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** Museums are now part of Britain's pernicious north-south divide

Make no mistake, this is a cultural crisis; Museums across Britain are filled with fascinating and important works of art whose fate now hangs in the balance as galleries face closure or councils contemplate selling off masterpieces in their collections

** Britain's first professional tattoo artist celebrated in new exhibition at the Museum of London

From kings and maharajahs to dock workers, if you wanted a tattoo in late 19th-century London there was only one place to go: a salon above a Turkish bath house, where Sutherland Macdonald, the first professional tattoo artist in Britain, plied his trade

** Roman toilets may actually have been bad for public health

Although the Romans were on the cutting edge of sanitation technology, they didn’t yet understand germ theory and they didn’t know much about parasites, either

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** Museum Gives Fallen Chinese Leaders a New Trial in the Court of Public Opinion

Visitors to the new China Court Museum in central Beijing can see a handcuff, two gavels and the verdicts against former security czar Zhou Yongkang and former Chongqing Communist Party boss Bo Xilai from their separate, unrelated trials

** Redesigned museums pose question: Who are they really for?

I suggest that you pay attention to the tension that defines such buildings in the here and now — how they balance the quest for communal spectacle and the desire to encounter the sublime, one on one

** StarMan: David Bowie at the V&A in pictures

David Bowie’s influence is once again making waves, with a retrospective of the singer’s career at the V&A set to be the most successful exhibition in the museum’s history

** National Palace Museum's southern branch focuses on Asian culture

The southern branch, with its combination of Chinese style and modern architecture, contains a display area and galleries to showcase art pieces from various Asian cultures, including those symbolizing the development of Chinese, Indian and Persian civilizations

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** Sharks On Display At Seychelles' Museum

Given the nearly endless coastlines and beaches found on the 115-island western Indian Ocean archipelago of Seychelles, one would think shark scares would be common; but they are rare

** UK museums to introduce entry charges as cuts bite

More than one in 10 UK museums intend to introduce entry charges this year, in moves that underline the vulnerability of cultural organisations to cuts in local authority funding

** 3 officials from Egyptian museum to Go On trial

The executive director of the Centre for Archaeological Conservation has been accused of giving the approval for the repair of an electron microscope, worth EGP 11m, outside the museum without taking the required procedures to protect it

** Archaeology's future lies in 3D scanning the past

For eight months, Ismail learned everything you can learn about 3D scanning from a team of digital conservators, in Madrid: building scanners, programming and running them -- and fixing them when they inevitably break in the desert heat

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** Faith after the pharaohs: Egyptian papyri conservation

As papyrus conservator at the British Museum I have worked on a wide range of manuscripts held by our Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan over the years

** Addressing The Lack Of Diversity At American Art Museums

The Mellon Foundation decides to create an incubator program to mentor students of color at five major metropolitan museums around the country

** They went looking for MH370 - they found this 19th century shipwreck instead

The Shipwreck Galleries of the Western Australian Museum conducted a preliminary review of the images and advised that the wreck was likely to be a steel or iron ship dating from the turn of the 19th century

** A close-up look at faces, stories of 19th-century slaves and their slave owners

The exhibit tells the story of American slavery by focusing on just one place: a large, very wealthy tobacco plantation in Robertson County, north of Nashville

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** Dutch Museum Opens David Bowie Exhibition to Grieving Fans

An exhibition at a museum in the Netherlands of David Bowie’s costumes, handwritten lyrics and other objects from his career opened to grieving fans on a day when it was normally closed

** Prosthetic Leg with Hoofed Foot Discovered in Ancient Chinese Tomb

The 2,200-year-old remains of a man with a deformed knee attached to a prosthetic leg tipped with a horse hoof have been discovered in a tomb in an ancient cemetery near Turpan, China

** Sexual Harassment Allegations Add to a Florida Museum’s Troubles

The firing of the museum’s director in the aftermath of sexual harassment allegations against him was a fresh blow to an institution struggling to remain relevant in a booming art scene

** Rare Sioux artifact stolen from state museum recovered after 13 years

When a rare artifact disappeared from the Montana Historical Society Museum in 2003, there were no suspects nor any real clues as to what happened to the Sioux pipe bag

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** Selfies in the Galleries

Is it a crime to photograph someone else’s work, including a photograph of a photograph, and then send it into cyberspace via social media unbeknownst to the artist?

** Florida Connecting to Collections

Free training for Florida Institutions on Emergency Planning: Emergency Personnel

** DCDC15: Exploring new digital destinations for heritage and academia

Video’s from last year’s Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities

** UMAC’S Annual Award for University Museums & Collections

Notice: the dead-line has been extended to January 31

** This Week's Horoscope

Sagittarius - Any well-read person will notice several parallels between the story of Beowulf and your disastrous housewarming party this week

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