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week's edition include:
** Swords from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit to go on show at Royal
Armouries
Proof copies of four weapons from the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit -
known as the Andúril, Strider's Sword, Glamdring, and Sting swords - will go
on exclusive display in Leeds after the Royal Armouries struck a deal with
their big-screen creators
** Russia's Hermitage Museum denounces blasphemy investigation
The head of Russia's renowned Hermitage Museum accused Russian authorities
of fostering "mob rule" in taking up complaints by Russian Orthodox
Christians over a British exhibit they said injured religious feelings
** Zurich misplaces more than 5,000 works of art; expected to find most of
the missing artwork
The city had carried out its first full inventory of its vast collection of
35,000 pieces in nearly a century, only to discover that nearly 15 percent
were missing, including nearly 1,400 original works
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** Why One Researcher is Documenting the Damage to Syria's Archaeological
Sites
Cunliffe says the Syrian government's antiquities department has started a
campaign to try to educate the public not to loot; still the list of damaged
and plundered sites continues to grow
** The emperors strike back: The artistic treasures of the Muslim Mughal
dynasty
Although the British Library tries to make this a story of a dynasty as much
as show of art, and puts the case for the late flowering of Mughal culture
in verse as in painting in the 18th and early 19th century, there is no
doubting where the masterpieces lie
** British artists furious as Greek billionaire behind arts festival 'goes
missing' with all their works
British artists and curators claim to have been left out of pocket after a
mysterious Greek entrepreneur behind a new cultural festival "disappeared"
with most of their works
** Bringing Alfred Russel Wallace "out of Darwin's shadow"
It was Wallace who co-published with Charles Darwin the scientific article
that first proposed the theory of evolution in 1858, one year before Darwin's
book On the Origin of Species came out
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** Artist 'used Holocaust victims' ash in paintings'
An artist who claimed to have mixed ash from Holocaust victims with his
paint has had his Swedish exhibition closed after an international outcry
** Museum, island group want to return lighthouse lens to Cape Ann
A mammoth lighthouse lens, which served as a beacon for mariners for more
than 120 years, is now the focus of an effort to bring this piece of history
back to Cape Ann
** The J. Paul Getty Museum: The World's Best Free Museum?
Every once in a great while, some place or some experience will shake me out
of that spoiled, travel-induced stupor and into that giddy discovery buzz
that reminds me why I travel in the first place
** Feature Site - A Photobank On A Mission
INCOMMONImages.org is a project that shares uncommon images for the common
good; a creation of the Milestones Project that celebrates the universal
milestones of childhood in order to affirm our common humanity
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** Frog with 'Wolverine'-like spikes discovered by Japanese researchers
Japanese researchers have discovered a new species of frogs that uses
"Wolverine"-like spikes for both fighting - and mating. More
** Cream of the collection
The Corning Museum of Glass treated itself to an early Christmas present by
picking up a rare blown-glass creamer that dates to the early 1800s
** New Czech Jewish museum to spread exhibits across 10 sites nationwide
Instead of one building or a complex of exhibition halls in one city, it
will be a nationwide museum comprising 10 linked thematic exhibitions in 10
restored synagogue buildings located in as many different towns and cities
** Life Does imitate art: Austrian museum visitor strips naked at
exhibition
Vienna's Leopold Museum says that after taking his clothes off, the man
calmly sauntered through the exhibition, dressing again only after a
security guard asked him to do so
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** New Science Museum in Sharjah
Sharjah has had a science museum and a discovery centre for several years
now however this new development, aims to incorporate both of these museums
into one multi-purpose centre on a much larger site capable of catering to
audiences from a very young age right through to university students
** Australian Multicellular Fossils Point to Life On Land, Not at Sea,
Geologist Proposes
Ancient multicellular fossils long thought to be ancestors of early marine
life are remnants of land-dwelling lichen or other microbial colonies says a
University of Oregon scientist who has been studying fossil soils of South
Australia. See also intense skepticism from several experts
** Tapping Into Rich Media Technology to Enhance Museum Experience
The linear video timeline, created specifically for the Atlanta High Museum
of Art, is the first of its type utilized by the museum to heighten the
visitor experience
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - A bizarre chain of existential mishaps will result in your third
viewing of the hit romantic comedy Sleepless In Seattle this week
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** Evidence of world's 'oldest' cheese-making found
Milk extracts have been identified on 34 perforated pottery vessels or
"cheese-strainers", which date back 7,500 years that have been excavated in
Poland
** Why do Old Books Smell and Other Adventures with Odors in Collections
Tara Kennedy, Preservation Field Services Librarian at Yale University
Library, hosted a lively discussion focused on odors in collections in this
webinar
** ICOM Rio 2013
Registration for the ICOM Rio 2013 General Conference is now open
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