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week's edition include:
** National Railway Museum holds auction to help Flying Scotsman
Great Britons from throughout history are rallying round to support the
cause - as locomotive nameplates from 1960s engines, such as Christopher
Wren, Elizabeth Fry and Robin Hood, go under the hammer
** Stolen museum artefacts turn up in trash bag
They say one man's trash is another man's treasure, and treasure is exactly
what Ed Wilson found when he tore open a garbage bag left outside the North
Lanark Regional Museum in Appleton
** Museum exhibit examines science of 'CSI'
An Orlando company has announced that it has created "The CSI: Experience,"
which will let patrons immerse themselves in the drama's forensic science
** Museum stages tribute to London's refugees
Among the objects at the exhibition are a white blanket that kept an
Ethiopian man warm at Heathrow Airport during his first night in London and
the work of an artist from Ecuador who painted London's classic red
telephone booths
** U.S. casino mogul donates $25 million to Israeli Holocaust Museum
Yad Vashem said the money would be used to strengthen outreach programs in
Holocaust education, documentation and research
** Renaissance Masterpiece to Show in U.S.
A few days after opening the first exhibit in a three-year partnership with
the Louvre in Paris, the High Museum in Atlanta announced that it will be
the first of three stops in the United States for an iconic masterpiece of
the Italian Renaissance that has never left Florence
** Ancient footprints found in Mexico valley
A trail of 13 fossilized footprints running through a valley in a desert in
northern Mexico could be among the oldest in the Americas, Mexican
archaeologists said.
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** A Roman silver treasure with a blemish
Since last week, scores of scholars, museum curators and collectors have
been discreetly filing into a well-guarded gallery of the Bonhams auction
house here to admire 14 richly decorated silver objects that lay buried for
1,500 years in a forgotten corner of what was once the Roman Empire
** Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars
And the thousand or so daily messages of 'Still No Water' really point to a
crisis of purpose
** Stately home owner jailed
A Norfolk stately home owner was put behind bars for four months today for a
string of offences relating to endangered birds of prey and birds eggs
** Lucy fossil not coming to Smithsonian
Not only is it not going to come to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum,
it is our position that we don't think it should leave Ethiopia
** Museums set for merger
Two of Sydney's oldest cultural institutions, the 179-year-old Australian
Museum and the 125-year-old Powerhouse Museum, will soon be run by a single
trust managed by the same director
** Seattle sci-fi museum lets you go where writers have gone before
To get down to the basics, fantasy is the inner-journey of the mind while
science fiction is about the possible interaction with the universe
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** 1400-year-old woman weaves her magic on gallery board
While $4 million may seem a huge sum, it is paltry compared with prices on
the international antiquities market
** London museum to host Kylie Minogue's hotpants
A leading London museum is to host an exhibition of outfits worn by Kylie
Minogue, charting her rise from soap opera actress to multi-million selling
pop princess
** Prehistoric tooth found in wall
The palm-sized incisor belonging to a creature called a Megladon was
discovered by Angela Foster after her garden wall in Maidstone collapsed
** Museum examines Latino holiday in honour of the dead
The Day of the Dead was alive and well at the Oakland Museum of California,
where several thousand partygoers in skeleton shirts and other grim gear
gathered Sunday to celebrate Dia de los Muertos
** When food is art...
An artist has created portraits of famous faces using toast and Marmite
** Exhibition explores Chinese script origins
An exhibition featuring the origins, development and contribution of Chinese
script is being staged at the Hong Kong Museum of History
** The Future Of Heritage - 3rd Annual Ename International Colloquium
** Deadline for Proposals for 2007 AASLH Annual Meeting is November 17
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