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week's edition include:
** Museums to offload unwanted items
British museums and galleries are being urged to get rid of objects that are
gathering dust in their collections
** Louvre's 8.3 Million Visitors Make It No. 1 Museum Worldwide
Older art beat newer art for bragging rights as Paris's Louvre, home to the
``Mona Lisa,'' drew more visitors last year than its local contemporary-art
rival, the Centre Pompidou
** British Museum and army team up in move to rescue Iraq's heritage
The plan involves assessing major archaeological sites, including the
ancient Sumerian cities of Warka and Eridu, to see how badly damaged they
are and the full extent of looting
** What a little bird told us
Frank Chapman, the man who created the Christmas bird count, the annual
volunteer effort to tally bird populations, inaugurated in 1900 in New York
City, tells a chilling story about Carolina parakeets
** Thefts cost billions as experts work to step up security of artefacts
Millions of valuable historical documents at local historical societies,
state libraries and the National Archives are vulnerable to being stolen by
insiders and outsiders
** From Corsets to Thongs
In an exhibition that's making some Poles do a double-take, the Museum of
Industry in Opatowek has chronicled the evolution of women's underwear from
the knee-length knickers and tight corsets of the early 20th century to the
skimpy thongs of today
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** Museum showcases an American "sign garden," spanning 1800s to 1970s
A tour of the more than 200 signs and other items that include sign makers'
tools is a journey through decades of America's evolving cultural taste,
technology and commercial design - at times evoking fond remembrances of
family road trips
** Tutankhamun link museum in crisis
Due to unexpected repair works most of the cash was used to underwrite
additional costs, leaving little funds to pay full-time wages for the
museum's curator and an education officer
** Did Adolf Hitler draw Disney characters?
The director of a Norwegian museum has claimed to have discovered cartoons
drawn by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War
** Rare documents from Vatican's Inquisition office on show in Rome
A new exhibition gives the public a first glimpse of centuries-old Vatican
documents about the Inquisition, including a 400-year-old order detailing
how to crack down on heresy
Golden barge to resurrect Venice's past
The Bucintoro of Venice, a glorious golden barge that symbolised the city's
power, is to be rebuilt 200 years after it was destroyed by Napoleon
** Man Amasses Black History Treasure Trove
Today, the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University
contains more than 30,000 historical items, some dating to the 16th century.
It includes Paul Robeson's sheet music, African Bibles, rare letters and
manuscripts, slave narratives, correspondence of Haitian revolutionaries and
a first-edition book by W.E.B DuBois
** Medals in the underworld
The thieves who snatched the war medals from the Army Museum at Waiouru
needed somewhere to store them and came up with a simple but effective
method: they stuffed them inside a sealed PVC pipe and buried them in the
ground in Auckland
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** Museum conjures up fantastic display
A new exhibit, titled "The Magic of Magic," takes visitors on a historic
journey from the craft's beginnings in the ancient world to modern-day
illusionism
** China's oldest library revives lessons of Confucius after 70-year hiatus
The children learned to sit still, chanting ancient Chinese works and
writing characters with brush pens, just like students in old-style private
schools did decades ago
** Bishop's anger as exhibition of corpses and diseased organs opens
Corpse shows have origins in the now long-banned Victorian freak show, he
wrote to Tony Hill, the museum's acting director, in letters released to the
media
** This week's Horoscopes
Libra September 23 - October 23: You'll soon absorb much of the wisdom the
world has to offer, thanks to hundreds of encyclopaedic volumes and four
rather unsteady bookcases
** Treasure hunters dig for Hitler's gold
Digging has resumed at a site in the south-eastern German town of
Deutschneudorf, where treasure hunters believe there are almost 2 tons of
Nazi gold and possibly clues to the whereabouts of the legendary Amber Room,
a prize taken from a Russian castle during World War II
** Art & Artifice: 75 Years of Design at San Francisco Ballet
Opening Celebration for New Exhibition and New Main Gallery of the Museum of
Performance & Design
** Museums as Agents of Social Change and Development
ICOM ensures that May 18th will be the largest-ever international gathering
of museums.
** One Million Visitors Drawn to New Greek and Roman Galleries at
Metropolitan Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art tallied the one millionth visitor to its
acclaimed New Greek and Roman Galleries on February 21
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