Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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We need more nuance when talking about repatriation
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The Museum of Failure’s latest exhibition is an epic portrait of failures big and small—from the Ford Edsel, to CNN+
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The art of the copyist
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Matteo Lane & Nick Smith go to the Museum of Sex
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The National Museum of Denmark is paying tribute not to professional archaeologists, but to amateurs with metal detectors
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The year’s biggest art shows and exhibitions
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Researchers look a dinosaur in its remarkably preserved face
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Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century
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Darwin's Barometer
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Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for seventy-five years
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See the buzzworthy winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition
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This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
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Why (and how) over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian | Colossal Collections
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A working flight simulator, no computers necessary
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FBI raids Orlando museum and seized all twenty-five works in their Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition after an affidavit called into question their origin and their authenticity
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Denmark opens Flugt refugee museum, recognizing the contribution refugees have made to the Nordic country
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Oslo's vast National Museum opens with tapestry of 400 reindeer skulls – the ‘grey box’ has been eight years and £500m in the making
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Mona Lisa targeted in Louvre cake-throwing attack. Famous work by Leonardo da Vinci wasn't damaged.
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The race to save Ukraine’s sacred art
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You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.
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Museum dedicated to Danish fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen, designed as an experiential fantasy world, has officially opened in Odense
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In mainland Iceland's northernmost town, the women who powered the herring industry – and fought for gender equality – are driving a new tourism boom
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Norway's £500m National Museum to open after eight-year wait – director apologises for delays that have kept Munch's The Scream out of public view
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Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi
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Digital archivists race to preserve Ukrainian heritage
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Avicii's musical legacy is being celebrated at an interactive museum in Stockholm, which also raises awareness of mental health in the music industry
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Hiding art in basements, returning loans, reopening as bomb shelters: How Ukraine’s museums are handling the Russian invasion
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Peculiar musical instruments at St Cecilia's Hall - The University of Edinburgh's musical instrument museum
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Dutch museums and concert halls open as hair salons to protest Covid rules
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Tenement Museum virtual tour
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A new species of dinosaur with an unusually large nose has been identified by a retired GP who spent lockdown rummaging through boxes of hundreds of old bones
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The collective MSCHF bought an Andy Warhol, created 999 replicas, and is now selling each for $250. The catch: you'll never know which one is real.
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Vienna museums starts OnlyFans account after its TikTok is banned for posting nudes
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The Mustard Museum: Passion for a condiment
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The library of rare colors
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What the Museum of 2020 may look like
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Edvard Munch wrote mysterious graffiti on The Scream, infrared scans have shown – a small and barely visible sentence has been the cause of much conjecture in the art world
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An Italian fisherman persuaded sculptors to create huge marble artworks – then dropped them in the Mediterranean
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Berlin mystery attack targets seventy museum artifacts
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Helicron propeller driven car (1932)
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The world's first happiness museum opens in Denmark – the Nordic country is consistently ranked among the planet's happiest
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Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark
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Survey of 760 US museums shows extreme financial distress from the pandemic, with almost all reporting that they have a year or less of financial operating reserves remaining
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Race to the bottom: Museum curators in battle for #BestMuseumBum
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Building the Moroccan Court at the New York Met
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If the Louvre was on fire, should we rescue the art first or the people?
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Helsinki Photo Festival – Fifty-eight international and Nordic photographers displayed in venues across the city; the overall theme for the festival is trust
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Turkey turns the Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque
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13% of museums worldwide may close permanently due to COVID-19, studies say
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