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week's edition include:
** Why Is This Museum Shaped Like a Tub?
Shaped like a bathtub, of all things, it arrives years behind schedule at
the tail end of the money-fueled, headline-hungry, erratically ingenious era
of indulgent museum design that began to peter out with the global economy
** American nightmare: the art of the Civil War
It was the first full-out conflict in which the mechanics and destruction
overwhelmed the individual actions of men, the first to be fought in
prolonged and unremitting trench warfare
** Japan's public museums enjoy a makeover
The renovation was impressive not just for what it did, but for what it
didn't do, which is destroy the charm of its original building - a
deceptively low-profile series of red-tile-clad rectangular prisms built in
1975 by Kunio Maekawa, a Le Corbusier pupil and one of Japan's most famous
modernist architects
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** Colombo Museum heist was one man show
Police say that there is no connection to a politician, businessman, police
officer or a foreigner in the Colombo Museum artefacts' robbery in March
** The Viking Ship Museum In Denmark
Fifty years ago they were discovered at the bottom of Roskilde Fjord, where
they had been deliberately sunk to create a defensive barrier in the 11th
century A.D.
** Digging into 2012's archaeology
As much as science looked to the future this year in fields ranging from
particle physics to planetary exploration, 2012 also gave us a rich view
into the past
** Teacher sole heir of $7.4M gold coin fortune
There were more than 2,900 Austrian coins, many from 1915; 4,500 from
Mexico; 500 from Britain; 300 U.S. gold pieces, some dating to 1880; and
more than 100 U.S. gold pieces as old as the 1890s
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** Cats at Hemingway Museum Draw Tourists, and a Legal Battle
The place teems with six-toed cats - the so-called Hemingway cats - who for
generations have stretched out on Hemingway's couch, curled up on his pillow
and mugged for the Papa-razzi
** Our deep relationship with water
Fifteen centuries before Coca-Cola and Pepsi began competing over the
bottled water industry, the undisputed market leader was the Catholic Church
** The Games We Played: Childhood Board and Card Games celebrated
Happily there are lots of games to try out in this feast of nostalgia, but
the exhibition also makes the point that people have been playing board
games since the dawn of civilisation; the earliest known complete gaming
boards - dating from about 3000 BC - being found in the Royal Tombs of Ur in
Iraq
** The Vegas Hotspot That Broke All the Rules
Then came the Moulin Rouge, in 1955, a neon cathedral dedicated to the
proposition that the only color that mattered in Vegas was green
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** Museum of Egyptian Revolution Vividly Chronicles Uprising
During the day, when the street is more quiet, anyone passing by can stop in
at the Museum of the Egyptian Revolution, a roofless collection of wooden
frames draped with plastic-covered photos and written memories
** Spanish botched fresco artist sells work on eBay
Gimenez became a sensation in August when pictures spread on the Internet of
an "Ecce Homo" ("Behold the Man") mural in the town of Borja that she
disfigured while trying to restore it
** Remains of man in armour found at 'Pompeii of Japan'
Archaeologists say they have unearthed the well-preserved body of a
sixth-century man who had apparently turned to face a flow of molten rock as
it gushed through his settlement
** Soft, strong and long: The story of toilet paper
Readers squinting at the small print below the eye-catching headline may
have been perplexed to find an advert for Joseph C. Gayetty's Medicated
Paper, America's first commercial toilet paper - the "greatest blessing of
the age", he trumpeted
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** Museum of Liverpool wins Council of Europe prize
It promotes mutual respect between ethnically and socially diverse parts of
the society, addresses human rights through contemporary debates and
dialogue and maintains an open and inclusive policy aimed at bridging
cultures in every aspect of its work
** China bans Chairman Mao portraits from Warhol exhibition
The Chinese authorities have said that Andy Warhol's renowned pictures of
Mao Zedong "won't work" for Chinese audiences when a huge touring exhibition
of the artist's work arrives in Shanghai next year
** New Butterfly Museum
World of Wings, a new butterfly museum featuring a tropical atrium, party
rooms for birthdays and a virtual reality theater has opened in Teaneck
** A coal museum powered by solar panels
If you had informed Arthur Scargill that solar panels were to be fitted to a
building connected with the coal mining industry twenty eight years ago, at
the height of the national miner's strike, the former leader of the National
Union of Mineworkers would have, at very least, probably laughed at you
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** Photos of Lost Russian Crown Jewels Found In US Library
Researchers described the discovery as "unique," noting that the photographs
were not included in "Russia's Treasure of Diamonds and Precious Stones," a
book widely considered to be the most complete inventory of the Russian
Crown Jewels
** Field Museum to cut staff and research, refocus mission
Battered by the recession and a high debt load, the Field Museum has
announced plans to cut staff, overhaul its operations and limit the scope of
its research
** Learning through Objects: Museums & Young Children
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Learning through Objects: Museums & Young Children.
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** Caring for Yesterday's Treasures-Today
Heritage Preservation is proud to announce Caring for Yesterday's
Treasures-Today, a new series of free, online courses about the preservation
of archival and historical collections.
** Awakened Sleepers.Transformed Places - Hong Kong International Sculpture
Symposium 2012
More than 30 sculptures created by local, Mainland China and overseas
artists are on now on display along the park's waterfront.
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