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week's edition include:
** Museum Used As Torture Centre
And then, in what was as bizarre as it was shocking, they took her and other
peaceful demonstrators to the famed Egyptian museum on the north side of the
square - to be tortured
** Science friction
A new study is raising questions about when ancient human ancestors in
Europe learned to control fire, one of the most important steps on the long
path to civilization
** This Museum Has a Lived-In Look
Add to all this the longstanding tradition that privileged guests are
allowed to use some of the historical artifacts as desks and to eat off of
others, and it can be a curator's nightmare
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** Splendor abounds in museum's display of grisly holy relics
For believers, these "reliquaries," created in Europe and the Middle East,
provided access to sacred objects in a way that intensified spiritual
meditation
** We need to start charging for museums and galleries again
But while it is free to visit the V&A, the British Library and Museum, an
entrance fee is set to be charged in Stoke. Across the country, eye-watering
cuts to local authority budgets mean that councils are either closing
museums or ratcheting up charges
** Face of incredibly preserved 700-year-old mummy found
The corpse of the high-ranking woman believed to be from the Ming Dynasty -
the ruling power in China between 1368 and 1644 - was stumbled across by a
team who were looking to expand a street
** Natural History Museum to return Aboriginal remains
The Natural History Museum in London has agreed to return 138 sets of
skeletal remains of indigenous people to Australia, in what it hailed as a
new approach to the delicate subject of repatriation
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** NM nuclear museum
The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is seeing more visitors
since a massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan caused fears for the safety
of a nuclear plant
** Film Highlights Professor's Efforts to Locate Fabled Lost City
Could the fabled lost city of Atlantis have been located? Using satellite
photography, ground-penetrating radar and underwater technology, a team of
experts has been surveying marshlands in Spain to look for proof of the
ancient city
** Online Gulag museum launched
On 11 March, the French Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in cooperation
with Radio France Internationale, which had already published a sound
archive, launched an online museum with more than 150 testimonies of
European survivors of the Gulag
** Museum in central Turkey receives international award
An archaeology museum in central Turkey has been presented with the Green
Good Design Award by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and
Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum
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** Natural History Museum collects 50,000th plant specimen
Tourists visit the San Diego Natural History Museum for the big-ticket
exhibits featuring dinosaurs, gems or live animals, but for local plant
lovers, the museum holds a special appeal
** Getty Museum to keep Turner masterpiece after Britain fails to raise
enough money to buy it back
After the Getty bought the almost flawless painting in its original frame,
the British government postponed export until February to see if enough
money could be raised to keep a national treasure from leaving the country
** 'Cultural Revolt' Over Sarkozy's Museum Plans
Every French president since de Gaulle has imagined some Pharaonic cultural
monument or other to honor La Grande Nation, as the mocking German media
occasionally call their Gallic neighbor, and to enshrine himself, of course
** Museum Works to Save Thomas Jefferson's 'Cut & Paste' Bible
By literally cutting and pasting biblical passages demonstrating the life
and lessons of Jesus Christ from several Bibles, Thomas Jefferson put
together a book that he titled "The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth"
during his retirement in 1820
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** Rodin statue stolen from Israel Museum
A statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin has been stolen from the
Israel Museum during renovations, the museum has just revealed
** 1906 SF quake captured in color
Rare images of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake - among the first
color shots ever taken of the destruction wreaked upon the city - have been
published by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
** This Week's Horoscopes
Pisces - Time and space are both illusions, making it even more frustrating
that you're always in the wrong place at the wrong time
** Smithsonian pledges to open an American merchandise shop
The skirmish over product origins between the National Museum of American
History and Sen. Bernie Sanders was settled this week when the museum
promised to open a gift shop devoted to made-in-America products
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** The naughty boys' ship
Although few of the youths on the ship were from Wales, the exhibition
features the story of David Livingstone Evans, aged 11, who was sent to the
Clio in 1908 after stealing three dolls, a football and a "fancy basket"
from Bangor Market
** Understanding zooarchaeology
Understanding zooarchaeology: a short course for archaeology and heritage
professionals and enthusiasts
** Technical Museums as Guardians of the Past and Educators of the Futurt
The next CIMUSET conference will be held in Brno by the Technical Museum of
Brno, The Czech republic from the 6th to the 10th of June 2011.
** The Art of Science Learning conferences
Washington DC - April 6-7
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