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News Aberdeen archaeologists rescue 700-year-old Yup'ik "melting village" in Quinhagak, AlaskaWorking with a tiny indigenous population on an Alaskan site three times the size of Scotland, experts from Aberdeen say their discoveries have wider implications for North America.10 January 2014
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Museum: Garden, parklands or rural site, Archive, Library, Historic house or home, Gallery County: Somerset American Museum in Britain Bath
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C24 Feature Artist's Statement: Helen Wilson-Roe on Henrietta Lacks' story at the Science MuseumHaving created a 3D work based on a heartbreaking tale, the artist explains why a trip to meet a family in America resulted in "a different way" of producing her work.15 November 2013
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Interview Curator's Choice: Hopi pots and Zulu skirts for Takeover Day 2013 at the Smith Art Gallery and MuseumOne lucky group will get to discover a pot made by native Americans and a glass skirt worn by a Zulu woman as part of the annual Takeover Day in Scotland. Curator Michael McGinnes - the Keeper of the World's Oldest Football - tells us their stories.27 November 2013
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Interview Curator’s Choice: Louisa Briggs on a Blk Art Group piece by Eddie Chambers at the GravesThe Sheffield curator on How Much Longer You Bastards?, a piece by the pioneering Blk Art Group's Eddie Chambers in 1983 in response to the Apartheid in South Africa.25 August 2011
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Review Divination, sorcery, runes, thunder and spirits: Vikings at the British MuseumEmily Beeson negotiates ale buckets and rusted broadswords on a trip around the British Museum's bewitching Life and Legend exhibition.01 April 2014
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News Durham archaeology team re-dates Buddha's birthday after Lumbini shrine dig in NepalDiscovering timber structures at the Nepalese pilgrimage site, archaeologists from Durham and Nepal may have predated the Buddha's life to the sixth century BC.25 November 2013
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Review Hajj: journeys to the heart of Islam at the British MuseumHajj is the only one of the five pillars of Islam that is closed to non-Muslims, but a major new exhibition at the British Museum - the first dedicated just to the Hajj - gives an insight into the journey and the experience.01 February 2012
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News International Slavery Museum to welcome Jamaican canoe in symbol of slave tradeJamaican artist Laura Facey's five metre-long canoe, filled with a resin mini-army of 1,357 enslaved Africans, will become a powerful installation in Liverpool in 2014.10 December 2013
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News International Women's Day returns with packed programme for 2012Museums, galleries and cultural centres are hosting events to inspire and gladden the spirit across the country as part of this year's International Women's Day.08 March 2012
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News Mummified Maori head arrives in New Zealand as Warrington returns Toi moko iconA Maori head kept at Warrington Museum and Art Gallery for 170 years has been met with an "outpouring of grief" after returning to New Zealand.11 November 2013
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News NPG to send first known portrait of a Black African Muslim and freed slave out on UK tourThe National Portrait Gallery is to send the first known British oil portrait of a Black African Muslim and freed slave, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, on a tour of museums and galleries.26 June 2012
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Preview Origins of the Afro Comb: Cambridge museums explore 6,000 Years of CultureThe Fitzwilliam Museum and The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology are asking the public to help inform an exhibition which pipes memories through hairdryers.26 June 2013
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Preview Picturing Derry unites photography from The Troubles in City of Culture 2013 showCovering the turbulent period between the late 1960s and late 1980s in Derry-Londonderry, a major display of shots by Irish and international photographers in the City of Culture has intense local significance.04 June 2013
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Royal Air Force Museum calls for personnel memories in Pilots of the Caribbean exhibitionCurators want personnel to supply stories and photographs ahead of an exhibition looking at the part played by Afro-Caribbean members of the Royal Air Force.29 August 2013
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Preview Royal Albert Memorial Museum explores sexuality through the Wellcome CollectionFrom phalluses to ivory oriental clams, the Sex and History project in Exeter will hope to get people talking about sexual attitudes when it opens a new display next month.11 March 2014
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Review Shakespeare: Staging the World at the British MuseumFrom burgeoning new ethnic communities in London to the Robben Island Bible, William Shakespeare combined wordly discoveries with theatrical exploration. In a major new exhibition, the British Museum explains why he might be Britain's greatest ambassador.19 July 2012
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Preview Sikh Fortress Turban: A British Museum Tour at the Herbert Art Gallery and MuseumA beautiful and fearsome turban, worn during the mid-19th century and featuring a British Army badge, takes its conical powers to Coventry.22 August 2013