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** Italian researchers hope to dig up remains of the real
Mona Lisa
Italian researchers are planning to dig up bones in a Florence
convent to try to identify the remains of a Renaissance woman believed to
be the model for the Mona Lisa   ** Appeasing ethical karma
Accessibility
in the other place was awful - not only did you have to enter the college,
which was a big psychological barrier, but you had to walk past chemical
bins, bike racks and security barriers   ** Radical Art Group Wins Russian
Ministry Prize 
The radical art collective Voina has won a contemporary art
award sponsored by Russia's Ministry of Culture and the National Center for
Contemporary Art for a project that consisted of a 210-foot penis painted
on a drawbridge in St.
Petersburg
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China's New National Museum Has Global Ambition
Many international museums
are clamouring to collaborate with China these days, but the diplomatic
fanfare surrounding this exchange puts it in a league of its own   **
Police suspect French art theft addict of more crimes
A grand-nephew of
Alsatian painter Robert Breitwieser (1889-1975), Stephane won infamy in
2002 when he admitted stealing hundreds of works from museums, castles and
palaces around Europe, supposedly for his own collection   ** Art galleries
draw big crowds
Brisbanes's twin art galleries the Gallery of Modern Art
and Queensland Art Gallery have for the first time stolen the crown as the
nation's most visited museums, after they attracted 1.8 million people last
year    ** Race to save Buddhist relics in former Bin Laden camp
A rescue
operation is underway to save as much as possible from ancient Buddhist
monasteries in Mes Aynak, Afghanistan, before the mountains become an
open-cast mine and the site is
destroyed
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**
Should Curating Be Crowdsourced?
Indeed, a policy of inviting the public
into the "pre-decisional" process directly contradicts the panel's
assertion that "curatorial freedom of expression, expertise, and authority"
are vital   ** The price of a Picasso loan
The director of the Musée
Picasso has defended her decision to organise an international touring
exhibition to raise money for the Paris museum's renovation   ** Nazi
warplane lying off UK coast is intact
A rare World War Two German bomber,
shot down over the English Channel in 1940 and hidden for years by shifting
sands at the bottom of the sea, is so well preserved a British museum wants
to raise it   ** Bird pelt thief gets suspended term
A student from who
stole millions of pounds' worth of exotic bird skins from the Natural
History Museum in Hertfordshire has been given a two-year suspended
sentence
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What caused Britain's Bronze Age 'recession'?
There is a 300-year period in
British history between around 800 BC and 500 BC where experts still
struggle to explain what happened, where bronze is in decline and iron was
not widely used    ** Art Gallery of Ontario attendance falls 30 per
cent
Despite the attendance decline, however, the AGO, one of North
America's larger art institutions, expects a balanced budget, thanks to
savings in programming, and not the $3-million revenue shortfall some had
predicted    ** In tanks and trenches
The Mk IV is a veteran of the
conflict, as are the great majority of the 200-plus exhibits at Bovington,
the showcase of the Royal Armoured Corps   ** Man opens loo museum
Michael
Berger is feeling flush after putting his collection of of lavatory
rarities and oddities on show in his own museum in Wiesbaden,
Germany
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In search of Genghis Khan's tomb
Through a website called Field Expedition
Mongolia, which Lin and his colleagues developed jointly with National
Geographic, volunteers are helping sift through 85,000 high-resolution
satellite images of Mongolia   ** Barcodes let visitors scan and label star
items via phones at the National Museum of Scotland
Visitors to the
National Museum of Scotland will be able to scan barcodes on dozens of
objects in the Changing Nation gallery to find out more of their secrets
online in a pioneering smartphone project as part of the Edinburgh
International Science Festival   ** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini - While
it's true that someone in Baltimore loves you, this is less a reason for a
jaunty T-shirt than a cause for genuine concern   ** Southeast Asian music
museum soon to be a reality
Two years from now, Thailand will have a new
museum on Southeast Asian music under a Mahidol University's College of
Music project to honour the princess of Thai heritage and
culture
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Rare Roman art ends up in museum after looting The highlight of the
collection, containing some 100 pieces including exquisite examples of
Roman sculpture and ceramics, is a marble sarcophagus from the first
century AD, richly carved with garlands, floral ornaments, women's faces
and figures of death   ** Everyone Made Stone Tools: Exploring Methodology
in Lithic Analysis
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upcoming conference, Everyone Made Stone Tools: Exploring Methodology in
Lithic Analysis.   ** Hot Science, Global Citizens
the agency of the museum
and science centre sector in climate change interventions Symposium,Sydney,
Australia, 5-6 May 2011   ** Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911
City of
Radicals exhibition features work by van Gogh, Matisse, Gauguin and Signac.
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