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week's edition include:
** Italian police impound 18,000 illegally excavated artifacts
Police have also sealed off three illegal dig sites previously unknown to
archaeologists, they said in a statement: a necropolis dating from the Roman
empire, a Roman villa and a sanctuary used by the Aequi people, who lived in
an area northeast of Rome in the fourth and fifth centuries BC
** World War II siren to sound daily at the Malta's National War Museum
Starting from 11 June, to mark the day of the first aerial attacks on Malta,
the siren will be sounded daily in remembrance of the fallen of both world
wars
** Spear throwing, bone relays, hyena hurdling and more in Ice Age Olympics
Creswell Crags - a limestone gorge near Bolsover in the Peak District with
caves inhabited by European nomads more than 10,000 years ago, will host
Inuit trials, a mammoth-bone relay, hyena hurdling, a "rock shy" and other
hunters' games in a distinctly primeval festival of free family activities,
including expert demonstrations of authentic Ice Age spear throwing
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** Successes in Rhetoric: Language in the Life of Churchill
This isn't a history exhibition, so you won't be able to take their full
measure; you won't fully grasp how washed up Churchill's political career
was in the mid-1930s; how few in England were prepared to recognize what was
taking place in Germany; how few were also prepared to think the unthinkable
about war, scarcely 20 years after the continent was so stained in blood;
and how visionary Churchill was
** Painter courts royal's revelation
Australian artist wants to take her out of the Buckingham Palace environment
and put her in a different context - one that would have meaning and
significance for the Diamond Jubilee
** Jewish Museum of Turkey is a unique place
Turkey's first and only Jewish museum, one of the very few museums of its
kind in the Muslim world, opened 11 years ago to mark the 500th anniversary
of the arrival of Spanish Jews to the Ottoman Empire
** 'Gates of Paradise' in Florence restored to former glory
The Renaissance bronze and gold doors of the Florence Baptistry - a
masterpiece known as the "Gates of Paradise" - will be unveiled in September
after a 27-year restoration
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** 10 great places for museum mysteries
In the late 1800s, when electricity seemed like magic, a Philadelphia
inventor claimed to have created a motor powered by energy drawn from water
and air
** 'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal
Landmark polar research about the Adelie penguin's sex life by Captain
Scott's expedition, deemed too shocking for the public 100 years ago, is
unearthed at the Natural History Museum
** Getty Museum illustrates death in Middle Ages
Death and taxes may both be inevitable in this modern-day world of ours, yet
it seems only death has had the ability to inspire great art in people since
at least Medieval times
** USS Iowa berths at the Port of LA to serve as a floating museum
One of the most powerful battleships of all time has docked at its permanent
home at the Port of Los Angeles and next month opens as an interactive
floating museum
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** 'Vampire' Graves Unearthed Near Black Sea Town
While it has created quite a stir, Bozhidar Dimitrov, the director of the
National Museum of History in Sofia, said the discovery was not that unusual
** Prestigious Swiss Museum to be Auctioned
Angela Prader assembled one of the most remarkable museums of our generation
in that it displayed a superb cross-section of rare early dolls and toys of
which most were preserved in astounding original condition
** Chinese Museums Open to the World
Leading Chinese museums are increasingly staging exhibitions at art centers
across Europe, part of a wider cultural metamorphosis aimed at attracting
more outward-looking Chinese youths, becoming more global in terms of
exchanges, laying the groundwork for Chinese collections to be shown, in
return, across the world
** National Museum of Scotland has 2m visitors in 10 months
It is amazing that a number equivalent to four times the population of
Edinburgh has visited us in just over ten months says Director
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** Please? Please? Meh: Beatles museum closes owing to lack of interest
Beatlemania, an exhibition in Hamburg that hoped to be a pilgrimage for Fab
Four fanatics, is closing its doors owing to lack of interest and spiraling
debts
** Museum salutes gliders used in D-Day invasion
As America celebrates the 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in
Normandy, France, Lubbock citizens can take pride in knowing their city
played a key role in helping the Allies achieve victory in World War II
** Corcoran Gallery to test market for sale of landmark building
It posted a $7.2 million deficit for the fiscal year ended last June and is
considering moving because it would cost an estimated $130 million to bring
its landmark home up to modern museum standards
** Shuttle Enterprise damaged during water transport in NYC
Space shuttle Enterprise suffered minor wing damage on Sunday when it
collided with the navigation guides for a New York railroad bridge during
the first half of its sea trek to a Manhattan museum for display
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** New Primate Fossil Points to 'Out of Asia' Theory
The ancestors of monkeys, apes and humans may have originated in Asia and
not Africa as often thought, new fossils suggest
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** The Sultan's Garden: The Blossoming of Ottoman Art
This September, The Textile Museum will open The Sultan's Garden: The
Blossoming of Ottoman Art (September 21, 2012-March 10, 2013).
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** Museums of the XXI c. - Changes and Challenges
21st September 2012 (Vilnius, Lithuania)
** Ice Age Encounters at the Page Museum
The Saber-Toothed Cat puppet, normally a performance fixture at the Natural
History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM), crosses town to mid-Wilshire
this summer
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