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week's edition include:
** Historic FDR artefacts up for auction in Texas
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's trademark fedora, the last check he
ever signed, and watercolour sketches for the unfinished portrait he sat for
on the day he died are among hundreds of historic artefacts and documents
headed for the auction block
** Priceless treasures lost in museum heist
Early reports have suggested that at least 10 pieces from the Reid
collection have been taken, along with some Inca gold necklaces. Museum
offers $50,000 reward for stolen art
** Crowds Horrified as Ducklings Get Sucked Down Drain at DC Museum
The National Museum of the American Indian said equipment in an outdoor
fountain that was supposed to protect wildlife appears to have failed,
resulting in the deaths last week of five ducklings
** Museum opens at historic dockyard
Among the vehicles is a rail carriage Lord Kitchener travelled in during his
campaigns in Sudan, and the XE8, an early submarine
** Dan Dare inspired UK innovation
Classic comic hero Dan Dare fired the imagination of young Britons in the
1950s and heralded the birth of hi-tech Britain, an exhibition at the London
Science Museum reveals.
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** Is the art market heading for a crash?
The chief executive, says auction houses are acting more like private
dealers in finding buyers for the big trophy works that only come up once in
a lifetime to ensure they sell, and these figures disguise the real
situation
** Iraq's Babylon bears scars of US-led invasion
The last outsiders to visit the ruins of the once-mighty city of Babylon in
Iraq came in tanks and helicopters, leaving a blight on its historic and
fragile landscape
** Beichuan ruins to become museum and memorial
The crumpled ruins of Beichuan, the most seriously damaged major town in the
Sichuan earthquake zone, are to be preserved and turned into a museum and
memorial
** Kentucky museum to get Clooney's 'Leatherheads' uniform
A Kentucky museum dedicated to George Clooney's late aunt just wanted the
actor's helmet from the movie
** Nazi fortress in French cliff face to be museum
The complex, which was cut out of a cliff face called La Montagne du Roule
by slave labour, overlooks the strategic port of Cherbourg and became a
nerve centre of German resistance following D-Day
** Who owns antiquity? Local museums or experts' countries
The term "partage" refers to the system that persisted for many years in
which foreign-led worked with locals to excavate antiquities in countries
like Iraq and Egypt
** For centuries Stonehenge was a burial site
England's enigmatic Stonehenge served as a burial ground from its earliest
beginnings and for several hundred years thereafter, new research indicates
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** Tate acts as blank canvas for street art
The display at the former Bankside power station is the first exhibition of
street art at a major British gallery and is seen as a sign that major
graffiti works - which can sell for several hundreds of thousands of pounds
at auction - are now taken seriously by the art world
** Giants Amid the Blooms
The New York Botanical Garden's "Moore in America" exhibition, which opens
with 18 of Henry Moore's big, beloved bronzes (and two more in fibreglass),
is the largest outdoor collection of his work in a single location ever
presented in New York, or anywhere else in the country
** DNA Retrieved from 1,000-year-old Vikings
Strands of 1,000-year-old DNA from 10 Viking skeletons have been retrieved,
a team of scientists claims
** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra. September 23 to October 23 - A man's home is his castle. This week
prepare to have your castle stormed by a marauding horde of phone bills
** Squirrels squat Finnish open-air museum
A popular open-air museum in Helsinki showing the traditional Finnish way of
life has begged the public to stop feeding local squirrels, saying they were
eating away at the displays
** Priceless ceramic kept under bed
A priceless 17th Century artwork is going on display after spending the last
30 years under a farmer's bed.
** Selling Yarns 2: Innovation for sustainability
Presented by The Australian National University, Craft Australia and the
National Museum of Australia
** Heritage Museum explores cultural value of jewellery
More than 200 sets of jewellery from the collection of renowned local
manufacturers and designer brands are on display at the Hong Kong Heritage
Museum
** One of Five Museums Worldwide to Participate in International Family Art
Festival
Visitors to Children's Museum of Pittsburgh will be the first American
participants in Fi'Art, an exciting international family arts festival
occurring in four countries around the word from May 31 - June 1
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