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week's edition include:
** British Tibet protestors target terracotta warriors
One of two men who staged the demonstration, said he was applauded by people
visiting the blockbuster show, which features 12 life-sized warriors on loan
from China
** Investigator of Baghdad museum looting says antiquity smuggling finances
terror
The murky world of antiquities trafficking extends across the globe and is
immensely lucrative - private collectors can pay tens of millions of dollars
for the most valuable artefacts
** Sunken secrets
For a small army of amateur historians, war buffs and naval types, it was a
day to celebrate, a day in which reality arrived to cast judgment on the
maze of home-cooked theories about the last moments of the Sydney
** Donatello's David shines after laser clean-up
Laser technology has revealed that Donatello's David, one of the most
important statues of the Italian Renaissance, was once decorated with gold
leaf
** NSW gallery acquires $2m painting
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has unveiled a new acquisition which was
partly purchased with funds from the insurance payout of another work stolen
last year
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** Estée Lauder billionaire donates $131m to Whitney Museum
The pockets of the Whitney Museum on the Upper East Side of New York,
renowned for its works by contemporary and living artists, have been
significantly deepened with a gift of $131m from the chairman of its board,
the cosmetics tycoon Leonard Lauder
** An archer's art
The collection contains more than 5,000 items, including pieces from six
continents, archery artwork, medals and books dating from the 16th to the
20th centuries
** Begging off from city's free museums
Beggars appear as normal visitors when they're not asking others for money,
so we can't refuse them entry here
** Gardner museum chief repeats reward offer
The director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum issued a plea for the
slightest piece of information about the masterpieces stolen nearly two
decades ago and repeated the offer of a $5 million reward for their return
** The Week's Horoscopes
Libra -September 23 to October 23. You claim to be more of a leader than a
follower, but that's only because you've heard other people say the same
thing before
** 'Thanks a million' by Putin
Vladimir Putin has thanked Britain for helping Russia beat the Nazis with a
£1million birthday gift to the country's biggest war museum
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** Police Museum in good noose swap
The Crime Museum's criminal memorabilia includes notes allegedly written by
Jack the Ripper, a selection of hangman's nooses and death masks of people
hanged at England's Newgate Prison.
** Troubled Smithsonian Institution picks its new leader
The Smithsonian, which includes the National Zoo and the National Air and
Space Museum, is returning to its academic roots with the selection of
Clough
** Keris, pistols stolen from Malacca museum
The exhibits were housed at Malacca's famous 18th Century Dutch red-coloured
Stadhuys that was converted into the state's main museum in the mid-1980s
** Treasured aboriginal artefacts bound for exhibition in China
One week before the opening of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, 150 of Canada's
most treasured First Nations artefacts will go on display at the Beijing Art
Museum of Imperial City
** Experts Link Leonardo to Chess Puzzles
Experts say the Renaissance genius, whose interests included painting,
mathematics, music, engineering, anatomy and botany, may have illustrated
the puzzles in a long-lost chess treatise recently recovered in the library
of an aristocratic family in northern Italy
** Archaeologists discover ruins of Inca temple in Peru
Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, road
and irrigation systems at a fortress overlooking the Inca capital of Cuzco
** Radiation detected at museums
Museum visitors may be exposing themselves to more than just historical
artefacts and natural wonders when they peruse certain exhibits, a new
Canadian study suggests
** The History of Tea: The K. S. Lo Collection of the Flagstaff House
Museum of Tea Ware
Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, Hong Kong
** The World of the Model T - International Conference
July 17-19, 2008, Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan
** The Tech in Second Life
The Tech Museum of Innovation has announced the first four winners of its
virtual exhibit design competition in The Tech in Second Life
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