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week's edition include:
** Rare Napoleonic museum opens in Cuba
Napoleon never set foot in Cuba but his physician, Corsican-born Francesco
Antommarchi, who treated him during his last days in exile on Saint Helen,
moved here after the emperor died in 1821, bringing with him the French
icon's death mask
** National Gallery visitor attacks Gauguin painting
Screaming "This is evil," a woman tried to pull Gauguin's "Two Tahitian
Women" from a gallery wall Friday and banged on the picture's clear plastic
covering, said a visitor from New York, who witnessed the event
** Curator returns from earthquake
Corrigan, a curator at the Peabody Essex Museum, had just entered the
Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, located on a hilltop a few hours from Tokyo,
when the 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck
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** X-Rays Reveal 19th-Century Artist's Cover-Up
Experimenting with a vivacious blonde, only to settle instead on a somber
brunette, is an old, clichéd storyline - in fact, it's at least 200 years
old
** Prehistoric Americans Traded Chocolate for Turquoise?
Traces of a chemical found in cacao - the main ingredient in chocolate -
were found in several drinking vessels from various sites in Pueblo Bonito,
a complex of sandstone "great houses" in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
** Museum of London collecting cuts protest placards
Art students from a London college are asking people marching in the
anti-cuts protest to donate placards and costumes for an exhibition
** Nuclear scare halts major French show
An exhibition of 84 impressionist masterpieces due to open at the Hiroshima
Prefectural Art Museum on 5 April, with around 50 works loaned from French
museums, has been abruptly postponed
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** The World's Most Attended Museum Shows in 2010
Forecasting exhibition attendance is an unpredictable science: Who would
have thought that the six-foot-high plaster model of a statue of Abraham
Lincoln would attract 9,290 visitors a day to the National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC?
** Cartoon Museum honours royal wedding with satirical timeline
Barbed wit and satire will saturate the streets as thickly as Union Jacks
and bunting when the latest royal wedding gives us all a holiday at the end
of April, so the Cartoon Museum has decided to survey some of the
cartoonists who have taken on hen-pecked husbands, domineering
mother-in-laws, bedroom battles and divorce during 250 years of wedlock
wranglings
** Mysterious mummified hand turned in by museum
The museum Executive Director said the museum likely received the hand
within the last five years; "It's never been a part of our collection," he
said. "Someone dropped it off."
** Remembering Hurricane Katrina at New Orleans museum
Galleries and connecting areas move visitors through four major
presentations at the permanent exhibit, which opened in the fall: New
Orleans' relationship to storms; firsthand accounts of people and
predicaments of survival they found themselves in; a forensics gallery
exploring the paths Katrina and Hurricane Rita took that year and the
science of how the levees failed; and a final section on recovery and the
technologies emerging since to combat the destructive forces of nature
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** For 9/11 Museum, Dispute Over Victims' Remains
A dispute over what to do with those remains is simmering between some of
the victims' families and the officials planning the National September 11
Memorial and Museum underneath where the twin towers stood
** Evolutionists refute evolution?
Since Charles Darwin's monumental book 'The Origin of Species' (which
ironically did not reveal the origin of any species at all) in 1859,
evolutionists have searched in vain to try and prove that over a period of
billions of years, pond scum gradually turned into humans, as well as every
other species such as ants, elephants, armadillos, giraffes and eagles
** Iran Freezes Ties with Louvre Museum
A top Iranian official announced on Monday that the country has put on hold
all its ties and cooperation with the Paris Louvre Museum after the latter
refrained from holding up its end of the bargain in accordance with the
understandings and agreements signed between the two sides
** Fake bombs at Balloon Museum
The guard called police and when an officer looked in the car, he saw nearly
a dozen devices that looked like pipe bombs, a suicide vest, car bombs and
wires
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** Audio of Eisenhower speech at Met found
As commander of Allied forces in Europe during World War II, Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower explicitly ordered his troops to safeguard objects of cultural
and historical importance whenever possible - even while fighting a war of
devastating destructiveness
** Polar Bear Lovers Protest Potential Display of Knut's Body at Museum
A condolence book on the Berlin Zoo's website is filled with angry messages,
and a letter to the zoo director says, "Nobody wants to look at a stiff,
dead Knut"
** Italian museum contamination studied
Mysterious blue pigments found on relics in Verona, Italy, have experts on
conservation of archaeological artifacts saying they're concerned
** Virginians share fragile relics for Civil War's 150th anniversary
Hope's ancestor soon penned "sad tidings," "melancholy facts" and
"heart-rending news" as the conflict raged and the carnage mounted for four
terrible years
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** Museum should be aggressive in attracting visitors
Datuk Masidi Manjun noted that the whole State Museum receives an average of
150,000 visitors annually or just over 10,000 visitors a month, which is not
a satisfactory figure when compared to popular museums in other countries
where people sometimes have to wait in line for their turn to get in
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