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week's edition include:
** Hermitage sets up mini-museum in Madrid's Prado
Now some 180 items from the Hermitage's world-class collection are nestling
inside the many galleries of the Prado, ranging from archaeological pieces
all the way to modern masterpieces by Kazimir Malevich
** Volunteer fires up rare example of earliest electrical light
An intense lamp used to light city streets, railway stations, large
buildings and film sets during the mid-1800s will dazzle the public after
being restored by a retired electrical engineer who volunteers at Manchester's
Museum of Science and Industry
** New exhibit in Philly looks at van Gogh close up
A new blockbuster exhibition takes a close-up look at Vincent van Gogh's
groundbreaking shift during the personally tumultuous but artistically
triumphant last four years of his life in France
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** The mystery of the over-zealous priest, fairies and a buried pagan cross
Some say that local residents believed the cross was attracting fairies
while others believe it was buried by then priest Fr Matthew Blake, mainly
because of its graphic carvings which displayed women and their "exaggerated
genitalia."
** The Picasso that's been in the wars
Every night, after the last visitor to Madrid's Reina Sofia Museum has left,
the prestigious art gallery's newest curator flickers into life; the expert
is a ground-breaking robot, which this week began the most exhaustive
research exercise ever performed on Picasso's controversial masterpiece
Guernica
** It's Like Facebook For The Art World
My-ArtMap is a social network exclusively for the art and art market; like
the art world, it is populated by art professionals, including auction
houses, galleries, museums and art collectors
** V&A Presents Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton
In time with the 60th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to
the throne, the Victoria and Albert Museum presents "Queen Elizabeth II by
Cecil Beaton
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** Come for the building, stay for the toasters
When Sir Terence Conran opened the Design Museum in Shad Thames in London in
1989, he was told no one would make the trek across the river
** Researchers collect DNA from men with possible links to York's Viking
past
Academics were collecting DNA from men with Viking names to see if they are
directly descended from the Scandanavian traders and seaman who once ruled
York and Yorkshire
** National Gallery assistants escalate their dispute over staffing cuts
Used to standing quietly in the shadows while the spotlight shines on a
Leonardo or Caravaggio or Velázquez, the National Gallery's warders - or
assistants, as they are known these days - do not tend to draw attention to
themselves
** German exhibit explores discount culture
A shopping trolley immersed in seven tonnes of white sugar, 2,000
vacuum-packed sausages littering the floor, thousands of slices of bread
forming little houses; these installations are part of a modern art display
at a German museum exploring discount culture, as pioneered by supermarket
giants such as Aldi
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** Lottery helps British Museum dig deep to save artefacts
It is still an enormous muddy hole from which around 50 lorries a day are
taking away excavated London clay, but it is a hole the British Museum is
quite proud of
** Meetings in Marrakech - the Paintings of Winston Churchill and Hassan El
Glaoui
On a visit to Morocco in 1943, Churchill saw some of Hassan's work and
insisted that the young man be allowed to continue with his painting despite
the Pasha's objections
** National Museum USAF displays formerly classified reconnaissance
satellites
The three satellites - Gambit 1 KH-7, Gambit 3 KH-8 and Hexagon KH-9 - were
among the most important U.S. photo reconnaissance systems used from the
1960s to the 1980s, and played a critical role in winning the Cold War and
maintaining U.S. national security
** Museum shows off Arizona's best minerals
The exhibition will feature some items on loan from private collectors from
throughout the country, in addition to institutions such as California
Academy of Sciences, which is based in San Francisco and has a collection of
azurite and malachite found more than 100 years ago in Arizona
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** New exhibit explores Jefferson's slave ownership
Thomas Jefferson wrote "all men are created equal" to declare U.S.
independence from Britain, yet he was also a lifelong slave owner who freed
only nine of his more than 600 slaves during his lifetime
** Seaport Museum Sets Sail, Again
Now that the South Street Seaport Museum has reopened, after nearly a year
of being closed, its new leaders will have tried to address some of the
problems that had left it in peril
** Stolen weapons returned to the veterans museum
Among the weapons taken were a Thompson submachine gun, a M1 carbine, a M1
Garand rifle and a Beretta pistol found on Omaha Beach on D-Day that is
believed to have belonged to a German officer
** Swedes save Saab...museum
Saab's hometown, Trollhättan's, Sweden, stepped up to the plate and
purchased the assets of the Saab museum with a little help from a couple of
old friends of the automaker's
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** An Ambitious Arab Capital Reaffirms Its Grand Cultural Vision
A long-delayed project to build three colossal museums on an arid Persian
Gulf island will be finished by 2017, officials say, realizing the designs
of some of the world's leading architects while underlining the ambitions of
this city to emerge as a global capital
** Ancient Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian Cave
A 33,000-year-old dog skull unearthed in a Siberian mountain cave presents
some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and, together with an
equally ancient find in a cave in Belgium, indicates that modern dogs may be
descended from multiple ancestors
** Learning Through Objects: Museums and Young Children
March 28 and 29, 2012
** JPC 2012 International Course on Conservation of Japanese Paper
ICCROM and National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo are
pleased to announce the following international course
** Push and Pull: Life on Chesapeake Tugboats
A new major exhibit entitled "Push and Pull: Life on Chesapeake Tugboats,"
opens April 21 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels,
MD.
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