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week's edition include:
** Missing monarchs: The kings who did not rest in peace
As if being the last English king to have his country successfully invaded
was not bad enough, Harold Godwinson's undoubted bravery and political
manoeuvring did not guarantee a respectful burial
** Louvre Abu Dhabi acquires its first photographic works
The Louvre Abu Dhabi has started collecting photography, making its first
acquisitions in the field, including a daguerreotype by Joseph-Philibert
Girault de Prangey showing a veiled woman, Ayoucha, around 1843
** From Ancient Deforestation, a Delta Is Born
Although scientists are only just beginning to understand how these ancient
alterations shaped our world today, a new study in Scientific Reports
suggests that millennium-old development along the Danube River in Eastern
Europe significantly changed the Black Sea ecosystem and helped create the
lush Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine
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** Deep pockets aren't a cure-all
Pooling their money, this eminent, lavishly wealthy group could easily
afford to buy everything that's on the walls and in storage were it for
sale - a 6,000-piece collection considered one of the world's finest troves
of post-World War II art
** Metropolitan Museum fashion exhibition outdraws art blockbuster
With many art museums pondering how to boost attendance - and some critics,
curators and museum directors wondering whether maximizing crowds is really
the best measure of success - it's worth noting that Prada beat Picasso in
recent blockbuster shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
** Dancing on the Ruins
The caretakers' evident inexperience suggests that official apathy, rather
than climate change, poses the greatest threat to Pakistan's rich heritage
** There's a buzz at Tate
Who knew that hundreds of thousands of bees can be found on the roofs of
Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London? Twelve hives in total were installed
on top of the galleries in 2010
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** Renoir painting found at flea market
A woman who paid $7 for a box of trinkets at a West Virginia flea market
apparently acquired an original painting by French impressionist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the purchase
** Even in a Museum, Elements Eat at a Sunken Ship
The Swedish ship Vasa took its first and only voyage out of Stockholm's
harbor in 1628, famously sinking after sailing barely a mile
** Maritime Museum Welcomes Vietnam War-Era Swift Boat
After restoration, the fully operational, 50-foot Swift Boat will alternate
as a historic display and be used to carry passengers on narrated tours of
nearby naval facilities
** Jersey Museum summons Hidden Treasures as 52,000 Celtic coins go on show
The public have been given three days to see the enormous Celtic hoard,
estimated to have contained 52,000 coins when it was found in a Grouville
field last month, during a brief display at the Jersey Museum
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** Race to save Alaskan Arctic archaeology
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen are using isotope analyses on
recovered Eskimo hair to investigate how humans adapted to rapid climate
change in the Arctic village
** The In-Crowd Is All Here
In the quarter-century since his death at 58 in 1987 Warhol has become both
big business - a staple of the current auction madness - and big art
history, with scores of exhibitions devoted to individual aspects of his
complex achievement
** Long-Forgotten Picasso Is a Museum's Windfall
The potential windfall has raised a grab bag of questions for museums large
and small beyond, "Have you checked the basement lately?"
** Curie museum lifts veil on the glory days of physics
A museum scarcely bigger than a Paris flat sheds light on a momentous era
for physics, a time of heroic individuals who made extraordinary discoveries
but often at hideous risk
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** Tassie museum is sure to shock
Hour after hour we explore the vast collection: a mummy in a room full of
water, tattooed pig skins, an obese Porsche car, a huge head sculpture that
lets you watch its flicking brain, Sidney Nolan's massive wall-to-wall
Snake, a white library (no words allowed), central American-style skulls,
video clips of people singing Madonna, shocking love letter kisses (not made
with the 'usual' lips), a cement truck constructed from cast iron lacework,
and much more
** 2 German museums feature great guy toys
The Mercedes-Benz Museum and the Porsche Museum double-dip the raves,
winning accolades for stunning exhibits of legendary automobiles and
brilliant architecture
** Richard III dig: 'Strong evidence' bones are lost king
Although not as pronounced as Shakespeare's portrayal of the king as a
hunchback, the condition would have given the adult male the appearance of
having one shoulder higher than the other
** UK museum revives first-ever film shot in color
The National Media Museum in the northern England city of Bradford said
digitization had effectively rescued the footage, unlocking remarkably
modern-looking images created more than a century ago
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** Preserve history and dispose of asbestos
If you've ever visited Gettysburg, the turning point of the American Civil
War, you've probably seen this illuminated, 30 foot by 30 foot,
topographical map
** Site Of Interest - Historypin
Everyone has history to share: whether its sitting in yellowed albums in the
attic, collected in piles of crackly tapes, conserved in the 1000s of
archives all over the world or passed down in memories and old stories
** Remembering MV Derbyshire
Items relating to doomed ship are on display for very first time.
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** Encountering Limits: The University Museum
The UMAC XII Annual Meeting will be held from 10-12 October 2012
** The Sultan's Garden: The Blossoming of Ottoman Art
The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C.
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