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week's edition include:
** Smithsonian turns to 3D to bring collection to the world
With just 2 percent of the Smithsonian's archive of 137 million items
available to the public at any one time, an effort is under way at the
world's largest museum and research institution to adopt 3D tools to expand
its reach around the country
** The Tate denies plans to throw archive 'in a skip'
The Tate have denied accusations that they were about to throw away a
photographic archive before they were rescued by a charity
** Dead for 32,000 Years, an Arctic Plant Is Revived
The Russian researchers excavated ancient squirrel burrows exposed on the
bank of the lower Kolyma River, an area thronged with mammoth and woolly
rhinoceroses during the last ice age
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** Vatican eyes 1,500-year-old Bible held in Turkish capital
The Vatican reportedly placed an official request to examine the scripture,
which was written on pages made of animal hide in the Aramaic language using
the Syriac alphabet
** Toilet seat museum brings joy
In Texas, Barney Smith is a modern day king of thrones as owner of the
Toilet Seat Museum and, at 90, he still gets up every morning to greet
visitors with a cane in hand
** Spanish museum gives Picasso masterpiece "Guernica" thorough medical
check
A giant robotic machine is taking tens of thousands of microscopic shots of
the black-and-white anti-war masterpiece to allow experts to penetrate the
work like never before and see its real condition after a hectic life
traveling the globe
** Families oppose 9/11 remains at memorial museum
The families said they oppose a plan to place unidentified human remains of
the New York victims in an underground repository at bedrock they say
"desecrates" the memory of their loved ones
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** Roman Same-Sex, Slaves and Lex Scantinia
Roman religion supported acceptance of sexuality, as an aspect that
prospered religious practice for improving erotic lifestyle as well as
defining an individual's power through the procreative force of the male
** Museums fail to excite young visitors
However, Vietnam is also home to other museums, reproached for being
monotone, for the unprofessionalism of curators, for the lack of information
about installations and the lack of interesting and diverse activities
** Museum highlights beachwear popular in the late 1800s, early 1900s
Visitors expecting to see actual bathing wear could be in for a shock:
"beachwear" usually were lighter-colored versions of the traditional
fashions was worn on seaside vacations, made with lighter materials such as
cotton
** In budget cut, U of Northern Iowa to close museum
It would also mark a major shift for an institution that dates back to 1892,
when faculty members in geology and biology collected artifacts and
specimens for use in the classroom, and is one of five natural history
museums in Iowa.
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** Ghent Altarpiece Gets Own Interactive Web Site
A group of American and European art officials have announced that as part
of an emergency conservation of the Ghent Altarpiece that has been taking
place over the last year, the work has been photographed centimeter by
centimeter at extremely high resolution for the first time
** Met to honour Italian fashion legends
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will hold a retrospective
honouring Italian fashion legends Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada this
spring, organisers said at Milan Fashion Week
** Rajasthan museum seeks maharaja's plane crash wreckage
A museum in India's Rajasthan state has asked Jodhpur Central Jail to hand
over the wreckage of an aircraft that crashed in 1952, killing Maharaja
Hanwant Singh and his mistress
** Ancient Olympia museum theft worse than originally reported
Police in Greece say 77 artifacts were stolen by armed robbers at a small
museum in Ancient Olympia - the birthplace of the ancient games - revealing
that the extent of the theft was worse than originally reported
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** A Tiny Horse That Got Even Tinier as the Planet Heated Up
Its preserved fossils, abundant in the Bighorn Basin, provide an excellent
record of its size change over a 175,000-year warm period in the Earth's
history known as the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, when temperatures are
estimated to have risen by 9 to 18 degrees Fahrenheit at the start, and
dropped again at the end
** Morgue water bubbles art pulled from exhibition
Lower Hutt's Dowse Art Museum has cancelled an exhibition by a Mexican
artist because its use of water from a morgue upset Maori
** Madrid's Prado museum puts Mona Lisa's "twin" on display
Madrid's Prado museum has put a contemporary copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's
"Mona Lisa" on display just weeks after rocking the art world with
revelations about its provenance
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus - After years of loneliness, you'll find the only other person on
Earth who cares about cuttlefish as much as you do, inspiring a mutual
hatred that will last the rest of your short and violent lives
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** Albania opens new museum wing on abuses during its former communist
regime
Albania's National Museum opened a new wing Monday on the abuses of the
former communist regime, timing the dedication to the 21st anniversary of
the toppling of former communist dictator Enver Hoxha's monument
** Beyond Planet Earth
People may be wowed by the visions for exploration on display, but unless
they're already predisposed to the idea of human exploration of space - not
an unreasonable assessment given the self-selection involved with deciding
to pay to attend the exhibit - the models and other aspects of the exhibit
may not close the case why they should support it
** Museum Documentation, Principles and Practice
May 20 - May 25 2012CIDOC, the ICOM International Committee for
Documentation, in collaboration with the Museum of Texas Tech University, is
planning an innovative programme of training seminars: the CIDOC Summer
School.
** Historic New England presents Program in New England Studies
Discover the rich history of the region with Historic New England's Program
in New England Studies, an intensive week-long exploration of New England
from Monday, June 18 to Saturday, June 23.
** The Intangible Elements of Culture in the Ethnoarchaeological Research
The Italian Society for Ethnoarchaeology (AIE) is pleased to announce this
International Conference
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