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week's edition include:
** Floods force Vienna to evacuate Albertina museum
Vienna's Albertina Museum, home to landmark Impressionist works by Monet and
Renoir, will start removing 950,000 artworks from its leaking underground
depot following some of Austria's heaviest downpours in 50 years
** Funding body accounts drained as former Dutch art fund finance chief
vanishes
Such was his reputation as an honest and committed employee that while
police considered the disbelief expressed by his colleagues, Kahmann gained
enough time to take flight, apparently accompanied by his wife and children
** Texas Museum to Open Display of 500 Cowboy Hats
The hats are labelled with the former owner's names, and some also bear the
name of the ranch where the cowboy worked
** Scapbooks from Hell
The banal subjects depicted by these photos do not make them special - it is
their context that elevates them, that makes them haunting
** Mystic Seaport Staff Shrinks With Layoffs
Eighteen employees at the maritime museum, which includes several historic
tall ships and a re-created 19th-century coastal village, will be affected
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** Medals of Dishonour
The British Museum is hosting an exhibition that looks at how this less
well-known tradition has developed over the past 400 years - and also
features special commissions from current artists
** The Parthenon in colour
Researchers at the British Museum announce today that they have detected
tiny traces of blue paint on the building's sculptures - suggesting that the
temple's statues and friezes would have been not stark white, but a riot of
colour
** Jerome's uniform on show at museum
Jerome K Jerome, who wrote the 1889 classic Three Men and a Boat, wore the
clothes as an ambulance driver for the French Red Cross during the First
World War
** Sleuth outwits Sotheby's in £750,000 art coup
An expert from the Antiques Roadshow has identified an unknown landscape put
up for sale by Sotheby's for between £10,000 and £15,000 as one of the
earliest works of Thomas Gainsborough, worth £750,00
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** Anne Frank museum to display her actual diaries
The Anne Frank House museum says it will put the teenage Holocaust victim's
diaries and other writings on permanent display to commemorate what would
have been her 80th birthday on June 12
** Israel opens mosaic museum in the West Bank
Based on prohibitions in international law, UN resolutions, the Oslo Accords
and the Road Map, an Israeli museum or any Israeli building in the West Bank
is illegal, Marwan Toubassi, the Palestinian deputy minister of tourism and
antiquities has stated
** Six not-to-be-missed auto museums
It can be overwhelming to be confronted with dozens of automotive marvels
that, if seen on their own, would each hold our attention for a good
half-hour
** Critters behind the camera for Museum of Science exhibit
Thanks to Crittercam, we can observe monk seals and grizzly bears, great
white sharks and leatherback turtles pursuing those same biological drives
without embarrassing themselves in scenic locations around the world
** Scots ministers seek Elgin Marbles' return
Ministers say that there is a clear right for the priceless sculptures -
currently housed in the British Museum in London - to be returned to their
place of origin, where they were removed in 1801 by the British diplomat
Lord Elgin
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** Museum plans to think big
The National Museum of Australia plans to have the whole of the building's
ground floor used as exhibition space by 2020, filling the unused main hall
with the museum's larger exhibition piece
** Hayao Miyazaki's Ghibli Museum
In the suburbs of Tokyo, at the edge of a local park, there is a unique
museum that captures the hearts and remains in the minds of all those who
visit it - the Ghibli Museum, designed by the Oscar award-winning director
Hayao Miyazaki, is built as both a fantasy land and an art museum
** This Week's Horoscopes
Pisces Feb 19 - Mar 20. No matter what path you ultimately take, or what
choices you ultimately make, this week will still end with you being shot
out of a cannon
** Pez not so sweet on local museum
The Burlingame Museum of Pez Memorabilia might have an impressive collection
of the kitschy candy dispensers but do they have one in the guise of a
lawyer?
** Motown Museum becomes a shrine
A regally dressed teddy bear, a hand-lettered sign that read "Michael Thanks
For The Music" and a bouquet of flowers from his favourite local shop served
as a makeshift Michael Jackson shrine Thursday night in front of Detroit's
Motown Historical Museum
** Flutes Offer Clues to Stone-Age Music
At least 35,000 years ago, in the depths of the last ice age, the sound of
music filled a cave in what is now south-western Germany, the same place and
time early Homo sapiens were also carving the oldest known examples of
figurative art in the world
** The Art of Power: Royal Armour and Portraits from Imperial Spain
National Gallery of Art
** Museum Without Borders
EdCom seeks proposals for AAM 2010. The theme is Museum Without Borders
scheduled for May 23 - 27, 2010 in Los Angeles, CA.
** Collecting urban history in the electronic age
CAMOC's conference in Istanbul 28-30 September 2009
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