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week's edition include:
** Legendary Saints Were Real, Buried Alive, Study Hints
The skeletons of two married, early-Christian saints - said to have been
buried alive nearly 2,000 years ago - may have been identified in Italy,
scientists have announced
** Jerry Seinfeld on new museum of Jewish history
There's a pipe that belonged to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert
Einstein; a glove used by record-breaking baseball pitcher Sandy Koufax; and
a piano played by composer Irving Berlin - complete with his lyrics to "God
Bless America."
** Ian McKellen leads challenge to Tate over LS Lowry 'exclusion'
The Tate has been challenged to put its collection of paintings by LS Lowry
up for sale if it intends to continue to exclude them from its London
galleries
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** 100-year-old bottle of morphine stolen from museum
A bottle of morphine tablets dating back to World War I was stolen from a
display at the Cashmere Museum's pioneer village on Friday night
** For 2nd year, US museums see funding declines, budget stress while
attendance increases
Museums across the country are reporting significant financial stress for
the second year in a row, while attendance continued to increase in many
locations last year
** Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass convicted
Hawass was convicted of failing to implement a court order in a dispute with
a businessman over the use of space in a museum gift shop
** Tut's Toots
Tutankhamun's trumpet was one of the rare artefacts stolen from the Cairo
Museum during the recent uprising, adding poignancy to a story from the
early days of BBC Radio and an attempt to recreate its original sound
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** A Chastised Museum Returns to Life
Years of operating deficits had led to heavy borrowing from its endowment
and eventually to the sale of two Hudson River School paintings to cover
expenses, an art world sin for which it received a rare censure: sanctions
from the Association of Art Museum Directors
** Rome's bloody, art-loving emperor Nero in new show
It's safe to say that the Emperor Nero - the subject of a major new
exhibition and archaeology trail that opened in the Roman Forum this week -
has always had something of an image problem
** Nazi medical experiments exhibit opens in Boston
Organizers say the exhibition will reveal the role scientists, physicians,
public health officials, and academics played in implementing the Nazis'
program of "racial hygiene."
** French artists allegedly vandalized LA buildings
Los Angeles police are looking for two French citizens suspected of
vandalizing a downtown office building near where a groundbreaking graffiti
art exhibit will open on Sunday
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** Guggenheim Museum recreates tragic sinking of Titanic in chilling
concert
At one point a guitarist attached a piece of masking tape to the
fingerboard, turned up the amp and then slowly peeled back the tape to
recreate the unnerving sound of the ice ripping into the ship
** Boston Science Museum Offering Segway Tours
The museum bought a fleet of 30 Segways, each featuring bright red fenders
and the museum's logo on the wheel coverings; it plans on four tours of six
people each per day at first, hopefully increasing as the weather improves
and word gets out
** Keep calm and carry on... Brit to run museum
The new director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum says even though he's a
foreigner, he is well versed in New Zealand history and is actively learning
Maori
** Handwritten Newspapers From Ravaged Japan at Newseum
When the worst earthquake in Japan's history and the subsequent tsunami
knocked out all power in the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture,
editors at the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, the city's daily newspaper, printed
news of the disaster the only way they could: by pen and paper
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** Museum crowd is 'stunned' by news
Many in the crowd inside the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force groaned
last week after NASA's top executive announced the museum would not receive
a retired space shuttlea
** Iceland's Phallological Museum finally gets human specimen
Sigurdur Hjartarson, who runs the Phallological Museum in the tiny Icelandic
fishing town of Husavik, said Arason's organ will help round out the unusual
institution's extensive collection of phalluses from whales, seals, bears
and other mammals
** NZ museum pieces on open market
British police are investigating how historic artefacts, including pieces
gifted from New Zealand, were put up for sale when they should have been in
the care of a museum
** Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum lands Discovery installation
Space shuttle Discovery, the workhorse of the U.S. space-going fleet, will
become a permanent installation at the National Air and Space Museum's
Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport
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** Damage to cultural properties in the 2011 Tohoku - Pacific Ocean
Earthquake
This pdf details the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan's Tohoku
district and other regions including National Treasures
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** Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
EVA London 2011
** Public Education Reform
The Museum Education Roundtable and the Chicago Hands-On Educators invite
you to attend a panel discussion about the role of the Museum in public
education reform efforts.
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