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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Smithsonian returning Sitting Bull items
Sitting Bull was killed while being arrested by tribal police in 1890 and
the lock of hair and leggings were obtained by an Army doctor, who later
donated them to the museum
** Palestinians build a Political Prisoners Museum
The exhibits at the museum on the campus of Al Quds University near
Jerusalem don't explain why people were jailed: for politics,
stone-throwing, sabotage, killing soldiers or civilians
** Receding permafrost is a bone-hunters' bounty
In Siberia's northernmost reaches, high up in the Arctic Circle, the
changing temperature is thawing out the permafrost to reveal the bones of
prehistoric animals like mammoths, woolly rhinos and lions that have been
buried for thousands of years
** Hong Kong rediscovers Sun Yat-sen
The government spent 53 million Hong Kong dollars, or about $6.81 million,
to purchase the fabulous old Kom Tong Hall, and another 91 million Hong Kong
dollars to renovate and convert it into the Sun Yat-sen Museum
** No contract for under-fire museum head
The Austrian Culture Ministry will not renew a contract for the embattled
director of Vienna's prestigious Art History Museum, where a Renaissance
figurine valued at $69.3 million was brazenly stolen in 2003
** Yale to Return Machu Picchu Artefacts
Yale University has agreed to return thousands of Inca artefacts taken from
Peru's famed Machu Picchu citadel almost a century ago
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** Museum of toilets
A Ukrainian man has been arrested after making use of one of the exhibits at
a new museum dedicated to the history of the toilet
** Danish Gold Horns, Cultural Heritage Icons, Stolen From Museum
Two golden horns, replicas of what the Danes consider their country's most
significant historic artefacts, were stolen from a local museum, two
centuries after the originals suffered a similar fate
** Is It Art Yet? And Who Decides?
When a museum behaves badly, it's never pretty, but few examples top the
depressing spectacle at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
** Hobbit wasn't a modern human
Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, researchers have
wrangled over whether the find was an ancient human ancestor or simply a
modern human suffering from a genetic disorder
** Cardinal in Nazi art term row
Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne, was speaking as the Church
inaugurated its Kolumba art museum
** DNA barcoding - from fruit-flies to puffer fish
With two "barcode factories," one at the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington and the other at the University of Guelph in Canada, the group
aims to have bar-coded the DNA of more than 500,000 living species within
the next five years
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** Mystery of the nearly men - New thinking on an old conundrum
Some scientists believe it is no coincidence that the demise of the
Neanderthal coincided with the arrival of modern humans in Europe about
50,000 years ago
** Super-scope to see hidden texts
The technique employs Britain's new facility, the Diamond synchrotron, and
could be used on works such as the Dead Sea Scrolls or musical scores by
Bach
** Behind the scenes at the British Museum
Raising a pole of this height has been a technical challenge - few London
crane-operators, we discovered, had much totem-pole experience
** Vienna Hits Jackpot With Gift of Monets, Picassos for Albertina
Fighting off competition from New York's Guggenheim Museum, among others,
the Albertina secured the permanent loan of 500 artworks from the
Liechtenstein lawyer Herbert Batliner and his wife Rita
** Police raid Indian Museum
Officials of the Indian Museum in Kolkata have allegedly siphoned off lakhs
of rupees by producing fake bills over the last three years
** Home, Sweet Home
Gone are the days of ancestral Manors in the Old World, where generation
after generation was free to dilute the family's purse and one could delight
in adding yet another architecturally incompatible expansion to a
centuries-old domicile
** Rent-A-Treasure
Such bans replace the logic of the market with the logic of the black
market, which means that smugglers would try to conceal the locations of new
archaeological sites, to erase or forge the historical record surrounding
objects, and to excavate and ship objects without the care that could be
lavished on an operation that was legal
** Private Pleasures: Collecting Contemporary Textile Art
** Victorian Visions
** A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media
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