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week's edition include:
** Guard dies after Holocaust museum shooting
An 88-year-old gunman with a virulently anti-Semitic past fatally shot a
security guard inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on
Wednesday before being shot himself by other officers
** Grand plans for Rijksmuseum
This whole system of reinstallation and rebuilding and reopening, again and
again new opening dates, means that the world is changing
** Epic carving on fossil bone found in Vero Beach
In what a top Florida anthropologist is calling "the oldest, most
spectacular and rare work of art in the Americas," an amateur Vero Beach
fossil hunter has found an ancient bone etched with a clear image of a
walking mammoth or mastodon
** A Museum of Trees That Speak of History
Each one will have a sign that gives a phone number and a code to listen to
short recordings of people speaking about the Bronx, their lives and their
work
** Ukraine suffered "colossal" looting during World War II
According to a scholar at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences during World War II Ukraine lost a "colossal
amount of cultural valuables'', on a scale unheard of since the Mongols
invaded the country in the early 13th century
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** Notebook of sketches by Picasso worth £7m stolen
The book, displayed in a glass presentation cabinet on the first floor of
the 17th-century building, was found to be missing just before lunchtime
** Culture Minister halts export of mysterious 11th century ivory It has
connections with the relationship between Islam and the West in medieval
times, English society in the 17th century, and the history of symbolic
objects in Mediterranean culture
** A Paradox at the Louvre?
While the astonishing news is that the Louvre is coping, the not-so-good
news is that it is in danger of running into trouble by 2010
** Digitization of 848 German manuscripts from the Bibliotheca Palatina
The University Library of Heidelberg has digitized and has made available on
the Internet its collection of German manuscripts from the "Bibliotheca
Palatina", one of the most valuable collections of Medieval and Early Modern
manuscripts
** Brands, Packaging and Advertising
Beyond the historical brands are smaller sections for packaging and
branding, the latter boasting perhaps the most obscure museum exhibit we've
seen: a case demonstrating the entire history of Dettol bottles
** Exhibitions axed as recession bites
The situation seems considerably worse in North America than in Europe,
probably because North American museums are much more dependent on private
sponsorship and endowments - particularly hit by the recession - while
European institutions receive more government funding
** From The Blogs - Gems and Minerals
A crystal must pass 3 tests to be considered a gemstone: it must be rare; it
must be beautiful; and it must be hard enough to resist scratching or
breaking
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** Peru finds human sacrifices from Inca civilization
Researchers at an archaeological site in northern Peru have made an
unusually large discovery of nearly three dozen people sacrificed some 600
years ago by the Incan civilization
** Feature Site - Cayman Islands Museum website goes live
The museum anticipates ultimately uploading around 200 images on a rotating
basis drawn from the 7,000 plus objects now in its collection, a process
that is currently underway
** Hercules Still Struggling To Complete 13th Labour
Stating that he had not yet fulfilled the labours set forth by Eurystheus to
the satisfaction of the Mycenaean king, mythic hero Hercules announced
Monday that for the 35th time in 3,000 years he will run for Greensboro City
Council
** New 'Molecular Clock' Aids Dating Of Human Migration History
Researchers at the University of Leeds have devised a more accurate method
of dating ancient human migration - even when no corroborating
archaeological evidence exists
** Pig processing and Slow Food - the arty and the party
Is it about the art, or the parties? The Venice Biennale is always about a
little bit of both; and sometimes, they are brilliantly combined
** Replica of the Great Panjandrum, 1944 super-weapon, to be tested
During testing in 1944, the prototype veered wildly off course and careered
towards an audience of top brass and VIPs who were forced to flee from their
vantage point on a shingle ridge
** Museum 'lost cash over logo issue'
A Cambridge museum says it lost an £80,000 grant because bosses refused to
put a charity's logo near a painting
** New Forest discovery thought be one of oldest ever made in UK
Two 6,000-year-old tombs have been unearthed in Hampshire in one of the
biggest archaeological finds for years
** A Lady Found a Culture in its Cloth: Barack Obama's Mother and
Indonesian Batiks
The batik patterned textiles from the collection of Ann Dunham
** 2009 American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting
You are encouraged to come to Indianapolis, August 26 through 29, for this
conference
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stakeholders
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