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week's edition include:
** Woman held for $100 million Paris art haul
Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe later said one of the museum's alarms had been
"partly malfunctioning" since the end of March, and that it was still
awaiting repair when the thieves struck
** Houdini Bust Magically Reappears at his Grave Site
In this economy, times are tough for the non-profit Houdini museum, and
funds are low, but this is a project that their Board of Directors felt was
long over due
** Reimagined Maritime Museum in Amsterdam Opens
After a four-year renovation, the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam has
reopened, with a renewed focus on experiencing the Netherlands' seafaring
history through interactive presentations, voyage simulations and life-sized
seafaring replicas
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** Your Kid Could Have Created That - 13,000 Years Ago
The most prolific of the children who made flutings was aged around five -
and we are almost certain the child in question was a girl
** British Ceramics Biennial brings signs of a Potteries revival
Julian Teed recalls the suddenness with which the factory was abandoned when
Spode went bust in 2008, saying that when he visited the empty building some
time later: "There was still a half-drunk cup of tea and the local paper
open on someone's desk."
** German Networks Using QR Codes to Grant Access to Museums
The tickets are paid for on the next mobile phone bill while a QR code on
the mobile's display opens the museum turnstiles
** Texas Drought Turns Weekend Warriors Into Looters of Artifacts, Fossils
So far, law enforcement has arrested 30 people for committing the crimes
against history with each was fined thousands of dollars and placed on
probation
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** Visiting the museum? There's an app for that
The consensus among experts is that the field is still in the R&D phase,
testing strategies and new technologies to learn which approaches will best
serve museums' missions
** Donor asks failed slavery museum to return artifacts
Even before the museum, which never opened, filed for bankruptcy this month,
Parker had been trying to reach former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder, the
museum's founder, to get his artifacts back
** Retired National Archives official charged in theft of nearly 1,000
recordings
The former chief of the National Archives' audiovisual holdings has been
charged with stealing nearly 1,000 sound recordings over a decade
** Hermitage cuts short Japan exhibition tour due to radiation fears
A major Russian museum has cut short an exhibition tour of Japan over fears
of radiation from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant
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** Gucci houses luxury's history in new museum
Global luxury brand Gucci opened its first museum in a Florentine palazzo
this week, 90 years after its founder started a family leather goods
business inspired by English aristocrats
** Piece by piece, Afghanistan reclaims its history
While everyone else is worrying about Afghanistan's future, a dedicated band
of men and women is gathering up its past, hoping that a growing museum
collection will show the world Afghan culture is more sophisticated than the
tide of news reports suggest
** Israel Museum selling 39 pieces that could net up to $11.6m
The Israel Museum is selling 39 works of art from its permanent collection
in order to raise money to purchase new installations the museum has
announced
** Historic but cramped
An unsuspecting armadillo, gutted and posed with its armoured tail wedged in
its dehydrated mouth, is in danger of being removed from the Cambridge
Museum's collection
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** New Skirmishes Among Metropolitan Museum Vendors
In the continuing hot dog wars in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the military men have returned to the sidewalk, frustrating museum and city
officials, and creating competition and bickering among the vendors
** After Winning Coveted Shuttle, Museum Changes the Plan for It
The tentative state of the plan highlights how much less certain the
Intrepid's proposal was than those of some other museums that lobbied for
one of the shuttles. See also Houstonians in Congress try to wrest Shuttle
Enterprise from New York City museum
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus - There aren't many people who get as angry at a poorly made
Manhattan cocktail as you do, making it very easy for investigators to
figure out what happened
** Children's Museum Saves Trees With Social Media, Email
With over 93,000 visitors annually, the Children's Museum of New Hampshire
is striving to use its position as the state's most visited cultural
attraction to help make paper waste history
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** Boston museum returns top of Hercules statue
Turkey claimed the top of the Weary Heracles, Greek for Hercules, was stolen
from an archaeological site in the Mediterranean and smuggled into the U.S.
** Revolutionary War-era guns, artifacts stolen during hurricane power
outage
Stolen were eight flintlock pistols, eight knives and other items from the
renowned Swan Collection of the American Revolution, which is on long-term
loan to the museum
** The UGR Turned On Its Head - Old Themes, New Directions
Call for Proposals
** Less Than Permanent in Perm
The unique collection of XVII-XIX century wooden sculpture along with 45 000
artifacts may be shut down from public use and display.
** Weaving Abstraction: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa
Opens October 15 at The Textile Museum
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