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Chicago’s Field Museum Covers Up Native Display
New regulations require museums to obtain informed consent from tribal or lineal descendants before exhibiting Native artifacts or human remains.
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When Will Egyptian and Peruvian Mummies Return Home?
In the context of the Field Museum's lack of information regarding their provenance the mummies' return to the Field Museum after a three-year tour is hardly a homecoming.
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Victims of a Jerusalem Bombing Want to Seize Artifacts from a Chicago Museum as Damages
The Supreme Court will decide whether the victims of the 1997 bombing can seize artifacts from the Oriental Institute that belong to Iran, which supported the terrorist organization responsible for the attack.
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Centuries-Old Crocodile Stone Discovered in Mexico
Since archaeologists came upon the remains of the ancient Mexican city of Lambityeco in the 1960s, questions about its architectural and ceremonial developments have lingered over excavations.
Art
Comparing the Afterlives of Peruvian and Egyptian Mummies
Chicago's Field Museum is touring its mummies for the first time, and their inaugural stop is the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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Today Is #MuseumMascot Day!
Today is International Museum Mascot Day, and the animals, mummies, random curios, and other collection creatures that represent their respective museums are celebrating on on Twitter with the #MuseumMascot hashtag.
Art
Cursed Meteorite, Giant Octopus Models, and Other World's Fair Wonders
The Columbian Exposition of 1893 is almost impossible to imagine: a spectacle of 200 gleaming white neoclassical buildings on over 600 acres in Chicago, a temporary city whose main purpose was instilling a sense of wonder with the world.