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edition include:
** US museums walk tightrope after China arrest
US
museums are facing delicate choices as they strive to meet a growing
interest in China, cooperating with counterparts across the Pacific despite
alarm over the detention of top artist Ai Weiwei ** When it comes to
architecture, museums forsake the past
This is the odd cultural moment
we're living in: Never have museums been so eager to hire talented
architects and give them large-scale commissions with generous budgets and
never have museums been so dismissive of architecture's civic or historic
value ** Soldiers' art tells war stories at new Ohio museum
A World War
I soldier's drawing of a night-time raid he witnessed is one of many pieces
of soldiers' artwork in a new museum devoted to history and art from World
Wars I and II
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Police resume probe into theft of meteorite pieces
The city police have
decided to empty a century-old well behind the Chennai Museum in Egmore as
part of their search for five meteorites stolen from there ** Dominican
Republic museum to honor victims of dictatorship
The $2.7 million museum,
located in a renovated colonial home in the capital, Santo Domingo, also
will feature a re-creation of a prison torture chamber, along with audio of
some of the actual torture sessions ** Budding scientists get Stingray
Sea Lab touch tank
For many visitors destination No. 1 was the Stingray Sea
Lab, the museum's new permanent exhibit featuring kid-friendly collections
of rare fish, shellfish, coral, sea plant life and the pièce de résistance,
a 3,000 gallon touch tank containing several varieties of rays ** Tokyo
museum's World Heritage designation hopes shaken
An advisory body to UNESCO
has counseled against registering 19 buildings designed by French architect
Le Corbusier, including the National Museum of Western Art in Taito Ward,
Tokyo, as world cultural heritage sites, it has been learned
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or living plant tissue, fungi, micro-organisms or dung, others are
parasitic or predatory, and some are aquatic ** Beyond the Louvre
These
days I prefer to visit some of Paris's other museums, as rich and
satisfying in their way as the great repositories, more harmonious and
human in scale ** Museum unveils new hangar for Vietnam aircraft
It will
house the Vietnam-era warbird collection, making up about 13 or so
aircraft, from the famous Huey helicopter all the way up through the F-8
Crusader ** Giant predator fossil rewrites books on ancient life
An
ancient sea predator with a spined head and plated mouth grew to a much
greater size and lived far longer than thought, according to a study
Wednesday shedding light on one of the Earth's most intriguing evolutionary
periods
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Museum convention showcases a gadget-filled future
Vendors at the American
Association of Museums' expo hawked everything from traveling exhibits to
touchscreen displays on the George R. Brown Convention Center floor as
convention veterans marveled at how much more, well, futuristic many of
this year's booths looked than in 2010 ** Did Llama Dung Spur the Rise
of Andean Civilization?
A new study suggests that a much humbler llama
byproduct - dung - may have helped maize farming take off, which in turn
fueled the rise of ancient Andean society ** Shanghai Museum of
Glass
China's most populous city aims to be a world beacon for culture, and
its latest museum in the Baoshan District could make it the world capitol
for the study and celebration of clean, clear glass ** From The Blogs -
Tracking the condition of objects in Julia Child's kitchen
It can be a bit
nerve-wracking to handle the objects while people watch, take pictures, and
talk about what you are doing (the viewports aren't soundproof and it can
be distracting listening to the
visitors)
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Artsy, museum-going men are happier, study says
Men who enjoy taking in the
ballet or browsing art museums are more likely to be happy with their lives
and satisfied with their health than men who don't enjoy the finer things
in life, a new study finds ** Stirling Castle skeletons reveal the brutal
reality of medieval warfare say experts
The skeletons, which are believed
to be those of a knight, a lady and other high born members of medieval
Scottish society, were discovered buried beneath a lost 12th-century royal
chapel excavated as part of Historic Scotland's refurbishment of the
castle's 16th century palace ** The Sensuous Object
If you are interested
in synaesthetic curating and engagement with objects (by means of all
senses), please note 'The Sensuous Object' workshop in Copenhagen 29-30
September. ** Frogs: A Chorus of Colors Returns
Back by popular demand,
Frogs: A Chorus of Colors, has opened at the American Museum of Natural
History. Featuring more than 200 live frogs, from the tiny golden mantella
frog to the enormous African bullfrog, this dynamic exhibition introduces
visitors to these complex amphibians, their biology and evolution, their
importance to ecosystems, and the threats they face in the wild. ** 2nd
Call for Papers for The Inaugural Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on
Underwater Cultural Heritage, Nov 2011
The Asian Academy for Heritage
Management warmly invites you to Manila, The Philippines from November 8 -
12 2011 for our inaugural Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater
Cultural Heritage.
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