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week's edition include:
** Selling memories: the line between museum education and consumerism
Convincing a parent to visit a museum sounds like a better idea than pushing
them to buy unhealthy food, but still: we are talking about using the power
of advertising and consumerism in favor of a museum
** World's oldest pills treated sore eyes
In ancient Rome physicians treated sore eyes with the same active
ingredients as today, so suggests an analysis of pills found on the Relitto
del Pozzino, a cargo ship wrecked off the Italian coast in around 140 BC.
** Astronomical plans for UK museums and galleries
It seems, looking at the National Maritime Museum's plans for the latest
round of Stargazing, that curators in Greenwich might have pulled out all
the stops, lest anyone thought the meridian lines beneath their foundations
might be eclipsed for one night
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** The Murky History of Foosball
In the best tradition of skullduggery, claim and counterclaim, foosball (or
table football), that simple game of bouncing little wooden soccer players
back and forth on springy metal bars across something that looks like a mini
pool table, has the roots of its conception mired in confusion
** Moscow Design Museum exhibit shows off Soviet-era industrial design
If you're near Moscow before the end of January, you'll have the opportunity
to check out an exhibit at the Moscow Design Museum which shows off both the
beautiful graphic and industrial design of the era
** When is the next Doomsday (not) going to happen?
The Mayan blowout was just the latest in many centuries of bad calls by
prognosticators who have the audacity to think they can divine the End of
Everything
** Furuyama Moromasa's 44-foot Tokyo scroll rediscovered at Edinburgh
Central Library
Japanese painter Furuyama Moromasa, who has a pair of works in the British
Museum collection, is thought to have created the rare scroll during the
early 1700s, showing shops, theatres and citizens of Tokyo - known then as
Edo - going about everyday domestic life
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** What Constitutes Good and Bad Web Design?
As I began by grumbling about museum sites, it seems only fair to end by
praising a promising one: the new Web site of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,
which is to reopen in April after 10 years of renovation
** Titanic Museum Attraction brings artworks made of ice
Thousands of spectators gather to watch this free outdoor event as
professional and amateur ice carvers race the clock to create stunning,
unique works of art made completely from ice
** Archaeologists unearth enormous 2,000-year-old auditorium
In addition to the orchestra pit - in which choruses would have performed -
the ruins also include a narrow stage, featuring holes that are thought to
have allowed flooding for aquatic displays
** Police 'not very interested' in stolen $1 million Matisse painting found
in Essex
We have contacted the authorities with information about the artwork's
recovery but unfortunately the police don't seem to be very interested in
the criminal aspect because of the time that has passed
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** Museumsinsel - Museum Island: Berlin's Treasure Island
The structures on Museum Island were believed to be the first specifically
designed to house, originally at least, the private collections of the
Prussian royal family which is the second of its unique characteristics
** Digital Chinese caves preserve history
The technology enabled the Alive team to augment reality, enhancing colour
and magnifying detail; they are also experimenting with animation: the
scarves of Bodhisattvas (enlightened beings) riding elephants flutter in a
virtual breeze while dancers spring from the wall and perform movements
choreographed by the Beijing Dance Academy
** Vienna museum may hold art stolen by Nazis
A screening program that started in 2007, years after other Austrian museums
began combing their collections for works taken from their rightful owners,
has determined that about 500 works of art and 900 books are of dubious
origin, Der Standard said
** Mournful, Angry Views of Ireland's Famine
The museum, a project of Quinnipiac University, presents a selection of
these prints and periodicals, as well as letters and other documents,
responding in real time to Ireland's starving populace and deserted villages
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** Have you digitally interfaced with your art museum lately?
So far, it seems that digital technologies are primarily being applied to
nuts-and-bolts issues of institutional survival, maintenance and growth
** Descend into the Kansas Underground Salt Museum
Perky Patty informed us that the ground we stood on, 650 feet below the
surface of the Earth, was covered 275 million years ago by the Permian Sea
** French Neo-Nazi Museum Guard Adds Art Theft To A Long Criminal Resume
Emmanuel Rist, a former guard at the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar in Alsace,
was convicted of stealing 17 artworks from the museum, including pieces by
Alsatian illustrator Hansi, Italian painter Alberto Magnelli, and French
painter Roger Bissière
** Ornithologist Forced To Participate In History Channel's 'What If Humans
Suddenly Became Birds?' Program
At press time, Lewis was looking into a camera and stating that in order for
humans to fly, each of their arms would have to be the size of a
Harley-Davidson (satire)
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** Really ugly bugs at Houston museum
It's hard to love a vinegarroon, and whipping up warm feelings for hissing
cockroaches isn't much easier
** Andy Warhol Museum uses strong Twitter following to broaden art
The museum also has a "screen test" interactive exhibit on the sixth floor
that allows visitors to create their own screen tests, manipulated in slow
motion - the way the Pittsburgh-born pop artist used to do in his New York
Studio - that are then pushed to the museum's website and sent to the user
** Pinned Things
iDigBio in Collaboration with The Field Museum Announces Dried Insect
Digitization Workshop for April 24-25, 2013
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** SOIMA 2013: Safeguarding sound and image collections
Nairobi (Kenya) with study visits to partner institutions
** Inauguration Day Events
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian invites the public
to celebrate Inauguration Day with a special exhibition, a two-day festival
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