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week's edition include:
** New show focuses Van Gogh's final days
When Vincent van Gogh arrived in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise in
late May, 1890, in search of a new life after a year in a mental asylum, he
embarked on an explosion of creativity, producing more than 70 paintings
within two months
** New museum near Angkor Wat to show long-lost Buddhist statues
The statues, recovered from the jungle by a Japanese research team in 2001,
date from the 11th to 13th centuries and are up to 1.2 metres in height
** Senate to war museum -Rewrite bombing exhibit and placate angry vets
The Canadian War Museum should find a way to rephrase a 60-word panel in an
exhibit about Bomber Command in the Second World War and placate air force
vets who feel it accuses them of war crimes, a Senate subcommittee has urged
** Greece to turn its last royal palace into museum
The Greek government said the Tatoi palace north of Athens, which the family
left behind when they fled the country in 1967, will be renovated, its
contents restored and then turned over to the public in a move signalling
that Greece is finally coming to terms with ex-King Constantine
** Bodies from Viking ships to be exhumed
Scientists said they hope they will be able to analyze the DNA in the
bodies, including determining whether the two women in the Oseberg mound
were related
** Virus blight spreads to museum site
The website of Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art has been found to "host
or distribute" malicious software, a day after reports surfaced of similar
security breaches at the website of the Sydney Opera House
** Russians recall bygone era with Soviet game museum
Secret military factories across the Soviet Union churned out the arcade
games from the late 1970s, but they were discarded in favour of shinier
western imports after the collapse of communism in 1991
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** Drawing Of Masterpiece Found In Trash
A Eugene Delacroix drawing of one of his own paintings that hangs in the
Louvre Museum in Paris has been returned to a gallery in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, nearly two years after it was stolen
** This is why people hate Toronto
Imagine, then, this spectacle - Like Big Brother in George Orwell's 1984,
the face of William Thorsell, director of the ROM, suddenly loomed several
stories high over Bloor Street, projected onto the museum's new cladding
** Museum still with Blackbeard on the mind
The planned recovery of a cannon from the shipwreck believed to be
Blackbeard's flagship has been delayed until fall, but the famous pirate
will remain in the spotlight during a special weeklong event hosted by the
N.C. Maritime Museum
** N!de Marilyn images at DAI challenge conception of art
The couple's discussion raises exactly the kinds of issues museums deal with
on a regular basis - how to present sensitive works of art, especially n!des
** Why Does Her Money Scare the Art World?
Walton's taste, determination and deep pockets are clearly making some
people in the art world very nervous
** Korea Gallery opens at Smithsonian museum
The Korea Gallery has opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History displaying more than 200 items from the 6th century to the present
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** World's oldest adornments found
Perforated shells discovered in a limestone cave in eastern Morocco are the
oldest adornments ever found and show humans used symbols in Africa 40,000
years before Europe
** Nature museums nearly relics themselves
The great American natural history museum could be headed for the vulnerable
species list, alongside the polar bear and the redwood tree
** Belgian crown prince risks court summons over failure to return borrowed
furniture
Belgium's Crown Prince Phillipe is risking a court summons over 19th century
furniture he borrowed from a state collection and which needs to be returned
** Dirty deeds and desperadoes
A tarantula, bird-eating spiders, a hippopotamus skull, python skeleton and
thresher shark eyeballs in a jar are some of the thrillingly icky and
shiveringly spooky items that form the backdrop to a new murder-mystery
exhibition at Te Papa
** Likely Botticelli fresco found in chapel
The fresco, part of a four-piece mural in the ruined castle of Esztergom,
northern Hungary, had been known but experts only discovered during recent
renovation works that it bore the hallmarks of the 15th century Florentine
painter's style
** Museum's 'Adam' clip gone
The man picked as Adam by the Creation Museum has led quite a different life
outside the Garden of Eden, flaunting his s#xual exploits online and
modelling for a line of clothing with an explicit mascot
** eXtreme Heritage - Registration is now open for the 2007 Australia
ICOMOS National Conference
** Preserving Gamily and Community Treasures
** Urban Institute to Investigate Public Funding Mechanisms for Museums
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