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week's edition include:
** Controversial Auckland museum director resigns
Canada-born Dr Vitali's three years at the museum have been dogged by
disputes which saw her at odds with members of World War 2 Bomber Command
and the family of Mt Everest conqueror, the late Sir Edmund Hillary
** Art criticism starts with love and hate
So, here's one of the greatest artists alive, doing what we critics are
accused of doing - rating the artists, making little lists of favourites,
dismissing others on a second thought
** Medieval child's brain found preserved in France
Found inside the skull of a 13th century A.D. 18-month-old child from
north-western France, the brain had been fixed in formalin solution since
its discovery in 1998
** Da Vinci 'predicted world would end in 4006' says Vatican researcher
She claimed to have worked out that da Vinci foresaw the end of the world in
a "universal flood" which would begin on March 21, 4006 and end on November
1 the same year
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** Gold coin 'worn by Caesar's assassin' to go on display at British Museum
A gold coin emblematic of Julius Caesar's assassination is to be showcased
at the British Museum to mark the 2054th anniversary of the Roman emperor's
death
** NYC art exhibit includes nude pair standing still
New York's finest are unlikely to interfere with the version that opened at
MoMA on Sunday, though some museum-goers may choose not to do the sideways
limbo between bare bodies
** Ancient Amphibian Skull Discovered at Pittsburgh Airport
A meat-eating amphibian that lived 300 million years ago may represent one
of the earliest examples of land-based vertebrate life
** Hero's medals given to Duxford Imperial War Museum
A war hero's Battle of Britain medals will be gifted to a museum which is on
the site of the former Cambridgeshire airfield he was based at
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** Glass Eyeballs and Kidney Literature
When the Duke History of Medicine Collections underwent an internal audit
last year, it found a number of interesting stockpiles in its holdings,
including boxes of glass eyeballs and old surgical saws that date back
nearly 400 years
** Frank museum to display all writings on 50th anniversary
The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam will for the first time display all of
her writings when it begins celebrating next month its 50th anniversary
** British marine the face of NZ museum
The museum has become a bit of a laughing stock for choosing the wrong
nationality and the wrong code to advertise its wares
** Cro Magnon skull supports theory that human brains have begun to shrink
Humans like to portray themselves as a sophisticated life form driven by
brain rather than brawn, so they may be surprised by a project to
reconstitute a 28,000-year-old skull from remains found in France
** The Cursed Jewel
When John Whittaker, the museum's former head of micropaleontology, took it
to a meeting, he encountered the most violent thunderstorm he had ever seen
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** Ultra-modern Chopin museum opens in Poland
Located in Warsaw's revamped 17th century Ostrogski Palace, perched on a
hill near the Vistula River, the museum is designed to plunge visitors into
Chopin's universe via cutting-edge audiovisual and interactive technologies
** Decapitated Dorset Vikings
Archaeologists from Oxford believe the men were probably executed by local
Anglo Saxons in front of an audience sometime between AD 910 and AD 1030
** Blog follows restoration of Van Gogh artwork
A new blog will allow art lovers to follow the restoration, step by step, of
Dutch post impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh's famous "The Bedroom",
the Van Gogh Museum has stated
** Ancient sex on show in Paris
But the extraordinary and graphic testimonial of the ancient Moche
civilization of Peru isn't about physical pleasure or procreation, according
to the curator
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer, Jun 22 - Jul 22: Your life will soon be divided into
Pre-Angering-Of-The-Ants and Post-Angering-Of-The-Ants eras
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** Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artefacts Cases
As an undercover federal source in a years-long investigation into the
shadowy world of the excavation and trading of ancient American Indian art
and artefacts in the Southwest, Mr. Gardiner, 52, was at the centre of a
sprawling criminal case unfolding in federal court here and in Colorado
** In Archive and Exhibit, the Dead Live On
As the first large-scale public showing of artefacts from the collection, it
offers a tantalizing glimpse of material that is stirring the interest not
just of hard-core Deadheads but also of scholars
** Lofty Integrity: Donation of Works by Wu Guanzhong
Chinese Fine Art Gallery (4/F), Hong Kong Museum of Art
** Rethinking Museums
Commonwealth Association of Museums
** The First Cultural Entrepreneurship Institute at Cooperstown
Now Accepting Inquiries and Applications: The First Cultural
Entrepreneurship Institute at Cooperstown: a pilot project of the
Cooperstown Graduate Program and the Museum
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