The London Museum of Natural History agreed not to “discredit or damage” the reputation of Danish energy giant Ørsted, contracts show.
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Scientists and Curators Urge American Museum of Natural History to Drop Funder of Climate Change Denial from Its Board
Mercer, a Trump donor turned Trump advisor and a major supporter of climate change-denying organizations, has served on the museum’s board since 2013.
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Skeletons on the Shelves: Museums’ Slow Return of Indigenous Remains
Active repatriation of indigenous remains in museums only gathered serious momentum in the 1980s.
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A Blue Whale Dethrones a Dinosaur as Natural History Museums Embrace Their Research Side
Museum displays are constantly in flux, as institutions choose what identity they want to present to the public.
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The Astounding Art and Artifacts Museums Didn’t Know They Had
Sometimes museums and archives don’t know the treasures they already have, collecting dust on some forlorn shelf or hidden away in a forgotten box. Through mislabeling or earlier disorganization, great works of art and history are sometimes lost for years before being “discovered” right inside the museum walls.
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Fire in Smithsonian Facilities Building, Natural History Museum Safe
If you, like I did, logged on to the internets this morning and noticed something about the Natural History Museum being on fire, don’t worry: it’s not the museum that’s on fire, it’s their facilities building. Bad, but not catastrophic. Phew.