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week's edition include:
** Season's Greetings to all of our Readers
Wherever you may be and however you celebrate, can I wish you the
compliments of the season
** Russian Art Loan to London in Doubt
Russian authorities have cancelled a major exhibition of French and Russian
paintings set to open in London in January, fearing the art could be seized
to settle private legal claims
** DNA testing could solve Kelly Gang mystery
Momentum is gathering in the Queensland town of Murgon for DNA testing that
could prove a quiet loner buried in the local cemetery almost 70 years ago
was Kelly Gang bushranger Steve Hart
** Largest Farming Culture Museum under construction
China's biggest museum of farming culture is currently under construction in
Guyuan City of north-western Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
** Moscow's Pushkin Museum Is Set to Reopen With Cranach, Tiepolo
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is hauling hidden masterworks by Cranach and
Tiepolo out of storage and dusting off the golden treasures of Troy to mark
tonight's gala re-opening of its main Moscow exhibition space
** Rome exhibition showcases looted ancient art
Nearly 70 ancient artefacts that Italy says were looted and sold to
galleries abroad have been retrieved will now go on public display in a Rome
exhibition
** Grime-fighter to open cleaning museum
If cleanliness is next to godliness, Don Aslett's new museum might be the
next best thing to a cathedral
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** Hawaii aviation museum to restore Pearl Harbour control tower
The Pacific Aviation Museum plans to spend $1 million to restore the white
and red striped control tower that broadcast the first report of the World
War-II era attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbour
** Swiss police, eBay work together to seize Iraqi treasure for sale on
Internet
A German archaeologist had spotted the tablet bearing wedge-shaped cuneiform
script on the online auctioneer's Swiss Web site
** The tale of a teapot and its creator
Lovely though it is, the teapot's record-breaking price has more to do with
the rarity and fetishism that seduce collectors and inflate auction values,
than with its merits as an object
** German Museum to Screen Nazi Hate Movie
A German museum has announced plans for 16 screenings of "Jud Süss" (The Jew
Süss) - a pernicious Nazi hate movie set as a period piece - as part of an
exhibition picking apart how Nazi propaganda worked
** Site Of The week - Computer History Museum on YouTube
The Museum is committed to preserving and presenting the history and stories
of the Information Age and on YouTube they offer videos of the many events
and lectures at the museum
** 40-year love of old bits
I had a love of old bits and pieces, getting into old drawers and finding
medals and old cut-throat razors she had hidden away and talking about
thousands of years of history in the old country
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** A museum of Britishness would show all that is great about Blighty
They will focus not just on how a museum could relate the narrative of
British history, but how it could celebrate the great British values on
which our culture, politics and society have been shaped
** Yaa Asantewaa Heritage On Sale
Some historians have argued that the invasion of Kumasi by the British
colonial authorities was by no means a ploy to steal the Golden Stool, and
this is not far from the fate of the Yaa Asantewaa Museum
** Behind the ancient mask
There is scientific evidence the Sican civilization began to collapse around
AD 1100, when there was a terrible drought, a period of floods and the
deliberate burning of all the important buildings, including the ones where
self-proclaimed gods lived
** Needles to know at the Victoria and Albert Museum
When the V&A joined the annual tree party four years ago, it aimed at
something more "designerly" and also, some might feel, more Christmassy than
the Tate's
** Smithsonian Channel to Air 'Hidden Armour, Found Treasures'
There are four key elements to "Hidden Armour, Found Treasures" appraisals,
where guests bring
their potential treasures to be valued by the experts; home visits, so
viewers can see the items in context of a person's home; demonstrations that
delve into the mechanics of weapons and show how they work; and the actual
sales of some items at auction, so viewers can follow the process and see
what happens when these items actually come to market
** Captain Kidd's treasure ship found after 300 years
Archaeologists from the University of Indiana say they have found the wreck
of the Quedagh Merchant, an Armenian ship loaded with treasures - satins,
muslins, silver and gold - that probably belonged to the British East India
Company before being commandeered by Kidd in 1699
** HK Space Museum delves into the mystery of black holes- the latest Sky
Show production by the Hong Kong Space Museum
** 2008 CAM Conference in Fresno - February 25-27, 2008 Seeds of Change:
CAM in the Heart of California
The Early Bird Registration Deadline is January 11, 2008
** Announcing the 2008 AAM MUSE Awards
Recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media, the AAM Media and
Technology Committee announces the 19th annual MUSE Awards competition.
** The 2008 Directors Forum
The Art Museum Partnership is pleased to announce that The 2008 Directors
Forum will be held in New York City on Sunday, October 26- Tuesday, October
28.
** Metropolitan Museum Acquires Diane Arbus Archive
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that it has acquired the
complete archive of Diane Arbus
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