26-year-old New Yorker gathers 40,000 #TikTok followers in her quest to visit all the city’s museums. While museums can be expensive, she said she makes good use of museum passes at her local library, and that many museums have days or times when they are free

Fortune

26-year-old New Yorker gathers 40,000 TikTok followers in her quest to visit all the city's museums | Fortune

With 136 museums documented since 2021, Jane August still has about 64 to go by her estimation. She may get there by the time she turns 30.

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Smithsonian restores Trump to impeachment display in American history museum. The museum last month removed a placard describing the president’s two impeachments. The new text makes minor changes — and offers slightly less detail. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/08/08/trump-impeachment-exhibit/ #globalmuseum #museums #museumnews

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.

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Times change, so do people. So why does the British Museum still think it’s OK to display human remains? Bodies and body parts have long been part of collections of imperial plunder over the years – but museums must understand that attitudes have moved on.

the Guardian

Times change, so do people. So why does the British Museum still think it’s OK to display human remains? | Paul Daley

Bodies and body parts have long been part of collections of imperial plunder over the years – but museums must understand that attitudes have mov...

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