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week's edition include:
** German police seize Aztec, Incan art
Art theft specialists from Bavaria's criminal investigations office estimate
that the collection, which includes around 1,000 masks, necklaces and
statues, is worth some $100 million
** New mayor of Rome threatens to scrap "disfiguring" museum
The famous American architect Richard Meier has denounced as incredible
plans by Rome's new right-wing mayor to dismantle a state-of-the-art museum
designed by Mr Meier that opened just two years ago
** Okefenokee alligator skeleton immortalized
The display also will include what park officials found in Oscar's belly -
including a plastic dog collar, a dog's tag, a penny and the top section of
a flagpole
** Field Museum to pull back curtain
A new laboratory room, visible to the public through a wall of glass panes,
will provide a front-row seat to some of the museum's most cutting-edge
genetic studies
** Head Lice as Art in Israeli Museum
In an experiment that's unusual, to say the least, a group of Berliners is
living at a museum in Israel with the creepy-crawly head bugs in their hair
for three full weeks
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** Baghdad museum receives artefacts stolen from Iraq
Between 3,000 to 7,000 pieces are still believed missing, including about 40
to 50 that are considered to be of great historic importance
** International Museum Day 2008, Hong Kong
More than 30 museums and heritage institutions from Beijing, Guangdong
Province, Hong Kong and Macau and will jointly present a series of
activities for "International Museum Day 2008, Hong Kong" on May 17 and 18
** Long Ago Person Found: His last hours
Kwaday Dan Ts'inchi set out on his trip carrying a sockeye salmon, seal meat
and other food supplies, wearing a red woven hat and wrapped in a warm robe
made of ground squirrel pelts stitched with sinew, even though it was summer
** Woman's quilt victory like something out of a fairy tale
A University of Minnesota professor who is an expert on folklore, recently
translated the German fairy tale into English and used Smith's quilt to
illustrate it
** Size matters as freezer shrinks colossal squid
Scientists at the Museum of New Zealand were left with a bit of a damp squib
last night as their three-day thaw of snap-frozen 495 kg colossal squid
tonight turned out to be only 4.2 metres long
** New museum to give meaning to Gettysburg
Without an itinerary, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the vastness of
Gettysburg's battlefield - a 2430-hectare expanse dotted with nearly 1400
memorials and monuments to North America's bloodiest battle
** Pottery teacher who made a fortune with fake antiques
Broadway is thought to have made up to £20,000 from copying the famous works
of two potters - Bernard Leach and Lucie Rie
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** Art ordered returned to son of Romanian dictator Ceausescu
A Romanian court has ordered the National Art Museum to return works of art
confiscated during the 1989 anti-communist revolt to a son of late dictator
Nicolae Ceausescu
** NASA Intern Hoping To Go On Space Walk Before He Leaves In June
Hodson, whose résumé did not list any formal flight training or an academic
background in engineering, mathematics, biological science, or physics, said
he was positive that before the next launch, NASA officials would notice he
had refilled all the staplers
** The Horse
This American Museum of Natural History exhibition will explore the origins
of the horse family, extending back over more than 50 million years; examine
early interactions between horses and humans that led to horse
domestication; and visitors will see how horses have, over time, changed
warfare, trade, transportation, agriculture, sports, and many other facets
of human life
** Vikings acquitted in ancient murder mystery
Tests of the bones of two Viking women found in a buried longboat have
dispelled 100-year-old suspicions that one was a maid sacrificed to
accompany her queen into the afterlife
** Darwin's Garden Exhibition Opens
The untold story of Charles Darwin's lifelong fascination and work with
plants, including how flowers have evolved their extreme beauty and how
plants are sensitive creatures responding to the least beam of sunlight and
the pull of gravity, is presented in an exhibition entitled Darwin's Garden:
An Evolutionary Adventure
** Chinese porcelain likely originates in Zhejiang
Chinese archaeologists say their latest findings showed the country's
ancient porcelain likely originated in Deqing, an east Zhejiang Province
county
** Monumental Khatchkar
This is the first on display in a U.S. Museum and is on special Loan to
Metropolitan Museum
** Archaeology and Education 2008
The next CBA Archaeology and Education conference is being held on 4-6
September 2008, at the University of York St. John in York.
** Cultural Respect in Preservation and Conservation
North Carolina Preservation Consortium Annual Conference
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