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week's edition include:
** Brooklyn Museum's Costume Treasures Going to the Met
After three years of negotiations, the financially strained Brooklyn Museum
has arranged to transfer its rich collection of American and European
costumes and accessories to the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that it can be
properly cared for and exhibited
** Pinochet museum divides Chileans
A museum dedicated to the life and work of Chile's former military leader
Augusto Pinochet has opened in the capital, Santiago, rekindling the debate
about how he should be remembered
** Hoping to get a space shuttle?
Museums around the country that have expressed interest in obtaining a
genuine flown-in space shuttle are being told by NASA that it's really going
to cost them
** Houston museum features 1st century Israel finds
The confluence of cultures that witnessed the first Christmas is reflected
in the languages displayed on the coins and other items in the exhibit
** Lost Serra sculpture to return
A 38-ton sculpture by US artist Richard Serra is to return to the Spanish
museum it went missing from
** 'Ancient city' unearthed in Peru
Archaeologists say the find could provide the missing link between the
ancient cultures of the Wari people and the earlier Moche civilisation
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** U.S. Holocaust Museum gets Nazi probe documents
More than 50,000 pages of documents from what Justice Department official
Eli Rosenbaum calls the "ultimate cold cases" - investigations into Nazi
criminals living in the United States - have been donated to the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum
** Environmental Protection Agency is needlessly destroying irreplaceable
artefacts
According to a lobby group, the EPA and its contractors routinely shrug off
required site surveys before they begin to blast or excavate, destroying
significant historic and prehistoric cultural resources in the process
** New race car museum a pit stop for car fans
For more than 20 years, Fred Simeone kept his priceless collection of
vintage racing cars in a nondescript garage in downtown Philadelphia
** Franklin museum in disrepair
The National Park Service says an underground museum where Benjamin
Franklin's home once stood needs an $18 million renovation because it has
fallen into disrepair and its exhibits are outdated
** NY museums may be able to sell works to pay
The state board that oversees New York museums may consider allowing them to
sell artwork, artefacts and other works to pay back debt, a change of policy
some museum backers say would threaten quality collections
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** Lincoln Museum Collection to Stay in Indiana
When the Lincoln Foundation closed the museum earlier this year, it
announced it would turn the entire collection of Lincoln documents and
artefacts over to whomever could best care for it, and make it available to
the public
** Titian announcement expected soon
The Scottish Government recognises the national importance of the
Bridgewater Collection to Scotland as the greatest private collection of old
masters on loan to a public gallery anywhere in the world
** Item For The Collection?
As it is the Festive Season I take the liberty of sharing a little Museum
and Archaeology humour with you all - it's an oldie but a goodie!
** Collections and Exhibitions
National Museum of Australia, Collections Symposium 2009
** World of mummies revealed
A major new gallery at the World Museum Liverpool looks at the incredible
world of the Pharaohs and the remarkable culture that built the Pyramids and
the Sphinx
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