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week's edition include:
** China to house shipwreck in underwater museum
The museum, the first of its kind in the world, is to contain a sunken ship
more than 800 years old and its treasures
** After Mona Lisa, scientist strips down Leonardo's 'Lady with Ermine'
Engineer and inventor Pascal Cotte virtually strips away centuries of
sometimes sloppy restoration work to provide a digital image of a painting
as it may have left the artist's studio - an abiding question among art
historians and art lovers about such masterpieces
** Antiquities scheme yields rich harvest
Another star item discovered last year was a Roman third century bronze
casting of a miniature horse and rider discovered together and in almost
pristine condition by detectorist Duncan Pangborn
** Gadgets, gizmos and 'quackery'
Electricity was used in factories, but not the home, so Hydro Ontario used
to hold demonstrations to show people that stoves weren't dangerous
** Banksy 'caught red-handed' in art prank
If the entry submitted to the Turnip Prize is genuine it would be worth tens
of thousands of pounds, but the debate over authenticity is of no interest
to the judges
** Escape from the glass case
The internet will alter what museums do, encourage totally different types
of communication, and challenge the mores of the museum
** Stealing From The Museum
Last May, the Bellevue Arts Museum director sent an e-mail notice to members
saying that "discrepancies in our financial accounts revealed that our chief
financial officer embezzled museum funds" to the tune of $200,000
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** On The Buddhist Road
Presented as a story, the exhibit relies heavily on artwork and artefacts,
using delicately colored silk paintings and small terra cotta pieces to draw
visitors along the Silk Road from Xian all the way to Nalanda, one of the
world's first great universities, located in what is now India's Bihar state
** German radar lands in Linthicum
A 22-foot German radar antenna, once used by Nazi forces to track Allied
bombers in Europe during World War II, found a new home yesterday in
Linthicum, the latest exhibit at the Historical Electronics Museum
** Noah's flood may have spurred European farming
An ancient flood some say could be the origin of the story of Noah's Ark may
have helped the spread of agriculture in Europe 8,300 years ago by
scattering the continent's earliest farmers, researchers say
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio October 24 to November 21 - Don't let the love of your life pass you
by. Stop the hors d'oeuvres waiter carrying some of those delicious pigs in
a blanket
** Dramatic ancient cemetery found
A freelance archaeologist has uncovered what is thought to be the only known
Anglo-Saxon royal burial site in the north of England
** The enigma of Raymond Dart, the Australian discoverer of man's African
origins
In this talk he tells the story of Australian scientist Raymond Dart who's
made one of the world's great scientific discoveries
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** How Bambi helped Churchill
Wartime films that inspired Winston Churchill in late-night screenings at
Chequers, his country residence, included Bambi, the tear-jerking Walt
Disney cartoon, according to newly revealed records
** Family of forgers fooled art world with array of finely crafted fakes
When curators at the British Museum were approached in 2005 by an elderly
man with a broad Lancashire accent asking for their opinion on a fragment of
an Assyrian stone frieze that he said had been in his family since 1892,
they had every reason to believe he was just the latest genuine enthusiast
to seek their expertise
** Nylon panties and Lech Walesa's pen paves the way for Museum
Scarlet lingerie, a Soviet ballistic missile and the good-luck charm of a
Portuguese truck driver are perhaps not the first things you'd expect to
find in a museum dedicated to the European Union
** Warhol Brillo Boxes in Sweden Are Fakes
Six Brillo boxes in the Andy Warhol collection at a Swedish museum are fakes
made in 1990, three years after the famed pop artist died
** Feature Site - Sidney Nolan, A New Retrospective
Discover the genius of Sidney Nolan, one of Australia's greatest painters,
in this major survey of his celebrated career and extraordinary life
** Indonesian police arrest museum curator for selling ancient Buddhist
statues
Police arrested an Indonesian museum curator for allegedly stealing five
ancient Buddhist statues and using replicas to cover up the theft
** Project Kids - A Fabled Museum
** Pigeon Post Revived for Omaka - The world's first advertising billboard
to be delivered by pigeon
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National Museums Liverpool
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