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week's edition include:
** 60 Queens over 60 years
A striking photograph of the Queen with her eyes closed has been converted
to a hologram to be projected on to art gallery walls
** Vancouver museum pulls portrait exhibition of missing and murdered women
Citing "serious concerns" and fears of causing "further distress," the
Museum of Anthropology has cancelled an exhibition of paintings of missing
and murdered women
** Art and science unite in stem cell exhibit
The use of embryonic stem cells in regenerative medicine and therapeutic
cloning has generated a maelstrom of public debate, but a new exhibit at
Calgary's Glenbow Museum allows the public to view the issue with a cool
artistic eye
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** £5 million pledged to new museum in Dundee
The Scottish Government yesterday pledged almost £5 million in funding to
kick-start the ambitious plans to build an iconic outpost of the world
famous V&A Museum on Dundee's waterfront
** From the Abacus to the IPod
The Computer History Museum this week opens a $19 million,
25,000-square-foot building expansion and signature exhibition titled: "
Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing"
** Mona Lisa enigma lies in her eyes
Silvano Vinceti claims he has found the letter S in the woman's left eye,
the letter L in her right eye, and the number 72 under the arched bridge in
the backdrop of Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting
** Archaeologists uncork oldest wine press discovery
Archaeologists have found evidence of wine-making throughout the ancient
world, but the 4,000 BC carbon dating at the site appears the oldest yet for
confirmed wine vessels
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** Archives cast a shadow over revered state museum director
Research presented in Berlin for the first time at the end of last year has
tarnished the reputation of Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), the former
director general of the Kaiser Friedrich-Museum, now called the Bode Museum
** Elusive Forger, Giving but Never Stealing
He has been one of the most prolific forgers American museums have
encountered in years, writing, calling and presenting himself at their
doors, where he tells well-concocted stories about his family's collection
and donates small, expertly faked works, sometimes in honor of nonexistent
relatives
** New Florida museum has largest Dali collection outside Spain
Some of Salvador Dali's most famous paintings have a new home in Florida
with the opening of a $36 million museum designed to reflect the Spanish
painter's surreal style
** Tower of London calls in scientists to investigate mysterious Medieval
wall painting
The Tower of London has allowed scientists to use eye-scanning software and
infrared laser technology on a mystery Medieval wall painting which has
baffled curators at the royal landmark
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** Garibaldi is Larger Than Life
The exhibit explores the legacy of Italy's most famous and beloved general,
the man who, more than any other, was responsible for the Italy we know
today
** After the Hudson, Finding a Home at an Aviation Museum
After all 155 of its passengers and crew members were rescued, the plane was
fished out of the water and hauled to a warehouse in Kearny, N.J
** Beirut Cathedral Museum Reveals Layers of Christian History
The museum is a crypt underneath the cathedral where oil lamps, pipes, clay
and terra cotta pots, miniature statues, and crosses found in various digs
are displayed
** Billionaire Unveils Design Of Downtown LA Museum
Billionaire Eli Broad has unveiled plans for the porous-concrete-shelled
structure that will be the future downtown home of his 2,000-piece art
collection and a hoped-for catalyst for the continuation of the city
center's halting renaissance
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** Museum looks back on chilly history
Delaware's long-past generations didn't get ice cubes out of freezers:
instead, they used ice harvested in blocks, mainly from frozen ponds
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius - You'll be bitten by a vampire and become one of the Immortal
Sanguinary Children of the Night just when the whole fad is about to blow
over
** Ukrainians object to rights museum plans
A Ukrainian association is claiming the current plans for the Canadian
Museum of Human Rights elevates some cases of human suffering above others
** Everyone digs in as archaeologists uncover a wealth of history
What they uncovered surprised and delighted heritage experts - a trove of
more than a thousand gold rush artefacts, many once belonging to members of
Ballarat's mid-19th century Chinese community
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** Brown Museum in duel over Civil War-era sword
A Civil War-era valuable ceremonial sword missing from a Brown University
museum for more than 30 years has been located in Virginia, and the
university has gone to federal court to get it back
** Yu Kai's Cantonese Opera Collection
Highlights from Yu Kai's Donation - Function Place,Hong Kong Heritage Museum
** The Walton War and Ellicott's Rock
What happens when a property boundary is not clearly defined between two
neighbors?
** Groundbreaking Online Archive of the Collection of President John F.
Kennedy
To help mark the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F.
Kennedy David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, and Caroline
Kennedy, President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, have unveiled
the nation's largest online digitized presidential archives
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