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week's edition include:
** Victoria and Albert Museum opens doors on a world of ravishing luxury
When the Victoria and Albert Museum asked its visitors what "medieval" meant
to them, the result was depressing: plague, war, religion, darkness, mud
and - possibly thanks to some hazy memory of Blackadder's and Baldrick's
cherished turnips
** The Beijing Museum of Tap Water
A system of underground pipes to provide drinking water wasn't even
considered until 1907, when a great fire broke out at the Empress Dowager
Cixi's palace
** The Case of the Missing Sculpture
Sculptor believes his fat Lady Justice ended up at bottom of Denmark's
Langelinie harbour due to vandalism
** Sugar beet museum collection still growing
According to Dragseth, Baatz began with a six-row Hesston, added the scrub
chain tower from a Heath and the elevator from a four-row Farmhand
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** Museum called out for displaying live ammo
Safety officials gingerly removed 13 pieces of ammunition from display cases
at the Royal Newfoundland Regiment Museum after an inspection showed the
ordnance might be dangerous
** A Museum Hails Caesar, Even if Some Antiquarians Don't Agree
Dredged up from the murky depths of the Rhône River, beneath a heap of
wrecked cars, rotting tires and more than 20 centuries of silt, the statue's
white marble visage was plain as day
** The Manly Art of Museum Curating
The other steak exhibit could be a retired gas oven from the Brooklyn
steakhouse Peter Luger, which in addition to making an impressive visual
statement would add an olfactory note of long-ago char to the show, and,
ideally, encourage patrons to visit the museum restaurants
** Arrest after 50s car museum blaze
A 46-year-old man has been arrested after a suspicious fire at a museum,
which is believed to have destroyed a classic car collection
** Cutting-edge art installation lights up the National Railway Museum
After destination, time zone and arrival details have flashed up on the
screen, visitors can watch themselves float towards the Museum's roof before
joining with another traveller at the top, crossing paths on their journeys
** Marathon man Izzard opens museum
Comedian Eddie Izzard has run a half marathon between two south coast
resorts before opening a newly modernised museum in his home town
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** Ancient birthplace of classical theatre to be restored
The ruined theatre under the Acropolis where the works of Euripides and
other classical playwrights were first performed some 2500 years ago will
undergo partial restoration over the next six years
** Should NASA's Mars Rover be compared to Columbus?
For too long we have looked at the history of exploration selectively,
seeking to find the antecedents which justify our own vision of exploration:
as science, as human adventure, as geopolitical statement
** Feature Site - Olympus BioScapes 2009 Winners Gallery
The thousands of images that people have shared with the competition over
the years reflect some of the most exciting work going on in research
today - work that can help shed light on the living universe and ultimately
save lives
** Apology for Berlin Holocaust Memorial, Jewish Museum fashion shoot
Ink, the publishing house that produced the magazine for easyJet, had gotten
written permission to photograph outside the museum, but not to shoot at the
Holocaust Memorial
** Former director of Spain's Guggenheim museum jailed
The former financial director of Spain's Guggenheim Bilbao has been
sentenced to 32 months in jail for stealing nearly half a million euros
(750,000 dollars) from the museum's accounts
** Finding the First Horse Whisperers
Palaeolithic hunters in Europe and Asia began exploiting horses for meat
thousands of years ago when the last continental glaciers disappeared, yet
the origin of horse domestication long has eluded archaeologists - for some
captivating reasons
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** Metal-detector enthusiast unearths $5.5 million in gold
The largest haul of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, unearthed by a
metal-detector enthusiast in a farmer's field, has been valued at 3.28
million pounds ($5.5 million) by a committee of experts
** Diving deep: Mexico set to open the world's largest underwater museum
The potentially coral-saving project will be overseen by famous underwater
artist Jason de Caires Taylor, who created the world's first underwater
sculpture park in Grenada, West Indies
** Pompidou Centre Workers Extend Strike
The French government could reduce the museum's payroll by not replacing
employees who retire; more than 40 percent of the staff members at the
Pompidou Centre are older than 50, and the legal retirement age in France is
70
** Charlie Chaplin museum to open in Switzerland
The Swiss mansion near Corsier-sur-Vevey by the shores of Lake Geneva is set
to become the first museum dedicated to the famous actor and filmmaker
** The Enchanting Brush
The Enchanting Brush: Selected Works of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy by
Chao Shao-an
** Museums | Inclusion | Engagement Conference
Rivington Place, London | Monday 14 December
** Monet and Abstraction
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid and Fundación Caja Madrid
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