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week's edition include:
** Hero porker survives 36 days in China quake rubble
The curator of the local Jianchuan Museum has already bought the pig for
3,008 yuan (436 dollars) and will keep the animal for the rest of its life
"as a living symbol of the earthquake disaster"
** Swill Milk Recalls Immigrant Life at Tenement Museum
They had barely settled in when their baby, Agnes, died of marasmus, a
common form of malnutrition at the time
** Virtual Museum Dedicated to Celebrating History's Most Obvious
Inventions
MOTO visitors will have the opportunity to roam the halls of a life-like
virtual museum to learn more about some of the most-popular inventions of
all-time, like the oven mitt, the football helmet, sliced bread and, of
course, the rechargeable battery
** Story Behind Lost Tribe Photos Revealed
Last month, Jose Carlos Meirelles claimed that the Amazon warriors painted
in red with arrows pointed at his aircraft were from an "undiscovered tribe"
along the Brazilian-Peruvian border that had never been in contact with
other humans
** Photographer Documents Secret Satellites - All 189 of Them
In taking these photos, Paglen is trying to draw a metaphorical connection
between modern government secrecy and the doctrine of the Catholic Church in
Galileo's time
** Smithsonian Makes Changes At Troubled Business Unit
The unit had an often-contentious relationship with the museums staff, and
its leadership was criticized for the amount of money spent on salaries and
expenses
** Old Masters, new buzz
The Gardner, eager to draw a new and younger audience, has taken it to the
streets for its latest marketing effort.
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A "trumpet" from ancient Egypt on display for some years at the Louvre was
recently determined to be an incense burner or perhaps the lower part of a
stand
** Zoos ask, what to do with an aged lemur?
The Golden Years have arrived at the nation's zoos and aquariums, and that
is taking veterinarians and keepers, along with their animals, into a zone
of unknowns
** Crafty art buyer has last laugh
The auction house thought the portrait was a 17th century Rembrandt
knockoff, and valued it at just $3,100 but the British buyer who paid about
1,500 times more than that apparently knew what he was doing. See also
** Afghan treasures from war-ravaged Museum
It is hoped that the treasures in this exhibition will eventually be on
permanent display in the refurbished National Museum of Afghanistan, which
bears the inscription "A nation stays alive when its culture stays alive."
** Controversy closes show at museum
Under intense pressure from angry Jewish patrons, the Spertus Institute of
Jewish Studies on Friday abruptly closed the controversial "Imaginary
Coordinates" exhibition, which explored Israeli and Palestinian concepts of
homeland and how that is defined both historically and in the present day
** Mexico recovers 929 pre-Columbian pieces
Mexico recovered more than 900 pre-Columbian artefacts seized from smugglers
in the U.S. and Canada, including 800-year-old fibre sandals, spears and
hunting bows looted from nomadic caves
** Shipping magnate saves the Cutty Sark with £3.3m gift
The Cutty Sark renovation suffered a huge setback when fire ripped through
the ship in May last year, adding enormously to the restoration cost
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** A history of the world in kitsch packages
What does an exquisite, hand-carved, 10th-century miniature of the Indian
temple where the Buddha attained enlightenment have in common with a
snowdome showing the Loch Ness Monster surfacing in Sydney Harbour?
** Hitler's car in India, not in Nepal palace
A Mercedes purportedly gifted by Adolf Hitler to ousted King Gyanendra's
grandfather is not in the Narayanhiti place as claimed by Nepal officials,
but was taken to India in 1943, a former Rana prime minister's daughter has
claimed, sparking a fresh controversy over royal assets
** Kremlin Official's Foundation Buys $16 Million Art Collection
The collection has 810 watercolours, drawings and gouaches by Russian modern
artists and most of the works were made for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets
Russes that performed in Paris, and later Monte Carlo, from 1909 to 1929
** The way we wore
Luckily she is, she admits, one of those women that can just go and open the
wardrobe doors, look at all the clothes and go ahhh!
** Feeling the Presence of the Past in the Age of Technology
Tuesday, July 22. National Heritage Museum
** Small Museum Association 2009 Annual Conference Call for Papers
The Small Museum Association (SMA) is planning its 25th Annual Conference in
Ocean City, Maryland, February 22-24, 2009.
** Mid-Atlantic Digital Library Conference
July 9, 2008. Bucknell University
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