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The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.Wired - 4d -
EPA chief closing environmental museum
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin said Monday that he is shutting down a museum in the EPA's headquarters in an effort to cut costs. “EPA will be saving American ...The Hill - 4d -
EXCLUSIVE MUSEUM TOUR WITH SERGIO BRIO: A JOURNEY THROUGH JUVENTUS HISTORY
A museum, a legend, and 20 lucky Juventus fans. This Friday, 4 April, the Juventus Museum hosted a truly special event: Exclusive Museum Tour with Sergio Brio — a guided visit led by one of the ...Yahoo Sports - 1d -
Federal agency workers supporting museums, libraries put on leave
Nearly all employees at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which supports U.S. museums and libraries, were put on administrative leave Monday, an administration official said.CBS News - 4d -
A New Dinosaur Museum Rises From a Hole in the Ground in New Jersey
The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.The New York Times - 6d -
How do you design a Museum of the Future? | Brendan McGetrick interview
Brendan McGetrick, the creative director of Museum of the Future, came to Austin, Texas, with a traveling exhibit for the first time recently.VentureBeat - 5d -
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American ...Los Angeles Times - 1d -
After 120 Years Stored in a Museum, an Indigenous Shrine Returns Home
Taken from a First Nation community in Canada, the shrine recently began a more than 3,000-mile journey back from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.The New York Times - Mar. 30 -
My top 10: the best of Milan’s Brera museum by FT art critic Jackie Wullschläger
A voyage through centuries of Italian art at the city’s most prestigious museum and its new offshootFinancial Times - 6d -
New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
Only a few statues remain, with thousands of priceless artefacts from Nubian and Kushite kingdoms missing. Videos of Sudan’s national museum showing empty rooms, piles of rubble and broken ...The Guardian - 6d -
Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions
Research backs schemes that encourage doctors to prescribe time in cultural institutions to boost mental health and reduce loneliness. It was about six years ago that Nathalie Bondil heard of ...The Guardian - 6d -
VIP Records helped launch Snoop Dogg's career. Now the shop owner wants to build a museum
Owner Kelvin Anderson Sr. wants the project to tell the story of Black music — and the role that VIP records has played in shaping it.Los Angeles Times - Mar. 28 -
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit
Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors: The paintings of a self-taught female mycologist are featured at the New York State Museum.The New York Times - Mar. 25 -
'The White Lotus' girls' trip is a disaster—these 3 red flags mean yours might be, too
If your friend isn't as comfortable going to museums or eating meals by themselves as you are, you probably won't travel well together.CNBC - 6d -
At the New Frick, Magicians Come Out of the Woodwork
Textile weavers, tassel-makers, lighting restorers, cabinet makers and muralists forged new traditions at the sumptuous Beaux-Arts museum.The New York Times - 4d -
DOGE Demands Deep Cuts at Humanities Endowment
The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.The New York Times - 4d -
From first lady to everyday life, artist Amy Sherald captures the beauty of Black America
More than 40 colorful and arresting paintings of Black American life will soon take the spotlight at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.NBC News - 3d -
How Salvador Dalí's art found a home in Florida
More than 2,400 works by the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, from oil paintings and prints to sculptural mashups, are featured at The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla., which also hosts immersive ...CBS News - Mar. 23 -
Different circumstances, same results for male, female Bakersfield Marathon winners
It was the same 26.2 miles, but the 2025 Bakersfield Marathon male and female overall winners ran two different races that started and finished at the Kern County Museum on Sunday. Bakersfield’s ...Yahoo Sports - 5d -
As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways to resist | Charlotte Higgins
The Smithsonian’s museums have been ordered to root out ‘divisive narratives’. It’s part of a pattern: the battle lines are now clear. It has come to this: we are now in Ministry of Truth ...The Guardian - 5d -
O.C. punk exhibit showcases the sound and scene that 'put punk rock on the map'
New exhibit at the Fullerton Museum Center called 'Punk OC: From the Streets of Suburbia' kicks off April 5 with an opening reception featuring live performances by D.I. and TSOL.Los Angeles Times - 1d -
Yankees spoil sloppy Pirates’ opener as Pittsburgh fans beg, ‘Sell the team’
PITTSBURGH — The last time Oswaldo Cabrera and the Yankees visited the Steel City, he stopped by the Roberto Clemente Museum. The visit, taken in September 2023, included a chance to hold one of ...Yahoo Sports - 1d