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week's edition include:
** 'Empire of the Sun' internment camp forgotten in China
The site is now an elite government-run school in Shanghai's southern
suburbs, where Chinese students are unaware that internees once slept in
their grey classroom buildings
** Dwarf Whales, Twin-Tusked Walrus Once Swam West Coast
Five million years ago, before the Ice Ages, strange mammals resided along
the Pacific coast near modern San Francisco, California
** Mounted seals, shrewd stoats and a taxidermy tableau: The Cabinet of
Curiosities
This early keyboard instrument is one of the most important items in the
museum's collections - only 21 similar English virginals survive and this is
the last one made in this country
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** Robot sculptor finds Darwin in a block of resin
To celebrate his 205th birthday on 12 February, an exhibit at University
College London will feature imaginative recreations of his image: from a
crocheted floating head to a Darwin-shaped handle for a USB stick
** Woolly Mammoths Wiped Out by Grass Invasion?
Grasslands suddenly spreading across the Arctic about 10,000 years ago
helped killed off the woolly mammoth and other prehistoric mammals, suggests
a study of ancient Arctic vegetation
** Classic Lensman, Using Full Palette
If only black and white was suitable for war and serious artists, Capa found
greater success with his color images of resorts and leisure subjects
** Jewish leader says German museums turn blind eye to Nazi-looted art
According to a 2012 survey by the Institute for Museum Research in Berlin,
more than 2,000 registered German museums hold objects created before 1945
but acquired after 1933 - the official definition for property suspected of
having been extorted by the Nazis
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** Masks and magic - The growing backlash against the trade in tribal art
Earlier this year Giuseppe Favaro, a Venetian-born dealer, was arrested in
central Africa for trying to send human remains from Burundi to Thailand; he
was found in possession of over 40 Congolese skulls
** Cooper-Hewitt Museum Gets a $10 Million Donation
This extraordinary gift is a game changer for Cooper-Hewitt as we prepare
for our grand opening, and it will improve every aspect of the museum from
the visitor experience to accessing the collection
** George Lucas museum site at San Francisco's Presidio park is nixed
The planned 95,000-square-foot museum is designed to house Lucas' collection
of Hollywood collectibles, Americana art and Norman Rockwell pieces, among
others, that are valued at an estimated $1 billion combined
** NASA Sun-Earth Video Wins International Science Challenge
A NASA video that shows exactly how profoundly and dramatically the sun
influences Earth's climate and weather has won a high-profile international
competition
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** Rabbits discover massive haul of stone age treasure
Archaeologists have told how burrowing bunnies unearthed arrow heads, flint
tools and hide scrapers dating back to the Neolithic age
** British man's £100,000 Chagall painting to be burnt as fake in France
The only way for Martin to authenticate his painting was with the Chagall
Committee, he had no other choice, but it was never made clear to him that
if they didn't like the look of his painting that they would burn it
** Dodo bones, snow goggles and the Muggletonian view of the world
The University of Cambridge is not just home to some of the UK's brightest
minds, but also to museum collections of world importance and for the first
time, all eight of the University of Cambridge museums have come together to
create a major new exhibition in London
** Dallas Museum Lands a Rich Trove of Islamic Art
The agreement will instantly give Dallas, which now has only a few dozen
Islamic pieces, perhaps the third most important Islamic collection in the
country, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the
Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington
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** UNESCO team 'shocked' at Egypt Islamic museum loss
UNESCO has pledged to help restore a renowned museum dedicated to Islamic
history in Cairo that was devastated by a bomb last week, with officials
expressing "shock" at the scale of the damage
** Shedding Light on History of Ancient Cambodian City
Discovered in 2013, the city is located on the plateau Phnom Kulen, around
40 km north of the famous Angkor Wat complex
** Loot No Longer
I was intrigued by the difficulties that French authorities report having as
they try to find the heirs to more than 2,000 unclaimed works of art looted
or sold under murky circumstances during the war and now held in French
museums
** Exploration of Museum archives leads to site-wide installation
The two-year exploration of the Currier Museum of Art archives has resulted
in an exhibition designed to entice visitors not only into viewing featured
works but giving some thought as to how the pieces got there and what
cultural, artistic and educational elements they might represent
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** Distant Planet Terrified It Might Be Able To Someday Support Human Life
Claiming that the mere thought is an "absolute nightmare," WR 67c, a
terrestrial planet from the distant Gamma Velorum star system, expressed its
profound terror Wednesday at the possibility of one day gaining the capacity
to sustain human life
** The future of museums in China
With sky-high running costs, low attendance figures and issues with access,
Chinese museums are facing uncertain times
** Prostitution museum opens in Amsterdam's red-light zone
Amsterdam's red-light district has opened its first "prostitution museum",
hoping to lure tourists who always wondered what life was like for those on
the other side of the infamous glass windows - but were too afraid to ask
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** Focusing on Photographs: Identification & Preservation
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, New
Orleans, LA
** Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections
Natural Histories: A Special Lecture, American Museum of Natural History
** Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to the Near East
American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting
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