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** Art Nouveau masterpiece abandoned in decaying Brussels warehouse
An Art Nouveau facade designed by the famous Belgian architect Victor Horta
lies greening with mould and covered in trash in a Brussels warehouse,
forgotten only five years after it was last exhibited to the public
** Are Digital Replicas Sucking the Soul Out of the Art World?
When we speak of scanned and printed works of art, copies made by computers
and a fabrication mechanism rather than a human hand, it is a different
story altogether
** Hundreds of pupils to benefit from free arts scheme
This UK pilot project includes school clubs where students can design their
own programme of cultural visits
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** South Africa's golden rhino to star in British Museum exhibition
One of Africa’s greatest treasures, the 800-year-old golden rhinoceros of
Mapungubwe, is to leave the continent for the first time as part of a
British Museum exhibition exploring 100,000 years of South African art
** The Lonely, Thirsty, Final Days of the Doomed Alaskan Mammoths
While their kin went extinct on the mainland sometime between 14,000 and
13,200 years ago, the Saint Paul mammoths persisted for millennia more
** Largest exhibition in the U.S. dedicated to exploring Pterosaurs
Pterosaurs features dozens of fossils and casts from the AMNH collection and
museums around the world, including the remains of an unknown species of
giant pterosaur unearthed in Romania in 2012 by scientists working in
association with the AMNH
** Lucky Tourists Discover 400-Year-Old Petroglyphs On Hawaii Beach
Tens of thousands of them have been found throughout the Hawaiian islands,
often depicting people, nature and human activities
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** This Skeleton Is The Oldest Known Ancient Olympic Athlete
Just days before Christmas in 1959, construction workers in Taranto, Italy,
came upon a large stone sarcophagus and pottery vessels in the black-figure
style of ancient Greece
** Moscow’s Garage museum leads the way for visitors with disabilities
There are not many museums in Moscow that are equipped with facilities for
the handicapped, but the number is growing
** There Are Pokémon Go Gyms at a Cambodian Genocide Museum
The news has outraged museum staff and survivors of the camp, who have
watched tourists and locals alike stumble onto the grounds of Tuol Sleng
“just to catch the Pokémon”
** The Marco Polo Of The Ottoman Empire
According to his own recollection, Evliya Çelebi, the seventeenth-century
Turkish writer and traveler, experienced a life-changing epiphany on the
night of his twentieth birthday
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** Three Saints In One Portrait – It All Depends On Where You Stand
The illusion is due to the raised wooden ridges that jut out from the panel,
an effect known as anamorphosis
** Magnificent ancient jewellery to go on display at Myconos museum
The ephorate’s aim was to relaunch the renovated Archaeological Museum of
Myconos as the centre of the Cycladic islands, as well as a place to visit
for those coming to the island
** Michael Jordan Donates $5 Million to Museum
Retired NBA player Michael Jordan has donated $5 million to the National
Museum of African American History and Culture's Sports Gallery
** American Museum of Natural History's Cuba exhibit breaks diplomatic
ground
In keeping with the newly relaxed relations between the United States and
Cuba, scientists from both countries have broken through more than a
half-century of restrictions in place since the Cold War
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** Maya tomb uncovered holding body, treasure and tales of 'snake dynasty'
Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the largest royal tomb found in
more than a century of work on Maya ruins in Belize, along with a puzzling
set of hieroglyphic panels that provide clues to a “snake dynasty” that
conquered many of its neighbours some 1,300 years ago
** What West Germany Got Wrong About the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
They were concerned that public manifestations of Holocaust memory—for
example museums, monuments, and movies—could severely damage the Federal
Republic’s reputation in the United States
** The Irish woman who lived as a man to practice medicine
When the esteemed Dr James Barry died in 1865, an examination of his body
revealed that he was a woman, Margaret Bulkley, who had disguised herself to
practise medicine
** The museum in India that shrinks you
India's first Click Art Museum, in the southern city of Chennai, has been
visited by more than 47,000 people since its opening in April
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** Earliest Americans could not have arrived by dry land
Research shows that ice age corridor between Siberia and Alaska would have
been too inhospitable a migration route, contradicting longstanding theory
** Are you up to speed with museum lighting?
Lighting has seen significant advances in recent years in terms of both
technology and practice.
** MW17 Call for Proposals opening soon
Join us for the 21st Museums and the Web Conference in Cleveland, 19-22
April 2017.
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini - You’ll discover the long-sought missing link between humans and
apes this week, moments after standing directly in front of your bathroom
mirror
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