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Czech Republic: New web site and online exhibits of the Prague Jewish Museum's 'Secrets in the Attic' Geniza project
"The Jewish Museum in Prague has launched an informative web site with online exhibits about the eclectic material discovered in genizas in a dozen synagogue buildings that have been researched in the country since the 1990s."
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History in Ink: Preserving the World’s Largest Cartoon and Comic Collection
From 1920s manga to Captain Marvel to Calvin and Hobbes, there’s no telling what treasures you’ll uncover at this unique institution.
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America's Music Road
Go on a glorious 350-mile drive that embraces the entire history of popular music, from gospel to soul to jazz to country to rock.
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Van Gogh Painting Gets a New Name Thanks to an Eagle-Eyed Chef
Ernst de Witte realized that the onions in "Red Cabbages and Onions" are actually garlic
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We Need More Nuance When Talking About Repatriation
Patricia Marroquin Norby, the Met Museum’s curator of Native American Art, reflects on the lesser-discussed everyday challenges of repatriation work. "As connections with source communities grew, some colleagues shared their surprise at how repatriation attitudes regarding specific items can differ. Some tribes seek repatriation, while others favor a co-stewardship approach or prefer that works remain at the museum."
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13 exhibitions worth travelling for in 2023
Here’s where to get your art fix this year.
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French city believes Madonna may own artwork lost in war – and asks for loan
What do the singer Madonna and Amiens in northern France have in common? Not a lot, says the city’s mayor, Brigitte Fouré, who admits the global star has probably never heard of the city until now. However, Fouré insists there is a “special link” between the two in the shape of an early 19th-century painting that once hung in the Amiens museum until it was lost without trace during the first world war.
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Athens’ Unseen Museum Welcomes Special Dog Exhibit
The National Archaeological Museum’s Unseen Museum welcomes a 3rd-century AD funerary monument dedicated to a pet dog.
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NASA's retired flying telescope heads to museum
It's not off to the scrapyard quite yet for the historic aircraft that carried NASA's flying telescope. On Sept. 29, NASA and the German Space Agency (DLR) retired their joint Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft, a modified Boeing 747SP that lofted a 106-inch (2.7-meter) reflective telescope on overnight flights.
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Virginia county poised to take unusual step to preserve Confederate statue
Virginia's rural Mathews County is poised to deed a small piece of the public courthouse green to a private group to protect a Confederate statue forever.
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When Caves Were Avant-Garde Architecture
At the Noguchi Museum, the joys (and damp) of living below grade.
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You Can Now Explore All of ‘The Book of Kells’ for Free Online
Zoom in on every page of this legendary illuminated manuscript.
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The newest curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art? Its own security guards.
“I’m excited to see everyone’s reaction to what I picked for the show,” said guard Ricardo Castro.
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Digital archivists race to preserve Ukrainian heritage
While some Ukrainians attempt to preserve cultural artifacts as the conflict rages, a team of multinational archivists is recording websites before they go offline or their messages are distorted.
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Paleontology ‘a hotbed of unethical practices rooted in colonialism’, say scientists
The study of fossils and prehistoric species is exploitative of local communities, says international team
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Hiding Art in Basements, Returning Loans, Reopening as Bomb Shelters: How Ukraine's Museums Are Handling the Russian Invasion
As Ukraine defends itself against invading Russian forces, the nation's museums find themselves in a dire situation.
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A museum guard draws eyes on a pricey painting due to boredom
A valuable avant-garde painting of artist Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures painting, valued roughly at $1 million, was vandalized by a bored security guard who was on his first and obviously last day at work. The 90-year-old painting was on exhibit at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg and was on loan from Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery, Russia, as part of an exhibit titled "The World as Non-Objectivity: The Birth of a New Art."
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An Ancient Tablet, Stolen Then Acquired By Hobby Lobby, Will Be Returned To Iraq
Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, it was looted from Iraq and made its way through several hands before Hobby Lobby purchased it for the Museum of the Bible in 2014.
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Beyond Van Gogh
These images are from the Ottawa iteration of the Beyond Van Gogh immersive experience. It brought the work of one of history's greatest oil painters to life with 21st century computer animation and light technology. Even the floor was a living, moving work of impressionism à la Van Gogh.
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World’s Largest Astronomy Museum Opens in Shanghai
The world’s largest astronomy museum has just opened in Shanghai, China. Designed by Ennead Architects, this contemporary cultural center acts as the new astronomy branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. This proposal for the Shanghai Astronomy Museum won the design competition for its dynamic form that represents the movement of celestial bodies which is made up of an oculus, an inverted dome, and a sphere...
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