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**  Voters, Red And Blue, Want Nonprofits Left Alone

There is broad and bipartisan support nationally for maintaining the tax-exempt status of nonprofit organizations, reinforcing the vital role organizations play in American communities as the U.S. House of Representative work to finalize a reconciliation budget that has numerous impediments to the nonprofit sector​.

**  Executive Order Impacts and the Next Era of Museum Funding

The most dramatic and immediate impacts of the various EOs have been cancellation of existing grants, and in some cases failure to reimburse monies already spent​​.

**  Thailand readies homecoming for stolen ancient statues located in US museum

​San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is set to return four bronze statues from Thailand’s famed Prakhon Chai hoard, looted in the 1960s and smuggled abroad.

**  Auschwitz museum warns against fake AI images of victims

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has strongly condemned Facebook posts with AI-generated fictional images of victims of the German death camp for their historical distortions.‌
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**  Casualties in Trump’s war on the arts: the small museums keeping local history alive

For the past two years, a small arts non-profit has been telling stories about the communities living alongside the Los Angeles river, one voice at a time​​.

**  Historic Shipwrecks Come to Light in the Great Lakes

With an underwater drone named Rhody, archaeologists are mapping some of the dozens of sunken vessels in Lake Ontario.

**  Frida Kahlo Museum to Open in Mexico City

A new museum dedicated to the life and art of Frida Kahlo will open in Mexico City’s historic Coyoacán district this September.

**  Museums in Chelmsford and Norwich acquire gold coin hoards

Significant discoveries of Roman and Anglo-Saxon gold coins to go on permanent display.
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**  Welsh Government outlines new Priorities for Culture

Welsh museum and heritage sectors will share £7m towards delivering government's ambitions.

**  San Diego’s Museums and Libraries Are Resilient — and More Vital Than Ever

Despite the Institute of Museum and Library Services setbacks, San Diego’s libraries and museums — like their counterparts across the country — are not standing still.

**  The Ruskin Museum

A small independent museum based in Coniston, UK, nestled under the beautiful backdrop of the Yewdale Fells.

**  The Smithsonian Transfers Rare 2,300-Year-Old Silk Manuscripts to China

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s; scholars saying they provide remarkable insights into ancient Chinese philosophy and religion.​
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**  Harley-Davidson Museum Rolls Out Secret Service Exhibit

Next to Elvis Presley’s 1956 KH motorcycle and a 1970 Streamliner that once broke the world land speed record, the U.S. Secret Service has an artifact of its own greeting visitors inside the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.

**  Two Israeli embassy staffers killed in shooting outside DC Jewish museum

​Two staff members from the Israeli embassy were shot dead outside a Jewish museum in Washington DC by a gunman who shouted "free Palestine" during his arrest.

**  A Startling Find in the Museum Collection

This item had no photos, and it was catalogued as a “boxed latex operating mask,” a description I didn’t find terribly helpful.

**  The Spectacular Tomb of the Ice Prince, a Medieval Child Buried in an Ancient Roman Villa

The tomb was entirely extracted and transported for study using a novel technique: the archaeologists froze it to preserve all its contents and study it in the laboratory.​
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**  After a few days, I knew the museum would be a wonderful place to work

Matt Moore, director of the Science Museum Group’s Science and Innovation Park, on problem solving, sustainability and being a communicator.

**  Lucas Museum layoffs hit 14% of its full-time staff, including education team

​The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has laid off 15 full-time employees, many from the organization’s education and public programming team.

**  How the dinosaur-killing extinction could help save modern bivalves

We wanted to see what happened in the aftermath—did the bivalves recover and go back to the same roles they had before, or were things completely different?

**  The Strongest Solar Storm Ever Left Its Mark in a 14,000-Year-Old Tree

The ancient event, over 500 times stronger than any modern storm, would be devastating were it to happen today.
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**  Cooperative Craft: Artmaking of the Mingei Movement

The exhibition features works by Liu Shiming (China, 1926–2010), whose oeuvre encapsulates many themes similar to 20th-century Mingei’s work, such as an emphasis on cultural tradition and the everyday lives of rural communities.

**  The Branch Museum of Design New Exhibitions Celebrate Black Identity & Creative Protest

Opening on Juneteenth, two new exhibitions this summer: (re)Framing Protest (NOW) Design + Hope and Echoes of Us,  speak to national conversations around race, protest, and cultural memory—through the lens of art and design.

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