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week's edition include:
** Ex-astronauts want shuttle at Air Force Museum
Eighteen former astronauts are urging the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration to award a space shuttle to the National Museum of the U.S.
Air Force when the shuttle program ends later this year
** Railroad museum learning to survive without Thomas
For the nonprofit's directors, the shiny black 40-ton saddle-tank engine
symbolizes much more: namely, that there is life after Thomas the Tank
Engine
** $7.85 Million for U.S. Coin, and Extra for a Stamp
The coin, believed by some experts to be the first United States dollar
ever minted, was sold to a nonprofit educational group for $7.85 million, a
world record for any coin
** Museum of London reopens modern galleries
In its largest development since it opened at the Barbican in 1976, the
museum unveils some 7,000 objects tracing the city's history, from the
Great Fire of 1666 to the present
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** What happened when Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin?
What exactly happened when Chaplin met Einstein? When Gladstone met
Tennyson? When Picasso met Stravinsky? What kind of sparks do we expect to
fly when globally famous figures meet? Do we assume there'll be a blinding
flash, a nuclear synergy, a Hadron-style collision of celebrity atoms that
will register on some celestial Richter scale?
** German minister: Bust stays
Germany's foreign minister says the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti
that has been in a Berlin museum for decades is in Germany legally and
could break if moved to Egypt
** 600 museums offer military families free admission
The list includes some of the nation's premier art museums, including New
York's Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as
science centres, children's museums and other sites in all 50 states
** Dumbing down history for entertainment?
Now or recently touring the world, you will find another show from the same
company featuring plasticised human bodies, two Tutankhamun exhibitions, a
Princess Diana experience and so many Leonardo Da Vinci shows I've lost
track of them
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** Hit by the Downturn, Museums Seek Bailouts
The Magnes Museum is giving away its entire collection of prized Jewish
art, including a 19th-century ketubah, or marriage contract, from one of
India's oldest Jewish communities
** New-look Florence Nightingale Museum reopens
Hidden within the complex of St Thomas' Hospital, it's easy to miss the
turn for the Florence Nightingale Museum and end up lost along the banks of
the nearby River Thames
** The men hoping to make a killing out of the mafia
In one of those cross-town rivalries that could perhaps happen only in Sin
City, Goodman and Bloom are now preparing to compete, head-to-head, for the
hearts and minds of visitors who fancy a bit of culture with the typical
Vegas diet of 24-hour entertainment
** Paintings worth millions stolen from Paris museum
A thief stole five paintings valued at more than $100 million, including
major works by Picasso and Matisse, in an overnight heist at a Paris modern
art museum with a broken alarm system
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** Astronomer Copernicus Reburied in Polish Cathedral
During a Roman Catholic ritual, the remains were interred beneath the altar
of Frombork Cathedral in northern Poland, where the astronomer had been the
canon (head priest) and where he originally was buried in 1543
** Utah Museum of Natural History to cycle fresh objects into new exhibits
Thomas's team of metal workers is fabricating 2,500 mounts that will allow
fossils, American Indian cultural artefacts, insects and other objects to
float off the backboards, while ensuring they hold in the event of a major
earthquake
** Dracula is in top 10 species list
The tiny 17mm-long dracula minnow, which is from a stream in northern
Myanmar, was scientifically named and identified by Museum fish experts
(ichthyologists) Dr Ralf Britz and Dr Lukas Rüber, and Dr Kevin Conway from
Saint Louis University, USA
** Chief Of Intrepid Resigns
The president of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum resigned Wednesday,
one year after the New York State Attorney General began investigating him
as part of a widespread probe into financial marketing firms operating
without proper licenses
** Dutch museum honours forger who stung it for a fortune
An art forger who sold a fake to Nazi air force chief Hermann Goering is
finally getting the recognition that eluded him in life - from a museum he
famously conned out of a small fortune seven decades ago
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** Israeli art detectives crack a forgery riddle
The portrait of a glum, bespectacled man was about to go on auction in
Amsterdam when someone at Sotheby's noticed a problem: Israel's national
museum owned precisely the same painting
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries - The presence of Jupiter in your fourth house indicates newfound
personal maturity. The presence of empty pizza boxes in your first
apartment, however, suggests otherwise
** Staff treated by paramedics after 'chemical incident' at Science Museum
Nine members of staff and contractors are being treated for mild irritation
to the eyes and throat
** Tiffany: Colour and Light
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
** Building Shared Agendas: Conversations on the Public Value of Visitor
Studies
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Shared Agendas: Conversations on the Public Value of Visitor Studies
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