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week's edition include:
** Anglo-Saxon gold hoard worth seven-figure sum
The haul of at least 1,345 items was officially declared to be treasure by a
coroner this morning and will now be valued by a committee of experts
** A missing museum chief and an unhappy union
When many of striking workers at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the
Canadian War Museum barraged museum CEO Victor Rabinovitch with e-mails
requesting that he negotiate a fair contract with them, they received an
unusual e-mail back: an automated "out of office" message because the top
executive was away from the office
** Lady Dai tomb among the richest finds in China history
She was overweight, had diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol,
liver disease, gallstones and her arteries were almost totally clogged
** Turner's nasty side revealed
What is less known about JMW Turner is his over-weaning competitive
tendencies and desperate desire for "one-upmanship", not just over his
contemporaries but also old master painters
** Samurai parody takes jab at Asian Art Museum
The parody Web site closely mimics the design of the Web page that the Asian
museum devoted to its exhibition - so closely that some contributors to the
busy West Coast blog www.8Asians.com mistook it for the real thing, thus
magnifying the parody's online presence and conjuring a small maelstrom of
commentary from academia, curators and the lay public
** Council's £100,000 rebranding of museum with original name
Despite months of meetings, brainstorms and site visits, the
Manchester-based firm failed to find an alternative to 'M Shed'
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** Museum reopens after hoard revamp
A Leicestershire museum has reopened after a £850,000 project to built a new
gallery for a hoard of treasure
** Vintage paddleboards added to Hermosa Beach museum
As four strapping men laboured Thursday to hang a 50-pound paddleboard made
out of balsa wood from the ceiling of the Hermosa Beach Historical Society
Museum, one thing was clear: they sure don't make 'em like that anymore
** Mysterious ruins may help explain Mayan collapse
When the team started exploring the hilltop palaces, five vaulted homes to
the south of the hilltop plaza and four to the north, the archaeologists
found tools, stone knives and axes, corn-grinder stones called metates and
pots still sitting in place
** Postal Museum Receives $8 Million Gift
When William H. Gross was a child, his mother collected sheets of 3-cent
stamps, hoping they would appreciate over time and cover her son's college
tuition
** Uncovering a Small Town (and Some Tall Tales)
All of the buildings and houses in the town were then inexplicably buried
under sand by the military, which later appeared to deny that the village
had ever existed
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** Research team launches search for serpent-like Vancouver Island lake
creature
He said he has documented six sightings of the Cameron Lake creature since
2004, but remains sceptical that the cylindrical, elongated animal is a
monster
** "Unexpected" Man Found Amid Ancient Priestesses' Tombs
In an "unexpected" discovery, a rattle-wielding elite male has been found
buried among powerful priestesses of the pre-Inca Moche society in Peru
** University museums drawing crowds with research dazzle
A guidebook published this month on some 100 university-run museums in the
Tokyo area may prompt more people to seek intellectual stimulation at the
exhibitions
** Give a wasp a name
The Natural History Museum and The Times newspaper have launched a
competition to name a new species of wasp to mark the opening of the
Museum's new Darwin Centre
** I certainly wouldn't want to climb Everest
She is wearing her sensible art conservator's outfit of practical, dark
pants, sensible flat shoes and funny, unexpected socks with brightly
coloured flowers
** Nelson ship will remain as museum
The future of Nelson's flagship HMS Victory as a commissioned warship in
Portsmouth has been secured under measures aimed at preserving the Royal
Navy's heritage
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** Same-sex lobby meeting with Human Rights Museum CEO
When you deal with the issue of human rights, there's challenges, there's
triumphs, there's all of the weaving together of all the complexities of all
the issues that are part of what is going to make the museum so special
** Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundreds Of Secret Arctic Lairs
In August alone we discovered 44 mad scientist laboratories, three highly
classified military compounds, and seven reanimated and very confused
cavemen
** Gossamer Silk, From Spiders Spun
For anyone considering going into the business of manufacturing traditional
textiles using the filaments extracted from the spinnerets of the golden orb
spider of Madagascar, here are a few guidelines to keep in mind
** 2009 History Costume Ball: In Support of the National Collection Fund
On October 28, 2009 more than 400 guests will be celebrating while helping
to preserve Canadian heritage at the 2009 History Costume Ball: The Great
Canadian Adventure
** Watteau, Music, and Theatre
The Metropolitan Museum of Art September 22 - November 29, 2009
** Volative U.S. Immigration Debate Examined
New interactive exhibition at Arab American National Museum
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