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** Louvre Abu Dhabi To Open (At Last) In November

The green light for the opening was given by the French national museums’ security services, which carried out the final checks at the Abu Dhabi museum in August, after months of exchanges with the architect’s team and the museum’s leadership.

** The Fall’s Most Fascinating Art Show? The Met Trying to Fix Itself

Tales of miserable museum directors and philistine presidents still echo through the profession, like war stories.

** Meet The Heiress Behind Hong Kong's Largest Private Museum

Growing up in Hong Kong as the daughter of the eccentric millionaire and Chinese antique aficionado Peter Fung Yiu-fai wasn’t easy.

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** National Justice Museum lets visitors step on to Britain's last working gallows

Based in Nottingham’s old courthouse and jail, the Georgian-fronted complex exhibits the Bow Street court dock where Emmeline Pankhurst argued for suffragette rights, an 18th-century birching stool and forensic evidence from the Great Train Robbery.

** British Museum plans sweeping redisplay of world cultures

The British Museum is embarking on what could be the most far-ranging redisplay of its collection for more than 150 years and the full project could well cost several hundred million pounds.

** 100,000 people have sat on Museum's 18-karat solid gold toilet

More than 100,000 museum visitors have waited in line to use the popular installation, which is made out of 100 percent 18-karat gold.

** A Garden of Possibilities at the Palestinian Museum

The new museum explores the living culture of Jerusalem, which curator Reem Fadda sees as a city that exemplifies the beginning and end of globalism.

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** Here's How Houston's Museums Fared During Harvey

In addition to displacing tens of thousands of people and causing an estimated $75 billion in damage, flooding from Harvey affected many of Houston’s cultural institutions.

** London’s V&A museum to put the spotlight on tech and gaming

When it opens in 2018, the exhibition will feature over 100 objects that detail the various ways that emerging technologies could affect our lives in the coming years and how public perception may influence their development.

** Native American canoe from 1700s preserved at Maine museum

One of the oldest-known Native American birch-bark canoes will go on display at a Maine historical society museum, possibly as early as this fall, after spending three decades in a barn.

** Maltese falcons: An island museum full of beautiful aircraft

From the WWII-era Hurricane and Spitfire to the newer Meteor, Sea Hawk and Vampire, here's a full tour of the Malta Aviation Museum.

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** Las Vegas police to display ‘decoy dummy’ at Mob Museum event

A mannequin meant to save lives was used this year to catch a murder suspect, and later this month it will be on display at the Mob Museum.

** The Secret Behind 200,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Glue

Over a hundred thousand years ago, Neanderthals used tar to bind objects together, yet scientists have struggled to understand how these ancient humans, with their limited knowledge and resources, were able to produce this sticky substance.

** Last Person Executed as a Witch in Europe Gets a Museum

The last person executed for witchcraft in Europe has gained a museum in the place where she was beheaded more than two centuries ago.

** Biggin Hill airfield chapel shuts for work on 'horrible' new museum

This is the most famous airfield in the world, and it deserves a proper museum – but one that respects the character of this beautiful building, not this monstrosity.

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** Wax museum revels in ridicule as critics lampoon its statues

So far, the jeers have targeted only a small fraction of the museum’s 101 wax models of musicians, actors and historical figures.

** Major Roman ruins discovered underwater in Tunisia

Roman ruins stretching over 20 hectares have been discovered off the coast of north-eastern Tunisia, confirming "with certainty" a theory that the city of Neapolis was partly submerged by a tsunami in the 4th century AD.

** Museum interns learn secrets of ancient toolmaking

The ancient Native Americans used any stone that would take an edge to create sharp tools; however, obsidian, or volcanic glass, was the most valued material.

** Stockholm's Vasa Museum smashes visitor record

Sweden's Vasa Museum, which houses an almost 400-year-old ship wreck in near perfect condition, has beaten its summer record of visitors, reaching an all-time high of 750,355.

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** A Boozy Side Of Texas History

Although the 18th Amendment outlawed alcohol, the years of Prohibition — the Roaring Twenties and a few years following that decade — were a wild time in both U.S. and Texas history.

** Hurricane Harvey Webinar Response, Salvage, and Recovery

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** The Course of Empires: American-Italian Cultural Relations, 1770–1980

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