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Salina Turda - Romanian Salt Mine
The Turda Salt Mine is now a veritable history museum of salt mining. The excellent state of preservation of mining and machinery used to transport salt, together with the cautious work carried out for prepararing the mine to become a tourist attraction, have made history and legend meet harmoniously here.
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Museums Turn to Technology to Boost Attendance by Millennials
If museums face an uncertain future, you wouldn't know it from “Henri Matisse: The Cutouts,” which recently drew 664,000 to the Museum of Modern Art. The show was so thronged that MoMA kept its doors open round-the-clock on the closing weekend last month.
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25 Years After Art Heist, Empty Frames Still Hang In Boston's Gardner Museum
On March 18, 1990, robbers stole $500 million in art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Author Stephen Kurkjian explains why anyone would bother to steal work so priceless it couldn't be sold.
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How a Colorado Family Built a Home for the World’s Weirdest, Most Beautiful Bugs
Driving along a nondescript section of Highway 115 a few miles south of Colorado Springs, it's hard not to swerve at the sight of a gigantic Hercules beetle, its horns as tall as a house, standing beside a sign for the May Natural History Museum. But this monstrous beetle isn’t advertising some two-bit roadside attraction...
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In the New Whitney
Architecture is an art form that often involves inordinately large amounts of other people’s enthusiasm, time, and money. If any one of these resources begins to run out, they all do; the creation of architecture is a balancing act that contends not only with physical forces like stress, resilience, and gravity, but also with psychic forces like confidence, inspiration, and, often enough, sheer persistence. By Ingrid D. Rowland.
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An Interview With @AfAmHistFail
We sit down with @AfAmHistFail, an anonymous plantation docent who shares the teaching ups and racist downs of her job.
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You break it, you buy it, or they fix it - Ipswich museum jug smash boy's family 'thrilled' - BBC News
The mother of a little boy who accidentally smashed a historic jug at an Ipswich museum says the family is "thrilled" it has been fixed.
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Mendelssohn Effektorium - Virtual Orchestra for Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Museum Leipzig
The museum visitor enters the room to find himself at the conductors stand with digital music notes and an orchestra of 13 speakers in front of him. Each speaker represents a different group of instruments. The visitor is given a conductors´ stick, and the concert may begin. On the repertoire are works of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. By browsing the electronic note-pad the visitor freely chooses which work he/she wishes to conduct, and by swinging the conductors stick decides upon the tempo.
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The mystery of Dorothy’s missing ruby slippers: Solve it, and you’ll get $1 million
Nearly 10 years ago, someone bashed in the window of the Judy Garland Museum and stole the world's most famous shoes.
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Why museums are the new churches
Like the cathedrals of bygone eras, galleries are now the ultimate buildings of our times – and the way we use them mimics religious rituals, writes Jason Farago. Art critics wear many hats, but lately the most useful one has been a safety helmet. Across the United States, arts institutions are in the middle of a building boom, and globally, outside of Europe’s austerity-choked capitals, the strongholds of art are rising as well.
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New Video Released in Infamous 1990 Boston Art Heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The newly-released footage was taken almost exactly 24 hours before the heist and shows a security guard letting in an unauthorized visitor
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6 Bizarre Museums You Can Visit From The Comfort Of Your Desk
From toasters to opium, learn about the history of strangely specific and obscure topics. You're sure to learn something new from these 6 online museums.
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People Love Art Museums — But Has The Art Itself Become Irrelevant?
Don't be fooled by museums' strong attendance numbers, says professor Michael Lewis. He argues today's art world is a Potemkin village, whose gleaming facades mask an indifference for the art itself.
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NSFW Nightlight
The museum closes when dusk falls, and when the darkness strikes, the 'Night Light' fills the hushed spaces. It wanders along vulnerable paintings and awakens the mysterious girl who knows her place in the painting the Night Watch, by the Dutch painter Rembrandt When she steps into the nocturnal world of the museum, the Night Light leads her through the spaces, and she opens doors behind other iconic Dutch masterpieces.
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Metropolitan Museum Initiative Provides Free Access to 400,000 Digital Images
Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works... (May 16, 2014)
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5 Lighthouse Museums in Rhode Island
5 places to learn about lighthouses while taking in their beauty.
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Beaulieu motoring collector Lord Montagu dies
Lord Montagu, who established the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, England, dies aged 88.
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Auschwitz mist showers anger visitors
The visitor center at the Auschwitz concentration camp is being criticized by visitors who were shocked to see showers set up outside of the Polish site over the weekend. For some, the cooling stations offered a dark reminder of the camp's horrifying past. As the area suffered from severe heat, the site's managers set up misting showers to keep visitors cool as temperatures soared well into the 90s.
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Seul Choix Lighthouse Heralded as One of the Most Complete Lights on the Great Lakes
Seul Choix includes a two-story brick keeper's house, a fog signal building, an assistant keeper's house, two oil houses, and other buildings.
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Eight objects that define the Soviet space race
As London’s Science Museum salutes Russia’s space race with a new exhibition, we ask the curator to pick eight objects – big and small – that defined it.
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