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week's edition include:
** British Museum caught up in human rights row
Human Rights Watch has been in talks with the museum to ask it to protect
conditions for migrant workers by refusing to work with agencies which
charge fees for finding work, confiscate passports or pay unfair wages
** Art treasures may be sold to fund 'Titanic' museum
Critics fear that if the MLA, which polices Britain's public galleries,
allows the sale it will set a precedent for local authorities up and down
the country to ransack their collections
** Ancient horse roamed Canada's North with mammoths, camels
The long-frozen remains of an extinct ice age horse, dug up in 1993 by gold
miners in the Klondike, have finally been put on public display at a Yukon
museum after giving scientists a new picture of what the long-gone species
looked like when it roamed the Canadian North with woolly mammoths 26,000
years ago
** The Young Controller: six-year-old boy lands dream rail job at museum
A six-year-old boy has landed a dream job at the National Railway Museum
after applying for a post he saw advertised in a newspaper
** Museum spins textile history into great yarns
The tales are engrossing, but the reality of the mills becomes thunderously
immediate in the Techniques Gallery, which displays 15 historic machines
that perform essential tasks in the manufacturing processes, from spinning
and twisting yarn to weaving fabric
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** Nazis, nannies and hair omelettes
Despite possessing one of the world's most potent imaginations, being an
inspiration to generations of artists and treasured as the last link to the
Surrealist movement, she remains unselfconsciously humble
** And Now, an Exhibition From Our Sponsor
Traditionally museums have been loath to allow the sponsors of an exhibition
a significant role in curatorial decision making - particularly when the
sponsor is a corporation, given the potential taint of commercialization and
artistic compromise
** Annie Leibovitz debts not a pretty picture
Annie Leibovitz is as famous as the people she photographs but the genius
behind the lens is close to financial ruin - a victim, some say, of her
artistic ambition
** Rare tiles unearthed at palace
Rare Valencian tiles have been uncovered by archaeologists during
excavations at the ruins of a Surrey palace, once owned by Henry VIII
** Crossing the Sea with Fortuna
Should there be any doubt about the positive effects of diplomatic unions,
this exhibition of 260 objects and works of art from eight of the Dresden
State Museums and another 100 loaned by the Royal Danish Collections at
Rosenborg Castle, Fredericksborg Castle, the National Museum of Denmark, the
Royal Library and the Statens Museum for Kunst, will convince the severest
cultural critic
** Credit Crisis Is a Big Draw for Finance Museum
The Museum of American Finance was faced with an awkward situation recently:
some of the corporate sponsors of the museum - dedicated to glories of free
markets - had, well, failed
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** Gowns too fragile to exhibit
The various clothing artefacts in the Bertha Honoré Palmer exhibition range
from winter coats to nightgowns and day suits to opulent evening wear and
court presentation gowns
** Nude model briefly adds self to permanent collection at The Met museum
Police say they arrested a 26-year-old woman who was posing naked for a
photographer, and in full view of visitors, in the museum's arms and armour
department on Wednesday
** Ancient dial solves time riddle
A new discovery at an island abbey in the Firth of Forth has revealed the
Augustinian canons who once lived there measured time using a mass dial
** Warhol's junk just as intriguing as his art?
When he died in 1987 at 58, his four-story Manhattan townhouse was packed
with stuff: shopping bags filled with antiques, clothes, books and other
artefacts from his daily expeditions, boxes, piles of furniture and even a
drawer of gems worth $1 million
** Toothpaste to toilet cleaners crammed into London 'Brands' museum
Ramsay's Medicated Spice Nuts, from an earlier era, are advertised as "the
most pleasant, safe and certain remedy for eradicating every species of
worms, cleansing the stomach and bowels of everything offensive, and for
purifying the blood and correcting the habit
** $3 Million Brice Marden Painting Destroyed In Transit: Lawsuit
A $3 million painting by U.S. artist Brice Marden was destroyed while being
moved from Moscow to New York due to the negligence of Lufthansa Cargo and
others involved in its transport, a has lawyer said
** Gold and booty: Goa opens smuggling museum
The long beaches and rocky inlets of western India have been a haven for
contraband for centuries, with smugglers sneaking their goods into the
country via the Arabian Sea
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** Ancient Man Hurt Coasts
The idea that primitive hunter-gatherers lived in harmony with the landscape
has long been challenged by researchers, who say Stone Age humans in fact
wiped out many animal species in places as varied as the mountains of New
Zealand and the plains of North America
** 'Moon rock' in Dutch museum is just petrified wood
The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions,
a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a
piece of petrified wood
** Learning Through Objects: Museums and Young Children
The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Centre is offering an innovative seminar
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