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week's edition include:
** Peace museum angling for Obama's peace prize money
A fledging museum devoted to the pursuit of peace is hoping its mission is
just what President Barack Obama is looking for when he decides what to do
with the $1.4 million cash award that comes with his Nobel Peace Prize
** On the up: the Ashmolean museum strides into the 21st century
It is behind Cockerell's neo-classical facades that a new world opens up,
one that radically transforms the scale of this, Britain's oldest public
museum
** Palace Museum praised for rejecting controversial bronzes
The National Palace Museum's caution in pursuing two bronze statues removed
from China some 150 years ago, harshly condemned by local lawmakers, has
been praised by the International Council of Museums
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** Ulster Museum's never on a Monday policy
I was outside the museum at lunch-time and in a period of just over an hour,
hundreds of people made their way towards the new-look glass doors only to
find those doors were closed
** Israeli museum Receives Horrifying Offer From Nazi Relative
The letter to the museum, which was sent several months ago and entitled
"Rare objects, Auschwitz, Commander Hoess," was short and succinct, saying:
"These are several objects from the estate of Rudolf Hoess, the commander of
Auschwitz: A massive, fireproof box with official insignia - a gift from
Henrich Himmler, the commander of the SS, weighing 50 kilograms, a letter
opener and folders, slides from Auschwitz that have never been seen
publicly, letters from his period of imprisonment in Krakow
** An American Architectural Epoch Locks Its Doors
A dynamic moment in American architecture - the explosion of art museums,
concert halls and performing arts centres that transformed cities across the
country over the last decade - is officially over
** Penn Museum show casts new light on ancient Iraq
A flattened human head draped with gold and lapis lazuli jewellery lies in a
glass case at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology, its teeth the only recognizable feature
** Louvre Museum exhibits Ottoman Kaftans from Topkapi Palace
The exhibitions feature kaftans, jewellery and accessories that once
belonged to members of the Ottoman household, the majority of items come
from the Topkapi Palace Museum
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** Brownsville museum director found dead in apparent homicide
Barry T. Horn, the executive director of the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art,
was found dead Saturday at his home and Brownsville police confirmed that
they are investigating a homicide at the location. Man arraigned in museum
director's death
** Finding Possible Picasso Painting at Yard Sale Not an Uncommon
Occurrence
In 2007, a man bought what turned out to be an original version of the
Declaration of Independence from a Tennessee thrift store for $2.48
** "Amelia" movie plane flies into Balboa Park museum
Earhart was fond of the Lockheed Vega 5B and used the plane in the first
female solo flight across the Atlantic and then across the United States,
along with other world records
** Prescriptions for Rudolph Hess and Nazi spy executed at the Tower
acquired by Royal Armouries
Sedative prescriptions for Hitler's deputy, Rudolph Hess, and a Nazi spy who
was the last man to be executed at the Tower of London are among an unusual
crop of items acquired this week by the Royal Armouries
** London's new Jewish Museum set for opening in Spring 2010
The only museum in London dedicated to a minority group the £10 million
project will celebrate Jewish life and cultural diversity and bring together
the collections of Jewish Museum and the former London Museum of Jewish Life
with a string of new displays and exhibitions
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer, Jun 22 to Jul 22 - Continuing a proud, age-old tradition, you will
hand down your family's priceless heirlooms to the next generation of
Chinatown pawnbrokers this week
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** Unprecedented Gift of American Indian Art
The 34 works will be on display beginning in November when the Nelson-Atkins
Museum unveils its new suite of American Indian galleries, honouring and
giving new emphasis to the artistic achievement of Native peoples from
across America
** Exhibition explores Vandal legacy
In the 4th and 5th centuries AD, raiding and plundering was the most common
way to acquire material assets for various Germanic groups and the rich but
weakened Roman Empire seemed particularly appealing to the Vandals
** Disposing of cultural artefacts in university collections
Where in London could you find, displayed together, a set of plaster death
masks, over-sized pieces of rock, an anonymous portrait of a man in a black
coat, a selection of plastic dinosaurs, seven left-footed cowboy boots, the
picnic basket belonging to a female relation of Agatha Christie, a hippo
skull, 48 rabbit thigh bones, bags and bags of soil samples, cardboard boxes
of negatives showing the planets, and an enormous obsolete "Instron"
stone-crushing machine from the 1980s?
** The priceless Peggy Guggenheim
In just eight years, Peggy Guggenheim changed the face of 20th-century art -
and her life, both public and intimate, was as radical as her collection
** The Michelangelo of forensics
Some of his most notable public pieces include the African Burial Ground
memorial in the Weiss Federal Building in New York City, a bust of Bob
Marley for the African-American Wax Museum of Harlem and a holocaust
memorial in Kingston, Ontario
** Museum Speaks of Roma History, and Misery
This is practically the first museum of Roma culture in this part of Europe
aimed at erasing the deep-rooted prejudice that Roma are illiterate or leave
no records on their existence
** The Wedgewoods and the Darwins - The Marriage of Science and Industry
Sunday 15th November 2009
** Illustrated Leaves: Florilegia from the 16th to 21st Centuries
Auckland Museum
** California War Babies: Picturing World War II in the 1960s
The Smithsonian American Art Museum
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