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week's edition include:
** Quirky Shad Museum Honors State Fish
In his museum, retired dentist Zaientz shows a memento that speaks of his
special relationship with Alosa sapidissima; it's a sculpted fish carved
with his former dental tools
** Paris museum organizes toy collection for Syrian refugee children
Over the past year, French schoolchildren have been taking part in workshops
at the Quai Branly Museum, which specializes in the indigenous art, culture
and civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas
** Harping On About History
In Africa, a rich tradition of harp-making took root thousands of years ago,
and today there are more than 150 styles of simple hand-carved harps (known
as ennanga or kundi) created from wood, animal skin and strings
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** Tate Britain releases shortlist for modern art's Turner prize
An artist who paints portraits of imaginary people joined a French-born
filmmaker, a British-German performance artist and a British multimedia
artist on the shortlist for modern art's most prestigious and controversial
award
** ArtHunter, the first ever collaborative free app for art
Created in association with one of the UK's leading mobile app development
companies, Kotikan, ArtHunter allows visitors to build their own art
collection at the touch of a button
** Humans may have reached the Americas 22,000 years ago
Humans lived in South America at the height of the last ice age, thousands
of years earlier than we thought, according to a controversial study
** Canadian Lynx re-ignites legend in UK museum basement
The specimen - the lynx Ab4458 - has been at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
ever since it was added to the collections there in February 1903, and what
makes it significant is that it was shot dead after living wild in Devon,
southern England
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** Museum adds Elvis' guitar to vast collection
A 16th-century Amati violoncello displayed in the National Music Museum has
long been nicknamed "The King," but the ghost of a legendary rock 'n' roller
has arrived in South Dakota to reclaim his regal moniker
** Four-thousand year old gold-adorned skeleton found near Windsor
Archaeologists, excavating near the Royal Borough, have discovered the 4400
year old gold-adorned skeleton of an upper class woman who was almost
certainly a member of the local ruling elite
** Museum donation boxes: are they universally ignored?
I suggest that the simplest and cheapest solution would be entry-point
turnstiles, on top of which gently vibrating begging bowls could be placed
** Some Were Neighbors
Whatever larger themes are sounded when the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum commemorates its 20th anniversary here this weekend, whatever is said
at the ceremony by former President Bill Clinton or by the museum's founding
chairman, Elie Wiesel, and whatever assessments are made about its
influence, accomplishments or limitations, it will take a visit to its new
exhibition, "Some Were Neighbors," to grasp one aspect of this imposing
institution's power
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** Ancient Europeans mysteriously vanished 4,500 years ago
What is intriguing is that the genetic markers of this first
pan-Europeanculture, which was clearly very successful, were then suddenly
replacedaround 4,500 years ago, and we don't know why
** Fire Destroys Danish Museum, Collection Saved
No one was injured in the fire and firefighters and staff who rushed to
thescene in central Copenhagen managed to save the majority of display items
** Smithsonian discovery: Alexander Graham Bell's voice, from 1885,
heardfor first time
Bell, widely credited with inventing the telephone, recorded his own voiceon
a wax disc in 1885, but until recently, no one knew how to play
themysterious disc he left behind
** ABBA The Museum to open in Stockholm
As opening day looms, convoys of trucks roll up to the site to deliver
thefurnishings and items that will make up the collection: flamboyant
sequinedcostumes, gold records, and recreations of their recording studio
anddressing rooms, among other things
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** Never-before-seen artifacts from JFK assassination to go on display in
Washington
The display includes Oswald's clothing, a jacket that police believe
hediscarded, his wallet and a blanket used to hide his rifle in a
friend'sgarage
** Quebec museum saves Cold-War submarine from the scrap heap
The people who operate a maritime museum in Rimouski decided one of the
fewCanadian vessels remaining from the Cold War should not end up as
razorblades or subway rails
** The 9/11 Museum: Curating memories of terror and tragedy
About a year from now, at ground zero in New York City, one of the
largestand most ambitious memorial museums in the world is scheduled to open
itsdoors to tell the story of that day - the National September 11
MemorialMuseum
** Basket Case - Museum appeals for bead basket funds
The Holburne Museum in Bath wants to buy a 17th Century basket, made
fromthousands of brightly coloured glass beads that have been threaded on
tofine wires, created to celebrate the reign of King Charles I
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** 'A Chinese Threat to Afghan Buddhas'
An international team has only until June to finish the excavations,
whichbegan in 2009; so far they have uncovered golden Buddhist statues,
dozens ofbuildings and fragile Buddhist manuscripts buried within temples
** Tracking down the history of ancient brews
Over the years, McGovern, the scientific director of the Penn
Museum'sBiomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages
andHealth, has discovered some of the oldest fermented beverages known to
man
** The Heritage Apprentice
Open to postgraduate students nationally (UK), this world-leading and
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eventmodelled on the BBC TV series 'The Apprentice'
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** XV International Museum Festival INTERMUSEUM
May 31 - June 4, 2013. Moscow,
** 23rd ICOM General Conference
The forthcoming 23rd ICOM General Conference marks the event's first visitto
Brazil, and on behalf of ICOM, we will be delighted to welcome you in
themarvellous city of Rio de Janeiro from 10-17 August, 2013 for what
promisesto be an exciting event
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