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week's edition include:
** How Shocking: Met Unbuttons
That same year, 1971, the Metropolitan Museum of Art introduced a colorful
piece of metal as its admission ticket, a tiny doodad that came to occupy a
large place in the reliquary of New York City, along with Greek-themed
coffee cups and subway tokens
** Ancient African Coins Spark Treasure Hunt
Can a handful of ancient African coins, discovered almost 70 years ago by a
lone soldier on a remote island, rewrite history?
** Bizarre 500-Million-Year-Old Creature Unearthed
A new fossilized, cigar-shaped creature that lived about 520 million years
ago has been unearthed in Morocco
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** British Museum to host exhibition about sex in Japanese art
Thousands of erotic paintings, prints, and illustrated books with texts,
euphemistically called shunga (spring pictures), were produced in 18th
Century Japan
** Cut Adrift by Its Would-Be Rescuer, Seaport Museum Seeks a Lifeline
Wanted: One responsible steward for a beleaguered museum that chronicles New
York City's maritime history through ships and artifacts and has been under
water literally and figuratively over the last few years - struggling to pay
the bills, and then flooded by Hurricane Sandy
** The Googleheim Museum of Art
Google may have set out to "organize the world's information," but thanks to
the creativity of a huge variety of artists, designers, hackers and other
tinkerers it's become something else: an art museum hidden within a search
engine
** Field Museum Specimens Reveal Rapid Changes In Modern-Day Creatures
Examples, and even some mysteries, are hidden in robust collections of
preserved creatures from years past to the present, like the library at The
Field Museum in Chicago
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** 'Museum Hours' Tours Through Art and Human Ties
"Museum Hours" was partly shot on location in the Kunsthistorisches Museum -
where Mr. Cohen and his cast and crew worked, yes, primarily during museum
hours
** One Eye on Art, the Other on Water
When Adam D. Weinberg was planning a new home in the West Village for the
Whitney Museum of American Art, he did not expect to have to worry about
waterproofing walls or finding a hydro-engineering firm that makes
watertight hatches for the United States Navy
** Dutch to rule on Anne Frank letters amid archival spat
The letters - together with about 10,000 photographs and other documents,
but not the famous diary - are at the center of a long-running dispute
between Anne Frank House, the Amsterdam museum dedicated to her memory, and
Anne Frank Fonds, the Basel-based foundation set up by her father Otto
** Feature Site - Museo Volvo Ocean Race
This summer Alicante became home to the Museo Volvo Ocean Race, the first
museum to offer visitors a chance to experience the extreme challenges faced
by the elite sailors competing in the Volvo Ocean Race, the world's longest
and toughest professional sporting event
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** Strong Museum to House Toy Industry Hall of Fame
The combined halls, with high-tech and hands-on interactive displays, will
enable visitors to explore how cultural trends, gender and changing
technologies have shaped the design, production and marketing of toys
including how games like Monopoly and The Game of Life reinforced faith in
capitalism and the pursuit of the American dream
** New Gettysburg museum explores role of faith in Civil War
On July 1, marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg,
Schmucker Hall, located on the campus of Lutheran Theological Seminary at
Gettysburg, will reopen as a museum reflecting on the epic battle, the
costly war and the complex role of faith
** Ancient Egyptian statue at Manchester Museum moves on its own, stumped
curator says
Celebrity scientist Brian Cox thinks the movement is caused by "differential
friction" and a slight vibration, but the curator says the statue had been
on the same surfaces long before without turning
** British Museum has best spring ever
The British Museum has had its most successful spring on record, due in
large part to the blockbuster Pompeii and Herculaneum show, which is on
course to be its third most popular exhibition since it opened its doors in
1753
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** MFA branch in Japan needs new vision
With six years of the 20-year contract between Boston and Nagoya remaining
and negotiations about its future due to begin within the next year, MFA
leaders face three options: They can quietly end the relationship; they can
try to negotiate a new contract that keeps things much as they are; or they
can find a way to give the relationship new life, by making it part of a
vision to connect with Japan's vibrant artistic culture
** Whaling Museum's Skeletons, Scrimshaw Boost New Bedford
Fifty years later, I am in heaven, as my hometown's former rainy-day kid
catcher has blossomed into a world-class museum with the largest and finest
scrimshaw collection on earth
** Museum launches exhibition featuring Taiwanese women artists
The exhibitions 53-year span saw the Japanese colonization of Taiwan, the
institutionalization of art education in the 1950s, the avant-garde art
movement in the 1960s, the nativist trend in the 1970s, and the
internationalization of art and emergence of museums in the 1980s, according
to the museum
** Rare manuscripts "decaying" at Nepalese National Archive
Thousands of rare, archeologically important religious manuscripts of
Hinduism and Buddhism, some of which dating back to the seventh century, are
decaying in Nepal
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** Tensions over Russian museum show
The glittering glories of St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum were overshadowed
by tensions between Russia and Germany over a new exhibit including objects
looted by Red Army soldiers after they overran the Nazis
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus - Your support system is loving, reassuring, and always there for
you, but sooner or later its bound to run out of donuts
** British Museum launches gay history guide
A Little Gay History draws on objects ranging from ancient Egyptian papyri
and the erotic scenes on the Roman Warren Cup to images by David Hockney
** People Power
Realising the potential of volunteers, communities and partners - GEM Annual
Conference 2013
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