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week's edition include:
** New Arab Museum to Open in Doha
Called Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, it will house a collection of more
than 6,000 works, spanning the 1840s to the present and representing major
artistic trends
** Mandela prison museum gets poor marks in audit
The financial books of Robben Island Museum, which oversees the world
heritage site where Nelson Mandela was jailed under apartheid, have received
a red card from South Africa's auditor general
** Private Conwy 'museum' sells for £20k
Medieval torture instruments, human skulls and bronze age tools were among
some of the curious items auctioned for charity as the life's work of one
obsessive collector was put up for sale
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** Online initiative opens ancient texts to world
The British Library said yesterday that it was making more than a quarter of
its 1000 volume-strong collection of handwritten Greek texts available
online free of charge, something curators there hope will be a boon to
historians, biblical scholars and students of classical Greece alike
** Lost language unearthed in a letter
Archaeologists say scrawl on the back of a letter recovered from a 17th
century dig site reveals a previously unknown language spoken by indigenous
peoples in northern Peru
** Palace Museum exhibition recounts wartime artifact protection
The Palace Museum is holding an exhibition to present the history of a
massive transfer of artifacts that took place saving thousands of imperial
treasures during the 1930s and 1940s
** Dundee V&A museum designs unveiled
The architects were shortlisted in May and asked to submit their designs for
the building, due to be opened in 2014 as a centre of 21st Century design
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** Missionary to the Forbidden City
It is a symbolic gesture of gratitude to China for its reception of one of
the greatest children of the distant West, as well as for the respect it has
shown for his memory
** Online project records the World War One heirlooms of Welsh families
From the once ubiquitous trench art of cigarette lighters and decorated
artillery shells to campaign medals and Queen Mary Christmas tins, family
mementos of the First World War were once a commonplace in many homes across
the UK
** Beijing treasures: a hidden world on view
As Americans declared their independence in 1776, on the other side of the
world, an introspective emperor was celebrating the completion of his
opulent retirement compound in Beijing's Forbidden City
** Egyptian police suspect museum employee of Van Gogh painting theft
One of the employees from a Cairo museum is behind the theft of Vincent Van
Gogh's Poppy Flowers painting in Egypt last month, the country's interior
minister has said
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** Ghouls Cash In On Auschwitz As Death Camp Crumbles Away
The figures changing hands in the ghoulish industry are in stark contrast to
the financial health of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for, while there
is money to be made by ruthless profiteers, the memorial and museum is
running out of cash
** Lehman's Hirst Spurned by Art Buyers
Sotheby's held its bankruptcy court-forced sale of the collection of Lehman
Brothers and Neuberger Berman and, while the overall results were strong,
there was one notable failure
** Chinatown museum reborn 2 yrs. after devastating fire
Nine Chicago firefighters pulled up to the museum in Engine No. 8, stood
before a crowd of well-wishers who applauded their firefighting efforts that
day, and praised them for throwing tarps over exhibits and saving many of
the artifacts from water and fire damage
** How global warming is aiding - and frustrating - archaeologists
So rapid is the rise in global temperatures, and so great is the rate of
disintegration of the world's glaciers, that archaeologists risk losing
precious relics freed from the icy tombs
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** Japanese-American internment camp life examined ahead of Wyoming museum
People who were held at an internment camp for Japanese-Americans during
World War II are helping decide how a new interpretive center at the site
should depict life behind barbed wire in northern Wyoming
** This week's horoscopes
Taurus - This is a good time to make aggressive moves at work, as when the
global economy crashes back to the Stone Age on Tuesday no one will miss a
few pens
** Art Institute sues engineering firm
The Art Institute of Chicago is suing the London-based engineering firm that
oversaw construction of the museum's acclaimed Modern Wing, seeking $10
million in damages
** In Bing Crosby's Wine Cellar, Vintage Baseball
How a near pristine black-and-white reel of the entire television broadcast
of the deciding game of the 1960 World Series - long believed to be lost
forever - came to rest in the dry and cool wine cellar of Bing Crosby's home
near San Francisco is not a mystery to those who knew him
** Racing to Find Aviators Entombed in Ice
The team set out last month with an arsenal of top-of-the-line technology:
ground-penetrating radar, which can detect metallic objects close to the
surface; advanced ice-melting equipment, which can pinpoint buried objects
as it dissolves the ice around them; and a camera that can take pictures
from inside deep hollows of ice
** Food for Tomorrow
A Lemelson Center Symposium at the National Museum of American History
** Digital Preservation for Video Workshop
Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP)
** Battle of Britain Exhibition unveiled at Brooklands Museum
The role of Brooklands in the Battle of Britain is celebrated in a new
exhibition opened on 15th September by HRH Prince Michael at Brooklands
Museum, to coincide with the celebrations of the 70th Anniversary of that
great conflict
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