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week's edition include:
** Cleaning woman in Germany damages $1.1 million sculpture by scrubbing
off 'rain puddle'
A cleaning woman at a German museum who mistook a sculpture for an unsightly
mess has destroyed the valuable artwork beyond recognition, a spokeswoman
for the western city of Dortmund has said
** Museums struggle to update exhibits
In an effort to boost numbers of visitors, museum and historical sites
around the country are searching for new ways to update old exhibits amid a
time of economic uncertainty and declining support for museums in general
and history museums in particular
** Yes it 'can': Chicago museum's lavatory is flush with fame
If you're heading to the Field Museum to check out its world-class exhibits,
you may want to consider stopping at its latest award-winning spot - the
restroom
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** New museum will house hundreds of American art treasures in an Arkansas
ravine
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is regarded as the nation's most
important new art museum in a generation, offering the type of exhibits more
commonly found in New York or Los Angeles
** U.S. Authorities Seize Painting From Museum, Say Nazis Stole It From
Jewish Family
U.S. authorities have seized a nearly 500-year-old Italian painting that has
been on display at a Florida museum, saying it was stolen by the Nazis from
a Jewish family during World War II and should be returned to the family's
heirs
** What Killed Off the Woolly Beast?
The culprits behind the extinctions of a number of ice age giants have now
been identified - woolly rhinos were apparently done in by climate change,
while ancient bison were downed by both climate and human influences
** The Getty Museum is in a legal fight over Armenian Bible pages
The J. Paul Getty Trust has failed to derail a lawsuit by the Armenian
Orthodox Church that accuses the museum of harboring stolen illuminated
medieval manuscripts - 755-year-old works that are masterpieces and, to the
church, spiritually and historically sacred
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** Seattle Considering Bruce Lee Museum
While originally the Lee Family Foundation was attempting to build the
memorializing museum in Hong Kong, they have now shifted their sights to
Seattle
** The White House Scammer
Holed up in his apartment on West 57th Street with an electronic ankle
monitor, he is awaiting trial for allegedly stealing thousands of rare
documents from national museums
** Inside award winner: V&A Ceramics Study Galleries
The Ceramics Study Galleries at the Victoria & Albert museum in London by
OPERA Amsterdam have just been announced as the winner of the display
category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona
** Instrument found in shed is '24 hour clock' dating from 1396
This time-telling instrument was one of the first devices capable of
dividing a day into 24 equal hours - but for 20 years, it languished in a
bag of pipe fittings in Queensland
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** 111-year-old Christmas pud found in back of a cupboard
The woman who uncovered it at her home said the tinned "Peek, Frean & Co's
Teetotal Plum Pudding" had been in her late husband's family for years
** Mastodon weapon was older than thought
The pierced bone was clear evidence that human beings were hunting large
mammals in North America 13,800 years ago - about 800 years before the
so-called Clovis people were thought to have migrated across the Bering land
bridge from Asia
** Apollo astronaut a hit at ESTEC and Space Expo
Colonel Worden is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, and he is
best known as the first astronaut to make a spacewalk in deep space, during
the return of his Apollo flight from the Moon in 1971
** Two Vendors at Metropolitan Museum Are Carted Away by Police
In the continuing battles over who gets to sell hot dogs in front of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the city cracked down on Tuesday on two military
veterans who have each operated pushcarts in front of the museum despite
city orders to stop
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** CIA Museum Receives a Special Letter from War-Ravaged Europe
The letter astounded the CIA museum's curatorial staff when it was acquired
in May - and not only because Helms wrote with such paternal tenderness
** Sports museums struggle to draw fans, turn profit
A combination of the recession and attendance projections more inflated than
the egos of some of the athletes on the plaques has several sports museums
awash in red ink
** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn - This is a good week for romance in the workplace, which is
troubling for you and everyone else at the monastery
** Devon jawbone reveals earliest NW European
A study on a piece of jawbone from a cave in Devon, UK, has revealed that
modern humans were living in northwestern Europe between 41,000 and 44,000
years ago, scientists have reported
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** Ancient Saber-Toothed Cat Drooled Like a St. Bernard
A new type of saber-toothed cat has just been revealed: the "cookie-cutter
cat," whose name comes from how it chomped large, clean chunks of flesh from
its prey
** 'Magic' Viking Sunstone Just Natural Crystal
The Vikings could have used a common calcite crystal, called an Icelandic
spar, to find the sun in the high latitudes where they would have had to
battle long twilights and cloudy skies to navigate
** Conference INTOUR 2012: The Influence of Tourism on Global Activity:
Central or Peripheral?
The Institute for Tourism Research and the Division of Tourism and Leisure
at the University of Bedfordshire will be hosting next 27-29 June 2012 in
Putteridge Bury, UK
** The Transformative Museum: Participation between Place and Space
DREAM (Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials) is
very pleased to release the Call for Papers for its international conference
** Our Warrior Spirit: Native Americans in the U.S. Military
Veterans; Symposia. National Museum of the American Indian.
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