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week's edition include:
** More visitors hurt in Tate's hole
As many as 15 art lovers have been injured at London's Tate Modern since the
opening of an installation which features a large crack in the floor
** Chinese archaeologists prepare to open 2,200-year-old coffin
Chinese archaeologists are preparing to open a 2,200-year-old,
well-preserved coffin in central China's Hubei Province, which may contain
large amounts of silk fabrics
** Officials allocate more money toward Vegas Mob Museum
The exhibits won't glorify organized crime, according to officials, who say
they think a museum showing the history of the mob in America and how law
enforcement worked to extract illegal influences from gambling could attract
800,000 visitors a year
** Greek court throws out case against former Getty Museum curator
A three-judge panel ruled that the statute of limitations for criminal
charges against Marion True had expired
** The most detailed art beads grace Istanbul
Fitting scenery or a painting on a bead is the most difficult of handicrafts
and eye-straining work
** Volunteer, 85, stays focused on museum's stored toys
Deep in the basement of Strong National Museum of Play is a vast kingdom of
antiques few visitors ever see
** Into the heart of political correctness
Seventeen years ago political correctness came to Canada for the first time,
when someone (we'll never know who) decided that an exhibit at the Royal
Ontario Museum, Into the Heart of Africa, was flagrantly, insultingly,
viciously racist
** Heating threatens Westminster Abbey treasures
The central heating at Westminster Abbey has damaged the 700-year-old
Coronation Chair in which the Queen sat during the ceremony in 1953
** Damien who? Will Hirst stand the test of time?
His controversial creations, including sharks preserved in formaldehyde and
a diamond-encrusted skull worth a reputed £50m, will not stand the test of
time, if the opinions of many of the world's leading curators and critics
are anything to go by
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** Science lessons for museum boss
To get money to rebuild the depot, the museum agreed to take part in the Big
Lottery Fund's People's Millions, a television show in which viewers vote on
which of six projects nationwide should receive £50m
** Olympic digs yield historic finds
Pottery from the 4th Century and a Roman coin were found on the London
stadium site and Iron Age activity found on the Aquatics Centre site
** Student, teachers suspended in museum bomb hoax
One student and two teachers at the Ontario College of Art and Design in
Toronto have been suspended in connection with a bomb hoax at the Royal
Ontario Museum that cancelled a prestigious AIDS research fundraiser
** Stan Laurel's Scots Connection
Dressed in his father's best suit, his opening joke at the Britannia
Panoptican theatre fell so flat he was pelted with dung and rivets
** Why shoes never go out of fashion
One of the most expensive non-celebrity related shoes sold were a pair of
slap-soled ladies shoes, from late 17th-century Italy
** Visiting the Vault at the Natural History Museum
At the end of the long, old-fashioned gallery lies the silvery, amber-lit
entrance to the Vault. Here, in the Natural History Museum's elegant new
display space, are the most valuable gems, crystals, metals and meteorites
from around the world
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** Israel's First Comics Museum
A dream come true for many in the Israeli animators' community, the museum
hopes to introduce its visitors to the layered aspects of the field and
exhibit society's historical need for caricatures
** Expert sceptical of sacred Roman cave
He believes the cave - which ministry pictures show is decorated with
well-preserved seashells and coloured mosaics - was a room in Nero's first
palace on the Palatine Hill, which burnt down in 64 AD in the great fire of
Rome
** Butterfly naming rights draw USD 40, 800 bid
University of Florida researchers discovered the new species while looking
through a butterfly collection at the Florida Museum of Natural History
earlier this year
** A painter who brought Pompeii to life again
In what must surely be the first example of museum merchandizing, these
copies were also made available for general sale
** Circling the Wagons: Small Museums Coming Together to Solve Problems
** From Pixels to Paper - The Galt Museum & Archives is pleased to present
the third in its series The Curator Presents
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