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week's edition include:
** Te Papa museum boss dies in the snow
The bodies of Te Papa boss Seddon Bennington and friend Marcella Jackson
were found just a kilometre away from an alpine hut that would have provided
them shelter in the storm
** Leading Visitors Through a Historical Journey to a National Heartache
Many of these objects have been so well preserved because they were evidence
in a murder investigation: the guns and knives belonging to the
conspirators, Booth's diary and confession written as he was on the run, his
thigh-high boot, slashed open by a doctor (his name was, yes, Mudd) treating
the leg that the assassin injured leaping to the stage from the president's
box
** Ancient Sa Huynh Culture marks its 100th anniversary of discovery
The display, held by the Vietnam Museum of History in coordination with the
Institute of Archaeology and the Museum of Anthropology, showcases more than
100 objects chosen from collections found in excavations in recent years
** The world's top ten museums
Every town and city throughout the world seems to document its past in some
way or other, but several museums have become so famous that they are
destinations in themselves attracting millions of visitors who flock from
across the world to view their exhibits
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** Thief paid £200 to smuggle £150,000 barometer out of museum under his
coat
Simon Hargreaves took the 300-year-old antique from a museum in May by
unscrewing it from a wall and smuggling it out under his coat
** Tate Modern perfects the art of living dangerously
Nearly 40 years on, Robert Morris's Bodyspacemotionthings has lost none of
its potential for danger after clocking up a string of casualties during a
special reappearance at Tate Modern this summer
** UNESCO vows to make Babylon a World Heritage site after US damage
Archaeologists took away some of Babylon's finest treasures in the 19th
century, Saddam Hussein embellished the site with his own structures, and
looters returned when the Americans handed the site back to the Iraqis 21
months after the March 2003 invasion
** 'Bloody awful' Trafalgar Square shatters calm of the National Gallery
Trafalgar Square has become completely uncivilised, with loud music and
loutish behaviour destroying the tranquillity of the National Gallery, the
collection's director says
** Australia's 'Big Things' go from kitsch to art
Among the more unusual examples are the Giant Worm, celebrating the oversize
invertebrates found near Bass, the Big Cigar in Churchill and Humpty Doo's
Big Boxing Crocodile
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** Skeleton keys
The ultimate goal of the scientists is to link the digitized chimpanzee
collection to CARTA's online Museum of Comparative Anthropogeny, a virtual
repository of data that is available to any scientist doing human work on
human origins
** Web Site Recreates Real Time Moon Landing
Internet visitors can see animated recreations of key events from the
four-day mission, including when Apollo 11 first orbits the moon and when
the lunar module separates from the command module, as well as browse video
clips and photos and hear the radio transmission between the astronauts and
NASA flight controllers
** Russia's Hermitage opens satellite museum in Amsterdam
The new Hermitage Amsterdam is unique: the West's only dedicated and
independently managed venue of the original Hermitage
** Exhibit at Germany's Bach Museum probes Nazi influence on music
Visitors entering the show are confronted with an irritating cacophony of
the composer's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 interspersed with the staccato
voice of chief Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels coming from a documentary
playing in the gallery
** Met Makeover Includes Enlarged Islamic Gallery
Officials at the Met say they are forging ahead with several long-planned
capital projects, despite recent cost-cutting measures that have included
dozens of layoffs and voluntary retirements
** Royal Collection opts out of oil painting survey
The National Trust (with 10,000 works) and the Royal Collection (7,000
works) have the two largest collections of oil paintings in Britain, each
with more pictures than either Tate or the National Gallery. Initially the
National Trust decided not to join the scheme, because it was in the midst
of an internal review and lacked the resources to participate
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** Got a toothache (or other ill)? check out museum's garden
For centuries, plants have played a critical role in the treatment of many
maladies - from cancer, heart disease, headaches and upset stomachs to
insect bites, respiratory problems and more
** Armstrong Gets Tour de France Bike Designed by Hirst
He's working with Damien Hirst, the U.K. artist known for pieces including a
diamond-encrusted skull, to get his bike in shape
** Franklin Expedition search called off
A government-sponsored search for Sir John Franklin's missing ships in the
High Arctic has been scrubbed this summer, but private entrepreneurs hope to
score an archaeological coup by conducting their own search in late August
** Museum battles to preserve moon suits for posterity
Displayed behind glass at the museum since the late 1960s, the spacesuits
have been withdrawn to be restored or at least to halt the ravages of decay
as the United States prepares to mark the 40th anniversary of the moon
landings
** Dutch gov't returns stolen antiquities to Iraq
The 69 pieces include cylindrical stone seals older than 2000 B.C. and a
terra-cotta relief depicting a bearded man praying
** The Film Industry As Heritage
The 11th International Conferences on Industrial Heritage in Gijón
(Asturias- Spain )
** American LaFrance vintage car on display at Hong Kong Science Museum
This ALF Simplex was built in December 1918 by LaFrance, a New York based
company founded in 1904, and was delivered by rail to Johns Town Fire
Station in Pennsylvania on February 28, 1919, as a fire engine.
** Museum Seeks Public's Input on Gallery
The National Museum of American Jewish History has launched an exciting new
initiative inviting the public to help us select the Jewish Americans whose
achievements will be recognized in the Museum's Only in America gallery
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