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week's edition include:
** Wobble board to feature
The Canberra museum's Australian Journeys gallery will showcase items
ranging from convict love tokens to Rolf Harris's wobble board
** War and Medicine at the Wellcome Collection
The exhibition highlights the personal experiences of surgeons, soldiers,
civilians, nurses, writers and artists and will look at the impact of war on
the 'home front' as well as on front-line medicine, considering the
long-term implications for society of the traumas suffered and the lessons
learned
** World's Largest Lunar Meteorite Ever To Go On Public Display
Designated as NWA 5000, which indicates it was the 5,000th meteorite to be
recovered from the deserts of Northwest Africa, this meteorite's composition
resembles that of rocks found on the Earth, helping to confirm a theory of
our moon's origin
** U. of Penn museum plans to go popular
As an initial step, the director has laid off 18 researchers, though some
may stay if grant money can be found to cover their salaries
** Museum wins Visit London Award
The Natural History Museum received the Kids Love London Best Family Fun
Award 2008 at a glittering ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall
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** Corporal Punishment Museum Arouses Interest
If history was a challenging subject for you at school, or if you found
yourself snoozing in the middle of class, the Museum of the History of
Corporal Punishment may offer you more engaging ways to connect with the
distant past
** Pig that survived earthquake inspires Chinese
Fan put the plucky survivor into a livestock exhibit at the museum and gave
him a new name - Zhu Jianqiang, meaning Strong-Willed Pig
** Volunteers craft WWI biplane in Yankee Air Museum
Ken and about a dozen other retirees gather a few times a week in a small
section of the Yankee Air Museum in Ypsilanti, their wrinkled hands nimbly
shaping Sitka spruce and mahogany after a quick brown-bag lunch
** Museum siphoned off upkeep funds
The CBI will send a report to the Union culture ministry highlighting how
some officials of Indian Museum have siphoned off funds and amassed wealth
disproportionate to their known sources of income
** Scientists Warn Large Earth Collider May Destroy Earth
Physicists at CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory, who underwrote the
VLEC's construction with donations from the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, agree that there are "some troubling variables" whenever
attempting to launch Earth through the vacuum of space into a massive body
of solid matter
** Feature Site - The Voyage scale model solar system
The National Centre for Earth and Space Science Education ( NCESSE ) invites
your entire community - children, adults, families, and teachers - on a
Voyage that will forever change your perspective of home
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** Papermaking museum in growth mode
The darkened galleries are filled with scrolls, books, ancient papers and
sundry paper-making tools arranged to chronicle the history of papermaking
around the globe
** Magnificent mammal makes it to Museum
A full size cast of an African elephant has been specially built and brought
to the UK from Belgium to form part of the displays in a new UK museum set
to open in April next year
** Diamond dust: NYC museum finds gem in vacuum bag
The American Museum of Natural History 's latest discovery is a diamond in
the rough: a visitor's $15,000 gem in a vacuum-cleaner bag
** Worth a visit: The National Museum of Iceland
DNA testing has shown that settlers on the previously uninhabited island
were, by and large, Norwegian men and Celtic women
** Oldest museum shuts its doors
The 325-year-old visitor attraction shut to the public on 23 December for a
£61m revamp and once refurbished, the museum will have 39 new galleries, a
new education centre and Oxford's first rooftop cafe
** Museum robbed in May builds security into redesign
Seven months after the theft of a dozen works by Haida artist Bill Reid, the
UBC Museum of Anthropology is undergoing a $55.5-million renovation and
expansion
** Blackpool hopes V&A might like to be beside the seaside
Talks are under way with a view to housing some of the Kensington museum's
vast store of unexhibited items in a "V&A at Blackpool" building, which
would have regularly changing shows, in the manner of traditional seaside
entertainers, rather than a permanent collection
** Goldmine of Superstitions history
A plaque offers an explanation: "Elvis Presley lay 'wounded' in this sand
alongside the chapel at Apacheland Movie Ranch filming Charro"
** New West Solutions in Old West Settings
Call for Proposals, Workshops and Sessions
** Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
In 2001, 2003 and 2005, UNESCO issued three lists of Masterpieces of the
Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
** Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
** Year of the Ox
Come in from the cold and celebrate the Year of the Ox with the University
of Alberta Museums In honour of Chinese New Year
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