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week's edition include:
** Revealed: how rowdy schoolboys knocked a leg off one of the Elgin
Marbles
The Elgin Marbles have survived an invasion by Turkish hordes and a
bombardment by the Venetian Navy - but two rowdy schoolboys were too much
for them, secret papers reveal
** Smelly Swedish herring gets museum all its own
Fermented Baltic herring, a Swedish delicacy so smelly that the tins are
best opened outdoors with a pinched nose, will be the focus of a new museum
dedicated to the specialty
** $100,000 Reward Offered for Return of Loch Ness Tooth
Forensics investigator Bill McDonald has announced a $100,000 reward for the
return of a four-inch barbed shed tooth found lodged in the ribcage of a
mutilated deer carcass on Loch Ness
** Photo museum will take its classic images to small-town America
The treasured pictures are usually secreted along with 400,000 others in
climate-controlled vaults at George Eastman House, the world's oldest
photography museum
** Penang church opens mini museum of relics
A tooth relic of Saint Jacques Chastan from France is among the exhibits in
the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church's new mini museum in Pulau Tikus
** Wisconsin man to open National Baton Twirling museum
Don Sartell, 76, has more than 200 boxes and 50,000 photos of twirling
paraphernalia to put in the museum
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** 'First platypus' still intact
When European settlers sent back a specimen of this bizarre creature,
scientists were baffled and concluded it was probably a fake
** Laugh? I nearly split an atom
Punkscience are resident comedians at the Science Museum and Dana centre in
London where they perform regularly on a variety of science topics
** Pistol triggers museum's interest
A pistol linked to Canada's first political assassination goes on the
auction block next week and a plucky community museum is literally out on
the streets raising money to buy it
** Archaeologist Reads Ancient Seeds for Clues
'Popper is director of the paleoethnobotany lab at the Cotsen Institute of
Archaeology, which is a research unit that promotes the comprehensive and
interdisciplinary study of the human past
** Strange new rodent discovered as Asian snack
"The discovery is particularly interesting because it may throw new light on
theories about the evolution and past distribution of Old and New World
rodents," says rodent expert and study co-author Paulina Jenkins of the
Natural History Museum in London
** New Findings May Help Preserve Rare Gutenberg Bibles
Using non-invasive analytical techniques, a team of researchers in England
say they have for the first time precisely identified the pigments used to
illustrate seven Gutenberg Bibles located in Europe
** Tikis and Tattoos
The first thing you see in the installation, set in the Michael C.
Rockefeller wing, is a three-foot-high wooden figure with a flat outsized
head, big circular eyes and an ear-to-ear slash of a mouth
** 'Unwanted' treasures auctioned
Joseph Brown spent years trying unsuccessfully to persuade a succession of
Victorian governments to accept a donation of his $60 million art collection
** Murder-suicide rocks Argentine art world
Argentina's art world was in shock Wednesday following a murder-suicide in a
private Buenos Aires museum involving a former curator and his
brother-in-law
** King Tut, portrait of a mummy's boy
He has an unusually pointy skull, a narrow face, pronounced lips and a
possible receding chin: this is Tutankhamen, the world's most famous boy
king, as he died 3300 years ago
** Layoffs anticipated at Milwaukee Public Museum
Stafford has said a "perfect storm" of factors put the museum's 2005 budget
into a projected $4 million hole **Update!**
** A museum that will be fit for a queen
The Queen will be the first to preview the huge $180-million, five-year
renewal plan for the Provincial Museum of Alberta
** Cupid Shooting Spree Leaves Dozens Infatuated
"I was just walking along the sidewalk when I saw this chubby, winged guy
wearing some sort of diaper, pointing a red-tipped arrow in my direction,"
said Steve Kremms, an insurance adjuster who was pierced by love's dart
during Monday's incident
** Sports museum planned for Lower Manhattan
The museum is the first dedicated to all sports and is expected to draw more
than a million visitors a year, founder Philip Schwalb told the news
conference at the site, a landmark office building near the southern tip of
Manhattan that was built in 1921 for the Cunard passenger ship line
** Madrid museum says California suit has 'no legal basis'
Spain's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a
San Diego man seeking to recover an Impressionist painting he claims was
taken from his family by the Nazis, saying the suit had no legal basis
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Small Museum Association - 2006 Call for Papers
** Society of Post-Medieval Archaeology's 2005 Conference on Nevis, Eastern
Caribbean
** From Content to Play: Family Oriented Interactive Spaces in Art and
History Museums
** Everything You Ever Wanted Know About Strategic Planning and More
** Making Space: Leisure, Tourism and Renewal
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