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week's edition include:
** 2 Sunken Japanese Subs Are Found Off Hawaii
Researchers have announced the discovery of two World War II Japanese
submarines, including one meant to carry aircraft for attacks on American
cities and the Panama Canal, in deep water off Hawaii, where they were sunk
63 years ago
** Kremlin Museum hosts Poltava battle exhibition
The exhibition, placed in the Assumption Belfry and One-Pillar Chamber of
the Patriarch's Palace, is correlated with a celebration of the 300th
Anniversary of the greatest event in the Russian history of the XVIIIth
century - the Battle of Poltava
** WWII Wyoming internment camp to get museum
The National Park Service have announced a grant to help build a museum at
Heart Mountain, an internment camp where almost 11,000 Japanese-Americans
were detained during World War II
** Getty Conservation Institute embarks on five-year King Tut project
In a five-year partnership, the J. Paul Getty Trust said it will work with
Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities to draft and implement a conservation
and management plan of the tomb and its wall paintings
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** Japanese manga comes to British Museum
Japanese manga artist Hoshino Yukinobu has brought his popular character
Professor Munakata to London's British Museum, featuring some of the
collection's most famous treasures in his drawings
** Drugs museum full to busting
Three years after President Felipe Calderón declared an all-out war against
Mexico's drugs cartels , and hundreds of seizures later, every inch of the
museum's walls are covered with photographs and memorabilia of drugs busts,
and its display cabinets are bursting with narco bling
** A 'maybe' Michelangelo
If it is by Michelangelo, he would have been a teenager living in the house
of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence, just around the time Genoa's Christopher
Columbus was preparing to set sail for the Indies under the flag of Spain
** Evolution: Darwin versus Wallace
The life and works of the scientist who discovered evolution through natural
selection at the same time as Darwin, are being celebrated in Cambridge
** British art curator murdered with daughter in Sydney
A renowned British art curator and his daughter have been stabbed to death
in a vicious attack at a home in Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs
** Vanished Persian army said found in desert
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of
the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located,
solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries
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** Annual muster draws thousands to the Navy UDT-Seal Museum
High drama and loud explosions, helicopters swooping overhead with men
dangling from ropes below them and a speaker who was a living example of
what the SEALs can do thrilled thousands of veterans, parents and children
** Caesar rises: 20 years of water digs on display
In a dark space in a new exhibition at Arles museum in southern France,
underwater sounds play over looped video footage of scientists on underwater
digs along the Rhone riverbed
** Feting Fellini: French museum highlights Italian master's work
Federico Fellini, once viewed by some as a mere farceur, has become a
classic. The Jeu de Paume is honouring the Italian film director with a vast
exhibition, aptly named "La Grande Parade."
** Ancient artefacts at UM museum
Long-hidden art and artefacts from the ancient Mediterranean are on display
for the first time in years at the University of Michigan's newly expanded
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
** Art lovers get a peek at modern masterpieces
Picasso's family study, Mere aux enfants a l'orange, is one of five modern
masterpieces American billionaire Julian Robertson has brought to New
Zealand for a free sneak preview starting today of 15 modern masters he is
gifting to the Auckland Art Gallery
** Art under the big top: The roving Pompidou
Forget the lions, tigers and bears. Paris' Pompidou Centre plans to fill a
colourful circus big top with Picassos, Matisses and Calders instead,
creating a roving museum to take its masterpieces of modern art to France's
culturally deprived rural regions and rough suburbs
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** Amateur Treasure Hunter Finds Iron Age 'Bling'
The necklaces, which date from between 300BC and 100BC, are thought to be
worth in the region of $1.65 million
** Prehistoric Landscape Beneath Oxford University
Archaeologists excavating the former Radcliffe Infirmary site in Oxford have
uncovered evidence of a prehistoric monumental landscape stretching across
the gravel terrace between the Thames and Cherwell rivers
** Striking museum workers occupy minister's office
They are asking Cannon and the Canadian government to tell the Canadian
Museum of Civilization Corporation, which manages both museums, to return to
the bargaining table and grant them a fair contract
** Brian May wows audience with set of Victorian photos
It's not common to arrive at the British Library for an evening talk on a
charming book of Victorian photographs and to be confronted by a minder
roughly the size and shape of a Smeg fridge, sitting with his massive back
to the platform staring impassively at the audience
** Father Raphael Maglioni's collection of archaeological finds
The Hong Kong Museum of History - until February 1, 201.
** Travelling The Silk Road: Ancient Pathway To The Modern World
Camel caravans among the sand dunes, exotic spice markets, an ancient Arab
sailing ship-all these and more await in this engaging new exhibition about
one of the greatest trade routes in history .
** Free Space Shuttle Artefacts
Call for paNASA Invites Museums and Libraries to Apply for Free Space
Shuttle Artefacts
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