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week's edition include:
** Artefacts worth £1.8m stolen from Durham University's Oriental Museum
Thieves got into the museum's Malcolm MacDonald Gallery late on Thursday,
escaping with an 18th Century jade bowl and porcelain sculpture
** Two museums promised a third of one of the great collections of modern
American art
The death of the patron and art collector Hannelore Schulhof at the age of
90 in February is raising questions about the fate of around 350 postwar and
contemporary American works of art that she collected with her husband,
Rudolph, who died in 1999
** Mixed Martial Arts Celebrity Recruited for Ancient Roman Army
Millennia before modern-day military recruiters talked up potential soldiers
in shopping malls or put up posters, one Roman city took a rather different
approach to recruiting soldiers for the emperor's army
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** US museums rebuild but fears of relapse linger
Leading US museums are finally in recovery mode and their directors are much
more optimistic about the financial outlook than a year ago, but few are
feeling bullish
** Thumbs down for Damien Hirst at Tate Modern
A much publicised show of Britain's ageing enfant terrible Damien Hirst
opened at Tate Modern on 4 April and the reviews have been less than
friendly
** Leonardo's packing list revealed
Spectacles, a towel and shoelaces might seem unremarkable items to add to
any packing list before embarking on a journey, even in the 16th century
** How fishermen are bringing lost secrets of UK waters to land
Every day hundreds of items, ranging from Spitfire engines to ancient stone
tools, are dragged up by fishing vessels while wreck sites are revealed
after nets become snagged on sunken craft
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** A Museum Math Exhibit That Has Withstood the Test of Time
If you weren't old enough to remember the 1964 New York World's Fair, you
still have a chance to see one of the more wonderful exhibits that has stood
the test of time and can be found lurking in the corners of a few major
science museums around the world
** Namibian Museum Show-Cases Mafwe Tradition
A visit to the Living Museum of the Mafwe people, 35 kilometers to the north
of Kongola in the Caprivi Region, is something that should be on the
itinerary of both local and foreign tourists
** War museum welcomes Marine vehicle
The museum recently took in an amphibious Vietnam-era 39-ton Marine LVTP-5
and now has it on display on the museum grounds
** 106 Art Museums to Celebrate Art Museum Day
Over 100 art museums across North America will offer free or reduced
admission, special programs, or other initiatives as part of their
celebrations of Art Museum Day on May 18, 2011
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** Should the Titanic's Artifacts Stay Underwater?
Neither legislation nor Ballard's stance on artifact recovery have kept
Titanic heirlooms on the ocean floor
** 3,200-year-old mummy mask can stay in Mo
A St. Louis museum can keep hold of a 3,200-year-old mummy's mask, a federal
judge has ruled, saying the U.S. government failed to prove that the
Egyptian relic was ever stolen. See also
** No Fluff In Their Stuff: Museum Guards Review The Whitney Biennial
No curator, art critic, museum member, or monocle owner spends more of their
eyeballs on art than a museum guard; they stare at it for so long I imagine
the pieces turn into a sort of visual white noise for some of them
** U-M museum showcases mammals online
While the University's Museum of Zoology's Mammal Division has remained
relatively unchanged for the past century, the Internet now allows the
collection to reach more people than ever
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** Google's Online Art Project Now Includes the White House
Google announced a significant expansion of it Google Art Project on
Tuesday, adding artwork from the White House and other museums around the
globe. See also
** Museum captures the art of fishing
There has never been, Mr Scheding says, a comprehensive exhibition showing
how fish and fishing have been represented in Australian art since long
before European settlement in 1788
** Breathtaking Monet at Art Museum, but no alarms or apps
One thing worried me - it was so crowded on a Saturday, people were almost
backing into some of the paintings at the gallery's far end, where there is
a sort of bottle neck
** Sotheby's Goes to Court to Try to Block Seizure of Cambodian Statue
Federal prosecutors and the Cambodian government say the statue was stolen
from a Cambodian temple and should be returned to Cambodia
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** Nature Museum rolls out 'Bikes!' exhibit
The Notebaert hopes the exhibit will inspire families to take the biking
experience a few wheel rotations farther than cycling through their
neighborhood
** Ancient Mayan pottery discovered in Georgia
When Gary Daniels received his degree in Video from the Savannah College of
Art and Design he had no idea that researching a documentary on Georgia's
Native Americans would lead him to uncover one of the most important finds
in the history of archaeological research in the Southeast
** Hong Kong Currency
In conjunction with the "Hong Kong Currency" exhibition, the Hong Kong
Museum of History has published a new edition of the "Hong Kong Currency"
catalogue to illustrate the development of Hong Kong's coinage and paper
money from the mid-19th century to the present. Supplemented with detailed
descriptions and invaluable historical photographs, this catalogue is a
collectable item that reveals the many interesting stories behind Hong Kong
currency.
** Australian National Museum visitors travel the Silk Road
A major exhibition at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra brings to
life the Silk Road.
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** Encountering the Limits: The University Museum
UMAC, the International Committee for University Museums and Academic
Collections from ICOM, will hold its annual conference in Singapore from
October 10 to 12, 2012.
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