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week's edition include:
** Rattanarithikul's lifelong obsession with mosquitoes
Dr. Rampa Rattanarithikul is sitting in the Museum of World Insects and
Natural Wonders, which she founded with her husband in 1999
** Mandela work gifted to toy museum
Toys fashioned by Nelson Mandela during a visit to a Soweto school have been
gifted to Nuremberg's international toy museum - by a Stirling gallery
** At Victoria and Albert, jewels go high tech
It could be defined as a new "crystal palace" - and what more fitting place
to install it than in another monument to Queen Victoria's era, the edifice
dedicated to herself and her husband?
** Bruce Lee's family proposes big museum in Seattle
The proposal to build a Bruce Lee Action Museum, which relatives are calling
BLAM, was announced Sunday at a commemoration of the 35th anniversary of his
death
** Bsous museum highlights Lebanon's history as major silk producer
Lebanon's first silk factory was established in 1840 in Btater, Mount
Lebanon - in those days the mountain was an autonomous district within the
Ottoman Empire
** Monet? Gauguin? Using art to make better doctors
After an hour at the museum, the class walked back to Harvard Medical School
to apply what they had learned about examining art to diagnosing breathing
problems, skin rashes, and neurological disorders, and to reading lung
X-rays
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** Tour of Afghan cave paintings
Cave paintings in Afghanistan have been declared to be the first oil
paintings in the world, by Japanese experts
** Charting India's maritime tradition
It is fascinating to see how two fortified ammunition bunkers built prior to
World War II by the British in Fort Kochi have been turned into a maritime
museum of the Indian Navy
** Hexagons, teardrops and hubris
The Whitney Museum's survey of Fuller's exploits comes at a time of food
shortages, oil inflation, and global warming - all auguring the sort of doom
that Fuller found stimulating
** Appetizers in The Urology Museum
The American Urological Association opened its yearly exhibition at its
headquarters - theme: Plagues and Pestilence - and put on display the
Lebenswecker, or "life awakener," a foot-long German instrument from the
early 1900s that doctors used to deal with anything from asphyxia to
syphilis
** Brazilian police recover stolen Picasso print, arrest suspect in robbery
Police have arrested a suspect in the heist of two Pablo Picasso prints from
a museum in Sao Paulo and recovered one of the works
** Rebels, Radicals and Reprobates
There is a cigar stub Babe Ruth left at a brothel and the shorn locks of an
outfielder - the "Bearded Babe Ruth" - who played for a barnstorming
religious sect that preached celibacy
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** Tales from beyond the grave
Over the last 30 years, the Museum of London has excavated, examined and
archived 17,000 skeletons and now 26 of them are to go on display at the
Wellcome Trust in London
** Lichtenstein, Warhol works nabbed
Thieves broke into a Swedish art museum and made off with several works by
American icons Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol worth some 320,000 euros
** Museum within a museum
The Fiji Museum is showcasing another museum within it for the first time in
an effort to merge and bond two different cultures
** Scholars will reassemble ancient Egyptian boat
Archaeologists and scholars will excavate hundreds of fragments of an
ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to
Giza's Great pyramid
** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo July 23 to August 22 - Scientists will discover a new substance more
dense than uranium and plutonium combined, at which point you'll kindly ask
that they leave your home
** Exhibit illustrates advances in prefab home design
An accompanying exhibit inside MoMA traces the history of prefab housing
dating to 1833, when H. Manning of London began selling portable colonial
cottages for emigrants to Australia, boasting that the homes could be
assembled in a day
** Discovering the Power of Transformation
The 2008 AASLH Annual Meeting, Discovering the Power of Transformation will
be held in Rochester NY from September 9 through 12.
** Italian frescoes portray golden age of Roman Empire
The ancient Roman civilisation may well be described as an important seed of
world civilisation and human history.
** No Limits: Museums Define the Future
The Western Museums Association 2008 Annual Meeting
** Call For Papers - 2008 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Archaeological
Conference
October 15-19, 2008
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