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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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Apple Museum With 1,500 Exhibits to Open in Poland
The museum will feature 1,500 exhibits related to the development and evolution of Apple products throughout the company's history. It is said to be the biggest and most complete collection of its kind in the world. Krzysztof Grochowski, President of the Management Board of Japko, the company behind the exhibition...
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World's largest astronomy museum set to open in Shanghai
The world’s largest astronomy museum is opening in Shanghai, and its complex curvilinear shape has been designed to reflect the geometry of the cosmos. With no straight lines or right angles used throughout, the structure is instead formed from three overlapping arcs that allude to the orbits of celestial bodies.
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Nintendo Is Opening A Museum In Japan
Nintendo just announced plans to take one of its old production facilities in Japan and turn it into the “Nintendo Gallery”, a place to “showcase the many products Nintendo has launched over its history”.
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What the Museum of 2020 May Look Like
Curators and archivists on the items they’ve acquired from our pandemic year.
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Louvre museum makes its entire collection available online
The Louvre museum in Paris said Friday it has put nearly half a million items from its collection online for the public to visit free of charge. As part of a major revamp of its online presence, the world's most-visited museum has created a new database of 482,000 items at collections.louvre.fr with more than three-quarters already labelled with information and pictures.
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How to Identify a Roman Emperor By His Beard?
Visiting a museum? This guide will help you identify any Roman Emperor bust or sculpture in front of you by simply looking at his beard!
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Six Free Natural History Programs Streaming in January
Stream these free programs and more this January through the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
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Are ghosts haunting the British Museum?
Inexplicable noises, spectral sightings, sudden drops in temperature – something strange is going on at the British Museum. As the clamour over colonial restitution grows, Killian Fox investigates the collection’s restless objects
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Race to the bottom: museum curators in battle for #BestMuseumBum
Yorkshire museum calls on collections around the world to display their best behinds as visitor numbers fall during the coronavirus pandemic
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Turkey turns iconic Istanbul museum into mosque
President Erdogan reopens Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to Muslim worship, after a court ruling.
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Shelley's Frankenstein museum plans approved
The novelist wrote much of her hugely influential work when she lived in Bath about 200 years ago.
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