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week's edition include:
** Royal Pain: 6 Strange Ailments of Famous Rulers
Indeed, Claudius was so worried about the dangers of retaining flatus that,
according to Roman historian Suetonius, he "planned an edict to legitimize
the breaking of wind at table, either silently or noisily."
** Unthinkable? Break open the museum vaults
Before trundling along to the must-sees, spare a thought for the never- or
rarely-seens; the British Museum has around 4m prints and drawings, the V&A
roughly 80,000 textiles and the Imperial War Museum owns about 6m photos
** Art gallery toilets in a lather over soap sculptures
The presence of a religious icon of any sort in the toilets has apparently
caused some visitors offence - an unexpected development for the organisers
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** When the Giant Python Escaped at the Brooklyn Children's Museum
The keeper opened the door to feed it another Guinea pig and the python just
shot out, bit the keeper's leg and started to constrict around it
** George Washington's Incredible Garbage Dump
From 1990 through 1994, full-scale excavations recovered nearly 300,000
artifacts, an unprecedented array of household items deposited by the
Washington family and enslaved families over several decades in the 18th
century
** A Critic of a Design Museum Will Lead It
In a step that was controversial among some craftmakers, the museum in 2002
changed its name to the Museum of Arts and Design (affectionately called
MAD) to reflect its shift in focus to include architecture, fashion,
interior design, technology and performing arts, as well as crafts, art and
design
** What would you ask a museum curator? Twitter can help
Some of the most popular questions that reoccur annually are: what's it like
to be a curator, how do you decide what to display, and what is the most
unique object in your collection?
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** Violin museum shows off musical heritage of Stradivari's birthplace
Next Saturday, in a formerly disused fascist-era arts centre, a new museum
featuring some of the most exquisite violins ever made will throw open its
doors
** A gruesome glimpse of an Iron-Age massacre
Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a massacre involving hundreds, if
not thousands of people, with some of the slaughtered bodies being stripped
of their flesh or chopped up
** British Museum puts age limit on exhibition
A new exhibition at the British Museum will blow the lid off the modern
image of the Japanese as a shy, demure people - and reveals what an
extremely sexually liberated nation they once were
** Important new discoveries about Van Gogh's 'unknown' Sunflower paintings
revealed
An expert on Vincent van Gogh has tracked down two "unknown" Sunflowers, and
has revealed an image of the work destroyed in the Second World War never
seen outside Japan
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** Vietnamese museums among 25 most popular in Asia
Chinese, Japanese, and Cambodian museums topped the list while institutions
in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Republic of Korea stood one to three notches
below the last Vietnamese museum
** Please Touch Museum defaults on debt
Five years after moving into a larger, more expensive home, the Please Touch
Museum has stopped making payments on its bond debt, triggering a process
that leaders say could result in bankruptcy
** Proof of Solomon's mines found in Israel
Now a national park, Timna Valley was an ancient copper production district
with thousands of mines and dozens of smelting sites
** Romania opens museum on dictator's final moments
More than 20 years after Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife,
Elena, were convicted of genocide and executed in Romania, the country
opened a museum about the last two days of their lives during the country's
pro-democracy uprising
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** Museum Tower's problems a reflection of greater urban design issue
We have the new 42-story Museum Tower with a slightly convex face blasting
the neighboring Nasher Museum with reflected light
** National Exhibition Season of Brilliant Collection Works from Chinese
Art Museums
Thirty museums are holding or will hold exhibitions to present a total of
nearly 3,200 artworks from their storehouses, about 60 percent of which are
making their debut for public viewing, from August to November
** British Master Perfumer reimagining the scent of London's vanished past
Roja Dove's perfume, spliced with ingredients popular in the 17th Century,
will combine lavender, frankincense, civet and other notes to create an
evocative sensory installation, transporting visitors back to the opulent
perfumes of Elizabethan and Early Stuart London
** Museo ng Katipunan opens for Philippines Supremo's sesquicentennial
A facsimile of a cedula is torn in half before a cheering crowd - a symbolic
gesture that signaled the opening of the first museum dedicated to one of
the country's greatest heroes, Andres Bonifacio
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** All Of Your Memories Implanted In You 5 Minutes Ago When Universe Was
Created
Challenging years of research examining the cognitive and biological
processes underlying human memory, a new study by researchers at Georgetown
University has found that all experiences of the past stored in a person's
mind are in fact information artificially implanted five minutes ago when
our universe was first created (satire)
Huge Renoir archive to go under the hammer in New York
The auction features the only two sculptures entirely executed by his
hands - a medallion and Coco, a bust of his youngest son, Claude
The Puppet Manchurian Palace Museum
Although the palace pales in comparison to Puyi's former residence of the
Forbidden City, the Japanese could certainly have given him worse
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** Donegal Sporting Heroes and Ulster Sports Museum
Donegal County Museum, High Road, Letterkenny, Co Donegal
** Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Annual Meeting
Sunday, October 20 to Tuesday, October 22, 2013, Washington, D.C.
** Giving Voice: Interpreting & Preserving Oral Histories
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
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