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Caught in the Act
A sampling of meticulous mug shots, along with about forty crime-related images from American tabloids, police files, security cameras, and photographers both anonymous and widely known, comprise the fascinating exhibition “Crime Stories: Photography and Foul Play,” currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Michael Greenberg.
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‘Britain forgets its past. Germany confronts it’
Neil MacGregor, the former head of the British Museum, now helping to create a German equivalent in Berlin, talks about our two nations’ contrasting attitudes to culture and memory, and why the end of the second world war is finally in sight.
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Brief History of Women on Money
One of the first historic women to appear on money was Arsinoe II, a Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, in the 3rd century BCE. Since then, many national currencies have depicted women either during their lifetimes or posthumously.
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The Texas Prison Museum Thrives on ‘Dark Tourism’
The gift shop offers shirts honoring the electric chair, “Home of Old Sparky,” and the museum's visitors get a “selectively edited” history of corrections. By Robyn Ross.
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How Americans Gardened 260 Years Ago
Colonial Williamsburg shows us that when it comes to technique, not much has changed.
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Man finds 22-pound chunk of butter estimated to be more than 2,000 years old in Irish bog
Finding buried treasure is a dream as old as stories themselves. Treasure chests overflowing with gold doubloons, shiny lamps containing genies, gargantuan lumps of thousand-year-old butter. Okay, maybe most don't dream of unearthing enormous chunks of butter, but that's exactly what Jack Conway discovered in the Emlagh bog in County Meath, Ireland, at the beginning of June, Atlas Obscura reported. Conway is a turf cutter, meaning he harvests "turf" or peat - it's similar to moss - from a bog to later burn...
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A Serpentine Example of Aztec Body Modification Slithers into The Met
The Aztec rulers often expressed their power with body modification, such as labrets pierced through the lower lip.
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USS Enterprise boldly goes from the Smithsonian’s basement into the main gallery
After 40 years deteriorating in the Air and Space Museum's basement gift shop, an 11-foot model of Star Trek's first ship has been restored, given lights, and moved to the museum's main atrium.
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Remembering Slavery At Whitney
A Louisiana plantation that is an emotionally devastating museum of slavery. By Rod Dreher.
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Could Long-Lost Amber Room Be Stashed in a Nazi Bunker in Poland?
A museum in the country’s northeast says it has evidence of a hidden chamber inside a compound used by German forces, and that it may contain the treasure lost during World War II. By Rick Lyman. (June 10, 2016)
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Hong Kong museum commemorating Tiananmen Square protests closes
Row with landlord comes amid concern about what activists see as growing restrictions on Hong Kong’s freedoms by China. China’s only museum commemorating the 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is to close temporarily after a long-running legal battle with the management and owners of the building it is housed in. The museum opened in April 2014. Unlike in mainland China where the 1989 crackdown on student-led protests remains taboo, the museum – and an annual candlelight vigil attended by tens of thousands every year – is legal in Hong Kong.
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If we return Nazi-looted art, the same goes for empire-looted
Today, as the world reconsiders the role played by colonial-era imagery and profits in our lives through actions such as removing celebratory statues and seeking to give reparations to the descendants of slaves, it is also time to take into account the histories of violence and subjugation behind the aesthetic pleasures of European museums. By Erin Thompson.
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National Museum of Civil War Medicine
Visit the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and see the Clara Barton & Pry House Museums, learn about Jonathan Letterman and sample our civil war beer!
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‘What I Couldn’t Say Myself’
Danny Lyon has spent much of his career taking intimate photographs of marginal, working-class, and outlaw communities. By Max Nelson.
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Dive into a Pool of Sprinkles at the Museum of Ice Cream in New York
Grab your spoons—this delicious popup will melt in a month
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The hidden base that could have ended the world
In the 1970s and 80s, crews sat at constant readiness in nuclear missile silos buried in the Arizona desert. What would have happened if they had got the order to launch? By Richard Hollingham.
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In the Shadow of the DNC, Art About Politics vs. Political Art
"In an interview, African American collage artist Theodore Harris, whose work is included in the exhibition, refutes the idea that George Washington is a universally positive figure in American history." By Stan Mir.
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Unholy Roman Emperor
Mary Beard on the ancient and modern reputation of Nero.
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100 Years In The Making, Black History And Culture Museum Ready For Reveal
The complicated history of how the National Museum of African American History and Culture finally moved from conversation to construction may be as compelling as the artifacts in its exhibits.
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Ukraine returns five paintings stolen from Dutch museum
Five of the 24 paintings stolen from the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, northwestern Netherlands, on January 10th, 2005, have been returned to the Netherlands by the Ukrainian authorities. How they ended up in Ukraine is unclear.
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