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** Ancient Viking Ships To Move To Museum
The ships, dating from the eighth to 11th centuries, are to move to the new
Museum of Cultural History planned for Bjorvika harbour, where the city's
new Opera House is set to open in 2008
** Descendants of Nazi doctor lose fight over compensation for looted art
Relatives of a gynaecologist who was committed to Hitler's Master Race have
been refused compensation for valuable artworks confiscated by Soviet
soldiers after the war
** Japanese relatives call to salvage sub found in Sydney Harbour
The 64 year old mystery was solved last month with the discovery of the
wreck of the sub just a few kilometres off Sydney's northern beaches
** US judge dismisses government complaint against caretakers of Hemingway
cats
More than 50 cats descended from a multi-toed cat the novelist received as a
gift in 1935 freely wander the grounds of the Ernest Hemingway Home and
Museum in Key West
** Frederick's uplifting museum is dismantled
To the consternation of some local kitsch lovers and underwear fetishists,
Frederick's of Hollywood quietly dismantled its Lingerie Museum and
Celebrity Lingerie Hall of Fame when the underwear emporium moved three
blocks west last year to a more upscale location
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** Museum pays record fine in unique way
A Wetaskiwin museum has donated prime real estate as a unique penalty for
the death of a 14-year-old boy killed on the job
** Ancient pottery tells an Adam and Eve tale?
Now a pair of Field Museum researchers are arguing that most of the pictures
aren't of people but of turtles - creatures that reflect a kind of Adam and
Eve tale explaining how the first man and woman got together
** Peers scoff at professor's quest for Bigfoot
They liken Meldrum's research to a hunt for Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny,
and 20 of them signed a letter earlier this year expressing worry that Idaho
State "may be perceived as a university that endorses fringe science over
fundamental scientific perspectives that have withstood critical inquiry."
** French team studying bone fragments say they likely aren't Joan of Arc's
That's the preliminary conclusion of a team of experts trying to determine
whether a rib bone and a piece of cloth were the remains of 15th-century
French heroine Joan of Arc
** SA's art heritage shame
South Africa's art heritage is being lost to the country because the
government budget for buying art has been slashed to the point where the
entire annual allocation for purchases cannot cover the cost of any single
major work
** Museum Cancels Pirate Exhibit Over Slavery Issues
For the second time in 10 years, Tampa's science museum has cancelled an
exhibit after objections from black residents (with audio)
** £46m Royal Museum revamp set to begin within 18 months
The plans also include the controversial removal of the museum's famous
goldfish ponds, which sparked outcry among visitors earlier this year when
the move was first proposed
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** British Museum decries eBay artefact sales
The British Museum says that Roman and Anglo-Saxon jewellery treasures and
other artefacts are being sold illegally on eBay with apparent impunity
** Exhibit Shows Egypt's Sunken Treasures
An exhibit at Paris' Grand Palais brings together 500 ancient artefacts
recovered from the area by underwater archaeologists using sophisticated
nuclear technology.
** There was more to Dr. Banting than insulin
He was also a decorated war hero, a pivotal military adviser during the
Second World War - possibly involved in secret military planning, which may
have led to his untimely death in a 1941 plane crash in Newfoundland - and a
gifted amateur painter who studied with Group of Seven luminaries such as
A.Y. Jackson and A.J. Casson
** Museum Fears Munch Work Damaged in Theft
Experts fear that theft damage to Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream," one
of the world's most famous images, may be too extensive to completely repair
** Researchers Barcode DNA Of Venice Museum's Vast Fungi Collection
In the storerooms of a Venice, Italy, museum, a University of California,
Berkeley, scholar and Italian experts are at work on a rare collection, but
the objects aren't Renaissance paintings or the art of ancient glassblowers
** Museum Peeks Into A Socialite's Closet
Kempner was an avid shopper with a stick-thin figure that made her the
perfect hanger for showing off the work of designers such as Madame Gres,
Valentino, Bill Blass and Yves Saint Laurent, who was her favourite
** One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
** History in the area of conflict between interpretation and manipulation
ICMAH's conference in Vienna 2007
** Things that Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel
19 - 23 July 2007, Leeds, United Kingdom
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