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week's edition include:
** Lincoln's bloody gloves to go on display
The musty, thin leather gloves have turned from white to brown - but they
are still stained with the blood of Abraham Lincoln
** Archaeologists discover sabre-toothed vegetarian
The leaf-crunching animal, about the size of a large dog, lived 260 million
years ago in what is now Brazil and its upper canine teeth were nearly 5
inches (12.7cm) long.
** Royal Marines Museum welcomes 200-year-old sword
Two hundred years after the battle, the Portsmouth-based Royal Marines
Museum has acquired a rare steel nautical-themed sword presented to Torrens
by non-commissioned officers who served under him in recognition of their
admiration for his bravery
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** Artifacts in Texas Predate Clovis Culture by 2,500 Years
Researchers in Texas have discovered thousands of human artifacts in a layer
of earth that lies directly beneath an assemblage of Clovis relics,
expanding evidence that other cultures preceded the Clovis culture in North
America
** Rare photo heist spurs manhunt
Police have launched an "intensive search" for the perpetrators of an art
robbery in which a photograph valued at 1.25 million Kc ($72,000) was stolen
from a central Prague museum
** Modern humans came from southern Africa
A genetic study of African hunter-gatherers suggests modern humans evolved
in southern Africa rather than in the east as previously thought, scientists
report this month
** Alice in Wonderland Treasures Displayed
The clock-watching rabbits, cake-gorging hatters, sagely caterpillars and
portly twins all went down a storm, but illustrator John Tenniel, who drew
the band of merry creatures Lewis Carroll dreamed up for Alice, was unhappy
with the quality of the printed illustrations
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** Telegraph Museum wins £125,000 for children
A Cornish museum dedicated to the history of electronic communications has
been given £125,000 to improve its exhibitions for children
** Turkey's Bizarre Subterranean Hair Museum
One of the quirkiest wonders is the bizarre Avanos Hair Museum: a small cave
containing hair samples, names and addresses from more than 16,000 women
from all around the world
** Disgraced Curator Ordered to Compensate Ex-Employer
The Seoul High Court has ordered the disgraced former curator Shin Jeong-ah
to pay W129.75 million in compensation to her former employer Sungkok Art
Museum (US$1=W1,124)
** New Thyssen museum set to open in Spain
More than 200 paintings from the private collection of the widow of Baron
Thyssen-Bornemisza will be on display at a new museum that opens Thursday in
the southern Spanish city of Malaga
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** List of looted antiquities finally released
The perfunctory details of the objects and the poor quality images of the
missing items suggests that the museum (the world's most important
collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts) has poor records and that its
contingency planning for an emergency was woefully inadequate
** An Inland Voyage at the National Waterways Museum
During the late 1940s and early 1950s Robert Longden documented an intimate
history of a working life which has now disappeared, providing a unique
insight into the realities of life afloat in the post-war period
** Museum gets long-lost Chopin letters
A collection of Frederic Chopin's letters telling of the Polish composer's
daily life, from giving lessons to the hot chocolate he drank, have gone on
display in Warsaw's Chopin museum more than six decades after they went
missing
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries - It's important, as Kipling said, to treat triumph and disaster both
the same, but it seems all you ever get are mild satisfaction and vague
disappointment
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** Collector pays newspapers millions to digitize vintage photos
Rogers started acquiring large photo archives from individual photographers
about a decade ago and says, over a period of six or seven years, he
collected about 3 million images, initially from sports photographers
** Street Cries: depictions of London's poor
Put them all together and they resemble the cast of Oliver Twist: street
urchins, prostitutes, beggars and street vendors all carefully drawn,
painted or printed in the 17th and 18th centuries
** June opening for £74m Glasgow museum
Glasgow Life has announced that the new £74m Riverside Museum, which will be
home to the city's transport and technology collections, is to officially
open on 21 June
** Mexico says $4 million Mayan statue is a fake
The Paris-based gallery that sold the shield-toting, clay warrior figure
says the attack on its authenticity is an attempt by Mexican officials to
ruin the market for pre-Hispanic artifacts
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** Polar bear Knut may undergo taxidermy
Knut, the Berlin polar bear who rose to fame after his mother abandoned him
to be hand-reared by zookeepers, may be stuffed and exhibited in the city's
Natural History Museum after his premature death
** Preparing For The Unexpected: Disaster Planning For Cultural Collections
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts. Chicago,
IL - MAY 3, 2011
** International Arts Professionals Summer School
The International Arts Professionals Summer School is an intense week of
inspirational learning for creative practitioners, arts managers and
cultural project managers interested in engaging with the current debates
and research in the management of visual and performing arts organisations.
** Elf Classic Yacht Race
Launching at Annapolis' Eastport Yacht Club on Saturday, May 21, the
inaugural Elf Classic Yacht Race will bring the centuries-old tradition of
yacht racing to the Bay in a race benefiting and ending at the Chesapeake
Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD.
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