: Global Goods and the Country House: Comparative perspectives, 1650-180 (UCL Press)
Global goods were central to the material culture of eighteenth-century
country houses.
** 24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten
Thousand Suns
Art Gallery of New South Wales.9 March – 10 June
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio: Men in white coats will lead you away when you
try to convince your installation team that the museum's interactive exhibits are actually portals to other dimensions.
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