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week's edition include:
** Museums hit hard by flooding
Damage reports from the 88 counties declared state disaster areas indicate
that both buildings and museum collections have suffered extensive water and
mud damage
** Sensitive China quake photo removed from exhibit
We don't know if we were told to remove the photo," said Wu Zhiwei,
assistant to the general manager of Museum Cluster Jianchuan, the organizer
of the exhibit and the largest privately run museum in China."And if we were
told to remove the photo, we're not sure we could tell you."
** High-tech mummycam unwrapped
Before obtaining the equipment, Field scientists had used mid-1960s-era
X-ray equipment to peek at mummys - a slow and limiting process that
required film development and often, said Brown, "a lot of cursing and
swearing" from frustrated Field technicians.
** Join the dots: on the trail of that missing Hirst
When Chris Evans announced he had sent a work by BritArt's best-known living
artist to a charity shop by mistake, it sparked a frenzy in Surrey - sort of
** Silent Auctions Make Noise Online
This season, several museums are opening up their traditional fund-raising
auctions to online bidders in order to coax money from far-flung donors
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** Framing a Century: Photography from 1840-1940
From the daguerreotype to the cellphone snapshot, the history of photography
has unfolded as a series of miracles, each of which has profoundly altered
our understanding of the time-space continuum
** Duran Duran make Louvre history
The gig was organised as part of a fundraising effort for the 18th century
Decorative Arts Gallery of the museum, which is due to re-open in 2011
** Cologne museum to show long Jewish ties to the city
A new Cologne museum will show how Jewish life in the city goes back more
than 1,700 years and, civic leaders hope, help revive it decades after the
Holocaust
** Museum chief shocked over sacking
Maimunah who retired as the Museum and Antiquities deputy director of the
National Museum, and served as a senior consultant for private museums with
several financial institutions, is credited with reviving the Sultan Alam
Shah Museum
** Painting that saved a king is back in Coventry
George III was quite old and he had suffered severe bouts of madness and
though he had come that, during his time on the throne the British lost many
of its American colonies so there was a growing disquiet among some people
in the country about the monarchy's role
** Robbers pay £1.25 gallery fee - and make off with two Picassos
About noon, three armed men paid the entrance fee and immediately went to
the second-floor gallery where the works were being exhibited, bypassing
more valuable pieces
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** Aussie rocks may hold keys to life on Earth
European and US scientists have proved for the first time two bits of
genetic coding, called nucleobases, contained in the meteor fragment, are
truly extraterrestrial
** Divers find 1780 British warship
The discovery of HMS Ontario, at the bottom of one of the Great Lakes on the
US-Canada border, has been hailed an "archaeological miracle"
'** Living jewels' out on display
Two Madagascan giant day geckos have been released into the Otago Museum's
popular tropical forest, joining about 1000 butterflies
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius. November 22 to December 21- When carrying out a book-burning,
first stoke the fire with smaller, lighter works from Austen and Waugh,
before throwing on the heavier hardbacks of Tolstoy and Joyce
** Dutch govt supports arts, culture conservation in Indonesia
The Dutch government had promised to continue its financial support to the
conservation of arts and culture in Indonesia, and also hold human resources
training, under a cooperation between Amsterdam`s Tropenmuseum and the
Jakarta Culture and Arts Agency
** Stelios in bid to reunite Elgin Marbles
Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of the budget airline easyJet, is due to
launch a one-man campaign to reunite the Elgin Marbles by taking out a
series of full-page advertisements in national newspapers across Britain
** Forensics confirm Phar Lap poisoned
Phar Lap achieved what many a rock star has promised but not delivered -
live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse
** OCLC Western Digital Forum
OCLC Western is pleased to present the fourth annual OCLC Western Digital
Forum on August 14-15, 2008, in Tacoma, Washington
** Elderhostel Opportunities
As you may know, Elderhostel is a not-for-profit and the world's largest
educational organization for older adults.
** ICOM Europe Tour 2008
Museum Tour and Conference - Between the Old and the New Europe
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