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week's edition include:
** Erotic tiles to go on show at Museum of London for Valentine's Day
special
For one night only this month, amorous visitors to the Museum of London will
have the chance to see the steamy side of the 18th century
** Museum To Raise $100 Million To Prevent Artwork Sale in Detroit
Bankruptcy
With the museum's pledge, a coalition of state and philanthropic leaders
have now committed to try to raise $820 million to buy the museum and
preserve public access to the city-owned collection
** Mozart museum seeks to debunk evil Salieri poison myth
It's one of the great mysteries of music - did composer Antonio Salieri
poison his onetime protégé Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with arsenic?
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** Police museum in Seattle restoring rare, 1949 patrol car
The recently acquired old Ford sedan, which was found largely disassembled
with parts in boxes and the garage, is being restored to its former
squad-car glory by the Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum
** British Museum: Prototype for Noah's Ark was round
A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia -
modern-day Iraq - reveals striking new details about the roots of the Old
Testament tale of Noah
** Museum-quality beards
With 13 categories, including F.T.W. Beard (full beard natural) and Mr.
Fancy 'Stache (styled mustache), the Beard and 'Stache Competition is always
an eye-catching exercise, part rugged manliness and part manicured pageantry
** Black Death mysteries unlocked by McMaster scientists
Two devastating plagues that decimated much of Europe hundreds of years ago
were actually caused by distinct strains of the same pathogen, new research
suggests - and scientists say it's not impossible for a new strain of the
plague to emerge in humans in the future
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** Veterans Museum sued for failing to pay workers
Turnbaugh's worked more than 3,500 hours and created more than 100 works of
military and patriotic-themed art, but was given only one $10,000 check he
was told not to cash
** 8 Incredible Museums Sharing on Pinterest
Several of these venerable cultural institutions have proven themselves
masters of Pinterest's social media world; museums of all kinds and sizes
have created profiles, and they're finding creative ways to bring their
programs to an online audience
** WWII museum to honor soldiers who saved riches stolen by Nazis
A museum news release says the gallery will highlight wartime measures taken
to locate hundreds of thousands of stolen artworks, including masterpieces
by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo
** Picasso Museum makeover nearly finished in Paris
The museum, which will reopen sometime in 2014, is home to the world's
largest collection of Picasso works, representing the full range of the
artist's many styles
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** What Killed the Great Beasts of North America?
Some researchers have argued that out of 36 animals that went extinct, only
two - the mammoth and the mastodon - show clear signs of having been hunted,
such as cuts on their bones made by stone tools
** Nearby, one-of-a-kind collections to explore
There are institutions dedicated to plumbing, printing, quilts, paper, and
pirates; you can even find exhibitions of burnt food, airsickness bags, and
Tom Thumb memorabilia
** Museum of Natural History 3-D prints shark teeth
In the atrium of Smith Hall, replicas of fossil shark teeth were printed in
3-D as part of the first Science Sunday of 2014 put on by the University of
Alabama Museum of Natural History
** National computer museum downgraded by Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park has secured £8 million of Lottery funding as the home of
Britain's wartime codebreaking, but has now shortened its guided tours by
excluding the National Museum of Computing's Colossus and Tunny Galleries,
which are at the heart of that codebreaking success
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** Which parts of us are Neanderthal? Our genes point to skin and hair
A double-barreled comparison of ancient Neanderthal DNA with hundreds of
modern-day genomes suggests that many of us have Neanderthal skin and hair
traits - but other parts of the Neanderthal genome appear to have been bred
out of us along the way
** German Military Museum Confronts Past
This month the museum has opened a special exhibition to mark the 70th
anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp at Majdanek in
Poland - the first among the camps to be liberated as the Allies closed in
on Nazi Germany
** Indian national museum artefacts to be centrally digitised
Around 400,000 artefacts from 10 national museums across India are being
photographed, identified and sorted in various categories to create a
digital online repository to bring "museums to the people" in a friendly
manner
** (Almost) True Comics!
During World War II, a series of comic books began publication known as
"True Comics" describing stories featuring "real people" and "world-shaking
history," especially focusing on recent events of World War II
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo - The flame of true love will finally gutter and die in your soul, but
take heart: the flame of too many video game systems plugged into a single
outlet is burning bright in your den
** Seattle Art Museum pulls mask from Super Bowl bet
It was supposed to be a lighthearted cultural exchange between the museums
of Seattle and Denver as their football teams prepared to meet in the Super
Bowl
** Marine museum in Keelung launches after two decades
The National Museum of Marine Science and Technology (NMMST) in Keelung, was
finally opened to the public yesterday, after more than two decades of
planning and about NT$5.6 billion (US$184.4 million)
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** Poles, Posts and Canoes: The Preservation, Conservation and Continuation
of Native American Monumental Wood Carving
Upcoming Symposium, Call For Papers and Totem Pole Maintenance Workshop
** The Art of Seeing: From Ordinary to Extraordinary
Proposals for the 47th annual International Visual Literacy Association
conference are currently being accepted.
** Calling all Hosts
The Committee for Conservation of the International Council of Museums
(ICOM-CC) announces the Call for Host of the 18th Triennial Conference
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