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week's edition include:
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you 1,300 of the world's best museum stories and this year we plan to do the
same. May 2014 bring you happiness and prosperity
** Ancient Roman Metal Used for Physics Experiments Ignites Science Feud
Archaeologists and physicists are at loggerheads over ancient Roman lead - a
substance highly prized by both camps for sharply diverging reasons
** Cash-poor British NHS spends millions on art
Works include £8,000 steel giraffes at Tameside Hospital in Greater
Manchester, an £83,000 water feature at Salford Royal, and a £120,000
"ceiling artwork" at Barts and Royal London
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** Exhibit stars Indiana's prehistoric beasts
Indiana's own prehistoric beasts are the focus of the museum's new
exhibition which re-creates the process of uncovering the fossilized bones
of mammoths and mastodons, identifying them, studying them and finally
reassembling the skeletons to tower once again
** 3D printers revive the art of casting your own Venus
In the 19th Century, art lovers keen to enjoy classical sculptures in the
comfort of their own homes would buy a copy in plaster, cast by artisans
** Miami Museum Has 1,200 Cars, Bicycles, Vespas
The museum is so large that if every passenger on three 747 airplanes were
given just one item from the museum, they could all bike, drive or pedal
their way out,
** Medieval Crypt Contains Magical Inscriptions And 7 Mummies
A 900-year-old medieval crypt with seven mummies and walls covered with
inscriptions thought to be invoking divine protection has been excavated by
a team of researchers working at the site of Old Dongola in what is
modern-day Sudan
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** Museum repeats procedural blunder, Lion Capital pays price
The Indian Museum authorities had dragged themselves into a major
controversy by mishandling the priceless 250 BC Rampurba Lion Capital and
then trying to hush it up by terming it as a "mere accident"
** Wrecked ship could rewrite history
Scientists are arguing for the archaeological excavation of a shipwreck
buried in the Kaipara Harbour after a discovery that could rewrite New
Zealand's early European settlement
** Water Pipe Break Floods Burpee Museum
Employees at The Burpee Museum are working fast to save what they can after
a water pipe bursts over Christmas flooding the building and many of its
valuable items
** The Archaeology of Beer
Starting with a few porous clay shards or tiny bits of resin-like residue
from a bronze cup, McGovern is able to determine what some ancient Norseman
or Etruscan or Shang dynast was drinking as he kicked back thousands of
years ago
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** Toe Fossil Provides Complete Neanderthal Genome
Scientists have extracted the entire genome of a 130,000-year-old
Neanderthal from a single toe bone in a Siberian cave, an accomplishment
that far outstrips any previous work on Neanderthal genes
** Rare Tlingit war helmet uncovered in museum storage
The mystery began to unfold when Museum staff began to select objects from
the over 200,000 items in the Museum's collections for a new display titled
"People of the Northwest Coast"
** Museum reveals the art and science of fish X-rays
Species showcased in the exhibition of 16 back-lit images include such well
known varieties as Arctic char, capelin and Atlantic halibut, as well as
less familiar ones like the glacier lanternfish and the ninespine
stickleback
** The looting of a 16th Century library
Book-lovers around the world have been helping investigators trace thousands
of rare volumes looted from one of Italy's oldest libraries by a gang of
thieves including the librarian himself
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** U.S. Holocaust Museum Gets Long Lost Diary From Top Hitler Aide
The finding and return of the Rosenberg Diary is one more small but
significant step towards a full and complete understanding of the depraved
mindset of those responsible for the mass killing of Jewish people and
ethnic groups during World War Two
** Museum wants UNESCO listing for German Father Christmas
A German museum has applied for UNESCO heritage status for the country's
traditional Father Christmas, saying he is under threat from the cheery
version of Santa Claus popularised globally by Coca-Cola
** Refurbished Olympic Museum probes the secrets of sport
The 55 million Swiss franc (45 million euro, $62 million) renovation has
gone beyond the purely physical and technological, thoroughly rethinking the
way the museum traces the history of Olympianism
** Museum curators use models, 3-D tours to plot exhibits
Once the curator has the show arranged the way he wants it, a photographer
is brought in to shoot the tiny galleries, then photos are enlarged and
taped to gallery walls for the installation staff to follow
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** Delirious Rover Hallucinates Water On Mars
More than one year into the automated motor vehicle's exploration of Mars'
arid Gale Crater, NASA scientists confirm that the delirious, weakened
Curiosity rover is currently hallucinating that it has discovered water on
the Red Planet (satire)
** Shipwreck Museum showcases South Africa's maritime heritage
The coastline around the southern tip of Africa is feared for strong winds
and currents, gigantic storms, dangerous offshore reefs, shallow sand banks
and the rugged, unforgiving coastline
** Museum of 'Morbid Anatomy' to Open
The museum will be built inside a three-level former nightclub and house
spooky artifacts like a stuffed two-headed duckling, a lifelike wax model of
a smallpox patient and an opossum fetus floating in a jar
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** Moving the Needle: Academic Museums and Galleries Innovating the Future
Register now to take advantage of early registration rate for the 2014 AAMG
conference, Moving the Needle: Academic Museums and Galleries Innovating the
Future, taking place May 16-18 in Seattle, Washington.
** Community Voices: Oral History on the Ground
Conference Call for Papers - Annual Conference of the Oral History Society
** Unsung Bravery: The History of the Hong Kong Military Service Corps
The Hong Kong Military Service Corps (HKMSC) was a regular British Army unit
that was recruited in Hong Kong and consisted mainly of Chinese living in
the colony, and served Hong Kong until its disbandment in 1997
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