As federal agencies prepare to enact their contingency plans for a shutdown, this is where the public could notice changes in the coming days.
Tag: Museums
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Museum Worker Sold Paintings and Put Forgeries in Their Place
An in-house appraiser noticed something was awry when the canvas on his workbench did not match a catalog entry.
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Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Faces Political Winds Before a Brick Is Laid
Partisan battles over America’s past, and divisions among Latinos, are affecting this new institution set to be built on the National Mall.
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Arsenic Preserved the Animals, But Killed the Museum
A popular taxidermy exhibit in Sioux Falls, S.D., was closed after the toxin was discovered laced throughout the specimens. Many lament the loss of the “works of art.”