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week's edition include:
** Librarian helps save hurricane-strewn relics
Silverman, a conservator who works as a preservation librarian at the
University of Utah, describes what has become the "collection fields" of
Biloxi's Maritime and Seafood Industry Museum, ever since the forces of
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged the building and its collections
** The 2005 Ig Nobel Awards - The Significance of Mr. Richard Buckley's
Exploding Trousers
The Ig Nobel awards are arguably the highlight of the scientific calendar
** Korean 'Masterpieces' in Art Row Likely Fake
In a dispute over a massive hoard of works ostensibly by two of the Korea's
most famous artists, the prosecution on Friday threw its weight behind the
side that says they are fakes
** Italian police arrest five, recover hundreds of artefacts in crackdown
on art trafficking
Italian anti-art theft police have arrested five people and are
investigating an 82-year-old Austrian tour guide and 28 other people after
investigators recovered hundreds of smuggled artefacts in the Austrian town
of Linz
** Top Russian museum removes painting after religious protest
A leading Russian modern art museum took down a work showing an outline of
the Virgin Mary filled with caviar after a complaint from a group of
Orthodox believers who judged it offensive
** SpaceShipOne soars into Smithsonian
The 6,000-pound spacecraft that soared to the edge of space last year now
hangs in the Milestones of Flight Gallery, joining some exalted company
** World Forum for Motor Museums Comes to Detroit
The conference will be headquartered at the Detroit Marriott in the
Renaissance Centre, which is also headquarters to General Motors and
MotorCities National Heritage Area
** British Museums to Return Human Remains
The British Museum and eight other leading institutions plan to return human
remains to indigenous communities abroad, according to a new British law
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** House of the Quran in Bahrain a unique museum
The House of the Quran was built to accommodate a comprehensive and valuable
collection of the Holy Quran and manuscripts, becoming a unique
establishment in the Arabian Gulf
** Dragon Slain in England
Sir Mantelpiece the Well-Intentioned, whose birth name is actually Bob
Barker, has medieval roots that stretch back as far as two years ago, when
he began collecting medieval armour and weapons as a hobby
** Van Gogh Museum Opens Display on Animals
The Van Gogh Museum has opened a new exhibition that explores people's
changing view of animals during the period when Charles Darwin published his
theory of evolution
** New national maritime museum opens
Commander Shane Moore says the heritage centre in Sydney will showcase items
from the navy's collection of about 250,000 items
** What is the secret of this rock?
The lines and other markings on the stone slab, which measures 11 inches
wide, two inches thick and seven inches high, and weighs 4.8 kilograms,
turned out to be a "code" believed to reveal the location of the lost island
of Atlantis
** Egyptians argue over reported damage to pharaonic statue
Egyptian Culture Minister Faruq Hosni ordered a probe into reports about
mysterious damage to a pharaonic statue during restoration work at the
Egyptian Museum
** Mold, Grime, Even Feathers: Conservationists Revive Art Damaged in
Hurricane
They have much to do: A giant multicoloured abstract is splattered with
grime, an autumn landscape is flaking, canvases are sagging
** Rare find in DuPage is extinct elephant relative
DuPage County is no hotbed of palaeontology, but a recent project to restore
a former farmland to its original wetland state unearthed an unusual find:
some football-sized molars belonging to an American mastodon, an extinct
relative of the modern elephant
** Exhibit buries myth of slave-free New York
Slavery was something that took place "down South," most New Yorkers would
say, but a museum exhibit that opened on Friday shows that Manhattan was
slave territory too
** Denver Museum of Nature & Science accused of succumbing to Infotainment
The subtext of this press release: Kids are ignorant, base creatures that
are uninterested in science, but if we mask scientific subjects in a
disgusting (and thereby kid-appealing) veneer, then maybe, just maybe, they'll
incidentally learn something
** For Your Entertainment: 'Panther' director prowls 'Museum'
The 20th Century Fox project centres on a good-hearted but bumbling security
guard at the Museum of Natural History who accidentally trips an ancient
curse that causes the animals and insects on display to come to life
** London gets its own 'er*tic museum'
Developers announced plans to open a multimillion-pound s*xual "theme park"
near London's Piccadilly Circus, home to the much-photographed statue of the
Greek god of love
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** Museum Computer Network 2005 Conference Digits Fugit!
** Tourism in Asia: new trends, new perspectives
** Exhibition to commemorate the contribution in the battle against SARS
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