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Parkgoers got the hang of the new track chair, an "adventure-ready wheelchair" designed for all-terrain travel.

Clients with Beaufort County's Disabilities and Special Needs Department try a new, independent way to enjoy Hunting Island State Park

The precious native ornament woven from natural fibers and covered with thousands of red ibis feathers, will leave the Scandinavian kingdoms National Museum in 2024 to join the collections of the one located in Rio de Janeiro.

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BRASILIA. KAZINFORM Brazil’s National Museum launched this week the first printed catalog of its collection of rare works. Although about 85% of the museums 20,000 items were destroyed by a major fire occurred in September 2018, institutions director Alexander Kellner told Agência Brasil the rare works had been safely removed from the museum prior to the fire that consumed the Imperial Palace, located in Quinta da Boa Vista Municipal Park, in Rio de Janeiro.

The Rare Works Catalog of the National Museum can be downloaded for free at https://pantheon.ufrj.br since its release on April 13, in addition to the printed version.

Four years after a devastating blaze wiped out the majority of its incredible 20 million-object collection, the rebuilding of Brazil’s fire-damaged National Museum has reached an important construction milestone in Rio de Janeiro.  According to The Art Newspaper, local firms Velatura...

Her work reframes the way we might understand the seemingly intractable tensions between curating, colonialism, and cultural exchange.

Paleontologists have found the fossilized remains of the largest pterosaur ever in Argentina, and this “Dragon of Death” was the size of a yellow school bus!

ON NOVEMBER 20, 2021, the artist Gala Porras-Kim wrote a letter to Jane Pickering, director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology: “I am interested in objects suspended from their original function or purpose by being stored and displayed in institutions solely as historical objects,” she began. This could easily describe any number of the millions of objects held by the museum, but Porras-Kim’s focus was on the Peabody’s collection of thousands of artifacts found in...