Human breath taking its toll on The Scream, say scientists – they have discovered Edvard Munch accidentally used an impure tube of cadmium yellow
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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A 44,8 gigapixel photo of Rembrandt's The Night Watch painting (do not open on mobile data)
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The Cooper Hewitt Digital Collection
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Confronting the colonial legacies of museum collections
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2,500 museums you can now visit virtually
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Henning Larsen has revealed plans for The Arctic University Museum of Norway, which will evoke a cascade of glass beacons on the coast of Tromsø
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The fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries
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A one-take journey through the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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The "Nintendo PlayStation" prototype was purchased at auction for $300,000 by Greg McLemore, founder of Pets.com who now runs the International Arcade Museum
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Smithsonian Open Access - 2.8 million images and 3D models from the Institution's collections released into the public domain
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Suffering from lower back pain while visiting a museum? You’re not alone
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World's first floorball museum to be opened in Finland – floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper, invented in Sweden in the late 1960s
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The peculiarities of pregnancy in art, from corsets to belly pads and hidden bumps
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The opening of the long-awaited Munch Museum in Oslo has been postponed until the autumn due to delays in the building process
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Gloomy Van Gogh self-portrait in Oslo gallery confirmed authentic – only known painting by Dutch master while he had psychosis is unmistakably his work
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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Researchers used skeletal remains and ancient DNA to reconstruct the burial of a woman who lived in what is now southern Sweden 7,000 years ago
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New LA museum spotlights Hollywood costumes, from Dracula cape to Spider Woman dress
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How art created stereotypes of the Arab world
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Lego House is right next to Denmark's Legoland, but way cooler
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Digitizing objects from Smithsonian's enormous collection
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Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge
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A warped, aluminium cuboid, The Twist art museum doubles as a gravity-defying bridge which spans a river in Norway
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Forgotten History: Musée des Plans-Reliefs
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Sweden's Disgusting Food Museum gets a permanent home – now housed in the Caroli shopping centre in Malmö
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Danish architecture firm COBE has won an international competition for a new science museum in Lund
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Independence National Park is an embarrassing mess. Why doesn’t anyone care?
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Albert Einstein's relativity document gifted to Nobel museum
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Last year, a museum in France dedicated to the work of Étienne Terrus discovered that over half of its collection was fake. Phil Hoad spent nine months investigating how it happened.
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Emily Dickinson Museum receives $22 million gift
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Smithsonian stands by wildly misleading climate change exhibit paid for by Kochs
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The lost Louvre of Uzbekistan: The museum that hid art banned by Stalin
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Nine APIs for the geekiest of programmers
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No Spanish allowed: Texas school museum revisits history of segregation
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The Egg Collection at the Field Museum of Natural History
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How a T. Rex named SUE became a nonbinary icon
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Historic manuscripts saved from St. Louis fire
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The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume
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The Metropolitan Museum will return prized gilded coffin after learning it was stolen
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Only Michelangelo made abdomens – and wonky toes – like these
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Hey, that's our stuff: Masaai tribespeople tackle Oxford's Pitt Rivers museum
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Return of African artifacts sets a tricky precedent for Europe’s museums
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The Art Institute of Chicago has put 50,000 (+) high-res images from their collection online
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Brazil museum fire: Prized 'Luzia' fossil skull recovered
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Ruby slippers used in The Wizard of Oz recovered thirteen years after being stolen from museum
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Rio’s 200-year-old national museum destroyed in massive fire: A massive blaze has completely engulfed the National Museum of Brazil destroying more than twenty million rare and historical objects
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Looted Iraqi antiquities return home after UK experts crack cold case
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The home museum displaying over 10,000 beer steins
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Letter from a Birmingham museum
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