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week's edition include:
** Polar Bear Express trolleys take guests on Christmas journey
Grab your coats, hats, scarves, mittens, boots and blankets and put yourself
to the test at a wintry and old-fashioned holiday experience - riding a
Polar Bear Express trolley
** Unusual Museums - The Plumbing Museum of Watertown
Rather than the esteemed London plumber Mr. Crapper, the likely father of
the flush toilet was Englishman John Harington, hence, the name John
** Palace Museum to add foreign relics hall
China's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, is to renovate an
unfinished Western-style "Hall of Water" into a hall for foreign cultural
relics
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** U.S. foundation buys Hopi masks at auction to return to tribe
The Hopi - who still live in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau in
northeastern Arizona - consider both the masks and a series of dolls offered
at the auction to be sacred
** One in five women keep secret hoards from past relationships, says
Museum of London
Having asked 2,000 people about their collecting habits, the museum reports
that a fifth of women cherish keepsakes from old flames without the
knowledge of their current beau
** Picassos may face wrecking ball in bombed-out Oslo buildings
Five Picasso designs etched into concrete may face the wrecking ball at
government buildings in Oslo that anti-Islam militant Anders Breivik bombed
in 2011
** First ever animals were made of jelly, not sponge
Unlike sponges, comb jellies (or ctenophores) have a primitive nervous
system, are hungry predators and have complex cells also found in
bilaterians - the group of animals, including humans, that have fronts,
backs, an upside and a downside
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** Ancient Pig-Shaped Baby Bottle Found
Known as guttus, the unique vessel dates back about 2,400 years, when the
"heel" of Italy was inhabited by the Messapian people, a tribal group who
migrated from Illyria (a region in the western part of the Balkan peninsula)
around 1000 B.C.
** Museum anniversary projects span the aerial age to the digital age
In time for this year's anniversary, the Smithsonian's National Air and
Space Museum is introducing 21st-century projects that relate to the
brothers and their 1903 Flyer, one of the Smithsonian's most iconic
artifacts, and shining a light on its popular exhibition, "The Wright
Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age"
** Museum calls for help to decipher markings on Japanese Kamikaze bomber
As staff prepare to restore this sinister craft, which has been hanging from
the rafters of the Fleet Air Arm Museum for more than 30 years, they have
become intrigued by some of the markings on its bodywork and are asking the
public to help decipher them
** Apartheid Museum evokes Mandela's legacy
The museum offers a collective beacon of hope to all South Africans to
overcome an oppressive past, extreme adversity and work toward a common
future
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** UK Gallery and museum attendance up despite decrease in arts
participation
The Taking Part Survey, which was set up in 2005/06, revealed that between
October 2012 and this September 53.5 per cent visited a museum or gallery,
up from 52.8 per cent a year earlier
** Major Chinese Art Collection Set for Oxford Museum
Chinese paintings and art considered to form one of the best collections
outside China have been bequeathed to the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford
University by an art historian
** Peeks at Nureyev's World
It has taken the 20 years since Nureyev's death from AIDS in 1993, but the
new Nureyev Collection, which opened in October at the Centre National du
Costume de Scène has turned out to be the "lieu de memoire," or "place of
memory" that Nureyev requested in his will
** Museum Says Human Skulls Make Great Holiday Gifts
With a $200 donation, you can "adopt" one of the 139 specimens in the Hyrtl
Skulls collection at the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia, which is devoted to medical history
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** Damien Hirst signed paintings worth £33,000 stolen from London gallery
The work has been specially commissioned for the Elephant Crisis appeal,
which aims to protect Kenya's elephants from armed poachers
** Rapa Nui Collapse Theory Challenged
Large tracts of Rapa Nui's interior continued to be used for agricultural
production of foods like sweet potatoes and taro, even after European
contact with the island
** Museum shows optical instruments, artworks they aided
Such optical devices became a source of controversy a few years ago, when
painter David Hockney and optics researcher Charles Falco contended that
they had been used by certain Renaissance painters as drawing aids
** Museum preserves hutong history
As one of the oldest hutong in Beijing, Shijia Hutong was initially built in
the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and renovated in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo - They say it's impossible to survive without daily human contact, but
then the Glowing Orb Beings from Muugaave-6 have ways of keeping you alive
** Museum puts positive spin on carousel repair
After Charles Looff completed the ride in his Rhode Island warehouse -
creating a herd of 65 animals including Arabian horses, giraffes and rams -
the massive shipment to the city was delayed by the 1906 earthquake
** Antarctic Night Sky Recreated In The South Pole's Largest Art
Installation
Museum curator Barbara Matilsky gathered 90 works of art from 12 separate
countries, highlighting the legacy of climate change in art and the ways in
which generations of artists have depicted glaciers, icebergs and fields of
ice around the world
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** Zooarcheology Short Course
Zooarcheology Short course in Sheffield April 2014
** How are historic house museums adapting to the future?
Symposium presented by the Historic House Museum Consortium of Washington,
DC, alongside the Virginia Association of Museums annual conference
** Emergency Preparedness Workshop
The Museum of Osteopathic Medicine and Illinois Heritage Association will be
hosting a FREE workshop on Emergency Preparedness, April 25-26, 2014 in
Kirksville, Missouri
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