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week's edition include:
** Giant yellow duck finds new home in Taiwan
A Dutch artist's now-famous giant yellow duck found a new temporary home
Thursday, this time in Taiwan, but an approaching typhoon could ruffle the
inflatable's feathers
** Tsunami archaeology dig continues at Low Hauxley
The archaeological finds from the Low Hauxley excavation are remarkable not
only for their superb degree of preservation but also for the variety of
material from different periods; over 12000 stone tools, ancient food
remains, Bronze Age pots and whetstones and Iron Age and Roman pottery and
even a wonderfully delicate bone pin
** Transforming Expectations on Museum Programming
The Met, which has had a venerable performance series for over nine decades,
has recently changed its direction from narrowly focused classical recitals
and chamber music concerts to a more immersive, Met-specific series
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** Ohio museum grows fleet of historic electric cars
A fleet of more than three-dozen historic electric cars at the Northern Ohio
Railway Museum have been joined by three more, including Cleveland's last
streetcar
** Wacky Museum of the Week - Online Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies
Welcome, artists and aficionados alike, to the brand new home of The Museum
of Forgotten Art Supplies, where tools of the trade that have died or have
just about died a slow death are cheerfully exhibited
** Rarely Seen Mesoamerican Artifacts Revealed
Few people know that the Smithsonian Institution curates one of the largest
single collections of whole Mesoamerican ceramic artifacts in the world -
more than 12,000, to be specific
** Incredible Technology: How to Preserve Historical Documents
In the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote the phrase
"my fellow citizens," but the word "citizens" was written over another,
illegible word
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** MoMA exhibition explores Rene Magritte's surrealist work
Belgian painter Rene Magritte's work, featuring men in bowler hats,
mysterious landscapes and bright blue skies, may be familiar to many art
lovers, but a new exhibition focuses attention on the artist's surrealist
pieces
** Tate Modern lets visitors display their own digital masterpieces
Visitors to Tate Modern will have a chance to display their work just yards
from masterpieces by some of the biggest names in the art world, although
only for a matter of minutes
** Swiss National Museum unveils an exhibition of Charlemagne
On Christmas Day in the year 800, a new era in the Middle Ages of the
western world began at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome: Pope Leo III appointed
Charlemagne as the first emperor since the fall of Rome in the 5th century
** Salmon-eating Neanderthals
One replacement hypothesis suggests that Neanderthals were rigid in their
dietary choice, targeting large herbivorous mammals, such as horse, bison
and mammoths, while modern humans also exploited a wider diversity of
dietary resources, including fish
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** Gettysburg museum butts heads with Library of Congress over copy of
Lincoln's speech
The foundation that runs Gettysburg National Military Park's museum and
visitor center wants to borrow a copy held by the Library of Congress and
put it on public display as part of its celebration of the 150th anniversary
of Lincoln's famed speech
** Billionaire Broad Says His LA Museum Will Be Free
With his own impressive contemporary art collection to be located just
across the street, there has been some concern MOCA will be overshadowed,
but Broad dismissed that
** Museum gift fills out Lincoln family's story
The documents, donated by the widow of a former state curator of Lincoln
artifacts, offer a new layer of understanding to the 16th president's
often-overshadowed descendants, museum officials say
** China museum unveils Japan forced labour 'evidence' on anniversary
The Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese
Aggression displayed more than 400 documents it said detailed how 40,000
Chinese were forced to work in Japan during the war
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** Early Modern Humans Arrived in Near East 42,000 Years Ago
The Middle East has always been regarded as a key region in prehistory for
scholars speculating on the routes taken by early humans out of Africa
because it lies at the crossroads of three continents - Africa, Asia and
Europe
** Shrew eating scientists earn Ig Nobel prize
They parboiled and cut up a shrew, and one of the scientists - Stahl would
not disclose who, saying it wasn't relevant - ate it without chewing, then
recovered the bones from his feces
** V&A Museum buys working gun made on 3-D printer
Britain's Victoria & Albert Museum says it has bought a working gun made on
a 3-D printer, which sparked alarm among anti-firearms campaigners when it
was unveiled in the United States
** Museum boasts monster beasts
An Eagle Lake nuisance alligator estimated to weigh about 800-pounds was
mounted and is now on display at the museum
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** Museum of Science and Industry featured in new iPhone ad
Apple wouldn't comment on why it chose the museum's space-themed home page
as part of its marketing materials, but Beasley said museum officials were
told that Apple liked the website and how it fit with the company's vision
** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo - Alcohol, a case of mistaken identity, and two screaming ends of a
pantomime horse will figure heavily this coming Thursday
** Insect Has The Only Mechanical Gears Ever Found in Nature
To confirm that the gears performed this function, the researchers performed
a neat (albeit morbid) trick with some dead Issus
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** Building Strong Culture through Conservation - Posters
ICOM-CC is now inviting abstracts for poster contributions for its 17th
Triennial Conference in Melbourne, Australia, 15-19 September 2014.
** NEH grants for sustainable preventive conservation projects
The National Endowment for the Humanities invites applications from
nonprofit museums, libraries, archives, and educational institutions in the
United States to its Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections program.
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