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week's edition include:
** National Museums Liverpool see in Chinese New Year
World Museum Liverpool marks the Year of the Dog by hosting the Hung Gar
Kung Fu Club Lion Dance
** Asian art museum reopens
The 14th-century Chinese monk - flowing robes, bald, lost in meditation -
appears unaware of his new surroundings at the Seattle Asian Art Museum
** Europe bids to halt tide of art smuggled to America
A series of legal actions has been launched by European governments to
regain priceless works of art which they claim have been illegally smuggled
to America to be sold off to wealthy collectors and museums
** Royal slippers hot-foot it out of Toronto museum
A pair of rare 18th century slippers from India, decorated with diamonds,
rubies, and emeralds, and sewn with gold thread, were stolen from a Toronto
museum on Sunday
** Framing of the shrew that moved like a platypus
The fossil of a peculiar creature that combines traits of two different
groups of mammals has excited scientists and has some of them re-evaluating
theories on how warm-blooded animals evolved
** Suspect in Renaissance figurine theft turns himself in
A suspect in the theft of a precious Renaissance figurine turned himself in
and police said Saturday they had recovered the object, stolen almost three
years ago from an Austrian museum
** Treasures from Russia
The exhibition features the greatest works of Russian art from the 13th
Century to the present, including icons, portraiture in both painting and
sculpture from the 18th through the 20th Centuries and a selection of
first-class Western European paintings and sculptures from the imperial art
collections assembled by Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and Nicholas
I
** Hitler wanted a bit of the Vatican in Berlin
Adolf Hitler intended to recreate the Vatican's St Peter's Square in Berlin
to honour his ally Benito Mussolini, newly discovered documents have
revealed
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** Violent explosion blows Finnish museum
The explosion, which happened in the museum's valuable silverware and
jewellery exhibition room, shattered partition walls,doors and windows as
well as many glass cases
** Curating a museum show takes miles, wiles
Do they beg? Yes. Do they borrow? Yes. Do they steal? Well, no.
** A Real-Life Jurassic Park
By resurrecting the woolly mammoth and other species, scientists want to
restore nature's balance
** Austrian Museum Takes Down Klimt Paintings
An Austrian museum ordered five precious Gustav Klimt paintings put in
storage Friday following threats that they would be destroyed to keep them
from being returned to an American who says the Nazis stole them from her
Jewish family
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus April 20 - May 20. Historians and physicists alike will dismiss your
theory that, minutes after the first apple, a second fell on Newton's head,
triggering both the discovery of a new, safer place to sit and his second
law of motion: Change equals Force divided by Mass
** Rivers of paint and gold: exhibition puts Michelangelo top of art pay
scales
Michelangelo, who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, made more money
than his rivals Titian and Da Vinci, according to an exhibition at the
British Museum
** Return the Marbles? Forget it
Anyone who saw the condition of the west frieze in Athens next to the Elgin
Marbles in London would immediately decide that the Marbles in London should
stay there
** Shatner's kidney stone
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cheese sandwich and the infamous soccer ball David Beckham miskicked to lose
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** Antique Dolls Bring $3.5 Million to Mark a New World Record
After years of being in the top 5 collectibles in the world, yet
significantly under-priced when compared to others, such as stamps, coins,
or even comic books, the collection of Lucy Morgan proved to market watchers
that dolls are quickly on the rise and are becoming a powerful force in the
world of collectibles
** Website returns art looted by Nazis to rightful owners
Online valuables and stolen items registry Swift-Find has launched a new
scheme to help victims of the Holocaust and others robbed by the Nazis
reclaim stolen valuables
** Man Will Not Repay Museum $325,000
The Baltimore Museum of Industry was the victim of a sophisticated fraud
scheme ... the museum is pleased that this long process is now over
** Chinese New Year Celebration 2006 at the Otago Museum
** Nominations Sought for SAA's Distinguished Service Award
** Ceram*A*Rama: California Dreamin
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