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week's edition include:

**  Museum: 'Fakes' really Rembrandts
Copenhagen's National Gallery has said two of its paintings that were 
previously believed to be fake Rembrandts were actual works by the Dutch 
master

**  Art collector gives $50m to Ringling museum
A Sarasota art collector and philanthropist is funding a new gallery of 
Asian art at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

**  Spanish Museum Loses Serra Sculpture
The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid has lost a 38-ton steel sculpture by 
American artist Richard Serra

**  Austria returns Klimt works expropriated by Nazis
A high-profile dispute over the restitution of art stolen by the Nazi regime 
ended with a clear victory for the descendants of the former Jewish owner on 
Monday when an arbitration panel ruled that the Austrian government should 
return five paintings of Gustav Klimt to 89-year-old Maria Altmann

**  Racing museum to get new simulator
The interactive exhibit, which opens in July, will feature a life-size 
mechanized horse, equipped to respond to the slightest movement of its rider

**  New San Francisco Museum Celebrates Beats
Decades after the novelists and poets who became known as the Beat 
Generation inspired a literary and cultural revolution, a museum celebrating 
the era with rare books, photos and memorabilia opened this weekend in the 
city that entranced Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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**  On the trail of Cézanne
The celebrations planned for the centenary of his death will be among the 
biggest international art events of 2006

**  History comes out of vault as bank showcases priceless artefacts
When Bank of America Corp. acquired New England's largest bank, it not only 
gained the accounts of millions of customers, it inherited the bank's 
priceless historical artefacts - including ledgers showing the bank accounts 
of John Hancock, Paul Revere, and Samuel Adams and muskets from the battle 
of Bunker Hill

**  Viking teeth grooves add bite to theory of early aboriginal contact
A scientist who found deep grooves chiselled into the teeth of dozens of 
1,000-year-old Viking skeletons unearthed in Sweden believes the strange 
custom might have been learned from aboriginal tribes during ancient Norse 
voyages to North America - a finding that would represent an unprecedented 
case of transatlantic, cross-cultural exchange during the age of Leif 
Ericsson

**  Greek-island figurine mystery to be probed
British and Greek archaeologists are preparing a major excavation on a tiny 
Greek island to try to explain why it produced history's largest collection 
of Cycladic flat-faced marble figurines

**  Museum finds mysterious Spitfire signer
The Museum of Science and Industry has had a spot of luck in its quest to 
find out more about five women who signed a World War II Spitfire plane it 
owns

**  Did the Chinese Discover America and Not Columbus?
The Economist this week will unveil an intriguing historical mystery when it 
publishes a copy of an ancient Chinese map which, if proved authentic, will 
show that it was Zheng He, a Chinese admiral, who discovered America, not 
Christopher Columbus

**  Titter ye not, my wig is exhumed
Frankie Howerd's wig has been exhumed to become a star attraction at a new 
museum full of offbeat mementos to the late comedian
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**  Dillinger relative cleared to sue museum over use of artefacts
A judge has ruled that the great-nephew of John Dillinger can seek damages 
from the Lake County Convention and Visitors Bureau, which opened a museum 
about the gangster more than six years ago

**  Donner Family Not Cannibals
There's no physical evidence that the family who gave the Donner Party its 
name had anything to do with the cannibalism the ill-fated pioneers have 
been associated with for a century and a half, two scientists say

**  American art dealer makes first appearance at high-profile art 
trafficking trial
An American art dealer appeared for the first time Friday at a trial in 
which he is accused along with a former curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum 
of receiving and conspiring to deal in illegally acquired antiquities

**  Museum's modern slant rocks its staff
Australia's oldest museum may forsake old rocks, fossils and ancient 
cultures for "contemporary" research on issues such as climate change and 
the race riots in Redfern

**  Fire razes Hemingway's Bahamas bar
A fire has destroyed the Ernest Hemingway museum and The Compleat Angler bar 
on the Bahamian island of Bimini, one of the American novelist's 1930s 
haunts during the days he stalked big game fish

**  Mexico pressuring Austria for Aztec headdress
The artefact is nearly a yard (metre) wide and made from more than 450 
elegant, vivid green feathers of the quetzal bird mounted in a jewel and 
gold encrusted crown

**  Learning Large in the Small Museum - Ocean City, Maryland

**  Conservation: Do it Yourself vs. the Pros

**  Museums in Their Place: Roles, Regeneration and Community - Irish 
Museums Association Conference

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