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week's edition include:
** Array of treasures thought to be hidden inside Celtic coins mass
discovered in Jersey
The recent discovery of a 50,000-strong mass of Celtic coins in Jersey was
enough to excite treasure-seekers everywhere, but experts charged with
picking the rare hoard apart have now uncovered evidence to suggest a
further array of precious artefacts may be hidden inside
** From Spruce Goose to Cactus League, new museum reveals unseen items
Pieces of the wooden plane built by billionaire Howard Hughes have never
been available outside the company's headquarters or a museum in the
Northwest
** Olympics Through Media
Qatar Museums Authority shows how the Olympic Games have historically been
used to introduce and showcase new filming technologies and production
techniques
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** National Football Museum opens at new Manchester home
It's the sort of feature that the curators hope will resonate with the
thousands of football fans they hope will visit the attraction at its new
home in Manchester
** China's Palace Museum to become world-class
The curator of the Palace Museum, known as the imperial Forbidden City, has
described how he and his colleagues are striving to turn the site into one
of the world's top museums through an improved blueprint
** Guitar museum travels the US, searching for a home
The National Guitar Museum features ancient stringed instruments from
Persia, the first electric guitar, and ultra-modern experiments that would
be at home in a sci-fi movie
** Golfing Inside The National Building Museum
The National Building Museum is in the midst of their 'Summer at the Museum'
series, special programming bringing in the residents and tourists to learn
about architecture, play some games and cool off in the air conditioning
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** Italians claim they have found Caravaggio sketches
Two Italian art historians are claiming to have identified dozens of
drawings as those of a very young Caravaggio in a collection of works of a
master painter under whom he studied in the late 1500s
** Queens hair pin found in a toilet
After the age-old soil was cleaned off, Fontainebleau Palace's conservator
Vincent Droguet also noted a finish of white and green, known to be
Catherine's colors
** Imperial War Museum's CIO on ordering data
Armed forces cannot function without the sea of administrative documentation
that accompanies it to zones of conflict, and alongside visitor attractions
like the Panther tank and Vulcan bomber, it's these records, on paper,
canvas, film and tape that forms a substantial part of the museum's
collection
** Software could reconstruct medieval mosaics
Experimental software developed to reassemble Cold War documents may soon
shed light on the mysteries surrounding around 5,000 medieval stained-glass
fragments from Coventry Cathedral, as well as on the work of John Thornton,
one of England's greatest stained-glass artists
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** How long can the art market walk on water?
According to Benjamin Mandel, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York who has been studying the art trade, comparing the overall economy
and the art market is misguided: it is the fortunes of the super-rich that
should be used as the measure at the highest end
** Replica skeleton of "Elephant Man" appears at Royal London Museum
Using bones kept for research by the medical school at the Royal London
Hospital where Merrick was treated at the end of his life, curators have
reconstructed Merrick's frame within an existing display about him, adding a
visual centrepiece to a new investigation into his DNA which has led
scientists to re-appraise his condition
** Finish the 9/11 Museum
The work on the museum has been stalled because of a disagreement about
construction costs between the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey,
which owns the site and constructed the memorial, and the National September
11 Memorial and Museum foundation, which now operates the memorial complex
** Throwing hot water on Tea Party Museum
Everything else feels brand new, including reproductions of portraits
featuring a creepy Sam Adams and a creepier King George III - who suddenly
spring to life to fight about taxes
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** 100-percent proof: Cayuga Museum explores region's history with alcohol
Spanning two of the Auburn museum's ornate rooms, the Proof Positive exhibit
tells of the region's relationship with wine, beer and spirits with large,
decorate poster displays and a variety of artifacts
** 22% of museum services close sites
The Museums Association's 2012 survey into cuts to museum services has laid
bare the devastating impact that budget reductions are continuing to have
across the UK
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer - The stars aren't sure what's worse: that you keep insisting you're
the inspiration for the lizard in the insurance commercials, or that it's
true and you seem to take such pride in it
** Jackie Kennedy exhibit opens at Mass. museum
The curator said the exhibit captures Kennedy enjoying carefree days with
her family, a different glimpse of a woman who was an international
sensation
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** Israeli Holocaust museum changes exhibit featuring Pope Pius XII
A Holocaust museum in Israel has slightly softened its rhetoric regarding
the inaction of Pope Pius XII in the face of the deportation of Jews during
World War II
** Rare Early America Map By Martin Waldseemueller Found In Germany
Researchers in Germany have chanced upon a rare early 16th century map of
America, wedged inside an unrelated 19th century book, by the cartographer
who named the continent
** New Cotsen Excavation Fund at AIA Supports Efforts Of Professional
Archaeologists
The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is delighted to announce that,
for the first time in 60 years, the Institute will be able to offer funding
to archaeologists for excavation projects, thanks to the generous support of
former AIA Board Member Lloyd E. Cotsen.
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** Kamisaka Sekka - dawn of modern Japanese design
Showcasing the work of one of the great visionaries of modern Japanese art
and design
** Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage: Visiting Pasts,
Developing Futures
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