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week's edition include:
** Eclectic museum to be emptied
Say goodbye to the twirling carousel, the rows of perfectly shined classic
cars, the player pianos and jukeboxes; they're selling all the neon signs,
the slot machines, the antique guns, the Tiffany lamps, the hulking
chandeliers
** Museum receives President Ho Chi Minh artifacts
The artifacts include a mourning band commemorating 'Uncle' Ho's death in
1969, stamps and paper money featuring images of the President, as well as
the period when the beloved leader lived and worked in the province in the
early 20th century, such as a betel tray, slaked lime pot and books
** Friday was hell for Alfie
Within minutes of arriving at the museum one of the kids had been locked in
a small anteroom by museum staff; as you come in into the museum there were
a couple of stuffed hippos - all he had done was go up to hippos and fondle
their balls - but the museum staff was not amused
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** Feature Site - The Field Revealed
Each Friday we turn the spotlight onto the cases, cabinets and shelves
behind the scenes and let our staff reveal the hidden stories from The Field
Museum
** Tintoretto's Paradise among 20 artworks earmarked for restoration
In these economically challenged times, and as art conservation consumes
ever greater portions of tightened museum budgets, the need for private arts
funding has become even more critical
** Restored Edison Records Revive Giants of 19th-Century Germany
Tucked away for decades in a cabinet in Thomas Edison's laboratory, just
behind the cot in which the great inventor napped, a trove of wax cylinder
phonograph records has been brought back to life after more than a century
of silence
** The most expensive wall painting ever?
Jackson Pollock may lose his record for creating the most expensive painting
ever - and not to another enfant terrible of the art world , but to a minor
Los Angeles mural painter who happened upon the Facebook offices in 2005
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** WTC museum cost overrun baffles NYC mayor
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has admitted he could not figure out
who owed money to whom in a dispute over paying for the National September
11 Museum
** DNA Turning Human Story Into a Tell-All
The tip of a girl's 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian
cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequencing technology, is
helping scientists draw a surprisingly complex new picture of human origins
** France Plans a Napoleonland Theme Park
It's possible that the park will hold costumed re-enactments of one of
general's famous battles, such as Waterloo or Trafalgar, in the style of a
Renaissance Fair; more fancifully, there is talk of simulations of major
events in the life of Napoleon, such as the guillotining of France's last
king, Louis XVI
** A few great plant hunters find most species
Just 2% of plant collectors find the majority of new species, and these
great plant hunters could be key to finding the rest of the world's
undiscovered plants, according to a report this week in the Proceedings of
the Royal Society
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** Cairo's Overlooked Museum
A diamond in the rough, the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art houses works by
more than 1,500 Egyptian artists, mostly from the middle and late 20th
century, including the internationally renowned painters Mahmoud Said and
Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar and the sculptor Mahmoud Moukhtar
** In the Eye of His Storms
Vincent van Gogh not only thought that something this small and modest was a
worthy subject for art - as demonstrated by the spare works of the Japanese
artists he so admired - he also invoked it as a kind of centering technique
for regaining concentration
** Tchaikovsky's Bible Reveals A Door To New York's Distant Past
In May of 1891, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was on his way to Niagara Falls
when, changing trains in Utica, he composed a letter to his brother, Modest,
that read in part: "ginger bread and toy soldiers have started dancing in my
head"
** At the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum, it ain't so
Here, in a museum with a single purpose - to clear one man's name - that
famous quotation is revealed as just one more fantasy, one more piece of
anti-Jackson propaganda that got glommed onto a narrative in which fiction
like the movie "Field of Dreams" has became hopelessly blended with reported
accounts such as the book (and movie) "Eight Men Out."
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** German museum sparks controversy with Rolling Stones inspired urinals
The lips were designed by graphic designer John Pasche in 1971 and were
modeled on the Mick Jagger's large mouth, but according to local
campaigners, they encourage "discrimination against women''
** Smithsonian honors Clint Eastwood
Smithsonian officials marked the opening of the new theater and exhibits
Wednesday night by presenting Clint Eastwood with the James Smithson
Bicentennial Medal, awarded for "distinguished contributions to the
advancement of areas of interest to the Smithsonian
** Museum boss felt 'ambushed' into taking retirement
Staff numbers had been cut from 162 to under 150 and a number of specialists
were also leaving at the end of this month, he added, including experts on
coins and insects and a marine biologist
** Museum bunny gets acupuncture for twitching head
A troubled bunny at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham is undergoing
acupuncture to help alleviate excessive head twitching and circling
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** Museum finds earliest copy of Mona Lisa, painted by da Vinci pupil
Conservators at the museum were in the final stages of stripping away a
layer of black overpaint from the piece, a process that has revealed new
details about da Vinci's enigmatic subject
** Evolution Shrinks Mammals Quickly, But They're Slow to Grow
Within as little as 24 million generations, mammals can evolve from the size
of a mouse to the size of an elephant, a new study estimates
** Woven Treasures of Japan's Tawaraya Workshop
The Textile Museum - March 23 through August 12, 2012
** Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology
Supported by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation
** Vikings in the Attic with Eric Dregni
The Swedish American Museum will host a free book evening with professor and
author Eric Dregni, who will discuss his latest work, Vikings in the Attic.
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