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week's edition include:
** Introducing the olinguito, the newest mammal discovery
The "aha" moment occurred not in a South American forest but at Chicago's
Field Museum, the creature's discoverer, Helgen said at a news briefing
** Disabled man files lawsuit against National Air and Space Museum
A disabled college student and his brother have filed a federal
discrimination lawsuit against the National Air and Space Museum, alleging
that they were denied access to flight simulators and publicly embarrassed
during a museum visit last year
** Open Source Collaboration in Museum Exhibit Design
Emerging technologies and the open source movement provide an opportunity
for new forms of collaboration, namely collaboration among individuals with
different areas of expertise using an online platform
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** Natural History Museum's 2014 exhibition Britain: One Million Years of
the Human Story
The skull of Britain's earliest Neanderthal and the oldest wooden spear in
the world will go on show at the Natural History Museum next year in an
exhibition featuring finds from famous archaeological soils across the
country which reveal life in Britain a million years ago
** 300-Year Drought Was Downfall of Ancient Greece
A sharp drop in rainfall may have led to the collapse of several eastern
Mediterranean civilizations, including ancient Greece, around 3,200 years
ago
** Pieces of Earliest Games Found
The small sculpted stones unearthed from an early Bronze Age burial in
Turkey could be the earliest gaming tokens ever found, confirming that board
games likely originated and spread from the Fertile Crescent regions and
Egypt more than 5,000 years ago
** Romanians on trial offer to give up stolen masterpiece paintings
Romanians on trial accused of stealing paintings worth tens of millions,
including works by Picasso and Monet, have denied burning the artworks and
are willing to give them back if a deal can be struck
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** Detroit mired in fresh controversy over sale of 60,000-piece art
collection
Officials from suburban counties have warned that if the city's bankruptcy
managers sell any assets in the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) - whose
collection includes a self-portrait by Van Gogh, a 27-panel fresco by Diego
Rivera and works by Rembrandt and Matisse - they will cut their
contributions to its funding
** Badger digs up medieval warrior graves
A badger has led German archaeologists to a stunning find of medieval
warrior graves, complete with one skeleton still clutching a sword and a
wearing snake-shaped buckle on his belt
** Grandson cashes in on artefacts of Tibet expedition
A Wiltshire man whose grandfather was part of the infamous Younghusband
expedition to Tibet in 1903 has sold a collection of artefacts and
photographs from the trip for £140,000
** So bad it was brilliant: Botched fresco restoration answers Spanish town's
prayers with tourism boom
Though she became a laughing stock the world over a year ago for her botched
attempt at restoring a fresco in a 16th-century Spanish church, it turns out
there is no such thing as bad publicity for Cecilia Giménez
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** Museum of Bad Art puts 'disasterpieces' on display
From the slightly odd to the downright awful, the collection now receives
hundreds of submissions from budding bad artists every month; the
collection's newest pieces range from a nude scratching her itchy armpit, to
an apparently transsexual Mona Lisa
** A Gift of Gods as Worcester Art Museum Gets a Veronese
The museum has announced that it had acquired one of the few paintings by
Paolo Veronese still in private hands, "Venus Disarming Cupid," believed to
be from 1560
** London's V&A Museum acquires archive of actress Vivien Leigh
Leigh's archive features never-before-seen records including her personal
diary, which she wrote in from the age of 16 until her death at 53 in 1967;
love letters between her and Laurence Olivier, to whom she was married from
1940-61; correspondence from the likes of Winston Churchill, Graham Greene
and Noel Coward; photographs; visitor books; her annotated film and theater
scripts; press clippings; and her awards
** Neanderthals Were No Copycats
At about 50,000 years, the behavior of some Neanderthal groups was highly
sophisticated, and as sophisticated as early modern human behavior of the
same time range elsewhere in Europe
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** Streetcar museum keeps memories alive
While cities like San Francisco, New Orleans and Portland, Ore., are
operating or expanding trolley lines, Baltimore's only current claim to
streetcar fame is the museum
** Museum hopes to buy Jane Austen's ring from singer
A Jane Austen museum said Monday it has received 100,000 pounds ($155,000)
from an anonymous benefactor to help it buy the writer's ring back from
singer Kelly Clarkson
** Guam Museum construction will start soon
The museum will be set up by chronological order with visitors starting at
the beginning of time; there they will learn about the Chamorro creation
myth of Puntan and Fu'una
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer - Attempts to run away from the problem will fail this week when the
problem turns out to be a short-circuited treadmill
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** Mobile maritime museum evicted from IKEA parking lot
The museum has been a fixture in the borough since 2008, when operators
negotiated with IKEA to park the aquatic doo-dad-filled trailer near the
store to be used to host different classes and workshops on water safety and
sea wildlife
** Order up! Roman shipwreck may hold clay jars of 2,000-year-old food
For fans of Italian cuisine, the news of a well-preserved ancient Roman
shipwreck - whose cargo of food might still be intact - will surely whet
their appetites
** National Museum of American History exhibit showcases rare 'souvenirs'
The old American tradition of keeping souvenirs as historical mementos is
the focus of a new exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution
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** From Village and Court to Global Commodity: Southeast Asian Textiles
41st Annual Textile Museum Fall Symposium
** Why Things Matter
California State University Fullerton
** Public History Awards Call for Nominations
The National Council on Public History awards recognize excellence in the
diverse ways public historians apply their skills to the world around us.
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