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** Museums go interactive to get more interest in Singapore's heritage
They can collect virtual versions of real artefacts, they can fight enemies,
pirates and wild animals and learn basically anything there is to learn
about ancient Temasek
** Bataaan Death March museum dedicated in Santa Fe
The soldiers who surrendered after intense fighting in the Bataan peninsula
were forced to march 65 miles to Japanese camps where they were beaten,
bayoneted, clubbed and many were executed
** What's the big idea behind the Pompidou-Metz?
This complex structure, made of no fewer than 10 miles of laminated spruce
and larch, is an extraordinary creation, drooping over the concrete, steel
and glass core of the building in a seemingly random fashion, as if a
passing bird had dropped a giant floppy hat on its head
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** Mystery as museum worker dies after locking up
An employee of Scotland's most popular museum died after being taken ill as
he was leaving work having locked up for the night
** Italian group hopes to find Caravaggio's bones
Mystery swirls around the death of the great Italian painter Caravaggio, who
died at age 39 after a dissipated life of street brawls, brothels, and
boozing
** Not a black magic museum
It is a health museum, but locals call it a santet (black magic) museum
because it houses a collection of black magic-related objects not found in
any other museum
** Museums get going with home-grown talent
Recently, two well-known museums have cancelled plans by internationally
known firms and commissioned more modest projects by local firms, while a
third high-profile addition remains on hold
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** World currency collection on display in Indonesian Monetary Museum
Inaugurated by Purbalingga Regent Triyono Budi Sasongko six months ago, the
museum broke the country record as the museum with the largest collection of
foreign currency
** New hominid shares traits with Homo species
The newly documented species, called Australopithecus sediba, was an upright
walker that shared many physical traits with the earliest known Homo
species - and its introduction into the fossil record might answer some key
questions about what it means to be human
** Miniature magic in Chicago
The 68 rooms showcase European, American and Asian interiors and furnishings
from the 17th century through the 1930s; they were largely created and
commissioned between 1933 and 1937 by Chicago socialite Narcissa Ward Thorne
** Museum would sing praises of gospel
A South Side minister is hoping to create a museum to honour Chicago's
gospel music heritage in Bronzeville, the neighbourhood credited with the
music's birth 80 years ago
** National treasures: Britain's museums and galleries
I took my daughter to the V&A the year before last to see the Jewellery
Galleries; the idea that we could just walk in there together, without a
barrier, was incredible to her, as we're so used to everything being a
commercial exchange
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** Revising the gold standard of environmental control
It remains an unshakable conviction for most conservators and administrators
that unless a museum can guarantee lenders that its interior climate is 70
degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees celsius) and 50 per cent relative humidity
(with an allowance for minor fluctuations), it has no business asking for
loans, and cannot be trusted with its own collection
** International Scholars Come Together for a Symposium at the Getty Museum
Scholars from around the world will gather at the J. Paul Getty Museum at
the Getty Villa on April 30 and May 1, 2010, to explore one of history's
most momentous confrontations, an encounter between two cultures, European
and Mesoamerican, and two empires, Spanish and Aztec
** Preliminary results of China's top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2009
announced
The site of the lower Xiajiadian culture discovered in Erdaojingzi Village,
Chifeng in Inner Mongolia, the city site of the Western Zhou Dynasty in
Chenzhuang, Gaoqing County in Shandong province, and Cao Cao's tomb in
Xigaoxue Village, Anyang were ranked as the top three for their extensive
attention and large archaeological value
** First Pizza Chain Discovered
Like all Pompeii dig sites the Pizza restaurant is perfectly preserved with
a pizza oven, bar, and sitting area and amazed scientists were ecstatic to
find two wholly preserved fossilized large sized pizzas in the oven - double
pepperoni and the archaic goat testicle and anchovy
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** A Photographer Whose Beat Was the World
For much of his long career as a photojournalist, which began in the 1930s
and officially ended three decades before his death in 2004, Cartier-Bresson
was compulsively on the move
** 9/11 museum to re-create the post-attack landscape
Visitors to the planned memorial museum will see recreations of the vigils
and makeshift memorials that sprang up around the city and the eight-month
cleanup of the destroyed World Trade Center in exhibits focusing on New
Yorkers' post-9/11 experience
** Half a million ringgit coffin on display
Stylish send-off: A 14-karat gold plated Chinese funerary box worth half a
million ringgit is on display at the National Museum in Kuala Lumpur
** Gibson donating film sets to museum
The governor of the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz said the Hollywood
star would donate sets from the movie he is currently filming to a future
museum
** 14th Annual Short Film and Video Festival
ASU Arts Museum
** Making Museums Matter: Integrating Collection and Exhibition Programs
with College Curriculum
CAA 99th Annual Conference
** Impressionist Gardens - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
The exhibition Impressionist Gardens will analyse the development of
paintings of gardens, encompassing not only the great figures of
Impressionism but also their forerunners such as Delacroix and Corot and
later artists including Klimt, Munch and Sargent.
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