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week's edition include:
** Museum protester hails end of entry fee
When the "$5 donation request" was imposed in January 1999, the printmaker
created a poster stating "Charges - Shame" which was commercially printed
and distributed free to schools, Returned Services Associations and
community groups
** Jerusalem museum excavation damages bones
Excavators rushing to clear ground for a museum dedicated to tolerance in
Jerusalem have damaged many remains while exhuming more than 1,000 skeletons
from a medieval Muslim cemetery
** Museum showcasing Chinese shoe culture opens in Tianjin
Among the exhibited shoes were all kinds of bound-feet shoes designed for
Chinese women who were forced to have their feet bound to become "three-inch
golden lotuses" in feudal times
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** Stirling Castle skeleton warrior revealed in BBC2 History Cold Case
History Cold Case has reconstructed the face of the Medieval Knight after
archaeologists found his bludgeoned body in a mass grave of 10 skeletons
thought to have been slaughtered in a siege during the Anglo-Scottish wars
of the late 13th and 14th centuries
** Foucault's Pendulum Dented in Museum Mishap
The cable holding a model of Foucault's pendulum snapped last month at the
Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, sending the 60-pound ball crashing to
the ground
** Private collector's £9.2m saves masterpiece from export
A masterpiece by Italian Baroque painter Domenichino has gone on display at
the National Gallery after a private collector stepped in to save it from
export
** Canadian National Gallery cuts youth, seniors programs
Marc Mayer, director and CEO of the gallery, told CBC News the programs were
being axed to help fund the development of a more comprehensive website and
to make improvements within the gallery, such as offering better information
next to artwork
** Japan's first public bonsai museum enchants visitors
The museum showcases various styles and species of trees, including Japanese
five needle pine, Japanese maple, Japanese juniper, Korean hornbeam and
Chinese quince
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** Prehistoric 'footprints' falsified by science
Considering what we know about the timings of hominid migrations out of
Africa up into Europe and Asia, it is highly improbable that hominids could
have made it to the America's by 1.3 million years before present
** Rare gold coin of Napoleon III found in Jaffa dig
Napoleon III, a nephew of Bonaparte, was elected President of the French
Republic in 1848, but in 1852 had himself declared emperor
** Brazil fire burns huge collection of snakes, insects
A fire in Brazil destroyed what may be the world's largest scientific
collection of dead snakes, spiders and scorpions that served as the main
source for research on many species
** Today is International Museum Day but who cares
Indians are not in museum-going race, they would like to prefer enjoy their
leisure time in malls, eating out, or movies
** Argonaut Octopus Mystery Solved
After centuries of speculation, biologists have documented one way a strange
group of octopus-like creatures use their seashell-shaped cases
** Hendrix exhibition at Handel House Museum
Handwritten lyrics, clothing and other memorabilia will go on display for
Hendrix in Britain, which will look at the American guitarist's life, career
and legacy
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** Rare mineral presented to the SA museum
A rare sample of Angastonite - first discovered in South Australia's Barossa
Valley in 1989 - has been presented to the South Australian Museum
** Weird wonders lived past the Cambrian
Some of the unusual animals that lived in the sea 500 million years ago
thrived tens of millions of years later than previously known, a treasure
trove of fossils in Morocco has revealed
** Study Reveals Dolphins Lack Capacity To Mock Celebrity Culture
According to a paper published last week in the journal Science, when
presented with photos of music, TV, and film personalities, dolphins failed
on every occasion to mock the well-known public figures, missing countless
opportunities to take mean-spirited pot-shots at their hair, past romantic
partners, or breast implants
** Strange bedfellows: museum struts its stuffed
It's not often you see a North American bison sitting next to a pair of
polar bear cubs from the Arctic and an Australian water dragon in the middle
of the city
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** War museum plans peace exhibit
The Canadian War Museum is assembling an exhibit on the history of the peace
movement in Canada, saying it will be one of the "most complex" exhibitions
in the museum's five-year history
** Secret Service guards its museum closely
Secret Service guards its museum closely; it is not listed in visitor
guides, and if any camera-toting tourists in shorts and sneakers should show
up, they wouldn't get past the front door or the reception desk behind the
bullet-proof glass
** MPMA's 2010 Annual Conference
September 13- 17, 2010, Rapid City, South Dakota
** Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa - Our ancestors have come to visit:
Blackfoot Shirts
In 1841, Blackfoot people presented five extraordinary shirts to Sir George
Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, during his visit to Fort
Edmonton.
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