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week's edition include:
** Henry VIII returns triumphant to the Tower of London
As befits a man of his stature and fame, the Tower of London's new
exhibition exploring the world of Henry VIII is full of impactful objects,
fearsome weaponry and some of the brashest yet finest pieces of armour you
are ever likely to see - not to mention an unfeasibly large armoured
codpiece
** Art museums hope technology will sustain interest
Art museums nationwide are trying to connect in different ways to a
population spending more time on Wiis and getting information from the touch
of a button on smart phones
** First James Bond Museum to Open in U.K.
The museum's initial collection will include the convertible Triumph Stag
from Diamonds Are Forever, the Lotus Esprit Turbo from The Spy Who Love Me,
a Russian T55 battle tank from GoldenEye and the original Colibri gun from
The Man With the Golden Gun
** Keneally's list turns up at the library
Sandwiched between newspaper clippings, old photographs and multiple drafts
of a novel was one of the most powerful documents of the 20th century:
Schindler's list
** Handel 'was binge eater and problem drinker'
George Frideric Handel was a binge eater and problem drinker whose
gargantuan appetites resulted in lead poisoning that eventually killed him,
according to a study
** The Cosmos, Surveyed
The tube looks as if it was constructed out of the inner part of a huge roll
of paper towels, but it is one of two surviving telescopes Galileo used in
Florence in the 17th century, when he reshaped the cosmos with meticulous
observations and startling interpretations
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** Artefacts From Titanic's Rescue Ship, Carpathia, to Make World Debut
It arrived on the scene after Titanic had foundered, but the crew managed to
rescue the 705 survivors of the disaster and carry them to their New York
destination
** Vietnam exhibits on display in Korean museum
The Seoul-based National Museum of the Republic of Korea is holding an
exhibition on Vietnamese ancient earthenware, the first ever hosted by the
museum on ancient pottery from a Southeast Asian nation
** A Sweet Life - Fashion in a Liverpool Sugar Merchant's Family
The family were originally Dutch sugar merchants who steeled in Liverpool in
1813 and went on to amass a sizable fortune importing sugar, molasses,
coffee and tropical hardwoods
** Secretary Tells Panel Museums Are Safe
In response to criticism of the handling of asbestos in Smithsonian
Institution buildings, Secretary G. Wayne Clough has told a congressional
panel he had ordered free health screenings for all employees and a
"complete review" of safety policies and procedures
** The British Museum is about to get bigger
That's right: as world leaders wonder where their next budget is coming
from, a bold scheme to extend the British Museum is coming up for planning
permission and most of the money has already been found
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** 'Super sized lions' roamed UK in ice age
These ancient lions were like a supersized version of today's lions, up to
25 per cent bigger than those we know today and, in the Americas, with
longer legs adapted for endurance running
** Vases, Tea Sets, Cigars, His Own Watercolours
Of the 316 lunch guests at Göring's wedding to the actress Emmy Sonneman in
April 1935, for example, around 20 per cent were connected with noble
families (the average for the population as a whole was about 1.5 per cent,
not 0.2 per cent as the author claims)
** China tourists deluge, daunt rival Taiwan's museum
Chinese tourists eager to see art treasures heisted from China decades ago
have swamped a famed Taiwan museum, forcing it to deploy crowd-control
measures and fuelling a huge expansion
** Iraq museum to display Saddam weapons, art
The items collected and catalogued in the six years since the US-led
invasion are being handed back to the Iraqi Government, which will consider
a site for what would undoubtedly become a major attraction
** Damage to Historical Monuments 'Significant'
The third floor of the 16th-century castle that houses the National Museum
of Abruzzo was also affected by the quake, though officials have not been
able to verify the damage to the art collection there
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer Jun 22 - Jul 22 - Not that it's really the Zodiac's business, but
most people take the dead goldfish out of the tank before adding new ones.
The same goes for the drowned cats
** New exhibition challenges view of Aztec emperor Moctezuma as traitor
Contrary to popular belief, the Aztec emperor Moctezuma was murdered by his
Spanish captors and not by his own people, the British Museum will argue in
a new exhibition that will try to rehabilitate the emperor's image as a
traitor
** 'Peking Man' older than thought
The results show the Peking Man fossils came from ground layers that were
680,000-780,000 years old, making them about 200,000 years older than had
previously been believed
** Dutch museum shows New York's 'birth certificate'
The Rijksmuseum, the Netherland's national museum, put those documents on
display Friday, including early maps and the only report of the purchase of
Manhattan by Europeans
** The Visitor's Virtual Voice: Museum Education and the New Internet (Web
2.0)
A Workshop Presented by the Association of Midwest Museums (AMM) and
Educators Committee (EdCom)
** Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of
Art
Rare medieval manuscript illuminations, last exhibited in 1975, are
showcased in a stunning installation, Heaven on Earth: Manuscript
Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art
** Preventive Conservation: Case Study in the Context of a Historic House
Museum
The GCI, in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Cultural
Heritage and the Amsterdam-based house museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder (Our
Lord in the Attic)
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