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week's edition include:
** A Sugar Baron's Scattered Art Collection
The 19th-century sugar tycoon William Hood Stewart ran a plantation in Cuba
with thousands of acres and hundreds of slaves, and invested the profits
partly in European paintings
** Bloomberg Charity to Underwrite Mobile Guides for Museums
The institutions - the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Botanical Garden and the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum - will replace their traditional audio guides with more
advanced mobile guides that use technologies like GPS and 3D imaging
** King David-Era Find May Confirm Old Testament Text
Israeli tour guide Binyamin Tropper, who thought he was the first to
discover the major historical artifact, was astonished to find out that
authorities had known about the pillar for decades - and had been keeping it
a secret all that time
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** Queen Victoria's sketches and watercolours go on display at Windsor
Castle
Intimate sketches by Queen Victoria of her children will be one of the
highlights of a new exhibition featuring artwork by the royal family through
the centuries
** Museum sculpture to get crash-damage inspection
Structural engineers were scheduled Monday to check the damage to a Fort
Wayne Museum of Art sculpture toppled in a drunken-driving accident Sunday
morning - an incident that could prove extremely costly for the driver
** Lost Letters by Catherine the Great, Tchaikovsky Returned to Russia
U.S. investigators have recovered and returned historical documents that
were stolen two decades ago from Russia's archives, including letters by
Catherine the Great and composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
** Museum of Science and Industry celebrates 80th birthday with 80
artifacts
The museum also has brought back some of its most popular artifacts for the
collection, like a replica of the giant, moving Paul Bunyan head statue from
the 1950s "World of Hardwoods" exhibit, which had visiting school children
either enamored or terrified
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** Museum head fired after show satirising Sochi Olympics
Regional authorities in Russia on Wednesday fired a prominent art museum
director and opposition activist after he organised an exhibition poking fun
at Russia's hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
** How snails point to the trails of ancient seafarers in Ireland
When a group of French or Spanish travelers sailed the Atlantic to Ireland
about 8,000 years ago, they carried along a species of snails that today
bear genetic witness to their passage
** U.S. finds long-lost diary of top Nazi leader, Hitler aide
The diary includes details about tensions within the German high-command -
in particular, the crisis caused by the flight of Rudolf Hess to Britain in
1941, and the looting of art throughout Europe, according to the preliminary
analysis
** The Court Ruling That Could End Unpaid Internships for Good
Judge Pauley adopted a stringent, six-point test advocated by the US
Department of Labor to determine whether or not an intern can legally go
unpaid
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** Museum's disposal of Nishga Girl boat a "tremendous insult," Japanese
Canadians say
The fact that a boat built by one of their own was on display in an
important national museum was a source of pride within the 90,000-strong
Japanese-Canadian community
** Swiss Website Aims to Help Museums Track Nazi-Looted Art
The Swiss government has started a new Internet portal to help claimants,
museums and researchers track down art looted by the Nazis that has found
its way to Switzerland, an art-market hub before and during World War II
** Museum Hosts Bar Mitzvah For Superhero
The Jewish Museum of Maryland in Baltimore celebrated the opening of the new
Superman movie and the museum's comic book exhibit with a bar mitzvah party
for the superhero
** Museum cafes go gourmet
Cakes that look like a museum's Mondrians, seawater cocktails served atop an
exhibit on icy bodies of water and optical illusion cupcakes that mess with
your mind
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** Alberta warplane museum plans major expansion
In 1991, a museum featuring the restored Lancaster and other Air Force
vestiges opened in the town south of Calgary near where many pilots trained
during the Second World War
** Oslo museum highlights strong bond between Nunavut town and explorer
Roald Amundsen
The building, dedicated to the exploration of the Northwest Passage, is
largely dominated by the 47-ton sloop named Gjøa that carried Norwegian
explorer Roald Amundsen through the first-ever navigation of the passage
from 1903 to 1906
** Federal museum cancels plans for underwear exhibit
The Museum of Civilization - which is being renamed the Museum of Canadian
History - lost $70,000 in deposits it paid to reserve "Undressed" which
originated with the prestigious Royal Victoria and Albert Museum in London
** Making a museum game that's more than just a tour of the building
Chosen from 26 submissions, our Capture The Museum concept was inspired by
classic board games like Risk and Trivial Pursuit, impressing National
Museums Scotland with its simplicity and focus on the physical environment
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** Couple who found 400-year-old body of native American woman in their
yard forced to pay $5,000
A Canadian couple found a skeleton while digging for a new fence at their
home in Sarnia only to be told that they had to pay $5,000 for its
archeological assessment
** Scientists Discover Mollusks Are Next Evolutionary Stage For Humans
Evidence shows that modern humans emerged on the evolutionary timeline about
200,000 years ago, developed into the highly evolved hominids of today, and
are now transforming into soft-bodied invertebrates
** Ancient Toilet Reveals Parasites in Crusader Poop
The findings paint a less than pretty picture of the health and hygiene of
crusaders stationed on the Mediterranean island 800 years ago
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