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week's edition include:
** Elite Women Made Beer in Pre-Incan Culture
An ancient brewery from a vanished empire was staffed by elite women who
were selected for their beauty or nobility, a new study concludes
** Minneapolis art museum awarded Medal of Friendship by Putin
President Vladimir Putin has awarded the Medal of Friendship to a Minnesota
art dealer whose collections led to the founding of the only museum in North
America dedicated solely to Russian art from the Soviet era
** DNA Method Could Reveal Jack the Ripper
Findlay will first test the new technology on a lock of hair believed to be
from Catherine Eddowes, one of Jack the Ripper's victims
** Nazi-Era Rail Car for Display at Museum
On the 67th anniversary of Germany's infamous Kristallnacht pogrom, Fritzie
Fritzshall and other Holocaust survivors gathered to unveil the remnants of
a Nazi-era rail car that will be displayed when the Illinois Holocaust
Museum and Education Centre opens in suburban Skokie in 2008
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra September 23 - October 23: You've never believed in the theory of
evolution, but lately you just can't shake the feeling that the monkeys at
the zoo seem to be improving their aim.
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** Retired Elvis impersonator helps catch thief
A retired Elvis Presley impersonator helped police nab a man suspected of
stealing more than $300,000 worth of memorabilia from the Elvis-A-Rama
museum
** 2,000-year-old periwig unearthed in Sichuan
The Chinese might have learned to adorn themselves with periwigs more than
2,000 years ago, said archaeologists who unearthed a skeleton wearing a
hairpiece from an ancient tombs in southwest China's Sichuan Province
** Museum Crises: A New Southland Plague
Southern California has been smitten by a virtual epidemic of museum mishaps
of late
** Vandals to serve jail time for Museum graffiti
Two people who vandalized the Milwaukee Art Museum in May have both been
sentenced to two months in jail
** Getty Museum's disputed art works return to Italy
The return of the treasures was even more significant because it came just
days before the resumption of a trial in Rome of one of the Getty's former
curators on charges she conspired with dealers trafficking in looted
antiquities
** A Is for Ancient, Describing an Alphabet Found Near Jerusalem
In the 10th century B.C., in the hill country south of Jerusalem, a scribe
carved his A B C's on a limestone boulder - actually, his
aleph-beth-gimel's, for the string of letters appears to be an early
rendering of the emergent Hebrew alphabet
** UK Government: National buried treasures revealed!
More than 67,000 archaeological items and 427 pieces of treasure have been
discovered by members of the public over the past year
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** $23.5-million contract with the National Museum of Singapore
Montreal-based GSM Design, specializing in the design and production of
distinctive exhibits for museums and themed entertainment venues, has been
awarded the largest contract in its history, assessed at C$23.5 million, by
the National Heritage Board of Singapore
** AOL Germany search engine to steer web users to Jewish museum
Online provider AOL Germany says it will alter its search engine so that the
Web site of the Jewish Museum in Berlin ranks at the top of the results
whenever German internet users seek information involving Jews and the Nazis
** Several Museums May Possess Looted Art
Italian authorities have identified more than 100 allegedly looted
antiquities at six leading museums in the United States as well as
galleries, private collections and museums in Europe and Asia
Chinese ink painting fetches $4.6m
The buyer at the Beijing auction was a Singapore-based museum that is
dedicated to collecting the works of Wu
** Dutch to Return Maori Head to New Zealand
The artefact has been in the Netherlands for more than 150 years, where it
belonged to the royal collection of Dutch King William I and later was
displayed at the natural history museum in Leiden
** Toasting the Toaster
In the 1930s the toasters copied the art deco style of buildings and in the
1940s and 50s, toaster design reflected the streamlining taking place in the
automotive industry, explained Norcross, who has more than 600 toasters in
his collection
** ROM kills condo tower after community protests
The Royal Ontario Museum has backed down on its plan to build a 46-storey
condominium tower on the site of the McLaughlin Planetarium in the face of
intense opposition from the community and the University of Toronto
** When Nutting got nothing
Undoubtedly sweetening the mood among the Iowa Wesleyan professors, the
mounts were plucked from under the very noses of their peers at the state
university in Iowa City
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Small Museum Association 2006 Call for Posters
** 10th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video
Festival
** Canadian Museums Association's Cultural Property Protection Conference
** Disaster Preparedness For Historic Properties
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