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** Bronze is miraculous
A few steps into this exhibition my heartbeat started to race and my head
was pounding; it contains among many woozy pinnacles of art a massive and
imposing sculptural masterpiece by none other than Leonardo da Vinci
** Museum: Take our ships, please!
The Seaport Museum is begging foreign harbors to adopt its historic
vessels - in a last-ditch attempt to save them from the scrap heap
** Mo Museum helps solve mystery of 100-year-old medal and Weybourne bone
Although it has sustained damage the museum team believe that there is
evidence to show its inscription was worn away by a person's finger rubbing
it repeatedly for a prolonged period
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** The 'Third Man' Museum And Other Viennese Oddities
The Third Man Museum is the life's work of Karin and Gerhard
Strassgschwandtner who have lovingly collected a vast collection of
artifacts about the film, Vienna in 1949 and the movie's popularity around
the world
** Operating Sept. 11 memorial, museum in NYC will cost $60M a year
By comparison, the National Park Service budgeted $8.4 million this year to
operate and maintain Gettysburg National Military Park and $3.6 million for
the monument that includes the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor
** Portsmouth Mary Rose museum not opening until 2013
The ship sank while leading an attack on a French invasion fleet in 1545,
and was raised from the sea bed on 11 October 1982 after 437 years submerged
in the Solent
** Fossil dealer seeks to end case over disputed dinosaur
Paleontologists have supported Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj's claim
on the fossils, saying that clearly identifiable fossils from this species,
an Asian relative of the North American T. rex, have been found in only one
rock formation within Mongolia
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** Victims of forgery are 'left in limbo'
Recent cases, including those of the German forger Wolfgang Beltracchi, the
FBI investigation into art sold through the defunct New York-based Knoedler
gallery, and the forgery of Indian Progressive pieces by the UK faker
William Mumford, are leaving victims unsure of the legal position of works
not examined in a court of law
** Senegal floods uncover ancient artefacts in Dakar
Pieces of jewellery, pottery and iron tools dating back thousands of years
have been discovered in Senegal's capital, Dakar, following recent floods
** Lady Gaga's meat dress to be shown in DC museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland is opening a national tour for
an exhibit about pioneering women in rock 'n' roll, tracing the evolution of
women artists and their impact on music
** Museum offers chance at true love, for a kiss
A Ukrainian-Canadian artist is presenting an interactive art project called
"Sleeping Beauty," in which five attractive young women take turns sleeping
under dim lights in Kiev's top gallery, each under a pledge to marry the
visitor who wakes her with a kiss
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** How Do Museums Pay for Themselves These Days?
Over the past four years of recession and lagging economic recovery, one
museum after another across the country has cut back on hours, staff,
salaries (and staff benefits) and programming, raised admissions, looked to
sell objects from their collections in order to pay for operations or just
closed for good
** Kiwi and Cosford experts unite to bring "critical" planes to Royal Air
Force Museum
An 11,000-mile link-up between wing wizards in Cosford and New Zealand,
allowing a Shropshire craftsman to cross the world in pursuit of honing his
restoration expertise, has resulted in three "legendary aircraft" joining
the wartime displays at the Royal Air Force Museum
** Penn Museum makes deal with Turkey for 'Troy gold'
A Philadelphia archaeology museum will indefinitely loan ancient jewelry
known as "Troy gold" to Turkey in an arrangement that will allow the museum
to host a future exhibit of artifacts related to King Midas
** Pregnant in a big way
A 65ft-high statue of a naked pregnant woman by Damien Hirst is one step
closer to being put up in a seaside town
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** DNA of girl from Denisova cave gives up genetic secrets
The picture of her genome is as accurate as that of modern day human
genomes, and shows she had brown eyes, hair and skin
** Isaac damaged New Orleans Museum of Art reopens
The super saturation of the earth around the museum is what led to the
hydrostatic pressure that caused water to find its way through the concrete
office floors, NOMA's director explained
** Warhol Foundation Will Donate or Sell Its Whole Collection
Though the foundation no longer holds any big-ticket works by Warhol, it
still possesses a bevy of paintings, prints, photographs and drawings, some
of which the public has never seen
** The museum that goes skin deep
The museum opened a year ago has in-house tattooists should you be so moved
(you can donate your skin when you pass on) and offers a library and study
centre for the serious scholar of skin art
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** Neandertal's Right-Handedness Verified, Hints at Language Capacity
So, if Neandertals were primarily right-handed, like modern humans, that
fact could suggest a capacity for language
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini - They say you love money more than anything else in the world, but
then, they've never seen you around a stack of pancakes
** And Then We Talk of Home: A Soldier's Letters Introduce the Civil War
Saturday, September 22, Litchfield History Museum
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** The Artifact, its context and their narrative
DEMHIST/ICOM-CC Conference,Los Angeles, Nov. 6-9, 2012
** Third International Conference - Museums and Human Rights
9-10 October 2012, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool, UK
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