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week's edition include:

**  450 Cartoonists Urge Poland to Return Auschwitz Paintings
Four hundred and fifty cartoonists and comic book creators from around the 
world have signed a petition urging a Polish museum to return eight 
portraits to the elderly California artist who painted them in Auschwitz, 
the Nazi death camp

**  SAPS and Interpol to investigate stolen art
He didn't take into consideration the height of the painting and ended up 
leaving a quarter of it behind

**  Southeast Texas institutions still grappling with Hurricane Rita
The Spindletop complex was among the hardest hit of Southeast Texas' 
historical attractions, but several other museums, including the Clifton 
Steamboat Museum in Beaumont and the Heritage History Museum in Orange, have 
yet to reopen full-time

**  Museums for people who don't like museums
Remember when you were a kid on vacation and your mom dragged you from the 
beach to take you to some dry-as-dust museum for a "wonderful educational 
experience?"

**  From jungle to desert, museum tells history of Marine experience
In addition to the construction of five new era galleries, an IMAX theatre, 
a display armoury for small arms as well as a combat art presentation, a 
storage and exhibition area, a memorial park and a chapel that will 
accommodate 60 people will also be on site

**  Caltech Physicists Successfully Split The Bill
Sequestered in a private booth at a Pasadena-area Cheesecake Factory for 
nearly 25 minutes, a party of eight California Institute Of Technology 
physicists emerged exhausted but visibly excited Friday evening after 
successfully splitting the bill

**  Interactive Croydon museum opens
Croydon has been home to supermodel Kate Moss, actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft, 
French writer Emile Zola and punk star Captain Sensible
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**  Museum buys historic royal rocking horse
The UK's oldest rocking horse, reputed to have been owned by Charles I, has 
been bought by the V&A Museum of Childhood

**  DAM museum opening gala pulls red carpet for scribes
Seems we can press our noses to the windows during cocktail hour but will be 
shooed away once dinner seating begins ... strikes us as odd, considering 
how it's supposed to be a society fandango the likes of which Denver has 
never seen before

**  Kenya celebrates return of stolen funeral post by US museum
Kenya formally unveiled a sacred memorial post, Kikango, returned to the 
country this week by a US museum after it was discovered to have been stolen 
in the mid-1980s

**  Curator can see NGV exhibition, with mum
The National Gallery of Victoria's estranged curator Geoffrey Smith can 
enter the gallery to see the Charles Blackman, Alice in Wonderland 
exhibition, which he curated, before it ends on October 15 - but only if he 
takes his mother, is supervised and does so after hours

**  The Green Vault
The Green Vault - one of Europe's finest treasure collections - is reopening 
in Dresden, after 68 years

**  County settles with museum director for $450,000
The county admitted that a series of public statements made about McLaughlin 
during the controversy that enveloped her after she was told to halt the 
Hebe exhibit were untrue
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**  Polynesian sailing myth all at sea
The Polynesians had trouble reaching remote South Pacific islands, according 
to a new study that dents their reputation as great seafarers

**  Skeleton of three million-year-old child found
The almost complete skeleton belongs to a baby girl of the species 
Australopithecus afarensis - a probable human ancestor that was among the 
first to walk on two legs - who died at the age of three about 3.3 million 
years ago

**  China's oldest copy of Koran to undergo repair
The 867-page two-volume set, the oldest of its kind known in China, is 
written in Arabic and stored in two caskets in the Jiezi mosque in Xunhua 
County in northwest China's Qinghai Province

**  Vulcan bomber set to soar once more
After almost a decade on the ground, the campaign to restore the Vulcan 
bomber XH 558 announced it had finally found enough money to complete the 
project

**  Jerusalem's "Museum of Tolerance" digs up controversy and intolerance
The Museum of Tolerance started off with good intentions, over US$100 
million in donations, an eye-catching design by architect Frank Gehry, a 
2004 kick-off ceremony attended by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a great piece 
of Jerusalem real estate

**  Beer: The Midwife of Civilization
Every work dealing with the history of beer, it seems, starts out talking 
blithely about the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia as the first brewers, 
the inventors of beer, some eight to ten thousand years ago

**  Where Artefact Meets Exhibition: Advances in Lighting and Case Design

**  200th anniversary of the Parliamentary Abolition of the Transatlantic
Slave Trade

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