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week's edition include:
** Visitor damage to art at National Gallery costing hundreds of thousands
Visitors to the National Gallery of Canada are damaging artwork by adding
their own signatures to paintings, blundering into sculptures, intentionally
re-arranging modern pieces and, in one case, urinating on the iconic giant
spider that stands outside the entrance
** Fit for purpose: The Design Museum celebrates global style of the past
150 years
While the 120 or so exhibits might seem obvious selections to design
experts, the average punter will find much to mull over
** Campaign to protect Army museum
A £3.2m campaign has been launched to secure the spiritual home and museum
of one of Britain's most famous regiments
** Museum 'cocoon' prepares to open
The temperature-controlled Cocoon will house the museum's 34 million plant
and insect specimens, as well as laboratories for up to 200 researchers
** Museum snaps up Mick Jagger's lips
Sir Mick approached the Royal College of Art in London in 1969 to help him
find a design student after being frustrated by the bland designs offered by
their record label Decca Records
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** Any last requests? Yes, says death row inmate. Turn me into fish food
Never before has an inmate asked for his body to be turned into fish food
and fed to goldfish, all in the name of art
** Historic letter is returned 'home'
It is back at the Bronte Parsonage Museum, after a journey of 4,000 miles,
where it was penned by Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, William Smith
Williams
** Brazil's jungle harbours traces of lost cities
They were not as sophisticated as well-known cultures like the Maya to the
north, but their culture was more complex than anthropologists had thought
** Internet maps 'demolish British history'
Internet mapping is wiping the rich geography and history of Britain off the
map, Britain's most senior cartographer has warned
** Wellesley museum under fire after art mishap
It is unclear what happened to the Leger oil painting, which measures 25 by
21 inches, but museum officials have speculated that it may not have been
removed from the crate before that crate was discarded
** London Dickens museum evokes author's early success
At his writing desk in a central London townhouse the young Charles Dickens
penned some of the novels that made this name as an author and set him on
the path of becoming an eminent Victorian man of letters
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** Museum of early Chinese civilization to open
The discovery of relics of ancient villages, nobles' tombs with exquisite
jade burial artefacts, imperial graveyards, sacrificial altars and
large-scale mountain structures in Liangzhu Town marks essential evidence of
China's 5,000 years of history
** Anne Frank museum restores fading photo collage
The Anne Frank House museum said Friday it has restored 52 photographs and
images the Jewish teenager pasted on the wall of her room to cheer herself
up while hiding from the Nazis.
** 400-year-old ships found under Oslo mud
The largest collection of antique shipwrecks ever found in Norway has been
discovered under mud at the building site for a new highway tunnel in Oslo
** Smithsonian to make large cuts to executives' pay
At least 17 Smithsonian Institution executives with six-figure salaries will
see future pay cuts - many in the tens of thousands of dollars - under
reforms adopted by the museum complex
** 10 Things Museums Won't Tell You
So if you think the new DNA Discovery Centre at the Field Museum in Chicago
is a bit elementary, you can thank your peers
** Ancient Art, Served on a Present-Day Platter
In his design for the Los Angeles museum's Mesoamerican collection, he has
outdone himself in buzzy inventiveness
** German Government Approves Controversial Refugee Museum
Though Warsaw has now granted a cautious blessing to the museum, Poland and
the Czech Republic have long worried the museum would portray them as
villains of reprisals against ethnic Germans after the end of World War II
** Beer Is Near.7 Days until galt beer tasting
Mark your calendars! Grab your friends! The Galt Museum & Archives popular
Galt Beer Tasting fundraiser is near!
** Sustaining Communities: The Power of Museums
New England Museum Association - Annual Conference, November 12-14, 2008
** Encompass Auckland
Encompass Auckland presents 54 images of Auckland's volcanic cones,
buildings that have come and gone and beyond the city beaches and bush
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