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week's edition include:
** Prehistoric armoured fish had the world's first abs
We thought that the specialised stomach muscles were unique to land animals,
but new fossils show that they also evolved in a ferocious armour-plated
fish
** Classic ice delivery truck to be unveiled
The International Harvester ice truck, built in 1931 and clocking in at 1.5
tons, was used to home-deliver ice carved out of nearby lakes and other
bodies of water
** North Dakota's Oil Boom is Field Museum's latest exhibition
As thousands of people are pouring into the state because of an abundance of
jobs, the prairie is increasingly fragmented by wells, pipelines, and other
oil operations
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** Medieval bones yield 1000-year-old leprosy genome
The achievement opens the way for studies of even older leprosy bacteria and
similarly ancient strains of tuberculosis - work that could reveal how the
diseases became plagues, and perhaps help efforts to control and eradicate
them
** Denmark Museum opens major Yoko Ono retrospective
To mark the artist's 80th birthday earlier this year Louisiana Museum of
Modern Art is showing a major retrospective exhibition of well over a
hundred works, demonstrating the diversity of media and disciplines in Yoko
Ono's artistic production
** Swan Upping brings 900 years of royal tradition to the River and Rowing
Museum
For the uninitiated, Upping involves the inimitable Royal Swan Uppers - a
group of rowers travelling in traditional skiffs, clad in the scarlet
uniform of the Queen - joining their comrades from the Vintners' Company and
the Worshipful Company of Dyers' livery companies
** Horn of plenty - The unicorn and its mythology
Pure white, graceful as a thoroughbred and with a long tapered horn
spiralling out from its forehead, the unicorn has beguiled people since
ancient times
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** Ringo Starr puts his life on display in Grammy Museum exhibit
Highlights include Starr's Ludwig drum kit, used during The Beatles'
appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show," and the outfit he wore during the era
of the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album, between 1966 and 1967
** Portrait of Queen is defaced with paint at Westminster Abbey
The Ralph Heimans portrait, which was unveiled during last month's Diamond
Jubilee celebrations and was hanging in the Chapter House, was now been
removed from public view
** Disputed Schneerson Library collection gets new home at Moscow's Jewish
Museum
A new exhibit spotlighting rare books from the disputed Schneerson Library
collection, featuring 12,000 books and 50,000 rare documents, has opened at
the Jewish Museum and Center of Tolerance in Moscow
** Museum launches 'mermaid' exhibition
A Taiwanese museum opened an exhibition on World Oceans Day Saturday
showcasing Taiwan's only two displays of dugongs, a rare torpedo-shaped
marine mammal believed to have been the basis of mermaid legends
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** The Museum That Turned Its Lobby Into a Flea Market
The three of us who manned the exhibit for the three-day run wore all black,
white museum gloves, and tried to act with the decorum of someone who might
work for such institution
** 800 Years Of Human Sacrifice In Kent
Who were these people then? Could anybody at Cliffs End get roped in for
sacrifice and be denied respectful burial at the whim of the local druid?
** Ancient artifacts, modern museum
Jill Sackler said her husband was very interested in preserving China's rich
history for future generations, and his offer to build a teaching museum was
accepted by the Chinese government in the 1980s
** Louvre museum in Paris goes to the dogs with canine rights demonstration
At least 100 pooches - with owners in tow, holding leashes - have marched
near the Louvre at a demonstration to demand more park space and access to
public transportation for their four-legged friends
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** Pompeii Live to be screened globally
The British Museum has said 1,000 cinemas across the world will screen a
recording of Pompeii Live, a tour of its exhibition of Roman life before a
devastating volcanic eruption
** Museum hosts bushfires collection
So far there are 900 objects and interviews, most from Black Saturday, which
include melted glass from a survivor's dream home, old cameras recovered
from the wreckage of the Marysville historical society, and street numbers
from a home's front gate which survived while the house was destroyed
** Oprah Winfrey donates $12 million to Smithsonian's African American
museum
By investing in this museum, I want to help ensure that we both honor and
preserve our culture and history, so that the stories of who we are will
live on for generations to come
** Eva Braun's letters discovered, charting her fall from hope
They met when she was 17 and she worked as an assistant to photographer
Heinrich Hoffmann, who went on to become Hitler's personal cameraman
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** Modelling a mako
In the first of these "behind the scenes" blogs for Moana - My Ocean we're
giving you a look at the model-making process that went into creating four
life-size shark replicas that appear in the Hauraki Gulf section of the
exhibition, alongside real shark specimens and large scale 2-D illustrations
** Ancient Siberians may have rarely hunted mammoths
Contrary to their hunting reputation, Stone Age Siberians killed mammoths
only every few years when they needed tusks for toolmaking, a new study
finds
** Call for Proposals, VRA Milwaukee 2014
The Visual Resources Association's 32nd Annual Conference will be held in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from Wednesday March 12th through Saturday March 15th
in the elegant and historic Pfister Hotel.
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** From Village and Court to Global Commodity: Southeast Asian Textiles
Textile Museum. October 12-13, 2012
** Western Museums Association 2013 Annual Meeting
Early Bird Registration is now open for the Western Museums Association
(WMA) 2013 Annual Meeting.
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