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'Titanic' Director Backs Bid To Bring Artifacts Home

Filmmaker James Cameron and Oceanographer Dr Robert Ballard are supporting a bid to acquire 5,500 objects from the doomed ship. The campaign was announced at the Titanic Belfast museum.
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Wisconsin Museum Fires Employee Who Wore Hitler Halloween Costume

The Madison Children’s Museum said the employee has cognitive disabilities and believed he was making a mockery of the Nazi Party’s leader.
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Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers Found

There’s no place like home, and Dorothy’s 1939 missing ruby slippers have finally been returned back home after they were stolen 13 years ago.
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2 Employees Stabbed At Museum Of Modern Art By Man Denied Entry: NYPD

Former museum member Gary Cabana leaped over a reception desk and stabbed two female staff members "multiple times," said police. He remained at large Sunday.
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Turkey's Hagia Sophia Opens As A Mosque For The First Time In Decades

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and thousands of other Muslims gathered for Friday prayers at the nearly 1,500-year-old house of worship.
By Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Fraser, AP

California Shuts Down Again As U.S. Coronavirus Crisis Expands

Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, ordered bars closed and restaurants, movie theaters, zoos and museums statewide to cease indoor operations.
By Sharon Bernstein, Dan Whitcomb, Reuters

The Best Museum Gift Shops Online For One-Of-A-Kind Finds

Support your favorite institutions during these tough times with these museum gift shops that are online.
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Nationalist Governments Are Trying To Rewrite Holocaust History — By Targeting Museums

The acclaimed director of a Jewish museum criticized Poland's nationalist government. Now he’s out of a job.
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Pop-Up Poop Museum In Japan

The Unko — or “Poop” — Museum in Japan makes doo-doo look adorable.
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How An Encounter With The World's Most Famous Vagina Painting Changed My Life

An innocent trip to the museum took me on a journey I never thought I'd take -- and one I'll never forget.
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