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week's edition include:
** Field Museum promises to have gem of an exhibit
Called "Treasures of Titans," the collection includes Elvis Presley's
14-karat gold lighter, Elton John's ruby-encrusted brooch and a diamond
tiara that once belonged to Princess Grace of Monaco
** Hailstorm smashes National Museum
A freak hailstorm in Canberra caused a ceiling to collapse at the National
Museum of Australia
** Film Crew Leave Fake Blood Stains On Walls of Persepolis
Stains of fake blood left by film crew making a movie at the ancient Palace
of Persepolis on the walls of palace of King Xerxes have outraged cultural
heritage experts
** Russia to try man over theft of Hermitage artworks
A Russian is to stand trial on charges he stole art objects from the
Hermitage with his late wife, a curator at the world-famous museum
** National Museum sees 60,000 visitors since re-opening
The newly reopened National Museum of Singapore has been celebrating its
rebirth with a month-long festival to mark the event
** Giant beasts fell to man
The new research, published in international journal Geology's January 2007
edition, is set to fuel what has become one of palaeontology's
longest-running and most contentious debates
** Japan scientists capture squid on video
Images of the squid - a relatively small female about 3.5 metres long and
weighing 50 kg - were the ultimate prize for zoologists at the National
Science Museum, who have been pursuing one of the ocean's most mysterious
creatures for years
** Mummy of shaman broken, research continues
Chinese scientists have carefully stripped a 2,800-year-old mummy, only to
find the corpse underneath the delicate attire of a possible shaman priest
had decayed and broken at the neck and arms
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** Saatchi's online gallery clicks with 6m
Saatchi has taken the concept of YouTube, the hugely successful
do-it-yourself video website, and squeezed it into the art world
** Brunel's ship tops museums league
Bristol's historic ss Great Britain has proved to be the most successful
museum in the England this year
** The old man and the urinal - Paris ponders a surreal question of the
value of art
Is it worth more if it has been attacked with a hammer and peed into in the
name of art by an old man who once chopped off part of his finger?
** Canadian Museum of Nature's New Bird Gallery Takes Flight
Visitors will learn to distinguish birds through their physical
characteristics, understand aspects of their behaviours, as well as obtain
tips for birdwatching
** Digging culture
The artefacts from this excavation form the basis of the Nickle Arts
Museum's Ancient Peru Unearthed - the first exhibition of Sican art in North
America and only the third showing of Sican objects outside of Peru
** Thieves steal valuable art for scrap metal
Thieves in New Orleans dismantled and stole thousands of dollars' worth of
sculptures by artist John T. Scott, apparently for the metal more than the
art
** Iran's largest site-specific museum at Gohar-Tappeh
The establishment of the museum is very important for the region, which
contains evidence from the Lower Palaeolithic, Middle Palaeolithic, and
Upper Palaeolithic eras
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** Mayor places museum director on forced leave
Mayor Kathy Taylor has placed the executive director of the Gilcrease Museum
on administrative leave with pay, but cited no reasons for her action
Eleven states want voice in appeal of Montana museum case
Eleven states say a court decision about the future of a museum on a vast
Montana ranch stands to have far-reaching effects, and they want to weigh in
as the Montana Supreme Court considers an appeal
Film Aside, Museums Have Their Tales to Tell
A few years ago, at Halloween, he hid a button under his tie... a little
pumpkin... that made a noise when you pushed it
Scholars Debate Viking Ships' Fitness for a 3-Mile Journey
The best way to stop it is still through diplomacy, but, if necessary, I
will be in front of the ships, chained to the floor
ARSC Annual Conference
What Makes the Museum - New England Museum Association 2007 Conference
NAGPRA Grants
The National Park Service invites proposals for FY 2007 Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) grants
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