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week's edition include:
** Italy's museum czar's recipe: Cultural tourism can help end recession
One of Italy's top culture officials has pushed private investment in the
country's museums and galleries and the seemingly insatiable Chinese and
Indian appetites for art and archaeology as the way to pull the country out
of its recession
** Ousted Museum Group Angry Over Breakup
Even months later, the fallout from the Brooklyn Museum's December meeting
lingers in hurt feelings, canceled memberships and rewritten wills
** The Iceberg Was Only Part of It
Now, a century after the liner went down in the early hours of April 15,
1912, two new studies argue that rare states of nature played major roles in
the catastrophe
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** Hot Find! Humans Used Fire 1 Million Years Ago
Ash and charred bone, the earliest known evidence of controlled use of fire,
reveal that human ancestors may have used fire a million years ago, a
discovery that researchers say will shed light on this major turning point
in human evolution
** American Military Museum in Charleston loses lease; thousands of items
at risk
The biggest fear for curators of the American Military Museum is what to do
about the collection's thousands of artifacts, some of which date back to
the American Revolution
** Guggenheim Project Challenges 'Western-Centric View'
In an effort to reach beyond the Western art world the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Foundation is embarking on a five-year program to work with artists,
curators and educators from South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the
Middle East and North Africa
** V&A Museum's Great Bed of Ware makes itself at home
Shakespeare used it as a byword for huge size and 26 butchers and their
wives allegedly spent the night in it for a bet in 1689; now the enormous
Tudor bed that has been a centrepiece of the Victoria and Albert Museum for
more than 80 years has a new temporary home
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** Ancient skeleton linked to Polynesia
A human skeleton formally buried almost 8000 years ago on a small strategic
island off China's coast is creating excitement that it may represent a
direct line to the world's youngest race - New Zealand's Maori and
Polynesians
** Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya
The exhibition at the MIT Museum, a related symposium being organized by the
Cambridge Science Festival, and other talks and lectures throughout 2012,
will provide insight to some of the most groundbreaking environmental
research currently taking place, and offer the general public the
opportunity to engage with scientists and researchers
** Museum's £2m Chinese treasures stolen in 60 seconds
Thieves who broke into Durham University's Oriental Museum to steal Chinese
treasures worth £2 million were in and out in as little as one minute, the
detective leading the inquiry has said
** Google Art goes East; India hopes it will clean up their museums' acts
When a team from the Google Art Project visited the rarified corridors of
the Indian cultural bureaucracy last year and offered to gigapixelate and
upload museum collections, senior official Vijay Madan grew very suspicious
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** Louvre Museum & Nintendo Have Joined Forces
As part of an ongoing partnership between Nintendo Co., Ltd and the Louvre
Museum in Paris, the most visited art museum in the world, Nintendo will be
providing the Louvre with Nintendo 3DS(TM) systems that will house an
exclusive audio guide
** Civil War museum gives severed arm a good look
Long after the guns grew silent at Antietam, the earth yielded up gruesome
reminders of the bloodiest day of the American Civil War: bodies, bones,
buttons and entire severed limbs - one of which is now the focus of intense
study at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine
** My Life as a Malacologist
Join Dr. Rüdiger Bieler in this behind the scenes of The Field Museum's
invertebrate collection and enjoy his life story to become a malacologist
** Why Apple Should Have A Public Museum At Its New Campus
Apple needs to build a public museum to celebrate it's past and present; it
also needs to create a dedicated public space at the new campus
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** Museum offers chance of a lifetime to live like a Tudor
The chosen couple will take part in all aspects of Tudor life - from
dressing in the costume from the era, eating authentic Tudor food and
undertaking household chores to trying Tudor recreational activities, such
as archery and cloth dying
** 100 Years Later: A Snapshot of Life on the Titanic
When the famous ship hit the infamous iceberg nearly 100 years ago on April
15, 1912, the Titanic didn't just send hundreds of its passengers to the
bottom of the ocean - it also took all the evidence of what life was like on
board for the ill-fated travelers
** Teenagers over last century focus of museum exhibit
After the horrific First World War and the death of so many young men, the
notion of being a teen was formed and the word teenager became more popular
** Whacked Mobsters Star in $42 Million Las Vegas Museum
Getting off at the third floor, I started with a primer on the history of
the Mafia in the U.S., going back to certain 19th-century immigrants who
pursued the American dream by any means necessary
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** Georgia's Stalin Museum to Focus on Dictator's Crimes
Historians say that during Stalin's rule, millions of people were executed,
died in prison camps, or starved to death in famines caused by the forced
collectivization of agriculture
** Skull Confirms Older Origin for 'Living Fossil' Fish
Now, the remains of a coelacanth skull found in the Yunnan Province of
China, confirms these creatures have been around, largely unchanged, for
more than 400 million years
** Placing' Europe in the Museum: people(s), places, identities
International Conference as part of the European Museums in an Age of
Migrations (MeLA)
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** Recent Advances in Characterizing Asian Lacquer Workshop
This five-day workshop will take place at the Getty Center in Los Angeles,
October 22-26, 2012.
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