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week's edition include:
** Crime Museum's nickname 'racist'
An Asian officer has complained that using the name "Black Museum" for the
Metropolitan Police's famous archive of crime artefacts is racist
** Why didn't you think of this, Wallace?
Among the most eccentric items is a spoon attachment from 1882 to help
sophisticated gentlemen prevent spilling soup on to their moustaches at
dinner
** Police Seize Looted Art From Pensioners Home
Italian police said on Tuesday they had seized nearly 9,000 ancient
artefacts from a 74-year-old pensioner who sold looted antiquities at a flea
market in Rome
** Udderly baffling
The cows are here already - can the busloads of art aficionados be far
behind?
** Researchers explore naval diet during Napoleonic wars
Napoleon famously said an army marches on its stomach, but it has always
been assumed that the British navy fought him on a disgusting diet of
weevil-filled biscuits while the men's teeth dropped out from scurvy
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** World's first castrati exhibition
The exhibition will include an 18th-century Italian implement which was used
to castrate prepubescent boys
** Group hides native Hawaiian artefacts
Leaders of a Hawaiian group vowed not to divulge the location of a cache of
native artefacts obtained from a museum and then buried, despite the jailing
of their director
** Dodo bird bones found in Mauritius
The last known stuffed bird was destroyed in a 1755 fire at a museum in
Oxford, England, leaving only partial skeletons and drawings of the bird to
go on
** New museum on Chinese heritage opens in Singapore
Having cost US$4.7 million to develop, the Hua Song Museum tells the stories
of Chinese immigrants around the world and the role of clan associations at
the turn of the 20th century
** Library unfazed by missing watercolours
An Indiana library has lost four works by a Chicago artist and does not know
when they vanished
** Sweden Court Sentences 3 for Art Theft
A Swedish court convicted three men Thursday of trying to sell a stolen
Rembrandt painting and sentenced them from one to two years in prison
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** China film museum opens in Beijing
The China Film Museum has opened to the public in honour of the centennial
of Chinese movies.
** Museum prepares to honour ad icons
The Advertising Icon Museum being built in Kansas City, Mo., will preserve
some of pop culture's most curious icons
** Melbourne Museum goes to new depths
A giant squid bigger than a station wagon is just one of the bizarre
underwater life forms that will be on show at the Melbourne Museum from
Boxing Day
** ROM with a view
With the opening of its newest galleries, the Royal Ontario Museum hopes to
shed some light on both its collections and its own history
** Smithsonian Blogs And Podcasts
But what about podcasts? The Smithsonian has an army of web sites, (more
than 100), but I can find only two Smithsonian-branded podcasts focusing on
science and Asian art, respectively
** Ice Age Footprints Said Found in Outback
The 457 footprints found in Mungo National Park in western New South Wales
state is the largest collection of its kind in the world and the oldest in
Australia
** Museum creating cyberspace archive
Museum officials said the online library will cover topics ranging from
small-town life to famous politicians and movie stars, to World War II, the
space age and the civil rights era
** Former naval museum employee sentenced to prison in theft
A former employee of the National Museum of Naval Aviation received a
366-day prison sentence for stealing museum artefacts and selling them on
eBay
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