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week's edition include:
** A colourful history of B.C.
After he died at a young age in a boating incident, it was discovered that
his will left the island to one woman and the unfinished castle to a
different sweetheart
** No Trash Talking at This Museum to the Clean Team
You will be able to gawk to your heart's content at a trove of
rubbish-related history and objects: antique garbage cans, shovels,
pitchforks, scale model garbage trucks, a collage of old photos, including
an image of a 1961 copy of the now-defunct Sweep magazine
** Historic Irish Prison Houses Spirit of Independence
Dublin's Kilmainham Jail is a repository of Ireland's rebellions and
inspirations, and like the Bastille in France or the Tower of London, it
exposes Ireland's historical conflicts and passion
** Hi-tech history man unearths wartime 'town'
The professional archaeologist has travelled the world in search of hidden
treasures, such as Egyptian tombs, Viking long ships, some missing Van Gogh
paintings and a crashed aircraft near Buckingham Palace
** Art conservation students get valuable experience working at museums
One day between winter storms, three Buffalo State College graduate students
filed across Elmwood Avenue to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, where they spent
the morning on their knees in the marble-floored 1905 wing, stretching a
12-by-12-foot canvas
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** Another Australian first: sex?
Australia is the lucky country, but more than 500 million years ago, it was
the sexy country, according to new research from the University of
California in Riverside, following the discovery of a complex fossil in what
is now South Australia
** Dad's Army on parade as museum re-opens
Exhibits at Sywell show the history of the aerodrome, as well as aircraft
parts, an Anderson shelter and a wartime kitchen
** David Hockney goes big with gift to Tate
The 40ft x 15ft picture, Bigger Trees Near Warter, consists of 50 separate
canvases
** A glimpse of the private life of Edward Heath
If, as his detractors maintained, Sir Edward Heath spent his decades after
Downing Street in a perpetual sulk, there was one place where the former
Prime Minister could be guaranteed to brighten up - in his beloved home in
the Close of Salisbury Cathedral
** Someday my prints will come
Sleeping Beauty went shopping in Japan, then lost her way and finally ended
up slumbering in a dark and dank janitor's cupboard for years, her fine
features slowly succumbing to the effects of damp and mould
** Human ancestors walked upright earlier than thought
An analysis of the oldest known primate fossil indicates that hominids were
on two feet at least a million years earlier than once believed. Europe's
oldest known human ancestor fossil found
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** Strange But True - Illinois-shaped corn flake auctions for $1,350 on
eBay
Monty Kerr plans to put the flake in a travelling museum along with other
items of Americana
** The Movieum
Each alcove at the museum is devoted to a particular aspect of the process
of making films: production design, makeup, costume, special effects,
editing, animatronics and computer animation
** Foul Weather Exhibit
After a year in which Kansas endured destructive ice storms, killer
tornadoes and severe flooding, it seemed the state history museum carefully
timed the opening of an exhibit on extreme weather
** Israeli billionaire gives £20m donation to UK naval museum
An Israeli billionaire who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World
War has given £20 million to build a new wing at the National Maritime
Museum in Greenwich
** Raiders of Solo's lost art
Indonesia's biggest art scam snared royals and business tycoons, but with
the mysterious death of the archaeologist-detective, no one wants to unearth
the masterminds
** Poorly funded Chinese museum dampens visitors' enthusiasm
Near the dusty piles of rock samples in the museum's exhibition hall, a
mother was doing her utmost to draw her seven-year-old son's attention from
ants on the ground back to a picture on the wall that had faded and turned
yellow
** Museums exhibit high-tech appeal
Paintings and sculptures long stored away are finding a new audience as
museums strive for mass appeal with high-tech Web sites packed with video,
podcasts and interactive elements
** ICOM MPR Annual Conference 2008: Communicating Cultural Heritage to the
Young
2 - 7 November 2008 in Paraty and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
** Memory, Mourning, Landscape
An interdisciplinary, one-day symposium
** Women, Power and Politics
International Museum of Women Launches New Global Online Exhibition
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