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week's edition include:
** Earliest mammals sniffed their way to smarts
The unusually large brains of mammals apparently didn't evolve so that we
could ponder philosophy but so we could sniff our way to success
** I'm stuffed at the Museum
But apparently the rules do not apply to the other side, or to Museum
Victoria, which has mounted an on-line exhibition about the case by a
curator
** Museum curator continues march from Virginia to Harrisburg
Brett Kelley, curator of collections at The National Civil War Museum, is
braving blisters, damp wool, speeding vehicles and lightning in his trek
that started Monday in Fredericksburg, Va., and will end at the museum May
30
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** British Museum up for Art Fund Prize
The exhibition was held in tandem with BBC Radio 4's series A History of the
World in a 100 Objects - a narrative of global history using the museum's
collection of artefacts from two million years ago to the present day
** Visitors flock to Sichuan museums on Int'l Museum Day
Some 120,000 people visited four State-owned museums in Chengdu, capital of
Southwest China's Sichuan province on May 18
** Blackbeard's flagship focus of upcoming dive and museum exhibit
A state archaeologist from New Hanover County will help lead a dive this
month to recover a large anchor and other artifacts from the pirate
Blackbeard's flagship that wrecked off the coast of North Carolina in 1718
** Stealth and style
Before sturdy, inexpensive aluminum canoes became the norm following World
War II - thanks to advances in technology spurred by the wartime aircraft
industry - canoes were built from wood, mostly cedar and spruce
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** High Arctic Exhibition Mimics Glaciers in Museum
United Visual Artists - famous for providing stage visuals to Massive Attack
and Chemical Brothers - has teamed up with London's National Maritime Museum
to create an enormous exhibition that will give visitors a taste of what it's
like to travel to the Arctic
** Odd new species found in Kermadecs
More new species - including a "straightened-out seahorse" - have been found
in New Zealand's largest scientific expedition exploring the Kermadec
Islands
** The Art of Collecting Collections
There is a mystery about the Shelburne Museum and you could easily spend a
day here, just south of Burlington, walking around its 45 acres, amazed,
awed and amused, and still not figure it out
** Blockbusters: too big to fail?
The consensus among museum professionals and exhibition organisers is that
the large-scale exhibition is here to stay, "as long as the public continues
to attend and as long as the museum needs the exhibitions for its financial
balance" in the blunt wording of Didier Ottinger, the curator in charge of
programming exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou
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** Introducing QRator - iPad and Web Based Living Labels for Museums
The interactive system is designed to be non intrusive while enabling
members of the pubic to simply type in their thoughts and interpretation of
museum objects and click 'send'
** Uganda minister at it again over museum
At his farewell party at the ministry he pronounced that the building of a
60-story tower at the site of the Uganda Museum would go ahead regardless
and that those opposed to his ideas were "enemies of development," while the
Uganda Museum itself was tagged by him as "a museum piece itself."
** Museums to add zing to visitors' trip to the past
Indian museum curators and scholars have said museums in the capital need to
move with the times to keep interests of visitors alive
** Miyagi museum struggles for way to recover raison d'etre
The museum, perched on a hill high above the jagged Pacific coastline from
which it draws its name, was beyond the reach of the devastating waves, but
the quake caused extensive damage
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** 'Bizarre Bits' Exhibition Took a Strange Turn When Feds Arrived
An outbreak of smallpox was the farthest thing from Paul Levengood's mind
when his staff at the Virginia Historical Society put together an exhibit of
"bizarre bits" in the society's collection since its founding in 1831
** This Week's Horoscopes
Pisces - It's a terrible time to travel, start a new romance, or take
initiative in business matters, which is odd, zodiac-wise, as it's usually
the other way around
** Art puts damper on summer weddings
The Art Institute of Chicago has caused quite a stir among some brides who
booked summer weddings on an outdoor terrace at the museum only to find
their coveted view of the city is being blocked by art
** Walking Whales
Fifty million years ago, scientists believe, the early ancestors of whales,
Pakicetus attocki, roamed on the water's edge in an area that is now
Pakistan
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** Egyptian princess was first person with diagnosed coronary artery
disease
The Egyptian princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon, who lived in Thebes (Luxor)
between 1580 and 1550 BC and who is now known to be first person in human
history with diagnosed coronary artery disease, lived on a diet rich in
vegetables, fruit and a limited amount of meat from domesticated (but not
fattened) animals
** Soundtracks: Music, Tourism and Travel
6-9 July 2012, Liverpool, United Kingdom
** Call For Papers:
In this, the CTCC's 6th international research conference, and in the City
of Liverpool famed for its popular music, we seek to explore the
relationships between tourism, tourists and all forms/genres and sub-genres
of music including: popular, classical, folk, dance, rock, jazz and hip-hop,
across all cultures and continents.
** 4th Annual Chesapeake Folk Festival is July 23 at CBMM
Come to St. Michaels and enjoy the food and traditions of the Chesapeake
region from 10am to 5pm on Saturday, July 23 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime
Museum's 4th Annual Chesapeake Folk Festival.
** Dissolving boundaries. Museological approaches to national, social and
cultural issues
ICOM-ICME annual meeting
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