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week's edition include:
** Mystery of the stolen Moore solved
One of the most audacious British art thefts, the disappearance of a
two-tonne Henry Moore sculpture worth £3m, has been solved by police, who
believe that the internationally revered Reclining Figure sculpture was
melted down and sold for no more than £1,500
** Unveiled 'Holy Grail' Fossil Gets Celebrity Treatment
Dozens of New York City reporters swarmed today around a brightly lit
specimen case at a local museum, pushing and craning their necks to get a
peek inside
** Can a Space Museum Help Russia Get Its Glory Back?
With a 360-ft-high steel flame swooping up from its roof, topped by a
Jetsons-esque rocket, Moscow's Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics has reopened
after more than three years of expansion and renovation - one small step in
Russia's effort to claim a more prominent place on the world stage by
highlighting its past glory in space exploration
** Did modern humans eat Neanderthals?
The team says this could be evidence that early modern humans in Europe ate
Neanderthals, or that they treated the Neanderthal child's remains in some
way, for example as a trophy
** New museum showcases New Mexico's colourful history
The new museum's exhibits trace the state's chronology from the pre-colonial
era to the present - starting with a re-creation of a cliff wall full of
petroglyph-type handprints
** Escape from the Mummy's Tomb!
An exciting new game on the National Museums Liverpool web site gives
players the opportunity to see if they are expert Ancient Egypt explorers
** British tourist stung 500 times as bees invade French art gallery
A group of British tourists were seriously injured after being attacked by a
swarm of bees while visiting an art gallery in France
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** Underwater museum at China's Three Gorges Dam region finishes
construction
The complex consists of the museum, a connecting passageway, an underwater
anti-collision pier and an exhibition room on land
** Foresters catch the pigeon for museum display
Sadly, to paraphrase Monty Python, General Plumer is dead, deceased, passed
on... but he still has a vital role to play in honouring brave soldiers who
perished in the First World War
** Forged from collector's whims
The quirky Musée le Secq des Tournelles or Wrought Iron Museum is the
largest of its kind in Europe and possibly in the world
** New Disney museum in San Francisco will be all about Walt
A new museum about the life of Walt Disney is planned to open in three
buildings in San Francisco's Presidio in the fall, but don't expect any
spinning Tea Cups or Haunted Mansion
** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn - Dec 22 to Jan 19. A thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters
for a thousand years may not be able to produce the works of Shakespeare,
but they could probably come up with a better hyperbole in half that time
** Feature Site - The Fashion Museum
This summer the Assembly Rooms in Bath will be hosting The Story of the
Supremes From the Mary Wilson Collection, a V&A exhibition in collaboration
with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio
** PM offers mediation to solve 'sad' Hillary-Museum situation
Sir Ed's son Peter Hillary spoke today of a "clear breakdown" in the
family's relationship with Ms Vitali
** German Fossil Found to Be Early Primate
Fossil remains of a 47-million-year-old animal, found years ago in Germany,
have been analyzed more thoroughly and determined to be an extremely early
primate close to the emergence of the evolutionary branch leading to
monkeys, apes and humans
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** Now doesn't that look better?
Out with the late Rothkos, down with Matisse's sprightly Snail - the
museum's main attractions when there are no gigantic spiders or slides - and
in with some of the many thousands of works sprung from the lock-up
** Exhibit of global proportions
The whooping calls of howler monkeys greet visitors as they enter the
cavernous exhibit, which follows a quarter-mile trek through incredibly
life-like environments complete with animatronics, interactive touch screens
and realistic settings
** A Connoisseur's Bounty of Pulp and Pin-Ups
You could barely walk around his home, and he would only take you out to his
storage facilities in the middle of the night, when nobody else was around
to see what he had
** Museum's 'mistake' ends portrait auction
The Montclair Art Museum has decided not to auction off the 104-year-old
portrait of one of its founders after his descendants complained that the
memory of the Montclair civic leader was being disrespected
** Museum Staffers Stoke Artistic Fires After Hours
This first exhibition of works of art created by Museum employees features
24 artists whose day jobs alone apparently do not satiate their desire for
art in their lives
** Extreme Mammals
Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest, and Most Amazing Mammals of All
Time, the American Museum of Natural History explores the surprising and
often extraordinary world of extinct and living mammals
** Schad Gallery of Biodiversity
ROM's new permanent gallery vividly presents the diversity and fragility of
life on Earth, opened on May 16, 2009
** Museums Australia National Conference
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