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**  Smithsonian Response to Reports About Artifacts On View

Recent reports about the Smithsonian removing the historic Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter and a stool from the National Museum of American History and National Museum of African American History and Culture, respectively, are inaccurate​.

**  Judge blocks DOGE from further dismantling Institute of Museum and Library Services

A lawsuit filed by the American Library Association says the Trump administration is trying to dismantle the independent agency​​.

**  Chicago Museum Director Under Investigation After Airplane Incident

The director of the Art Institute of Chicago, took voluntary leave after a report that he stripped off his clothes during a flight to Germany.

**  What’s Driving Trump’s Attack on Museums

An ousted museum director from Poland explains why museums are on the “front lines” when populists take power.
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**  The billionaire, the sculptor’s widow and the fake artwork

Intellectual property law experts explained the widow may have no legal grounds to ask for the sculpture to be destroyed, as owning a fake doesn’t break any laws​​.

**  When Does an AI Image Become Art?

A Whitney Museum curator explains the history of art versus digital tech.

**  High buildings, loose morals: Art Deco movement celebrates its centenary

The French capital experienced the first emergence of the art and design phenomenon that was later termed Art Deco in the 1910s but only truly blossomed at the Paris World's Fair of 1925.

**  The fall of drawing and the rise of photography

Curators still write essays on the intimacy of line and the honesty of drawing; but aren’t often the ones reaching for their wallets, while AI-generated images and 3D rendering software have democratised the skill levels needed in technical image-making.
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**  Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery reopens history galleries

Refurbished exhibition doubles the amount of gallery space accessible to the public.

**  Colombian farmer-turned-fossil hunter builds desert museum against all odds

Colombian farmer Cesar Perdomo built a fossil museum in Tatacoa Desert, preserving ancient life with no state support.

**  Holland Remembers Nazi Horrors in Its New Holocaust Museum

The museum wanders too far from antisemitism as a unique, ancient evil, far more insidious than the dozens of other phobias we’re constantly bid to revile.

**  First known triplets are among Hertfordshire museums' treasures

The world's first recorded case of triplets and a Roman-era king are among the remains of more than 1,500 people held by Hertfordshire museums.​
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**  Trump Fires Biden Appointees From Holocaust Museum

The Trump administration has begun firing at least some of former President Biden’s appointees to the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, including Douglas Emhoff, the Jewish husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris.

**  Science and Industry Museum reveals details of restored Power Hall

​Presented as a working gallery full of engines and rail vehicles, and providing a sensory experience of Manchester’s past and present industry, the Power Hall will explore the factors that sparked a transport revolution through three key themes.

**  Hitler’s hat added to Dachau exhibit at NY military museum

The hat, and other artifacts, were presented by the family of a World War II veteran, who was present at the Dachau liberation with the 42nd Infantry Division and secured the Nazi clothing memorabilia the following day during his unit’s capture of Munich.

**  Tackling the Truth

Places of learning and discovery of history, art, and culture, museums encourage us to learn more about the world both near and far, often pushing us to see different perspectives.​
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**  Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships

Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships missing for centuries — a finding that restores the ancestral lineage of an entire Costa Rican community more than 300 years after the vessels’ occupants reached its shores.

**  Child damages Rothko work at Rotterdam museum

​The incident raises questions about security in open-storage museums.

**  The world’s first museum was curated by a princess​

Around 2,500 years ago, a princess living in what is now modern-day Iraq collected a number of artefacts, including a statue, a boundary stone and a mace head and a tour reveals the origins of the zodiac, calculus and writing.

**  Dinosaurs were probably not doomed for extinction and could exist today — if it weren’t for the giant asteroid

Our findings hint that, in this region at least, dinosaurs may have been doing better than previously suggested in the lead-up to the asteroid impact.
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**  Gardens and Empires

An international conference exploring the intertwined global histories of plants and gardens. Friday 27-Saturday 28 June 2025, British Library, in person and online.

**  New Free Learning Resources from ViewSpace: Interactive Image Tours

NASA’s Universe of Learning Program team is excited to announce the release of a new free digital learning resource for museums and science centers – ViewSpace’s interactive Image Tours.

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