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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the news links) in this
week's edition include:
** Van Gogh's personal letters debut online in English
In what is perhaps the first project of its kind, the Van Gogh Museum in
Amsterdam has put English-language translations of 902 of Vincent van Gogh's
personal letters on line
** X-ray voted most important modern discovery
Members of the public were asked to vote on 10 of the greatest achievements
in science, engineering and technology, selected by the museum's curators
** Island thieves bag Viking treasure
Five hundred Viking era silver artefacts have been plundered from a site of
archaeological interest on the Baltic island of Gotland
** Tate reveals acrylic paint findings from pioneering three-year research
project
The results of the in-depth study of modern acrylic emulsion paints and
primers, which is the first investigation of its kind anywhere in the world,
will play a critical role in informing conservation efforts for the ageing
masterpieces
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** Virtual Literature: An Immersive Experience of the Poetry of World War
One
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies
Group at the University of Oxford have collaborated on an exciting new
project in the 3D virtual world Second Life
** At 40, Exploratorium still leads in hands-on science
Legend has it that one day in the fall of 1969, Frank Oppenheimer was
standing in the cavernous Palace of Fine Arts, tinkering with one of the
exhibits he had invented for the hands-on science museum he had long dreamed
of opening
** Museum's lions didn't eat 135 men
The story of how they preyed on a terrified camp of imperial British
railroad workers for nine months captivated museum-goers for decades and
inspired a 1996 movie, "The Ghost and the Darkness"
** Rembrandt portrait museum 'coup'
A Rembrandt painting which has hung in a north Wales castle for 150 years is
to go on display at the National Museum in Cardiff for the next four months
** Surgery Museum Makes You Grateful for Any Modern Healthcare Whatsoever
Granddads would have you believe things were better in the good ol' days,
but a short stroll through the International Museum of Surgical Science in
Chicago makes liars of them all
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** Nebraska Museum Gets NASA Spacecraft
The Johnson Space Centre in Houston chose to house its experimental X38 crew
return vehicle at the Strategic Air and Space Museum Tom Hanks-produced
'4-D' film comes to WWII Museum
** The sound and the fury
From Caesar and Mark Antony, lovers of Cleopatra in Hellenistic Alexandria,
to baroque Rome with its obelisks, then the great surge in Egyptology that
followed Napoleon's conquests two centuries ago, we have never stopped
wondering at the strange, impassive, unchanging culture of the land of the
Nile, so different from the dynamic and humanistic one we have inherited
from the Greeks
** Dark matter "wrecking ball" may have hit Milky Way
The Gould Belt is not just a magnificent stripe of stars in the night sky
but also a fossil record containing profound physical meanings of a dramatic
event which would have happened in the solar neighbourhood
** Vietnamese businessman builds museum to share artefacts
Quy at present is in the final stages of his construction work which will
house more than 10,000 objects that he has been collecting for nearly 20
years
** Room for Lawrence of Arabia's shirt
The undershirt, robe and head dress worn by T. E. Lawrence afford a vivid
picture of the British officer who helped Arab leaders to run a guerrilla
campaign against the Turks during the First World War, but they have never
been put on show because the museum lacked proper display cases
** Feature Site - 3DMuseum
View the new test site for 3dMuseum which is now on a wordpress platform and
allows you to download PowerPoint slides containing 3D models - the models
are fully rotatable
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** Rare Books Don't Always Live in Glass Cases
Standing among the 10,000 rare books in the stacks of the Linda Hall Library
in Kansas City the director of the history of science special collections,
pulls out a copy of "The Starry Messenger," the revelatory book in which
Galileo detailed his astronomical observations made with his own
"spyglass" - the instrument that would later be known as the telescope
** Record rubber band ball heads to museum
Waul watched as a crane slowly lifted the nearly seven-foot tall, 25-foot
wide mass of yellow, purple and green out of his Lauderhill driveway and
lowered it onto a flatbed truck destined for Orlando
** MoMA owns up to Warhol rejection letter from 1956
In the letter, the museum notifies Warhol that its collections committee has
decided to turn down the drawing "Shoe," which the artist had offered as a
gift
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra Sep 23 to Oct 23 - Remember: Your grandfather is more than just a
member of the family, he's a living time machine to the incredibly confused
past
** Preservation of Photographs
The University of Melbourne
** Museums Making Connections
In 2010, AMM will partner with Ohio Museums Association (OMA) to sponsor a
joint annual conference
** Museums and Restitution
Call for papers
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