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week's edition include:
** Museum To Display Jeweled Monopoly Set
The Smithsonian received the game as one of 20 jeweled art objects from the
personal collection of world-renowned artist and jeweler Sidney Mobell
** German Historical Museum breaks taboos with exhibition on Hitler
Billboards with eye-catching images are among museums' favorite advertising
strategies, but when it comes to a major exhibition on Hitler in the German
capital, the posters are heavy on text and contain no pictures of the Third
Reich's dictator
** New carnivore species identified in Madagascar
It belongs to a family of carnivores called the Eupleridae, only known in
Madagascar, and it is likely to be one of the most threatened carnivores in
the world
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** Egyptian ministry officials jailed over Van Gogh theft
An Egyptian court has found 11 culture ministry employees, including the
director, guilty of negligence after the theft of a Van Gogh painting from a
Cairo museum
** $300m painting 'hidden behind the sofa'
In a story that has rocked the art world, a Michelangelo original may have
been discovered in the most unlikely of locations - the lounge of a private
house in the US city of Buffalo
** Stone baboons return
The faintly smiling stone baboons look so modern few could guess they
watched the Roman legionaries march into Egypt, the fall of the Roman
empire - and almost 2,000 years later - a scandal begin that almost brought
down a government
** Private collections should stay in the living room - with their owner's
ego
Packing up paintings and sculptures from a private collector's living room
and hauling them over to the museum's public galleries for a temporary
display is about as low-grade a curatorial enterprise as can be imagined
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** Swedish museum learns of artwork theft from police
The Malmoe Art Museum in southern Sweden had not reported the three
recovered pieces stolen and had no idea they were missing, the bewildered
head of the institution said
** New images may yield Viking ships
The images of Viking ships, along with several burial mounds, could be the
biggest discoveries of their kind for more than a century, and some call
them potentially "sensational" while officials urge restraint
** Ultra-modern museum reveals Krakow's mediaeval past
Four meters beneath its sprawling Old Town square, the recently opened
multi-media museum covering 4,000 square meters (43,000 square feet),
showcases a treasure trove of artefacts only recently discovered by
archaeologists
** Goering, a museum and Nazi-looted art
What makes an artwork - stolen from desperate people, part of what would
become the largest claim of restitution involving Nazi theft - clean enough
to be kept in a
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** Ancient kiln unearthed in central China
The discovery revealed that production of ceramics began 680 years earlier
than previously thought in Lilin City, one of China's most famous porcelain
centers
** Irving Berlin piano spotlighted
When the new home of the National Museum of American Jewish History opens
this fall in Philadelphia, one of the more curious items on display will be
a special piano that was once used by Irving Berlin, the composer of such
immortal songs as "God Bless America" and "White Christmas."
** Fighting the fungus
Restorers may have discovered a way to save the volcanic stone Moai on
Easter Island from damaging lichens
** Unearthed Presidio Tunnel Is a Monument to Failure
In its own way, the tunnel tells the story of 1853 San Francisco, drunk on
gold dust, and beginning to construct infrastructure to carry the ambitions
of its biggest dreamers and visionaries
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** Swiss museum to display soap made from Berlusconi
Berlusconi underwent liposuction at a Swiss clinic in 2004, and a clinic
employee gave the discarded fat to Swiss artist Gianni Motti
** Museum directors offer help with Fisk art
The Association of Art Museum directors sent a letter to Fisk President
Hazel O'Leary encouraging the school not to look at its art collection as a
possible source of funds, but rather an invaluable educational resource
** More Serves and Volleys In Adams Photo Dispute
The suggestion that Earl Brooks was the photographer who created the
Norsigian Collection is simply implausible when juxtaposed with the
evidence, or lack thereof
** Life of a Navy surgeon: Rum, worms and tobacco cures
Blood letting, tobacco smoke blown into the lungs, rum rubs and even the
sight of Australia were some of the treatments used - with varying degrees
of success - by surgeons of Britain's Royal Navy to treat patients from the
late 1700s to the late 1800s
** Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks
The group acknowledged that the idea of a sophisticated, flourishing society
existing in Greece more than two millennia ago was a complete fiction
created by a team of some two dozen historians, anthropologists, and
classicists who worked nonstop between 1971 and 1974 to forge "Greek"
documents and artifacts
** Small Museum Association Awards
Nominations are being accepted for the 2011 Small Museum Association Awards
through December 15, 2009.
** Curiouser and Curiouser: Challenging Convention and Celebrating the
Unusual in Museums and Heritage
A Three-Day Phd Symposium
** Explore Philadelphia's Hidden Past
A 2010 Archaeology Month Celebration!
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