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week's edition include:
** Folk Art Museum 'Reasonably Secure' After $3.5 Million in Gifts
The museum's acting director is confident that the museum will gain
ownership of hundreds of works promised by Ralph Esmerian, a former chairman
and jeweler who was sentenced last year to six years in prison after
pleading guilty to fraud
** Very grand theft: Barbara Hepworth's park sculpture is stolen for scrap
metal
A reward was offered last night after an "irreplaceable" bronze artwork by
one of Britain's most highly regarded 20th-century sculptors was stolen from
a London park
** Discovering a museum's seldom viewed treasures
It's like playing football, says Cologne's Wallraf Richartz Museum director
Andreas Bluhm: Some paintings play first string while others warm the
bench - or the cellar
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** London's museums can do more for UK tourism
So when the British Museum writes on its site about the famous 12th-century
walrus-ivory chessmen from the Isle of Lewis, it should add some information
about the Outer Hebrides and a click-through to the isles' site describing
how to get there
** Complete Civil War submarine unveiled for first time
Confederate Civil War vessel H.L. Hunley, the world's first successful
combat submarine, was unveiled in full and unobstructed for the first time
on Thursday, capping a decade of careful preservation
** Code breaker for a Scripps College museum exhibition
The museum at Scripps College in Claremont enlisted a Los Angeles art dealer
as co-curator of a Getty-funded Pacific Standard Time exhibition, violating
a prominent ethics code that warns museums against allowing commercial
interests to shepherd shows in nonprofit venues
** Italian case against antiquities dealer ends
The trial of Robert E. Hecht Jr., the alleged mastermind of an international
black market in ancient art, has ended with no verdict when a three-judge
panel in Rome found the time allotted for the trial had expired
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** Guggenheim proposes $178 million Helsinki museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which oversees the original Frank
Lloyd Wright-designed museum in New York as well as sites in Italy, Spain,
Germany and the United Arab Emirates, has proposed that it and the Finnish
capital jointly develop a Helsinki museum
** Trekkers steal Kokoda Track war relics
About a third of relics from a museum in Kokoda is missing and up to half
from another in Efogi village, said Jim Drapes, the director of Back Track
Adventures
** Scott's Last Expedition, Natural History Museum - review
Inside, Lil Stevens, curator of Palaeontology, points me towards a
dull-looking grey rock; in 1912, despite suffering from intense frostbite,
zoologist Edward Wilson decided to haul it back on his return journey from
the South Pole. More
** Man arrested for pinching Saddam Hussein's bottom
A 66-year-old man has been arrested by detectives investigating claims that
a buttock from a statue of Saddam Hussein was illegally brought back to the
UK following the Iraq War
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** Prado Museum hopes Monday openings will help offset subsidy cutbacks
Spain's Prado Museum said Thursday said it hoped its new schedule of opening
seven days a week will bring in extra cash and help it survive a 25 percent
reduction in its government subsidy
** UK museum explores human side of Stephen Hawking
A new exhibition at London's Science Museum hopes to show the human side of
the celebrity scientist, drawing on artifacts from Hawking's study, letters
from his archives, and pictures from his family collection to paint a more
intimate portrait of the world's best-known living theoretical physicist
** 3D face scan to help future surgery
The 'Me in 3D' exhibit at London's Science Museum uses an array of cameras
to build a virtual image visitors can then view and manipulate
** Museum visitors, victims see parallels to Titanic disaster
He and his family shuffled past rooms that re-created first-class cabins,
past the lavish replica staircase, past an actual deck chair that once sat
on the vesse; (The restrooms in the museum are described by staff as being
"through the gift shop, behind the wall and past the iceberg.")
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** Researchers, tribes clash over Native bones
On a bluff overlooking a sweep of Southern California beach, scientists in
1976 unearthed what were among the oldest skeletal remains ever found in the
Western Hemisphere
** Inebriated student damaged fossils
The 20-foot-long, razor-jawed Dunkleosteus terrelli ate sharks when it plied
the tropical waters that covered Ohio 380 million years ago
** Saving Egypt's precious fire-bombed books
Thousands of historical documents could be lost following a fire at the
Institute of Egypt - which began during clashes in Tahrir Square last
month - but an army of restoration workers is working day and night to save
the country's written history
** Feature Site - iShare
For the past year, the University of Colorado Museum has partnered with the
National Taiwan Museum, the Laiyi Indigenous Museum, and the Navajo Nation
Museum to document native collections and create educational materials for
the public and the classroom
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** UK scientists find 'lost' Darwin fossils
Dr. Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of
London, said that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils
in an old wooden cabinet that had been shoved in a "gloomy corner" of the
massive, drafty British Geological Survey
** Auschwitz documents surface, then vanish
According to Polish media reports, two unidentified Germans located three
crates in south-western Poland containing documents relating to the former
death camp, and then smuggled them out of the country
** Ecomuseums 2012 - 1st International Conference on Ecomuseums, Community
Museums and Living Communities
September, 19th - 21st, 2012 - Seixal, Portugal
** Tools of Engagement: Securing Commitment on Campus
AAMG Annual Conference 2012
** Worlds Between - Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot
On Sunday, April 29th the Thomas Cole National Historic Site will host an
open house and lecture to celebrate their 2012 exhibition: Worlds Between -
Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot.
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