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SOURCE: DCist
5/19/2020
The Bible Museum Has Another Epic Issue With One Of Its Artifacts
Federal prosecutors in New York filed a civil action to forfeit one of the museum's clay tablets containing an excerpt of the "Epic of Gilgamesh."
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SOURCE: The New York Times
5/11/2020
Victim or Executioner? Let the Computer Decide
An interactive plan for a Holocaust museum envisioned sorting visitors into victims, executioners and collaborators. Backlash ensued.
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SOURCE: The Politic
5/1/2020
The Politics of Representation: The Fight for the Smithsonian Women’s History Museum
Still, in 2020, there is no brick and mortar NWHM; it exists only virtually.
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SOURCE: NY Daily News
4/28/2020
‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Gets Thorough Inspection but Mystery Still Surrounds Subject
While art historians have been able to employ state-of-the-art imaging techniques to establish a more precise analysis of the artwork — often referred to as the "Dutch ‘Mona Lisa’” — its subject remains a mystery.
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SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
9/30/19
‘Nineteen Nineteen’ Review: A Year Seen Through the Lens of Its Artifacts
The Huntington hosts an exhibition as surprising, intriguing and, well, frenetic as the year 1919.
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SOURCE: History.com
9/16/19
Solid Gold Toilet Stolen From Winston Churchill's Family Palace
The 18-karat gold toilet disappeared from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, on September 14 - only two days after the palace installed it as part of an art exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.
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SOURCE: Hyperallergic
8/24/19
Horace Pippin: From War to Peace Exhibit Showcases American History Through the Art of a Black WWI Soldier
Horace Pippin was a self-taught artist out of necessity, as the society in which he lived had shut most of its doors on him.
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SOURCE: BESA Center
6/10/2019
New exhibit at museum in Nuremberg gives insight to how Germans remember the Holocaust
The display at the Documentation Center of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, a museum in Nuremberg, give an indication of the ways in which the German people choose to remember the Holocaust and the era of Nazi rule.
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SOURCE: Cornell Chronicle
5/22/19
History professor Maria Cristina Garcia helped plan, create Statue of Liberty Museum
“Working on this project has been one of the most rewarding activities of my professional career,” Garcia said.
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SOURCE: NPR
3/21/19
Museum Curator In Florida Races Against Time To Preserve Holocaust Items
"Truly, the clock is ticking. We need to meet eyewitnesses as soon as possible, before they are no longer with us."
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SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
Accessed 2/21/19
13 Objects That Begin to Tell The Story of Women's History in America
Artifacts from the National Museum of American History.
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SOURCE: BBC
2/11/19
Holocaust row taints Hungary's House of Fates museum project
Arguments over the whole concept of the museum, and the content of the exhibitions and educational centre which will operate there, have long delayed the opening.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/23/19
The Horrors of Auschwitz at a Museum in New York
“This exhibit reminds them, and it reminds all of us, where anti-Semitism ultimately leads."
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SOURCE: Associated Press
1/22/19
El Paso museum sheds light on Border Patrol's history, mission
"For the most part, the museum does a fair job of explaining the agency's metamorphosis."
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8-27-17
We Need a New Museum that Tells Us How We Came to Believe What We Believe
by T.J. Stiles
It would go beyond the question, "What happened?"
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SOURCE: NYT
10-5-16
Bigger Museum Will Give Lady Liberty’s Crowds More to Do Than Snap Selfies
The museum has been designed to absorb the crush of people arriving on ferries that dock every 20 to 30 minutes.
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7-8-15
Museums Are Changing. Thank Goodness.
by John Baick
As the Confederate flag debate shows, museums are not just attic storage, but battlefields of history.
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5-15-15
King Tut: The 3,300 Year Old Greatest Show on Earth
by Bruce Chadwick
The boy Pharaoh from the Valley of the Kings retains his star persona and remains the number one entertainment attraction in America.
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SOURCE: NYT
2-26-15
NYT Magazine profiles the first slavery museum in the US
It opened in Louisiana in December.
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SOURCE: Jackson Free Press
2-10-15
New Civil Rights Museum in Mississippi on Track For Completion
The construction began in December 2013 on the site of what was once called LeFleur's Bluff in downtown Jackson and is on track to be completed for its opening in December 2017.
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