#Living Dead Museum rises again to salute classic horror film

#Living Dead Museum rises again to salute classic horror film

“#Living Dead Museum rises again to salute classic horror film” MONROEVILLE, Pennsylvania — It’s no surprise that a museum dedicated to zombies couldn’t stay in its grave for long. The Living Dead Museum, an institution dedicated to honoring the seminal 1968 zombie film “Night of the Living Dead” and its auteur, George Romero, had been…

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#Indianapolis museum apologizes for ‘white art’ job listing

#Indianapolis museum apologizes for ‘white art’ job listing

“#Indianapolis museum apologizes for ‘white art’ job listing” INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields has apologized for a job listing seeking a new director who would maintain the museum’s “traditional, core, white art audience.” The wording was a bullet point in a six-page job description that also said the museum was working…

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#Trump baby blimp lands at London museum

#Trump baby blimp lands at London museum

“#Trump baby blimp lands at London museum” LONDON – A blimp depicting US President Donald Trump as a snarling, nappy-wearing orange baby has found a home in one of London’s most popular museums. The helium-filled balloon, originally paid for through crowdfunding, first took to the skies over London during protests against Trump’s visit in 2018…

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#Keith Richards gets cockroach named after him for birthday

#Keith Richards gets cockroach named after him for birthday

“#Keith Richards gets cockroach named after him for birthday” A museum in Keith Richards’ home state gave him an unusual birthday present: a creepy-crawly cockroach. In honor of his 77th birthday on December 18, the Children’s Museum in West Hartford, Connecticut, named a Madagascar hissing cockroach “Keith” to commemorate the Rolling Stones rocker’s special day….

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#Slow and steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur

#Slow and steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur

“#Slow and steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur” WASHINGTON – Large meat-eating dinosaurs attained their great size through very different growth strategies, with some taking a slow and steady path and others experiencing an adolescent growth spurt, according to scientists who analyzed slices of fossilized bones. The researchers examined the…

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#Army museums to give out excess artifacts, including weapons, historic uniforms

#Army museums to give out excess artifacts, including weapons, historic uniforms

“#Army museums to give out excess artifacts, including weapons, historic uniforms” The Army Museum Enterprise is getting rid of duplicate artifacts among its 580,000-item collection over the next five years, leaving opportunities for other museums, veterans organizations, national parks, and state and local governments to ultimately claim the excess inventory. The divestiture will include artifacts…

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#Harry Potter’s magical beasts live in new London exhibit

#Harry Potter’s magical beasts live in new London exhibit

“#Harry Potter’s magical beasts live in new London exhibit” The occamy, a vibrant teal feathered serpent. The demiguise, a shaggy gray monkey lookalike with owlish eyes. And the niffler, a long-snouted mole impersonator. These magical beasts live famously in Harry Potter’s wizarding world, but they can still teach us a thing or two about our…

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#Museums tighten security after thieves target Nazi memorabilia

#Museums tighten security after thieves target Nazi memorabilia

“#Museums tighten security after thieves target Nazi memorabilia” Rank miscreants are descending on Dutch war museums in highly organized operations to steal Nazi memorabilia, according to a new report by the Guardian. In recent months, museums in the provinces of North Brabant and Limburg were raided for antiques linked to Adolf Hitler’s Waffen-SS and the…

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