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week's edition include:
** Canadian Museum of Nature's newest exhibit is all about ants
No need for bug spray as two enclosures were specially designed to keep them
safe and secure while they're admired as part of the museum's newest exhibit
** Ulster Museum displays 3,000-year-old Bronze Age torc
One of the most spectacular items of prehistoric gold jewellery found in
Ireland has gone on display at Ulster Museum, after being initially
identified as a car spring
** 17th-century gadget gives up secrets to 3D printer
You won't need to be a cat burglar to get your hands on the priceless gold
and jewelled artefacts from the so-called Cheapside Hoard, going on display
at the Museum of London in October
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** Ratlike Creature's Bizarre Backbone Baffles Scientists
The hero shrew's unique backbone gives the animal extraordinary strength,
says the lead study author and collections manager of mammals at The Field
Museum in Chicago
** Museum Relaunches Wooden Whaler Built in 1841
After nearly five years, about $7 million and a painstaking restoration by
more than 60 people, the Charles W. Morgan, believed to be the last
surviving wooden whaling vessel in the world, was again afloat - 172 years
after its construction
** Spanish dig in the caves of Atapuerca seeks prehistoric ancestors of
Europeans
With trowels and paintbrushes, dozens of archaeologists in white hard-hats
patiently sift the reddish-brown earth in the caves of Atapuerca, searching
for remains a million years old
** Statue of Korean War horse Reckless to be unveiled at Marine museum in
Virginia
Some 60 years after carrying wounded soldiers and ammunition during heavy
firefights, a decorated war horse praised as America's greatest equine
soldier during the Korean War is finally being immortalized
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** At Museum of London, Royal Babies Through the Ages
A new exhibition called "A Royal Arrival" showcases the museum's collection
of clothing and memorabilia belonging to royal babies, with some items
dating back more than 400 years
** Where Police See Looted Antiquities, a Mayor Sees a Museum
An investigation that began when two bronze helmets appeared for sale at a
German auction house has the mayor envisioning a new future for this sleepy
village, which is surrounded by grazing sheep
** Spilling the soup on Andy Warhol's legacy
Dorment's article insists there is more going on than meets the eye; but
beyond legal debates, what struck me most is what his detective work reveals
about Warhol
** Growing space art collection at Smithsonian captures creativity behind
NASA's technology
The familiar exteriors of astronauts' spacesuits often hide all of the
ingenuity and mechanics that are built inside the suits, which were first
imagined as "wearable spacecraft"
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** Bishop Museum showcases Polynesian anthropologist
The Honolulu museum's newly renovated Pacific Hall will showcase Sir Peter
H. Buck, also known as Te Rangi Hiroa
** LA Museum Chief Set to Step Down After Rocky Tenure
After three tumultuous years at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
the former New York art dealer, has decided to step down as director,
leaving a museum whose finances have begun to stabilize but whose staff and
exhibition program are in disarray
** Museum of New Zealand Reopens Following Earthquake Assessment
The history collection contains over 25,000 items that tell the story of New
Zealand through the centuries; several thousand of those items are from
Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, as well as items collected by
James Cook during his voyages
** World's oldest shipwreck reveals incredible cargo
Accidentally discovered by a Turkish sponge diver in 1982, the remains of
the 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck lie 10km off the coast of southern
Turkey
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** Spain museum uses robot to spot cracks in artwork
In the basement of Madrid's Reina Sofia museum, a giant robotic machine
painstakingly scans a painting by Catalan surrealist artist Joan Miro,
slowly snapping hundreds of microscopic shots
** Sunken WWI U-Boats a Bonanza for Historians
On the seafloor along the southern and eastern coasts of the UK, Dunkley and
three other divers have found one of the largest graveyards in the world's
oceans, with 41 German and three English submarines from World War I
** Museum's rare plates commemorate trek across Alberta
Sport hunting was a favoured pastime for wealthy Englishmen of the period,
but would have been done on manicured estates rather than the rough terrain
found in what is now Western Canada
** Secret Museum Hidden in an Abandoned Freight Elevator
Unlike all of New York City's flashy and well-known museums, this particular
exhibition space on the edge of the Tribeca neighborhood in Manhattan is
grungy, quirky and easy to miss
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - The red-tailed hawk is known for its hooked bill, its sharp claws,
and after this Thursday, its rather keen sense of revenge
** LACMA, Broad, other art museums work to put storage on display
Behind an art museum's gleaming galleries lies the off-limits and uninviting
space that can hold as much as 95% of its collection: storage
** Decoding the mystery of the Jamestown sturgeon
Archaeologists probing the early James Fort kitchen where they unearthed
evidence of cannibalism this past year have discovered an earlier layer of
artifacts showing that - just months before the Starving Time of 1609-10 -
the colonists were filling their bellies with sturgeon
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** Bruce Lee exhibition unveiled at Hong Kong Heritage Museum
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the passing away of the
internationally renowned martial arts movie star Bruce Lee.
** Becoming LA Opens at the Natural History Museum
Becoming Los Angeles explores the growth of Los Angeles over the course of
five centuries, illustrating the interconnection of the city's ecological
and cultural histories.
** FlashBackForward: Rethinking Craft Symposium
Sept. 26-28, 2013 - Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe
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