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week's edition include:
** Munch Museum finally approved in Oslo
Concerned moving the museum would depress the neighbourhood even further,
the two parties had hoped the new building would be an anchor for
redevelopment in Toyen
** Floppy Fans Flummoxed
A Facebook group called "Save Floppy!" urges the museum to keep the
dilapidated dog on display and more than 3,500 people joined the group just
two days after the page launched
** Real-Life 'Lizard King' Named for Doors' Jim Morrison
The lizard fossils were first collected during expeditions in the 1970s, but
they sat unanalyzed in a museum collection for more than 30 years until Head
and his colleagues decided to study them
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** Ex-museum CEO calls proposed mandate 'narrow and parochial'
A government plan to rename the Canadian Museum of Civilization as the
Museum of History abandons a successful brand and gives it a "deeply
worrying" new mandate, says the man who led the museum from 2000 to 2011
** Tintoretto painting mistakenly credited to Schiavone, analysis reveals
Until recently, The Embarkation of St Helena to the Holy Land, which belongs
to the Victoria and Albert Museum, was attributed to Andrea Schiavone, a
contemporary of Tintoretto (1518-1594)
** Who stashed the Cheapside Hoard?
Just over a century after the "world's most important" hoard of Elizabethan
jewellery was discovered by chance in a cellar in London, experts have
uncovered important information that may lead to unravelling the mystery of
who put it there and why
** Is this the ancestor of all primates?
Could this tiny animal, with a body just seven centimetres long, be the
ancestor of all living primates - including humans?
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** Log boats from "edge of a lost world" discovered in prehistoric
Peterborough
Excavating a lost course of the River Nene in Cambridgeshire, experts have
discovered eight prehistoric boats bearing elaborate features from 3,500
years ago, including lifting handles, grooves for boards and decorations
** New North America Viking Voyage Discovered
Some 1,000 years ago, the Vikings set off on a voyage to Notre Dame Bay in
modern-day Newfoundland, Canada, new evidence suggests
** The Museum Elevator as Immersive Art
Once the building is completed in 2015, the only permanent artwork
commissioned for the site - its four main elevators - will be visible from
both inside the museum and out
** Rare Champlain historic document on display for the first time
Discovered in the spring of 2012 by Jean-Marie Germe, a French genealogist,
the baptismal record not only appears to resolve the mystery of Champlain's
year of birth, but also may confirm another rumour that has long circulated
about the famous French explorer: he was Protestant
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** Ireland's Ancient Link to Volcanism Found
Irish monks not only preserved the knowledge of ancient Greece in western
Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, they also logged a 1200 year
climate record of the Emerald Isle from 431 to 1649 CE in the Irish Annals
** Hirshhorn Museum Scraps Idea to Cover Courtyard With Bubble
Architects, artists and Smithsonian staff have praised the bold vision of a
temporary bubble-shaped structure on the Mall, but after four years of
planning and fundraising, there was not enough funding to construct the
Bubble and, more importantly, to sustain programming for years to come
** Chiefs and Governors: Art and Power in Fiji
Necklaces made from whale ivory and fish hooks of ivory, pearl and turtle
shell were part of a lavish system of gifts between Fiji's chiefs and their
first British governor in the nineteenth century
** Mediterranean civilisations museum feted as turning point for Marseille
At the mouth of Marseille's old port, against the blue of the Mediterranean
sits a mysterious dark cube draped in a giant concrete net - an audacious
new architectural emblem for a port city desperate to shake off its
stereotypes as the French capital of Kalashnikovs, gang wars,
drug-smuggling, political corruption and football mania
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** Museum of the Year: a joyful mixture of frogs, oars and wild garlic soup
Before I started on this adventure, I had thought - in vague, general
terms - that museums and galleries were A Good Thing, that they gave great
pleasure and could be a stimulus to learning
** Cuts threat to three top UK museums
The National Rail Museum in York, the National Media Museum in Bradford and
the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester may have to close because
of a budget shortfall
** How objects get to museums
The Met's actions force us to ask this question, and to realise that many
collections, private and public, contain items that have been obtained by
violent means - previously by imperial and colonial governments, and more
recently through looting during stressful times such as civil war, in the
case of these Cambodian statues, or war, in the case of the National Museum
of Iraq in 2003
** Nazi war criminals got away with atrocities because of evidence hidden
in UK and US archives
For years the documents were kept under wraps by the intelligence services
because the prisoner-of-war camp bugging program would have been regarded as
illegal under international law - and, more importantly, because, during
most of the Cold War, the US and Britain did not want to alert the Soviets
to the fact that they had developed this intelligence gathering technique
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Virgo - Keep in mind this week that anger is fear in disguise, although why
you'd be afraid of the soda machine eating your dollar is for you alone to
answer
** Buffalo man accused of stealing documents from History Museum
The personal papers of Anson Conger Goodyear, the Buffalo-born lumber and
railroad tycoon turned famed art collector, are a prized possession for any
collector
** Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites with Mosaics
The GCI, in partnership with the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus and the
Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, announces the
second MOSAIKON training course in the conservation and management of
archaeological sites with mosaics.
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** New MA World Heritage Studies
The Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage has launched a
new MA in World Heritage Studies for entry in September 2013.
** The Vietnam Maritime Archaeology Project Center
Dr. Mark Staniforth and a team of researchers, who have been working in
Vietnam for the past few years, created the project center to increase
awareness at local, provincial, national and international levels about the
extent and nature of Vietnam's underwater and maritime cultural heritage.
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