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week's edition include:
** Going to a museum is one of the more tiring things one can do
In addition to the exhaustion, another museum universal is the question: how
long is long enough for me to stare at this piece of art so that I have
sufficiently absorbed its meaning before I move on with my life?
** The Hitler Files: FBI Hunts Nazi Killer
The FBI investigated claims that the Nazi leader had faked his own death,
and the newly released files show lab reports on Hitler's marriage
certificate, will, as well as other political documents
** Boiled Lobster
An iconic museum building visited by thousands of Maine schoolchildren and
tourists each year was destroyed Wednesday night by fire
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** Site of Interest - Vintage ventriloquist dummies
There is something extra magical and slightly bizarre about ventriloquists'
dummies and their owners, particularly in these vintage photos
** Graphic portrait of Charles II's mistress comes to light
She is one of history's most famous mistresses, but few of the many
paintings labelled as Charles II's lover Nell Gwyn are actually of her; now
a saucy portrait with lewd and lurid symbolism that would have been
instantly recognisable to 17th-century eyes has come to light for the first
time
** Museum Barbie
The Klimt-inspired Barbie, in her glistening, geometric gown - along with,
fittingly enough, a Mona Lisa-inspired Barbie, adorned in Renaissance
finery, and a van Goghian Barbie, rocking a Starry Night cocktail dress -
are the three inaugural offerings of the Barbie Collector Museum Collection
** The Old Bing, Bing, Bing, at Full Tilt
It may no longer be possible to slip between the two enormous flippers that
frame a doorway in a shopping mall in Georgetown and bounce around in a
strange world of sleekly raked playing boards, gleaming silver balls,
rubber-wrapped pins, jittery bumpers and raucous bells
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** Hitler Vinnitsa bunker: Ukraine museum plans draw anger
Plans in Ukraine to open a museum at the ruins of a bunker used by Hitler
during World War II have provoked concerns it could become a shrine for
neo-Nazis
** Images of Fossil Birds Show Ancient Pigments
The researchers bathed fossils of Confuciusornis sanctus, which lived about
120 million years ago, the earliest with a birdlike beak, and Gansus
yumenensis, the earliest modern bird, which lived about 100 million years
ago, with ultra-bright X-rays at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in
Menlo Park, California
** Auction sucks the life from Museum
The glass on the display cases began to disappear, and one by one, the
displays - foxes, skunks, beavers and eventually even lions, bears and
zebras - vanished
** Google and Getty team up for pictures worth a thousand links
The team behind Google Goggles, the smartphone application that among other
things lets users take a photograph of a bottle of wine to find out whether
it's worth $10 or $100, has partnered with the Getty Museum to provide
information on hundreds of paintings from its permanent collection
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** Hunt resumes for wreckage of Franklin expedition
Archeologists are heading north again this summer, this time with an
unmanned underwater vehicle, in hopes of finding the doomed ships lost in
Sir John Franklin's mythic 1845 voyage
** Brandeis University won't sell works from Rose Art Museum
Bringing to a close a bitter legal battle that drew international attention,
Brandeis University has stated that it won't sell pieces from the Rose Art
Museum's collection
** Islanders' spirit of awakening
At the museum, Awakening will show objects including those first collected
at the end of the 19th century by British biologist turned anthropologist A.
C. Haddon, many of which he took back to Cambridge University and the
British Museum
** Interactive riverboat pilot training simulator
Testing your skills as a towboat captain or plying the seas piloting a Coast
Guard cutter is now possible with a new interactive simulator at the Point
Pleasant River Museum
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** Long Lost Da Vinci Painting Verified, Worth $200M
In 1958, it was sold for 45 pounds by Sotheby's, attributed mistakenly to
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, who was considered Da Vinci's best student
** Fossil: Messages From the Past
Highlights include a 7.6-meter long skeleton of a Stegodon huanghoensis,
also known as Huang He Elephant, and 2.5-million-year-old fossils of an
elephant and deer's footprints, which were discovered in Shiga Prefecture
** Sir Terence Conran makes £17.5m gift to create world leading Design
Museum
World-renowned designer Sir Terence Conran has announced that he is giving
cash and donations in kind totalling £17.5m to the Design Museum, helping
them to create the world's leading museum of contemporary design and
architecture at the site of the old Commonwealth Institute in London
** Beatnik 'Lost Tribe' Discovered Living Under New York
NYU Professor of Archaic Studies, Dr. Julianne Fryes said, "There is a
slight possibility they could be traced to the 'Non-Conformists' of an
earlier epoch; but the goatee beards, dark sunglasses and black leotards
almost certainly place their origins in the 1950's."
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** Cycladic Warrior becomes latest British Museum acquisition
These geometric marble sculptures were produced by the Cycladic
civilisation, which flourished among the islands of the Aegean Sea between
3300 - 2000 BC
** "Exceptional" Giant Squid Found Dying off Florida
After reaching shore, the men called wildlife authorities, and the then dead
giant squid soon found a home at the Florida Museum of Natural History in
Gainesville
** On The Fly
Special Fly Fishing session added to Galt Workshop series
** Dockyards of Hong Kong: Pictorial Exhibition on Hong Kong's Shipbuilding
and Repair Industry
1/F Lobby, Hong Kong Museum of History
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