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** Cash-strapped councils clear out their collections
The Museums Association, which provides advice to local authorities on
museum collections, has said it has recently been approached by at least one
other council about a major art disposal, prompting fears that other
councils may soon dispose of key works
** The Captain Kidd Story
The central narrative follows the life of Captain Kidd, a Scottish sailor
who drifted from the navy through state-sponsored privateering to outright
piracy during a short and fairly miserable career that ended with him
swinging from a rope in front of a mocking crowd at Execution Dock, Wapping
in 1701
** French National Museums Are Turning Into Businesses, Curators Complain
Notwithstanding public servants' pledge of professional reserve, curators
have for the first time decided to speak out: they have just published a
blueprint in which they denounce the negative effects of having to sell
products, as a result of cuts in public funding, and declare that they are
"confronted with the same problems that plague hospitals and universities."
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** From The Blogs - Field Museum Sends Team To Save Rainforest
After we passed the Cordillera, we flew over an immense green carpet of
lowland rainforest, interrupted only by the occasional flight of a King
Vulture down below, or colorful flocks of Blue-and-yellow Macaws who prefer
the enormous Mauritia palm swamps
** Museum crushed ancient plate
A precious piece of Song Dynasty porcelain was damaged during
"nondestructive" testing by a research staff member, the Forbidden City
authorities confirmed on Sunday, a day after a Web user had already leaked
the information online
** Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden Reveals Secret about Souvenirs
They secretly carried nearly 400 first day covers into space and made a deal
with a German stamp collector to sell 100 of them and use the proceeds to
set up trust funds for their children
** HMS Belfast adds thrilling Gun Turret Experience
Gun Turret Experience: A Sailor's Story 1943 uses lights, imagery, sound,
movement and smoke effects to recreate the atmosphere and conditions as they
were experienced by a wartime gun crew in action
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** Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on Sept 11
Besides ending nearly 3,000 lives, destroying planes and reducing buildings
to tons of rubble and ash, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed tens of
thousands of records, irreplaceable historical documents and art
** Qld Museum won't reveal whereabouts of prized German Mephisto tank
The Queensland Museum's most valued possession, the captured tank Mephisto,
is again shrouded in secrecy after being whisked away to an undisclosed
location for flood restoration work
** Schwarzenegger museum opens in Vienna
The world's first museum dedicated to former "Governator" and Mister
Universe Arnold Schwarzenegger opened its doors Saturday in his birthplace
of Thal in southern Austria
** Met Museum to send 19 artifacts to Egypt
Nineteen artifacts taken from the tomb of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun
will be returned to Egypt next week after more than half a century at The
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
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** Hanoi museum to display thousand-year-old jades
According to Dr. Nguyen Dinh Chien, the museum's assistant director, the
items were part of collection owned by the Louis Finot Museum before 1954
** Rare aircraft parts go up in smoke
Evergreen Museum curator Stewart Bailey pretty much knew every spare part,
rocket replica, gun mount and helicopter miscellany that was destroyed when
a spectacular fire tore through a large storage building here
** Ogdensburg museum burglary nets gold worth $400,000
The 20 stolen gold pieces were representative of gold as extracted from
specific mines in areas around the world from Australia to California
** Museum Shows History and Power of Wind Energy
Dozens of old, clanking windmills occupy the grounds of a small, breezy
hilltop, irrigating the grass, while a 165-foot-tall modern turbine, made by
the Danish company Vestas, towers in the background and supplies the museum's
electricity
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** This Week's Horosopes
Aquarius - Please try to keep in mind that high summer temperatures do not
indicate the end of the world. The magma flowing up from the cracks in the
earth, however, bear thinking about
** MoMA Raises Admission to $25, Paid Director $1.6 Million in 2009, Down
14%
Both Futter and Campbell earned what amounts to 20 cents per visitor in
2009-2010, while Lowry earned more than 50 cents for every attendee
** Burglars hunt down rhinos in museums
The museum had never been robbed until the July heist, when it became the
latest of a rising number of science museums in Europe targeted by thieves
for rhino horns, which can fetch tens of thousands of euros on the black
market
** Museum uses Lincoln's wrestling past for WWE giveaway
Springfield's favorite son, whose skill as a wrestler has been recognized by
induction into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame's Hall of Outstanding
Americans, may never have donned sequins or worn his stovepipe hat into the
squared circle, but the museum that bears his name is promoting itself with
a pro wrestling ticket giveaway
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** Mengele's handwritten manuscripts to be sold
The archive is composed of over 3,300 pages of handwritten text, some
illustrated, largely in bound journals, written while Mengele was in hiding
in Paraguay and Brazil between 1960 and 1975
** The Theft That Made The 'Mona Lisa' A Masterpiece
If you were standing outside the Louvre in Paris on the morning of Aug. 21,
1911, you might have noticed three men hurrying out of the museum
** The Museum Professional Network: Careers, Connections and Community
ICTOP Annual Conference. Toronto Oct. 24-26 2011
** Nawi - Exploring Australia's indigenous watercraft
Call for Conference Papers Now Open - due by 31 October 2011
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