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Former US poet laureate Joy Harjo answers questions from the audience after a reading at Middle Georgia State University in Macon recently. The reading was made possible in part by the Georgia Humanities Council.

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How federal cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities touch Georgia

The National Endowment for the Humanities supports art and culture in all 50 states, including Georgia. What do the ongoing federal cuts to the NEH mean for the state?

May 07, 2025
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  • Grant Blankenship
Visitors explore the Legacy Hangar. (Photo by Isadora Pennington)

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Newly reopened Delta Flight Museum brims with history and art

Since 1995, the Delta Flight Museum has invited visitors to experience the history of aviation through interactive exhibits and experiences. It's gotten a makeover.

April 10, 2025
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  • Isadora Pennington and
  • Rough Draft Atlanta
Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia courtesy of Tellus Science Museum website  Read more at: https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/living/article300728019.html#storylink=cpy

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HGTV just named this Georgia city one of the ‘most charming’ small towns in the U.S.

Small towns in America create a sense of community, belonging and timelessness that big cities often lack. HGTV recently highlighted one in Georgia: Cartersville.

February 27, 2025
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  • Chelsea Madden
Guests get cozy in a vintage machine at the Photo Booth Museum by Photomatica in San Francisco.

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  • Photography

Squeeze into a photo booth for a Valentine's Day smooch

In honor of Valentine's Day, we stop in at the new Photo Booth Museum in San Francisco to find out how people are using the booths to celebrate their love.

February 14, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger speaks at the PBS's Executive Session at the 2017 Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. PBS is closing its DEI office following executive orders from President Donald Trump aimed at rolling back workplace DEI efforts.

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  • Arts & Life

PBS shutters DEI office

The public broadcaster says it is closing its Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office to comply with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.

February 11, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
The Afghanistan Memory Home Museum creates "memory boxes" with personal belongings and photographs and documents for those who suffered or died in the country's conflicts. This memory box memorializes Kawsar Qubadian and includes her sweater and slippers.

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An Afghan museum, that buried its artifacts after Taliban takeover, is reborn online

The Afghanistan Memory Home Museum shares details and belongings from those who've died in conflict. It shut its doors when the Taliban took power, buried much of its collection — but has now reemerged.

December 10, 2024
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  • Ruchi Kumar
Images of Macon’s famed showman line the hall of the Little Richard House in Pleasant Hill.

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Little Richard House closes indefinitely

The Little Richard Neighborhood Resource Center closed indefinitely without fanfare or public notice recently.

June 10, 2024
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  • Laura Corley
A display of some of the pre-Columbian antiquities, which comprise the "Repatriation and Its Impact" exhibit at The Parthenon museum in Nashville. The artifacts will be returned to Mexico, when the exhibit concludes.

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'They're somebody's history.' Returning ancient artifacts to their rightful home

The Rosetta Stone, the Kohinoor diamond, sculptures from Greece's Parthenon known as the Elgin Marbles are all dazzling objects that bear the history of early civilizations.

But these objects were also taken by colonizers, and still remain on display in museum galleries far from their homes.

Over the past several years museums around the world have been reckoning with the looted treasures they have kept and benefited from.

Now one small museum in Nashville, Tennessee is returning ancient objects excavated in Mexico.

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June 02, 2024
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The Banksy Museum in New York City features replicas of 160 original Banksys. This one is called "Good Doctor," and was originally stenciled in New York in 2010.

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  • Art & Design

A new Banksy Museum has opened in NYC … minus Banksy

The new museum is not authorized by the artist — who has explicitly denounced any use of his art for profit.

May 28, 2024
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Fletcher Henderson Home

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Two Cuthbert residents want to save the home of a jazz legend

Two Cuthbert residents want to restore the childhood home of a legendary figure in jazz.

April 19, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya
The "Larnax" at the Carlos (left) and a confiscated photo (right) suggesting the funeral tub's link to the illicit antiquities trade.

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Report: Emory's Carlos Museum holds objects linked to illicit antiquities trade

A new report says the Carlos Museum in Atlanta may have acquired hundreds of pieces of ancient art with links to the illicit antiquities trade.

August 31, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
One exhibit inside the new International African American Museum in Charleston , South Carolina, describes the accomplishments of Black leaders in health care, including nurse - midwife Maude Callen, who delivered hundreds of infants across the South Carolina Lowcountry during a time when segregation limited access to medical care for many African Americans.

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New Charleston museum nods to historical roots of U.S. health disparities

A $120 million International African American Museum opened this week in Charleston, S,C. The galleries allow visitors to step back in history at Gadsden’s Wharf, where tens of thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in America, the genesis of generations of health disparities.

June 27, 2023
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  • Lauren Sausser
The Big House Museum

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Macon neighbors oppose The Big House Allman Brothers Museum’s new zoning definition

Macon-Bibb Planning & Zoning approved the museum’s amendment that could allow special events in the county’s historic residential districts. 

April 13, 2023
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  • Liz Fabian
Taliban guards stand at the entrance of the National Museum of Afghanistan after it reopened under Taliban control in Kabul in December.

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The Taliban now guard Afghanistan's National Museum, where they once smashed objects

When the Taliban returned to power, cultural heritage advocates worried history might repeat itself and the group would destroy objects it found offensive. The museum is open now but has few visitors.

September 01, 2022
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  • Arezou Rezvani and
  • Fazelminallah Qazizai
Mashpee Wampanoag Kerri Helme uses plant fiber to weave a basket while sitting next to a fire on November 15, 2018, at the Wampanoag Homesite at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums, in Plymouth, Mass.

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  • National

Some Native Americans say this Pilgrim site is failing as a bi-cultural museum

Members of Massachusetts's Wampanoag community say the people running the Patuxet living history site have done little to ingratiate themselves with tribes.

August 10, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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