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** American Museum of Natural History explores the world of arachnids
Terrified of spiders? Then get down and personal with the venomous beasts at
one of New York's top museums as it debunks the Hollywood myth that they're
dangerous.
** Proof of the yeti? Not quite yet
A call-out for hairs thought to belong to the yeti and its counterparts
worldwide yielded 30 samples that were subjected to DNA analysis; none of
the samples matched primates, except for one human hair.
** How the Future Looked in 1964: The Picturephone
From a booth set up in Grand Central Terminal, a person could talk to a
friend in Chicago or Washington while also seeing them on a small video
screen.
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** Matisse painting stolen from museum in Venezuela returns 10 years later
Handlers held the painting up in front of the stairs of the jet it arrived
on as if it were a celebrity.
** Acropolis Maidens Glow Anew
For 2,500 years, the six sisters stood unflinching atop the Acropolis, as
the fires of war blazed around them, bullets nicked their robes, and bombs
scarred their curvaceous bodies.
** El Salvador leader turns palace into museum
El Salvador's president has turned his official residence, a palatial
building in a wealthy area of the capital San Salvador, into a museum and
arts centre for the poor and disadvantaged.
** How is this painting 'pornographic' and 'disgusting'?
You might think that in an art world that encompasses the Chapman brothers'
phallus-nosed children and Jeff Koons' lascivious studies of La Cicciolina,
you would have to sweat blood to produce a work so offensively sexual it
would be ejected from a top London gallery.
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** Death Threat for Museum Director over Roma Exhibition
According to Director Nitulescu, the threat is the latest in a series of
attacks, which have cited the exhibition as reflecting poorly on Romanian
national identity and called for Nitulescu's resignation, among other
measures.
** Elgin Marbles on the move as British Museum ponders new Reading Room
role
The Museum is considering new uses for the Reading Room, which opened to the
public in 2000 after its restoration, including a permanent exhibition space
which might showcase a "brief history of the world", through a limited
number of important pieces held in the Museum collection.
** Museum ivory protest misses the mark
The centuries-old artefacts should not be censored; they need to be judged
and appreciated in their context.
** 2015 Annual Meeting & Conference of the Association for Living History,
Farm, and Agricultural Museums
Call for Papers
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** Virtual flashlight reveals secrets of ancient artefacts
Have a look at any ancient artefact and there's probably something there
that you cannot see: stone corners that have long since chipped off;
carvings rubbed away by time; or once-glorious colours that have faded.
** Portland Police Museum director resigns amid controversy over storage of
old police personnel files
The director of the Portland Police Museum -- a destination for school
groups from around the city -- has resigned in a dispute with city
archivists who removed most of the museum's historical records.
** The Bird That Paints Its Eggs With Bacteria
The nature of this pungent secretion became clearer a decade ago, when
scientists injected the hoopoe's gland with antibiotics.
** Cursed Warship Revealed With Treasure On board
Researchers and divers have started studying the secrets the Mars, the pride
of Sweden's 16th-century navy, has held for 450 year.
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** Russian gulag museum says facing closure
The rights group running Russia's only museum in a preserved former Soviet
labour camp warns that the facility is facing closure as authorities grow
increasingly hostile to probing the country's totalitarian past
** A Research Introduction to the Holocaust in the Soviet Union
Call for Applications
** Buried treasure hoard of priceless Roman and Iron Age coins found in
British cave
Discovery is the first time that coins from the two civilisations have been
found buried together and is believed to be up to 2,000 years old.
** Museum gives vintage planes their props
If vintage flying machines give you a lift, you need to visit the Historic
Aircraft Restoration Museum.
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** Museum chief conservator goes missing
Sources at the museum told Indian media that Sunil was upset after his name
got dragged into major controversies surrounding the Museum.
** Museum's Vast Trove Is Distinctly Offline
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum Houses Sport's Greatest Collection of Books and
Magazines.
** Titian's Danae from the Capodimonte Museum, Naples
One of the most sensual paintings from the Italian Renaissance comes to the
US capital to celebrate the commencement of Italy's presidency of the
Council of the European Union (EU).
** Squaring the Circle? Research, Museum, Public: A Common Engagement
Towards Effective Communication
Common Annual ICOM-CECA and ICOM-UMAC Conference, Alexandria
** This week's Horoscopes:
Aries - Love is strong in your sign this week. Please be advised that,
precession of the equinoxes or not, this is still your sign.
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