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week's edition include:
** Roman Rabbit Dinner Unearthed
It is thought rabbits were introduced to Britain following the Roman
invasion in AD43
** Three special shows at British Museum
Christopher Columbus' son Ferdinand made his mark on posterity in a
different way, assembling what was the largest Renaissance print collection
in the 16th Century
** National Quran Museum Opens in May
The National Quran Museum is to be inaugurated on May 18, concurrent with
World Museum Day
** Trucks axle on display at museum
The newest exhibit in the big museum here - the crown jewel, really - is a
length of steel about 8 feet long, ugly and twisted, its bulbous centre rent
by a nasty gash
** Madrid's good hare day
Carrots were offered in the form of reducing the strength of the lighting,
which it had been thought might bleach the fragile beast, and a limit was
put on visiting hours
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** Auto museum boasts taste of vintage diner
The diner - with its polished aluminium walls, chrome stools and Formica
counters - is as vital to car enthusiasts as gasoline, and soon Hershey's
Antique Auto Museum will have one within its walls
** Consul Gives African Art to St. Petersburg Museum
An American diplomat donated his African art collection to a museum in St.
Petersburg on Monday, saying that he wanted to give treasures from his days
in Cameroon and Burundi to a city where he had experienced his happiest
professional moments
** Art museum falls foul of red tape
One of France's richest men is on the brink of ditching plans to build a
spectacular contemporary art museum outside Paris because he is fed up with
the red tape and inertia of the local authorities
** Welcome to Stalin World
Grutas was opened four years ago by the former wrestler and pig farmer
turned mushroom tycoon Viliumas Malinauskas, who is leading me astray on
vodka
** KL offered salvaged Ming Dynasty artefacts
The owner of the collection is Phil Greco, who lived and worked in the
Philippines for more than a decade salvaging Chinese shipwrecks
** Nelson's flag too fragile to show
A restoration bill of hundreds of thousands of pounds means a flag captured
by Lord Nelson from the French will not go on display in Norfolk during his
bi-centenary year
** Apollo 13 astronaut donates memorabilia
Former astronaut Jim Lovell, whose near-fatal trip to the moon was made
famous in the movie "Apollo 13," has given a planetarium the handbook whose
cardboard cover was used to save the space crew's lives
** World Museum Liverpool
The launch of World Museum Liverpool marks the completion of Into the
Future, a £45m capital development programme across three NML venues -
Museum of Liverpool Life, Walker Art Gallery and Liverpool Museum
** Let's slip out to McD's for some fries, Holiness
In the 13th century Pope Martin IV evidently loved eels waayyyy to much, and
Pope Joan, RC's only female pontiff ( 9th c.) adored paprika oysters
** P*rnography in Clay
Since its discovery on August 19, 2003, the partially intact "Adonis from
Chernitz" - as it has been dubbed - has been creating quite a stir at the
state office of archaeology in Dresden
** New bread museum in Portugal is a hit with the public
In Portugal a baker is a symbol of national independence, and over 100
varieties of bread are made, so it is perhaps not surprising that a new
museum dedicated to the food has become a top attraction
** Five Held over Concorde Museum Death
Avon and Somerset Police had initially said that there were no suspicious
circumstances surrounding the death
** Vienna's Freud museum threatens to close for lack of funds
The museum is hoping to next year borrow and exhibit the couch on which
Freud's patients reclined in the Berggasse from the Freud Museum London,
located in the house where the Jewish founder of psychoanalysis lived after
fleeing the Nazi occupation of Austria in 1938
** Village will get back its Civil War cannon, museum owner says
A Pennsylvania museum operator embroiled in a battle over a Civil War cannon
will return it to the original owners - and give the rest of his collection
to a museum in Virginia or Vermont
** Scotland Adrift - Full Emergency
Several Scots residents are stranded in England and are being comforted by
volunteers from the Women's Institute who have provided hot food and
blankets as well as entertaining them with Bagpipes and Jigs
** Saudi prince pledges millions to museum
A Saudi prince has donated £2m to Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the
oldest public collection in Britain
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** Call for Papers for the ICOM-CC-Wood, Furniture and Lacquer session
during ICOM-CC14th Triennial Meeting, The Hague
** FABULOUS! Fashions of the 1940's
** Safeguarding heritage at risk: disaster management in UK archives,
libraries and museums
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