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week's edition include:
** Woman throws cup at the Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa has come under attack from a Russian woman who hurled a cup at
the world-famous portrait
** Eerie occurrences at naval museum
Jerry Franklin, the museum's maintenance supervisor, said he was standing
near the gift shop entrance one day when he saw a book shoot across an aisle
and smack a woman in the back, right between the shoulder blades
** Art of staying home - The world's greatest artworks online
Forget the long-haul hassle, or even, leaving your own living room: pursue
an of-the-moment, culturally rich "staycation" by visiting galleries online
** The Museum Bubble
James M. Williams, the Getty Trust's chief investment officer, magnanimously
agreed to take a six percent pay cut - he made a staggering $1.28 million,
according to the L.A. Times - even as his investment decisions led to the
loss of 205 jobs
** Legion Of Terra-Cotta Mouseketeers Found Beneath Disney World
A Disney World maintenance crew performing routine electrical work below
Cinderella Castle last week accidentally stumbled upon a mysterious
underground chamber believed to contain more than 8,000 terra-cotta
Mouseketeer statues dating back to 300 B.C.
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** Clean-up reveals true Rembrandt
A portrait thought to have been painted by a pupil of Rembrandt has been
proven to have been created by the master himself after a restoration
** Indian Bank employee with 5,000 stamps wants to start museum
A bank employee, who has collected over 5,000 postage stamps of nearly 200
countries in the past three decades, is mulling an idea of setting up a
philatelic museum as he wants to "motivate and revive the lost love of
children" in the activity
** U.K.'s Hogarths, Freuds Adorn Government Offices Across Globe
Just as spymaster Smiley's people lurked in a nondescript office off
Cambridge Circus, so the headquarters of Her Majesty's Government's art
supremos is in a bland building on the edge of Bloomsbury, next door to a
gym
** Feature Site -
The core of the project is a time-lapse collage, made of photos of graffiti
taken at the same location by many different photographers over a span of
several years
** New job for hot dog vendor booted by Metropolitan Museum of Art
The booted Metropolitan Museum of Art hot dog vendor's indigestion was
fading Saturday after a fellow dog dealer offered him a job
** Fire destroys part of Grant County museum, "You cannot replace any of
it. It's impossible."
The fire destroyed a large barn and carport that house several antique
vehicles and valuable collections, according to the museum director
** Terracotta army 'belonged to a woman'
Historian Chen Jingyuan told the state-owned Global Times newspaper he
believes the emperor's ancestor Empress Xuan, who died 55 years before Qin's
birth, was the real mastermind behind the army
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** Bush bikes, pedal power and audio tours
Cycling around the countryside on the traditional mode of transport used by
shearers at the turn of last century is a romantic way of linking tourism
with cultural heritage
** Sam the koala to be displayed in museum
Australia's most loved koala will be stuffed and displayed in the Melbourne
Museum following her death during surgery
** In Collection's Ashes, a Heritage's Seeds
Every morning Peggy Cooper Cafritz steps outside and confronts the wreckage:
the acrid smell of her incinerated walls and furnishings, the police tape
clinging to a chain-link fence surrounding her property, the rumbling
backhoe hauling away the charred remains of her long-time home
** Ancient spiders yield 3D secrets
Some 3,000 images of each fossil were obtained, and a custom software
package developed at Imperial College London was used to assemble the images
into a single, detailed, 3D virtual model of the creatures
** Weston man assesses Iraq's museums
What Gibson found was a nation with a dedicated arts community struggling to
come out from under the shadow of war; this struggle was evident everywhere
he went, he said, particularly the Mosul Museum
** Tate Modern worker claims compensation for being too cold
On occasions working in the Turbine Hall, where the electricity generators
were housed before the former Bankside power station was decommissioned in
1981, she would wear a shirt, jumper and long coat but "I was still cold",
Andrews told an employment tribunal
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** D.C.'s Real-Life Version of 'Night at the Museum'
By day Nelson is the museum's director of operations, by night he brushes
his teeth in the exquisitely tiled basement bathroom of a historic landmark
** Yorkshire Museum calls on Roman sun god to bring out the sunshine
Nestling among a fine collection of Roman artefacts at the Museum is the
Romano British plaque depicting Sol, which curators say offers an ancient
method of enticing the sun to come out for more than ten minutes at a time
** The 41st Algonquian Conference
Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from Thursday, October 29 to Sunday
November 1st, 2009.
** Wonderland: The Mystery of the Orchid
Auckland Museum is taking two of the world's best loved flowers - the orchid
and the rose - and exploding their magical attractions into a two-part
wonderland of storytelling and sensory experience.
** How To Tell Great Stories and Expand Your Audience
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