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week's edition include:
** UNESCO urges Syrian belligerents to spare heritage
The UN's cultural organisation has urged Syria's regime and rebels to spare
multi-millennial heritage that is being ravaged by shelling, theft and
illegal digs
** Digitizing Scrapbooks of the First Bronx Zoo Director
What fueled his compulsiveness was a conviction, unchanged during his
directorship from 1896 to 1926, that American wildlife would be extinct by
1950
** From the ashes
The Armenian museum, the first of its kind in Anatolia, will be part of the
newly restored Surp Giragos church complex and aims to chronicle Armenian
life in Diyarbakir, in Turkey's mainly Kurdish south-east, before 1915
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** The ABC's of Your DNA
The show was created in an unusual collaboration between the Smithsonian and
the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of
Health, and vetted by a board of genetic scientists
** Paintings Of Vladimir Putin In Lingerie Seized From Russia's Museum Of
Power
One painting showed President Vladimir Putin wearing a tight-fitting slip
and brushing the hair of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who is wearing
knickers and a bra
** Ancient Mega-Fish No Longer the One that Got Away
For more than a century, the mystery of the true size of a gigantic
dinosaur-era fish, Leedsichthys, seemed like the one that got away for
paleontologists
** Archaeologists use drones in Peru to map and protect sites
In Peru, home to the spectacular Inca city of Machu Picchu and thousands of
ancient ruins, archaeologists are turning to drones to speed up sluggish
survey work and protect sites from squatters, builders and miners
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** This Munich Museum Moved Into a Building Made Entirely of Scaffolding
Renovations are tricky for museums: You have to protect your permanent
collection while keeping ticket sales up, which explains why so many museums
close completely or move to new locations rather than repair an existing
building
** JMW Turner's country retreat to undergo £2m restoration
Sandycombe Lodge, which was designed by Turner, was used by the painter as a
retreat away from his Harley Street studio and his retired barber and
wigmaker father William resided there permanently
** Work completed on historic sunken Yenikapi ships in Istanbul
The movement of 37 sunken vessels, that were unearthed during excavations
carried out as part of the Istanbul Marmaray and metro projects, has finally
been concluded
** Revitalizing the Museum Visit
Drawing a line between art appreciation and modern-day foodie culture, Mr.
Rosen likened Museum Hack to his version of a tasting menu
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** Museum visitors travel the Roads of Arabia
Walking into the Roads of Arabia exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural
History is like walking into a graveyard: there's a sudden, silencing chill
that momentarily takes you off guard
** Denver museum closes Indian massacre display
Colorado's new state history museum closed an exhibit on the Sand Creek
Indian massacre, one of the state's darkest chapters, after descendants of
the slaughter's survivors demanded changes in how it is portrayed and
complained that they weren't consulted about the display
** Museum call to preserve fossils; prevent a second extinction
Around 200 scientists are pressing for a national museum of natural history
in India on the lines of the Smithsonian National History Museum in
Washington DC to preserve 'orphan collections'
** 2,000-Year-Old Bear Ring Found In Siberia
Alexander Korchagin, a student at Novosibirsk State University, discovered a
2,000-year-old bronze ring that may have belonged to an ancient tribe that
saw polar bears as sacred animals
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** Burrell Collection tapestry at centre of 'Nazi loot' legal claim
Art collector John Hunt, who was married to a German woman, has been linked
to a number of art and antique dealers associated with the Nazi regime,
including Adolf Mahr, an Austrian who led the party in wartime Ireland
** Van Gogh Museum Starts Peddling 3D Replicas
The technology is known as "Reliefography" and combines a 3D scan of the
painting in question with a high-resolution print; only three Relievos can
be made each day
** Hong Kong Museum steps in to save iconic neon cow
In vibrant orange, green and white, the large neon-lit sign of an Angus cow
has pointed to Sammy's Kitchen steakhouse in Sai Ying Pun for more than
three decades
** Museum buildings become as interesting as their contents
The so-called "Bilbao effect" is driving museums, communities, and donors to
create new city landmarks where the buildings, as well as their collections,
generate enormous attention and visitors
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** Museums retrace March on Washington 50 years later
Several museums and cultural organizations organized artifacts and art
exhibits for visitors to learn about the march, the nation's conflict over
civil rights and the tumult leading up to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s
famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius - Ignorance and stupidity will soon be yours, when the Tree of
Wisdom is cut down to make room for another mini-mall
** Oldest 'Bog Body' Found with Skin Intact
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old man preserved
in an Irish peat bog, marking the oldest European body ever found with skin
still intact
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** Giving Voice to the Long Silenced Millions
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Annual Meeting in Birmingham, AL
** Heritage practice in contested spaces
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Limavady
** The World's Your Oyster!
CBMM's OysterFest and relaunch of the skipjack Rosie Parks
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