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week's edition include:
** Ex-financial officer sued by museum
The nonprofit museum has an annual budget of $1.2 million, but the theft was
spread out over several years so it has not had a severe impact on its
finances
** Designers of Jewellery and Luxury Goods During the Gilded Age
Artistic Luxury: Faberge, Tiffany, Lalique reunites works by Peter Carl
Fabergé, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and René Lalique and presents them together
for the first time since the 1900 World's Fair in Paris
** Italy returns piece of Parthenon Marbles to Greece
The 2,500-year-old marble fragment was one of the works Scottish diplomat
Lord Elgin removed from the ancient Acropolis in the early 19th century
** Nocturnal van Gogh, illuminating the darkness
Also decidedly unblockbusterish is the show's almost complete inattention to
van Gogh's mental instability, his disastrous friendship with Paul Gauguin
or his shorn ear
** Museum acquires Burke and Wills expedition watch
The National Museum of Australia has acquired a gold pocket watch used by
the explorer William John Wills on the 1860s Victorian Exploring Expedition,
the legendary Burke and Wills expedition
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** Swamp Things Slither in $488 Million California Science Museum
Inside the sober exterior an elevator plunges through four stories of rain
forest into a glass-tunnel swamp alive with wriggling armoured catfish and
spotted peacock bass
** DNA indicates humans in N. America 14,300 years ago
Coprolites - ancient faeces - were found to contain human DNA linked
directly to modern-day Native Americans with Asian roots and radiocarbon
dated to 14,300 years ago
** Arts world faces cuts from financial crisis
The world of arts and culture could face damaging cutbacks as sponsors rein
in their spending due to the global financial crisis, industry experts say
** Science museum curator has a flair for animals
As the live animal curator at the Museum of Science Boston, Bunny Watson's
duties are as varied as making sure a bobcat gets a CAT scan to kennel
training an opossum
** Museum bars motorized wheelchair
When Kent McDaniel disembarked from the Rhapsody of the Seas in Prince
Rupert two weeks ago, he had hopes of exploring one of the finest museums in
B.C.
** Sunken Swedish ship the Kronan offers up historic haul
Its discovery in 1980 provoked a marine archaeological investigation greater
even than that of the Vasa, another Swedish warship that heeled in a violent
gust of wind, took on water through its open gun ports and sank on a trial
run in 1628, half a century before the Kronan was lost in battle
** Pistol that sparked First World War goes on display
A pistol used to assassinate the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, sparking the
First World War, is to go on display for the first time in the UK
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio. October 24 to November 21 - You'll soon have a hit country music
song on your hands, no matter how many times you try to scrub it off
** Inheritance fight imperils de Young tribal art
An entire wing of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum that was built to hold a
peerless collection of art from Papua New Guinea could be emptied by an
inheritance battle between heirs of the Annenberg publishing fortune
** The air tractor that dashed Mawson's dreams
This summer an eight-man expedition, led by Dr Ian Godfrey of the West
Australian Maritime Museum, hopes to pinpoint the plane so it can be removed
and conserved for the 100th anniversary of Mawson's trip
** Renowned archaeologist dies at temple dig
Kitov died during the excavation of a large Thracian temple surrounded by
lavishly furnished graves near the village of Starosel
** Ike helps uncover mystery vessel on Ala. coast
When the waves from Hurricane Ike receded, they left behind a mystery - a
ragged shipwreck that archaeologists say could be a two-masted Civil War
schooner that ran aground in 1862 or another ship from some 70 years later
** SCAPE 2008 Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space
Christchurch Art Gallery is the hub for the SCAPE 2008 Christchurch Biennial
of Art in Public Space
** A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media
Presented by the Conservation Centre for Art and Historic Artefacts
** Excellence and Equity-Then, Now, Next: Education and the Public
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