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week's edition include:
** First ladies exhibit reopens at Smithsonian
Dresses, china and mementos dating back to days when Americans referred to
the first lady as "lady presidentress" or "republican queen" have returned
to the National Museum of American History, along with Michelle Obama's
dashing inaugural gown as a centerpiece
** French Museums Atone for a Colonial History
The displays are lush with miscellany: here, an ivory statuette of a goddess
from the Tonga islands that once was shown in an 18th-century curiosity
cabinet; there, a desiccated human skull, covered in black-colored beeswax,
acquired in early-20th-century Papua New Guinea
** Ancient Cave Lion Bones Reveal Big Cats' Diet
To figure out what these lions hunted, biogeologist Hervé Bocherens and
colleagues at the University of Tübingen in Germany, analyzed bone samples
from 14 cave lions - found in four caves in France and central Europe - that
lived between 12,000 and 40,000 years ago
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** Seized Roman treasures revealed
Muammar Gaddafi's forces tried to flee Tripoli with ancient Roman artefacts
in hopes of selling them abroad to help fund their doomed fight, Libya's new
leaders have said, as they displayed the recovered objects for the first
time
** Ashmolean Museum's new Ancient Egyptian galleries
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has opened six spectacular new galleries for
its world-renowned Egyptian collections, exhibiting objects that have been
in storage since the Second World War, and more than doubling the number of
mummies and coffins on display (see video below)
** Scottish National Portrait Gallery reopens after £17.6m revamp
When Thomas Carlyle, the great Victorian historian, wrote to the founders of
the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, he warned against the inclusion of
"popular monstrosities", advising that 25 years ought to lapse after a
person's death before they were considered for the gallery
** Museum's Crime Scene Live Wins Awards
Crime Scene Live beat the live screenings of the Royal Wedding and the
opening and closing ceremonies of the Ryder Cup to win the Gold Eventia
award
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** Double The Mummies
One of the sure-fire magnets at any museum is its collection of mummies and
the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History reopened Nov. 17 with a
redesigned display of mummies, both animal and human
** Degas on show at Royal Academy of Arts has government indemnity
withdrawn
The for sale advertisement contravened UK government guidelines, which
forbid owners or dealers "to capitalise" on the public display of
indemnified works of art
** Between a rock and LACMA, it's a hard place
Moving it is turning out to be tougher than expected, and the museum, which
was supposed to take delivery in August, now says the rock likely won't
leave the quarry until the end of December
** Time to shine for these hidden treasures
As monarchism revives with the marriage of William and Kate, the British
Library has stepped boldly forth with an exhibition which is royalist to its
hilt, showing the taste, the interests and the ambitions of the Queen's
mediaeval predecessors
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** Evidence Found Of Ancient Deep Sea Fishing By Humans
An Australian archaeologist has discovered ancient fish bones in a cave in
East Timor - a small island country northeast of Australia in the Lesser
Sunda Islands - that contain the ancient remains of more than 38,000 fish
bones from nearly 2,900 individual fish, a sign that humans may have gone
deep-sea fishing as many as 42,000 years ago
** Rotting flesh and bird song
The Natural History Museum of Utah engages the senses, allowing visitors to
mingle inside exhibits, touch artifacts, get a whiff of desert plants or
rotting flesh and hear the soft warbling of bird
** Oh, the Places We Could Go
Toward the end of the exhibition "Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space
Exploration," at the American Museum of Natural History, a visitor is
confronted with a chance to help make the red planet, currently a frozen
desert, livable
** Ancient symbol of Rome - or a Middle Ages knock-off?
The Capitoline Museums' statue of the legendary she-wolf, which was said to
have nourished Rome's founders, Romulus and Remus on the banks of the River
Tiber, was not crafted by the city's ancestors, the Etruscans, but was made
at least 1,000 years later in the Middle Ages, some experts now insist
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** Love for tech is millennia-old
The truth is that ancient Emiratis, tens of thousands of years ago, were
also technologically savvy in their own way by way of primitive tools -
technology of the day - to get through life's trials, save the fact that a
stone hammer didn't need to be recharged overnight
** A unique look at L&A's fabric history
A man's shawl was extremely long and narrow so it could be wrapped and tied
to leave the hands free for riding, doing chores, or traveling
** Remakes of forgotten Iranian musical instruments donated to Tehran
museum
The donated instruments include a chang (harp), which originally dates back
to the Sassanid era, some kinds of ouds and six sets of naqareh, a Persian
percussion instrument
** Actor confesses to Museum of Fine Arts prank
"Quietly remove the glass and inhale the rich aroma of the paint,'' the faux
narrator said. "Ah, that is good stuff!"
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** Museum Director immortalised in controversial portrait
The painting, which features a nude Lehman sitting on the edge of an
overflowing toilet, now hangs in Staten Island Borough Hall
** Exhibit Traces Horse's Impact on Tribal Life
Among the Great Plains tribes, the enduring impact of the horse is reflected
in contemporary art, and in names like that of the exhibit's curator: Emil
Her Many Horses
** Call for Applications for the 2012 Museum Education Marketplace of Ideas
The Standing Professional Committee on Education (EdCom) of the American
Association of Museums in collaboration with the Museum Education Roundtable
(MER)
** The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries
The Pastrana Tapestries - among the finest surviving Gothic tapestries -
will be on view together for the first time in the United States at the
National Gallery of Art, Washington, from September 18, 2011, through
January 8, 2012.
** Revitalising the Glorious Tradition: The Retrospective Exhibition of Pan
Tianshou's Art
Pan Tianshou (1897-1971), a leading exponent of modern Chinese art history,
shares fame with Wu Changshuo, Huang Binhong and Qi Baishi as one of the
Four Traditionalist Masters
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