museums

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• 11/7/19
  

  14 Ships' Figureheads Weighing Over 20 Tons Arrive at UK's Newest Museum, The Box

  by Orbis Conservation

  In what is the most ambitious sculpture conservation project currently taking place in the UK, 14 monumental 19th century naval figureheads have been saved from decay for the nation. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/1/19
  

  244-Year-Old Rifle Stolen Decades Ago Is Returned to Museum

  The Johann Christian Oerter rifle, taken from Valley Forge State Park in 1971, will go on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

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• SOURCE: Time
  10/15/19
  

  Smithsonian Museums Are Supposed to Tell the American Story. So Where's the One Dedicated to Latinos?

  by Julissa Arce

  The harm of not being treated as valuable members of this country can be seen in the rise of anti-Latino hate crimes, as well as in the higher rate of depression among Latino youth than their white peers.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10/17/19
  

  Washington doesn't have a Latino history museum. These people are hoping to change that

  How does a Smithsonian museum get established? The process involves a lot of time and a lot of legislation.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  10/16/19
  

  Hobby Lobby Will Return Biblical Antiquities Allegedly Stolen by Oxford Professor

  The Museum of the Bible, founded by the owners of arts-and-crafts store chain Hobby Lobby, will turn over biblical fragments it had acquired from an Oxford professor.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/27/19
  

  With a brass band blaring, artist Kehinde Wiley goes off to war with Confederate statues

  Kehinde Wiley, the man who painted the portrait of Barack Obama that now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, unveiled his latest work, a monumentally scaled bronze equestrian statue of Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart.

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• 9/15/19
  

  S.F. History Museum Highlights America’s First Immigration Restriction: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

  by James Thornton Harris

  An interview with Tamiko Wong, the executive director of the Chinese Historical Society of America Museum about the exhibit Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/9/19
  

  What Happens to Those Heartbreaking Tributes at the 9/11 Memorial

  The expressions of mourning left behind at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum are cleared nightly and preserved.

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• SOURCE: The Japan Times
  9/9/19
  

  At meeting in Kyoto, global body debates how to define and protect museums

  At the heart of the debate is determining the role museums should play in the 21st century, and the extent to which they should engage the public.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/29/19
  

  New Exhibit Highlights the Understudied History of Enslaved Women in Colonial Cape Town

  At the Iziko Slave Lodge in Cape Town, an exhibition gives voice to a group of women whose lives were written out of history because they were considered too marginal to bother with.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/31/19
  

  What happened when Trump visited the African American History Museum, according to its founding director

  “It was not my job to make the rough edges of history smooth, even for the president,” Lonnie Bunch writes. 

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/28/19
  

  A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room

  The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/26/19
  

  Hungary’s Orban hopes a rabbi can save his country’s controversial new Holocaust museum

  Initially, a Hungarian official spoke of a museum that would highlight the "story of love between Hungarian Jews and non-Jews. A love that has survived everything. As a result of which there is still a large Hungarian Jewish community living in this country." The premise was decried as Holocaust revisionism by historians and museum professionals worldwide.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/19/19
  

  A New Definition of “Museum” Sparks International Debate

  The International Council of Museums will vote on a new definition of museums in September. The proposed change includes language about “social justice, global equality and planetary wellbeing.” Critics say the text is too political for most museums to employ.  

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  8/15/19
  

  Three Washington exhibitions explore the complex history of the women's suffrage movement

  As the 19th Amendment turns 100, three exhibitions in Washington explore the contentious — and unfinished — struggle for voting rights.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  What and Whom Are Jewish Museums For?

  What is the role of a Jewish museum? Is it for the Jewish community, or those non-Jews around it? And must its leader be Jewish?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/15/19
  

  Angered by This Roosevelt Statue? A Museum Wants Visitors to Weigh In

  Conversation about monuments has reached a fever pitch, and the city was split on this one. The American Museum of Natural History is opening an exhibition on it.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/14/2019
  

  Founder Of African American History Museum Discovered Dead

  Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was discovered on Friday afternoon in the trunk of a car about 3 miles from her home.

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• 6/25/19
  

  10 Things To Check Out At the Library of Congress’s New Exhibit on Women’s Suffrage

  by Andrew Fletcher

  Highlights from the exhibit on women's suffrage at the Library of Congress. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/13/19
  

  Clarence Thomas says a Smithsonian exhibit about him is wrong. (It’s not.)

  This is the second time the museum has come under fire for its treatment of the second African American member of the Supreme Court.