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week's edition include:

**  Diamond Skull to Go on Show at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum
The Dutch museum, which houses Rembrandt's ``Nightwatch,'' pledged to clear 
an entire hall for the exhibition

**  Welcome to the Terrordome
You can experience a virtual version of the next terrorist bombing in the 
American heartland at one of Denver's oddest convention-week attractions: 
the country's newest museum devoted exclusively to terrorism

**  Woman wearing veil told to leave Italian museum
The head of one of Venice's most prestigious museums apologized on Wednesday 
to a Muslim woman asked to leave the building by a guard because she was 
wearing a veil over her face

**  Soon on the Web: Dead Sea Scrolls
In a crowded laboratory painted in grey and cooled like a cave, half a dozen 
specialists embarked this week on an historic undertaking: digitally 
photographing every one of the thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea 
Scrolls with the aim of making the entire file - among the most sought-after 
and examined documents on earth - available to all on the Internet
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**  Gori museum ready to laud Stalin again
When Russian jets started bombing the Georgian city of Gori, the director of 
the state Stalin museum had only one thought

**  Enormous Artificial Sand Dune To House Museum of Modern Arab Art
If you happen to be driving through the desert near Doha, Qatar and notice 
an unusual number of Bentleys and Ferraris parked in front of a sand dune, 
you may find you're actually looking at the Museum of Modern Arab Art, a 
two-level, air-conditioned 350,000-square-foot facility celebrating over 
10,000 works of art

**  Swiss exonerate Europe's last executed witch
A woman beheaded after she was accused of causing a girl to spit pins and 
convulse was exonerated Wednesday, more than 200 years after she became the 
last person executed as a witch in Europe

**  World's Must-See Museum Makeovers
From the completion of the $29 million Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exterior 
restoration to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's $156 million 
expansion, the world's most prestigious institutions are having work done

**  'Oldest' caravan celebrates 100th
An Edwardian holiday home is marking its centenary at a motor museum, which 
claims it could be the world's oldest caravan designed to be pulled by a car

**  This War Hero Still Flies
To many older Germans who lived through the Soviet blockade of 1948-49, the 
most vivid memories are of supply-laden DC-3 "candy bombers" coming in low 
and slow, earning their nickname by dropping treats to eager children

**  £4m boost for museums in England
Thirty one museums and galleries in England are to benefit from grants 
totalling £4m to improve displays
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**  Cowboy museum recognizes local trick rider
At the height of her career as a trick rider, Shirley Lucas-Jauregui 
performed as a stunt double for greats like Lucille Ball, Lauren Bacall, 
Shirley Jones and Betty Hutton

**  Pope's call for 'blasphemous' frog to be removed from museum refused
Pope Benedict's request to have the sculpture of a crucified green frog 
holding a beer mug and an egg removed from display in an Italian museum has 
been rebuffed

**  Japanese scientists seek quake secrets in Parthenon design
Japanese scientists will next month look into seismic resistance secrets in 
the design of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon which has withstood scores of 
quakes

**  The Nazis, the Jewish banker, and the battle for two priceless Picassos
Before Adolf Hitler was swept to power in Germany, the two Picassos belonged 
to one of the leading figures in a German Jewish community that had once 
played a key role in giving both the country and its capital, Berlin, a 
reputation as a centre of intellectual excellence

**  China retracts a promise to a New York museum
China has reversed its decision to lend the Asia Society nearly 100 objects 
from Chinese museums for an exhibition that focuses on revolutionary Chinese 
art from the 1950s through the '70s

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus April 20 to May 20 - Turns out it's not the ability to reason that 
separates us from the animals, but rather a very thin, very flimsy wire 
fence

**  New Deal exhibit at museum will display life-sized privy
Constructed exclusively for the exhibit by Fort Morgan building maintenance 
technician Ben Hamilton, the replicated fly-tight privy will show how rural 
America dealt with growing sanitation problems during the Great Depression

**  Heritage in Asia: Converging Forces and Conflicting Values
An International Conference, 08-10th January 2009

**  DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects
April 1-3, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

**  Resorting to the Coast: Tourism, Heritage and Cultures of the Seaside
25-29 June 2009, Blackpool, UK

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