Museum must rediscover its mojo The presentation and discussion left me with the impression the museum has been infected by a disease that is debilitating some other creative sectors
Titian painting damaged by water in Venice fire A Renaissance painting by Italian master Titian and other rare canvases have suffered water damage after a fire at the building next to the Venice basilica where the artworks reside
Wonderful Weevils With 4,500 different weevil species, the Voríšek collection is the largest of its kind and almost half of the species are new to the Museum’s collections
Goober's suit enshrined Actor George Lindsey's costume attracted overflow crowds at the Andy Griffith Museum, which functions as both a shrine to the namesake favorite son and part of a Mayberry renaissance powering the economy in Mount Airy
Most Fragile Eggs Belonged to Huge Flightless Birds To discover which species that other moa eggs might belong to, researchers first analyzed DNA from remains of different species of moa left all over New Zealand
Art Theft Underworld Frustrates France The vulnerability of museums and high-end art owners to costly thefts has been a whispered concern in France for years, but two events here are forcing the issue into the open
Chinese-American Museum reborn after fire Five tiny, charred doll heads and a two worn silk panels from a 20th century wooden pagoda-shaped lantern lay in a display case, each next to a photo of what the historic artifacts at the Chinese-American Museum of Chicago looked like before they were severely damaged in a fire
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Paranormal investigators visit old Texas museum Museum director Rick Villarreal said some visitors have said they sensed a presence at the historic site in the past, but there is little proof that ghosts do inhabit the halls
British Museum alert will remain mystery The British Museum has reopened after a suspected noxious substance left visitors with irritated eyes and throats, as managers admitted the cause of the scare will remain a mystery
Museum and its many bugs under auditors' microscope The figures are staggering: the Australian Museum in Sydney is home to 300,000 insects, 140,000 of which do not even have names; there are 60,000 items in the Pacific collections and a further 70,000 ornithological specimens
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What have the Romans ever done for us (socks and sandals excepted)? They gave the world decent roads, indoor plumbing and some of the goriest spectator sports known to man, but now it appears that the Romans made a hitherto secret contribution to global civilisation by pioneering the wearing of socks with sandals
Drunk US man 'lost' $1.9m artwork The museum agreed to return "Portrait of a Girl" and dozens of other paintings to a Hammer-related foundation, and the foundation was allowed to sell the Corot canvas and a few others
Vietnamese culture to be part of South Korea museum The National Children’s Museum of South Korea will add a section of Vietnamese culture later this month to make Korean children more aware of the 90,000-strong Vietnamese community in the country
The Punch and Judy archive The archive traces the development of the format from the earliest restoration-era performances of the marionette puppet Mr Punch, who was controlled using wires and strings
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Broad Collection building design is upside-down Unfortunately, it appears that architects, who designed the ICA, are about to repeat the error in the museum building they're now designing for the Broad Collection
Reward Offered in Case of Missing van Gogh Painting An Egyptian telecommunications magnate has announced he is offering a reward for information leading to the recovery of a van Gogh painting that was stolen from a museum in Giza, while Egyptian authorities said they would improve security measures at all of their museums
Cavemen Accused of Wiping Out Cave Bears Giant cave bears thought to have once dined on each other might have been driven to extinction by the advance of humanity, scientists now suggest
Iraq 'bleeding antiquities' as instability continues As the US prepares to withdraw its last combat troops from Iraq, international cultural experts are warning that the country is "bleeding antiquities" and that artefacts representing the world's cradle of civilisation are still in peril
£1m for upgrades at Wales' most popular museum St Fagans opened in 1948 as the first open-air museum in the UK, with the aim of portraying how the people of Wales lived, worked and spent their leisure time over the last 500 years
M&T MUSE Awards are Calling All Developers As the MUSE Awards enter into their 22nd year, the American Association of Museum Media & Technology Standing Professional Committee renews its long-standing commitment to these awards by developing the next generation of online MUSE submission entry system
American Painting 1959-2009 Now on view in the East Building's Upper Level northeast galleries, American Painting 1959–2009 includes a broad array of work from the past 50 years
THATCamp Chicago Northwestern University Libraries and Departments of Gender Studies and English in partnership with The University of Chicago Division of the Humanities and The Newberry Library are pleased to announce the first THATCamp Chicago
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