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week's edition include:
** Exhibits Spared From Damage in Smithsonian Fire
An outbuilding of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History caught fire,
sending a large plume of smoke over the National Mall and snarling rush-hour
traffic in downtown Washington, D.C., but apparently sparing adjacent museum
exhibits from any damage
** Van Halen's guitar given to Smithsonian museum
The museum has announced that it has acquired the "Frank 2" guitar that Van
Halen used during his 2007-2008 North American tour with original lead
singer David Lee Roth
** World's Largest Known Bear Unearthed
The fossils of the largest known bear to have ever lived have been found, a
giant that was the most powerful land carnivore of its time
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** 10 Best US Children's Museums: 2011
Parents magazine surveyed children's museums to see which ones have clever
educational exhibits, mommy-and-me outings and festivals, healthy places for
lunch, nursing areas, family restrooms, and stroller parking
** Cultural Olympiad: Young people to engage with museums
The young people are giving great new ideas to our museums, which is an
important legacy for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
** Women Who Rock
The new exhibit, 'Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power', will illustrate
the important roles women have played in rock and roll from its inception
through today
** 80th Birthday for Resource Box
The first Resource Box loan went out on the 12th January 1931, when a Miss
Burley of Willow Street Infants' School borrowed a Tree Sparrow and Great
Tit from the natural history collection
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** Mawson hut ice melt reveals more
A husky collar and a chess piece are among artefacts uncovered on the latest
trip to Antarctica to restore the historic Mawson's huts
** 'Sesame Street', museum to team up to create TV character exhibits
Elmo has no statue in Washington but he's poised to strike his best museum
pose: "Sesame Street" is teaming up to create exhibits that incorporate the
popular TV characters into the future home of National Children's Museum
near the nation's capital
** Aussie desktop archaeologist's major Saudi sighting
Far and away from the Indiana Jones-style imagery archaeologists inspire,
high resolution photography is allowing researchers to unearth
world-changing discoveries using little more than Google Maps
** Dispute Derails Art Loans From Russia
State-run Russian museums, including the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, are canceling long-scheduled loans to
American institutions in response to a decision by an American judge in a
case involving Jewish religious documents held by Russia
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** Returned veterans find work, and valuable training, through archaeology
program
Archaeologists with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers collected these
artifacts in the months before roads were cut or reservoirs were filled,
tangible reminders of the people who lived there before the bulldozers moved
in
** First-aid needed for 5,000-year-old Somali cave paintings
Prehistoric paintings of antelope, snakes and giraffes that have survived
for around 5,000 years are now under threat from looting and a lack of
protection
** Top 10 US Fun and Unusual Museums
These fun museums pay homage to a single subject, honor a special interest
and celebrate the strange; they may draw smaller crowds, but their founders
and visitors definitely don't lack for enthusiasm
** John Travolta helped Museum take off - but a con man almost took it down
He collected a lavish salary as the museum's director, and what he didn't
take home in salary he stole, embezzling from an event headlined by John
Travolta
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** Museum Barbie
Wendy Kaplan, who is co-curating the show, says that Barbie helps tell the
story of how midcentury manufacturers sold toys, furniture and fashion alike
by selling the idea of a leisurely California lifestyle
** Gauguin's British relative disputes artist's notoriety
To some, he is an artistic genius, the gifted post-Impressionist whose work
inspired a generation of painters and sculptors including Picasso; to others
he was a wife beater who became a despicable sex tourist, exploiting the
Tahitian beauties he painted, before dying of syphilis and alcoholism
** An Italian museum director says he is asking for asylum in Germany, and
that he is fed up with mafia threats and a government that is failing to
protect Italy's rich cultural heritage
** Baltimore Cuts off Funding for Poe House
Baltimore cut funding for the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, one of the
strongest links between the literary icon and the city that claims him as
its own
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** Vikings revered Stone Age objects
New archaeological findings suggest that the Vikings considered Stone Age
objects to have magical qualities, and that such "antiques" were more
important in Viking culture than previously understood
** University Museums and Collections | University History and Identity
XI UMAC Annual Meeting 2011 Museum of Science, University of Lisbon
** Centenary of China's 1911 Revolution
2/3/2011 - 16/5/2011 Special Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong Museum of History
** Vietnam Center and Archive marks 43rd anniversary of the Tet Offensive
with new online exhibit
Forty-three years ago today the North Vietnamese launched a massive
countrywide attack against almost all of the major cities and province
capitals in South Vietnam, breaking the truce called for the Tet holiday and
forever changing the course of the war.
** Virtual Kemet
A Cheshire digital imaging company has just seen its biggest project to date
go live online.
** Learn how to turn professional challenges into golden opportunities at
ICE in Cooperstown
Cooperstown Graduate Program's Institute for Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICE)
has 20 openings available for mid-career museum professionals at its May
1-4, 2011 entrepreneurial training program at the historic Otesaga Resort
Hotel in Cooperstown, N.Y.
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