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week's edition include:
** Man sues museum after raccoon attack
The victim, a trained kickboxer, reportedly fought off the raccoon for
several minutes before it was captured and euthanized
** Singapore casino to launch world's first ArtScience museum
Featuring 21 gallery spaces totalling 50,000 square feet, the new museum
will display a variety of exhibits that span various influences from art and
science, media and technology, to design and architecture
** Cash boost for Scottish cultural collections
A £115,000 storage area will be created at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow
to house 500,000 zoological specimens
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** New Homes for Trigger, A Historian's Archive And a Kentucky Churn
In all the news this year of museums' shutting down and auctioning their
displays, and all the collectors and dealers with legal problems who had to
sell possessions, there was a smattering of good omens
** Protecting the 'gates' of Beijing
The Song Tang Zhai Museum collects gate piers and architectural elements
found in traditional Chinese houses, such as bucket arches, lintels, wall
carvings and statues
** States Scrimp On Civil War Anniversary
New York isn't alone; other states saddled with similar budget woes are
unable or unwilling to set aside taxpayer funds for historic re-enactments
and museum exhibits when public employees are being laid off and services
slashed
** Krakow's Museum of Contemporary Art opens in former Schindler factory
Potocka's appointment by the president of Krakow was met with controversy at
the beginning of the year and led artists Wilhelm Sasnal and Marta Deskur to
found the Committee for Transparency in Cultural Policy in Krakow
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** A Mysterious Picasso Trove Gains More Accusations but Less Clarity
The Le Guennecs, who say they live off a monthly pension of less than
$1,500, claim the works sat untouched in a box in their garage for nearly 40
years; they say they never realized the cache's value
** Olympics move in to London's museums
Museums and heritage sites are leasing out space during the 2012 Olympics
for national houses, including the Docklands Museum, Somerset House, Marble
Arch, Old Billingsgate Market and Alexandra Palace
** Self-Portrait Of the Oilman As Collector
While no one has ever quite pinned down Citizen Getty, his journals - he
kept a daily record of his activities and thoughts that eventually spanned
thousands of single-spaced pages in 29 black ring binders - suggest there
was a good deal more to the man than the bargain-hunting oil baron of legend
** Hole in wall pop art heist baffles New York police
New York police are investigating who drilled a hole into the home of a beef
fortune heir and stole a collection of iconic artworks by Roy Lichtenstein
and Andy Warhol
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** Phoenix museum music to visitors' ears
It's a two-story, 192,000-square-foot extravaganza dedicated to displaying
the instruments and telling the musical history of virtually every continent
and region, from the South Seas to the Vatican
** Did the Scots visit Iceland?
One possibility is that these early inhabitants may have been related to
Irish monastic communities found throughout the Scottish islands at that
time, and described in Viking-Age and medieval texts
** To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display
In recent years, I have been chronicling the evolution of the "identity
museum" or "identity exhibition," designed to affirm a particular group's
claims, outline its accomplishments, boost its pride and proclaim, "We must
tell our own story!"
** Velázquez at Metropolitan Museum of Art is genuine, experts claim
A 17th Century painting of the Spanish monarch Philip IV by Diego Velázquez
is being reinstated to its rightful place in New York's Metropolitan Museum
of Art years after it was wrongly identified as not being a genuine work
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** Buenos Aires to open Beatles museum in 2011
Latin America's first museum dedicated to The Beatles will open in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, on January 3 and will display the "treasures" of the
greatest collector of objects of the Liverpool quartet
** Marauding Mongols slowed by complex visa requirements
Their fearsome leader was also held up due to his poor paperwork. "On my
passport it says Temujin, which was my name at birth, but on my visa
application it says Genghis Khan," said the clearly frustrated leader
** Colonial Williamsburg acquires historic Spanish letters describing
threat at Jamestown
Two rare early 1600s letters expressing Spanish King Phillip III's fears
about the new English settlement at Jamestown have been given to Colonial
Williamsburg by a best-selling crime writer
** Eight Track Museum to open in Dallas
The museum will include Burnett's permanent collection, rotating exhibits -
the first will be "Conceived in Cars, Birth of the Format" - and,
eventually, exhibits devoted to every music format made since the wax
cylinder in the 1870s
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** Museum to return art stolen in WWII
The Toledo Museum of Art has agreed to surrender an 18th-century dinnertable
centerpiece that was recently proved as stolen from a German castle during
World War II
** Online atlas puts Queensland history on the map
Queensland's history is firmly on the map with the University of Queensland
and the Queensland Museum launching the Queensland Historical Atlas, an
unconventional online atlas that takes a fresh look at the state's history.
** Adaptive Management for Conservation Success
Graduate and Professional Course, June 6-17, 2011
** The Art of the Waterman
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD, presents Marc
Castelli: The Art of the Waterman, The Simison Collection in the Steamboat
Gallery, January 31 through March 25.
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