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** Met Museum rolls out video series starring its curators, sort of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is rolling out an art Hot 100 of sorts -
website videos starring 100 of the New York City museum's curators, each of
whom discusses a single work from the museum's collection "that changed the
way they view the world"
** U.S. museum unwrapping mummy's story with CT scan
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond partnered this week with a
medical imaging center to complete a CT scan on Tjeby (CHEH-bee), its
4,000-year-old mummy, in hopes of piecing together more information about
the mummy itself and better understanding the early history of the
mummification process
** Museum explores the science of a zombie outbreak
The Science Museum in London is holding a number of events which explore the
science of consciousness through the example of a zombie outbreak
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** Vandalized California Petroglyphs Recovered
The glyphs, which depict fauna like deer, rattlesnakes and bighorn sheep, as
well as geometric shapes, are not particularly valuable on the black market,
so it was unclear why someone went to such trouble to steal them
** Mastodons, Snowmass items to be featured in Denver museum
Next month, when "Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age" opens, the
public will be able to see that painting and remains of actual ice-age
megafauna unearthed two winters ago from the lake near Snowmass
** Of ice and men
Days before the second world war broke out in 1939, two German scholars
packed up a cache of mammoth-ivory fragments they had unearthed in a cave in
the south-west of the country
** Oxford's Ashmolean Museum receives incredible £10 million collection
A shimmering collection of Renaissance and Baroque gold and silver objects,
collected during a lifetime in the silver trade by a friend of the museum
who started out working part-time in his father's shop more than 60 years
ago, has been bequeathed to the Ashmolean in Oxford
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** Migaloo is the World's First Archaeology Dog
Finding 600 year old, buried human bones with absolutely no traces of flesh
left on them seems to be asking a lot of that sniffer. or so you would think
** 14 USS Midway Museum workers fired
Fourteen employees of the USS Midway Museum's engineering department were
fired after money earned by recycling scrap metal from the historic aircraft
carrier disappeared
** Maine Maritime Museum battens down hatches after raging gale rips roof
away
One of the perils of a life at sea is the destructive force of the wind and
at Maine Maritime Museum that lesson demonstrated itself when a shrieking
gale ripped off portions of the roof
** Spain's Prado Museum gets biggest art donation in decades
The collection, donated by a businessman from Barcelona in a ceremony
attended by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, will join paintings by
Spanish masters such as El Greco, Velazquez and Goya in one of Europe's most
venerated museums
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** First insight into influence of Rodin on Francis Bacon
A painting that shows Francis Bacon's attempt to come to terms with growing
old will go on show for the first time in Britain in an exhibition devoted
to the influence of Auguste Rodin on the artist
** Looking for a straw donkey
Looking at the history of souvenirs, including items salvaged from
shipwrecks and RNLI Henry Blogg Museum memorabilia, the exhibition will
explore what makes objects special to us
** International Nature
The exhibitors aimed to recreate a quintessential Met experience for Chinese
visitors to the National Museum, which is on the east side of Tiananmen
Square at the heart of this ancient capital
** Digital dig: The scanning technology revolutionising archaeology
Archaeologists may not need to get their hands so dirty any more, thanks to
the kind of digital technology being pioneered at Southampton University
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** UAE's First Ever Oil and Gas Museum Attracts Visitors
Titled the ADIPEC Museum, this unique collection of photographs, equipment,
maps and documents illustrates the history of the local oil industry from
its humble beginnings with the signing of the Red Line Agreement in 1928 to
the present day
** The Great Giveback
The news has become astonishingly routine: a major American museum announces
it is relinquishing extraordinary antiquities because a foreign government
claims they were looted and has threatened legal action or other sanctions
if it doesn't get them back
** Warsaw Ghetto: The story of its secret archive
A recipe for frozen potatoes, an article on rotten fish cooked with
saccharine and synthetic honey speak of how far those scraps of food
stretched
** This Weeks Horoscopes
Welcome the opportunity of a two for the price of one anger management
course on the 18th as long as it isn't run by a fellow Sagittarian
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** Allegedly stolen historical artifacts worth $500,000 found in Canadian
home
RCMP officers are painstakingly cataloguing about 1,000 antiques, rare
books, historical documents and paintings they allege were pilfered over two
decades and put on display in a suburban Halifax home
** 300-Million-Year-Old Tooth Wheel Found In Russian Coal: Scientists
The Voice of Russia, an international Russian broadcasting service, reported
that since the coal deposits in this region of the country can be dated to
300 million years ago, experts are suggesting that the odd piece of metal
found in the coal must be that old as well
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** International Conference on Ruminant Phylogenetics Munich 2013
We have opened registration for the International Conference on Ruminant
Phylogenetics which will be held on 3-6 September this year in Munich.
** Evaluating change
13th Annual UMAC Symposium - 23th ICOM Conference Rio de Janeiro,
10-17August 2013
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