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** Anthrax Letters, Now on View, Represent the Serious Threats Faced by the
Post Office
The National Postal Museum's "Behind the Badge" exhibit explores the history
and legacy of the United States Postal Inspection Service.
** The 10 Un-Politically Correct Museums That Might Offend You
These museums have — sometimes on purpose, more often not — amassed
collections of some of the world’s most politically incorrect artifacts.
** The Early Days: Bugs Bunny
He looks spry enough, but your old friend Bugs Bunny is over the hill
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** Museum hosts annual turtle walks
The Museum of Discovery and Science hosted its annual series of turtle
walks, where participants can follow guides from the museum while they
search out loggerhead sea turtles as they climb ashore to lay eggs.
** Couple who Stole Baby Dinosaur Replica from Museum Arrested, Charged
Before that theft, the pair had stolen small props from a few exhibits at
the Museum of History across the street.
** Festival of Archaeology 2014: Medieval rings, Bronze Age hoards and Iron
Age discoveries
So it begins to ask questions of what we understand about money and who is
making the coins – are they being made here rather than being brought over?.
** Helsinki Divided on Plan for a Guggenheim Satellite
City boosters in this Nordic capital dream of a Guggenheim museum of Finnish
wood rising near the Baltic Sea and one day drawing millions of tourists and
cruise passengers.
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** A Duke’s Gilded Haven, Recreated in Paris
The pieces came from the interior of a townhouse built near the Louvre
around 1707 for Philippe II, the duke of Orléans, a nephew of Louis XIV.
** Thinking of applying for an Italian museum job? Don't
Every now and again they appoint a foreigner in the hope of getting a bit of
that magical know-how, and then they get rid of him or her in humiliating,
destructive and unprofessional ways that in the UK or US would be
inconceivable.
** Original copies of Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights to be
displayed on 800th anniversary of Magna Carta
In its 2015 exhibition, Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, marking the 800th
anniversary of the immortal document, the British Library will show original
copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights
** Inside the new WWI galleries at the Imperial War Museum
Objects on display rang from a Sopwith Camel fighter plane to a button from
a German tunic that was given to a British soldier as a gift during the 1914
Christmas Truce.
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** Repentant counterfeiter finds a second artistic wind
The former art teacher from Staffordshire, was once one of Britain’s most
prolific forgers – an activity which earned him a 12-month prison sentence
and provided the inspiration for his jail painting Pigeon and Apple View
from E Wing
** Cape Town carves out major new African art museum
On Cape Town's waterfront at the southern tip of Africa, the world's biggest
museum of contemporary art from across the continent is being carved from a
conglomeration of concrete tubes nine storeys high.
** Newly Discovered Extinct Fox Used Tibet as Training Ground for Ice Age
The finding lends support to the idea that the evolution of present-day
animals of the Arctic region is intimately connected to ancestors that first
became adapted for life in cold regions in the high-altitude environments of
the Tibetan plateau.
** What the 9/11 museum could learn from two Latin American memorials
It is difficult to say at which point during my visit to the 9/11 Memorial
Museum I went from sombre to irritated
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** Museum raises $80M toward Detroit bankruptcy deal
The Detroit Institute of Arts says it has pledges for about 80 percent of
the $100 million it promised toward an effort involving the state of
Michigan and major foundations to prevent the sale of art and soften cuts to
city retirees during Detroit's bankruptcy.
** Museum displays skull of pro-Nazi officer who was executed with his own
gun after WW2 atrocities
The display also features gold teeth extracted from Jews as they entered
Auschwitz, muzzles used to German Shepherd dogs who patrolled the camps and
attacked prisoners, and a series of syringes used in brutal medical tests on
prisoners
** Ancient Native Americans Ate Pachyderms
At a Mexican site known as the End of the World, archaeologists have
unearthed a Native American first: the bones of two extinct elephant-like
animals that sported four tusks apiece, surrounded by 13,400-year-old spear
points.
** How presidential museums become propaganda palaces
At presidential museums, even the cynical melt before multimillion-dollar
efforts to portray scoundrels as leaders.
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** Assimilation into Han Culture: The Ancient Funerary Pottery of Guangxi
Features 76 items/sets of rare burial pottery dating from the Western Han to
the Southern Dynasties including model houses, granaries, wells, stoves, and
boat and animal figurines
** The Future of Natural History Museums: Relevance, Balance and Innovation
The 2014 ICOM NATHIST conference is kindly being hosted The Croatian Museums
of Zagorje from 11 to 16 October.
** 2014 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage
The Museum of Underwater Archaeology is proud to announce the launch of the
online proceedings for the 2014 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on
Underwater Cultural Heritage
** Memory and Learning in a Changing World
Annual Conference of IC Memo (International Committee of Memorial Museums)
** New Study Finds Most Of Earth’s Oxygen Used For Complaining
By carefully measuring the processes of gas exchange, the respiratory
capacities of living organisms, and resulting metabolic activities, we
discovered that most oxygen molecules in Earth’s troposphere are used for
the purposes of sighing, whining, and most commonly, complaining
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