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Museums Challenged to Showcase ‘Creepiest Objects’ Deliver Stuff of Nightmares
“Institutions readily rose to the challenge, flooding the Twitter thread with sinister submissions: a worn, beaked, 17th- or 18th-century plague mask from the Deutches Historisches …
How Museums Can Help the Public Make Sense of Pandemics
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s “Outbreak” exhibition is currently on view and available for museums to DIY. “During a pandemic, social distancing and other …
A Hawaii Museum Has Eliminated the Sale of All Single-Use Plastics
As part of a broader initiative to promote environmental sustainability, the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu has banned the sale of single-use plastics at their museum. “In …
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