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week's edition include:
** Damien Hirst unveils £50 million diamond skull
The artist, famous for pickling a shark in formaldehyde, has covered the
18th Century skull entirely in 8,601 pave-set diamonds
** Royal opening for Shetland museum
The museum uses much recycled material, with the reception desk made from a
salvaged boat
** Giant Light Boxes the Answer to Museum's Underground Expansion
When the collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City,
Missouri, outgrew its space, architect Steven Holl faced a challenge
** The Surprising Truth Behind the Construction of the Great Pyramids
They found that the tiniest structures within the inner and outer casing
stones were indeed consistent with a reconstituted limestone
** Largest-ever exhibit of Frida Kahlo work to open in Mexico
She suffered intense emotional pain inflicted by the philandering Rivera and
physical pain after being stricken by polio and bus crash
** Collector beyond frontiers
An Iranian-born billionaire who moved to London from New York in 1980, he
has spent more than three decades assembling the world's largest private
collection of Islamic art - more than 20,000 objects, some of them
masterpieces, documenting the Islamic lands over a period of 13 centuries
** Lennon's stamp collection on display in Stockholm
The late Beatle John Lennon's childhood stamp collection goes on display for
the first time in Europe on Friday in an exhibition at the Stockholm Postal
Museum
** China to ban removal of cultural relics older than 1911
The Chinese government is to ban individuals taking cultural relics
predating 1911 out of the country, amid efforts to strengthen the protection
of cultural heritage
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** Coke Museum Is Atlanta's Newest Draw
The nearly $100 million museum, which opened May 24, is the latest
attraction in the tourism and development boom of Georgia's capital city,
following the September birth of Zoo Atlanta's new panda, the High Museum of
Art's unique exhibit of works from the Louvre and the late 2005 opening of
the world's largest aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium Coke searches for 3
missing Rockwells
** Acropolis Sculptures Headed to New Site
Three cranes, standing up to 165 feet tall, will relay the sculptures from
the old museum on the Acropolis to the new $174 million building - a
distance of some 438 yards
** Remembering the '60s lovefest
One flashes out at you when you step off the third-floor elevator, a
projection of seething, bubbling colour, like primordial ooze on the boil or
a brain being fried
** Viking Longship to Sail Across North Sea
The Sea Stallion of Glendalough is billed as the world's biggest and most
ambitious Viking ship reconstruction, modelled after a warship excavated in
1962 from the Roskilde fjord after being buried in the seabed for nearly 950
years
** I Believe In Evolution, Except For The Whole Triassic Period
There is simply no way evolution alone could be responsible for the giant
leap between archosaurs and other, different archosaurs with better
developed hip joints and slightly differently shaped teeth
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** Eichmann passport given to Argentina Shoah museum
The Red Cross-issued passport used by high-ranking Nazi Aldolf Eichmann as
he escaped to Argentina after World War II has been turned over to the
Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires after a judge stumbled up it in a musty
court file
** Custodian Accused Of Stealing Museum Artefacts
A former employee of the San Diego Natural History Museum is behind bars
Friday after being arrested on suspicion of stealing items worth $15,000
** Art Under Wraps - Literally
When an artist and a museum fall out, the question is, can the museum still
show the artist's work?
** US museum toned down global warming exhibit to please officials
The Smithsonian museum institute in Washington toned-down and delayed an
exhibit on global warming it feared would displease Congress and the White
House, a former museum director said
** Britain's Royal Academy unveils massive Hockney painting
David Hockney on Friday unveiled a massive new painting that covers an
entire wall in the Royal Academy's largest gallery
** Feature Exhibit - Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns and Mermaids
The world is full of stories about brave heroes, magical events and
fantastic beings
** National Aphasia Month
** Witness to War: Conflict Archaeology 2007
** Passion on all Sides - Planning a Memorial Museum at Ground Zero
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