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week's edition include:
** Low-Income Kids Locked Out Of Museums For The Summer
While I understand that costs are high for all of us in this difficult
economy, museums included, it's precisely now that we need what museums
offer most
** Taiwan art collection evokes tumultuous history
Sixty years later Zhuang Ling remembers it all - the rain pelting down onto
the roiling sea, his mother retching from seasickness and, of course, the
cargo of priceless art works the freighter Chung Ting was carrying from
China to the Taiwanese city of Keelung
** Texas museum acquires work believed to be Michelangelo's first painting
A work of art believed to be Michelangelo's first painting, completed when
he was just 12 or 13 years old, has been acquired by a museum in Texas in
deal that leaves other major galleries taking notice
** Come Meet Your Folks: Warm Blood Is Required
At the entrance you are dwarfed by a life-size model of the "largest land
mammal ever," an 18-foot-tall, 20-ton, extinct vegetarian Indricotherium,
which looks like a cross between an elephant and a rhinoceros, if both had
been designed by Dr. Seuss
** Prehistoric female figure 'earliest piece of erotic art uncovered'
Dr Mellars said that the discovery shed important new light on the art and
belief systems of the Aurignacian period, during which Homo sapiens spread
through Europe
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** Climber Hillary's children in court row with museum
Sir Edmund Hillary's son and daughter are going to court to keep control of
their father's writings, diaries and thousands of family photographs that
the conqueror of Everest bequeathed to the Auckland Museum in his will
** The cost of witnessing 'Pompeii'
Despite the cyberspace hoopla, a random sampling of visitors to the
exhibition didn't turn up any who seemed to mind forking over the dough
** When museums sell their treasures
Critics say Montclair is violating the museum code of ethics that mandates
the proceeds from these sales to be used only for acquisitions - not to pay
the janitors
** 900 euros fine for beheading Hitler
A German court has fined a former cop 900 Euros ($1,600) for knocking off
the head of a wax figure of Adolf Hitler in a Berlin museum last year
** Steroids make mark on Hall
In this museum you'll find artefacts and stories of players who have or have
been suspected of using steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs
** Hanks lends help to WWII museum
The star of ``Saving Private Ryan'' is serving as narrator and adviser for a
documentary production as the National World War II Museum in New Orleans
prepares to open new attractions amid a $300 million expansion
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** At British Museum, Kew's Gardeners Conjure Up India
As part of its 250th anniversary celebrations, Kew has joined forces with
Britain's other great 18th-century institution, the British Museum, and
installed a special Indian garden in the museum's forecourt
** Island's only palaeontology museum closes
The Larnaca Municipal Museum of Palaeontology, the only one of its kind in
Cyprus and the Middle East, has been forced to close its doors to the public
because the building has been deemed dangerous
** Curator charged for selling museum's fishing antiques
A former Fortuna museum curator who police suspect stole museum property and
sold it over the Internet, was found in possession of dozens of pieces of
fishing equipment belonging to the museum
** Elephant Odyssey
The San Diego Zoo is beginning a journey through time, highlighting animals
of the past and the present in The Harry and Grace Steele Elephant Odyssey
** Archaeologists: "Stonehenge was built simply to confuse us"
New excavations at Stonehenge appear to point to the great monument having
been built with the sole purpose of baffling archaeologists
** Famed Nefertiti bust 'a fake'
The bust of Queen Nefertiti housed in a Berlin museum and believed to be
3,400 years old in fact is a copy dating from 1912 that was made to test
pigments used by the ancient Egyptians, according to Swiss art historian
Henri Stierlin
** National Gallery to Receive Emergency Funding
The facade of the 31-year-old East Building of the National Gallery of Art
needs an urgent $40 million facelift
** 10 murderous exhibits in the Black Museum
The museum was full of clothes, bloodstained, mildewed and gorged on by
moths, and the arsenal of weapons looked like a cutlery booth in a foreign
fair, With all the knives symmetrically displayed, but unaccountably rusty
and dim-bladed, as if the booth had been shut up for half a century, and the
salesman and his customers were all ghosts
** Prehistoric man's cave found in southwest China
A group of construction workers have accidentally stumbled upon a
prehistoric man's cave underneath a Buddhist temple in southwest China's
Guizhou Province
** The 22nd Annual Visitor Studies Association Conference
St. Louis, Missouri, July 21 - 25, 2009.
** Design for a Living World
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
** Museum acquires historic portrait of the Queen
The National Museum of Australia has acquired one of the most recognisable
and treasured examples of 20th century Australian art
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