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week's edition include:
** Remarkable Women in Science at Newcastle's Discovery Museum
Marie Stopes, the palaeobotanist who advocated birth control, and Dorothy
Hodgkin, who won the 1964 Nobel Prize for her work in mapping penicillin and
insulin, are two of the inspirational stars of a line-up of National
Portrait Gallery works in this show
** No Room For Archaeology Archives in 27% of Museums
A survey by the Society of Museum Archaeologists (SMA) has exposed a lack of
storage space and curatorial expertise in English museums dealing with
archaeological archives
** Is ready-made art more powerful than painting?
With so many artists picking up brushes or at least a pencil, is the idea
that real things can be appropriated as art bankrupt? Was it just a
confidence trick?
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** Smithsonian Says Looming Cuts 'Won't Affect the Public,' for Now
Despite automatic federal spending cuts scheduled to take effect on Friday,
the Smithsonian Institution has promised to keep its 19 museums and the
National Zoo in Washington open for their regular hours
** Major Italian art collection handed to UK galleries
A private collection of 57 Italian Baroque paintings once belonging to
banking heir Denis Mahon and valued at more than 100 million pounds ($154
million) has been formally handed over to six museums and galleries in
Britain
** Fossil shows origin of stuffing your face
This multi-limbed creature is a Fuxianhuiid arthropod, and it's not waving,
but eating; some of those arms are actually mouthparts, the earliest ever
seen
** US lawyer visits Cambodian temple in Sotheby's standoff
A US government lawyer assisting Cambodia's legal bid to make auction house
Sotheby's return a 10th century Khmer statue on Wednesday toured the site
from which the artifact was looted
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** Bunnies implicated in the demise of Neanderthals
The debate over what Neanderthals ate, and how it may have led to their
demise, has turned to rabbits; which, it is now claimed, Neanderthals did
not feast on
** Durham archaeology museum on the move
A new exhibition, titled Out of the Attic, will explore the building's
history, include information about the planned move and ask people's views
on what they would like to see in the new archaeology gallery in Palace
Green Library
** British museum executive to share retail know-how in Taiwan
The head of retail at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London - the
world's largest museum of decorative arts and design - will visit Taiwan
soon to share the museum's experience in developing and marketing exhibition
merchandiser
** LEGO Goes Big
The Bjarke Ingels Group is designing the LEGO Brand House, a public LEGO
museum and experience center, in Billund, Denmark, the company's historic
home and site of its current headquarters
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** Private museum claims to have world's largest croc skull
A tiny private museum of antiques and wildlife trophies in Rajkanika area of
Odisha's Kendrapara district claims to house the world's largest crocodile
skull
** Pearson Air Museum reopening draws ire of some Vancouver residents
As residents trickled in for the museum's free reopening, reactions were
mixed, with far more passionate responses coming from attendees who
supported the trust
** Vienna Jewish Museum Chided Over Nazi Loot
When the Jewish Museum of Vienna was founded in 1988 it was entrusted with
safeguarding the art, books and Judaica that survived the Nazis' attempt to
exterminate their owners
** The "innocent" museum
The history of museums is a history of theft, appropriation, bribery and
manipulation; it is also a history of beauty, elegance, scholarship and
public education
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** New augmented reality app for Terracotta Warriors exhibit
What this means is that throughout the three exhibition rooms, there are six
placards that when scanned using the app, will display 3D content and videos
onto "real space"
** British Museum to showcase ancient relics from Pompeii
A bronze tap from a garden fountain, a street sign settling a boundary
dispute, a clothes chest, a loaf of bread: some of the objects to survive
the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 heading to the British Museum were so
recently excavated that dark volcanic clay still clings to them
** This Weeks Horoscopes
Leo - The stars foretell that food will materialize in your refrigerator the
fourth time you open it
** Bones found in Turkey are probably those of Cleopatra's half-sister
The shape of the building, an imperial grave monument, resembles the famous
Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
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** Babylonian bricks stolen from Iraq museum
Iraq's Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Liwa Sumaism has said the number
of Babylonian brick fragments stolen from the Ishtar Gate and Processional
Way at the Nebuchadnezzar Museum is close to 400
** The Shocking Savagery of America's Early History
That little-remembered century - 1600 to 1700 - that began with the founding
(and foundering) of the first permanent English settlement in America, the
one called Jamestown, whose endemic perils portended failure for the dream
of a New World
** Morris and Austin Day
Brooklands 10th March 2013
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** Bridging the Pacific- From Guangdong to Barkerville and Back
Hong Kong Museum of History 1st Floor Lobby
** How Escaped Slaves Liberated the British
Taylor addresses How Escaped Slaves Liberated the British at CBMM April 10
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