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week's edition include:
** Abu Dhabi moves step closer to 'desert Louvre'
Under the 30-year agreement, Abu Dhabi will pay 400 million euros (525
million dollars) for the Louvre brand name and for hundreds of artworks
loaned from the Paris museum for periods of between six months and two years
** Virtual reconstruction of Roman road revives ruined monuments and
ancient leaders
A museum has unveiled a virtual reconstruction of one of the bustling
arteries that led into ancient Rome, allowing visitors to wander through
rebuilt monuments and interact with the city's political elite
** Stolen Paintings Recovered in Brazil
Two suspects were arrested with the paintings, but no other details were
immediately available
** Museum brings back memories of southern quilts and comforting cakes
Two quilts made more than a half-century ago by the women in my family were
passed on to me, both stitched with tiny rectangle and triangle fabric
pieces formed into asymmetrical squares
** Killer cosmetics over the decades
Countless beauty mavens suffered serious health problems thanks to killer
cosmetics like Lash Lure, an aniline eyelash dye introduced in the 1930s
that caused 16 cases of blindness and one death
** Woman artist gets death threats over gay Muslim photos
The Dutch were debating the limits of freedom of expression last week after
an artist who photographed gay men wearing masks of the prophet Muhammad was
forced into hiding and her work removed from a museum exhibit
** New Museum a Shrine to Filthy Rich
The titans of Wall Street have opened a new museum that pays tribute to the
markets, the dollar and, of course, themselves
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** Maori head a pawn in larger game
This is a weak, morally untenable argument that lays no store in Maori
grievance over what was a grotesque trade until banned by the British in
1831
** Bamboo carving museum celebrates ancient art form
The delicate art works in the bamboo carving museum date back to the Ming
Dynasty and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the heyday of traditional Chinese
bamboo carving
** NASA plans to blow up Mars if asteroid misses
Astronomers says that the chance of an asteroid hitting Mars on January 30th
have been increased from 1-in-75 to 1-in-25
** Stolen Mickey Mouse watercolours recovered 17 years after NY theft
Two valuable Walt Disney watercolours of Mickey Mouse have been recovered
nearly two decades after they were stolen from a cartoon museum
** Today's special is sautéed iguana with garlic
"I recommend eating them,'' said Kenneth Krysko, a herpetologist at the
Florida Museum of Natural History
** Aviation Icon Curtiss Gets Hometown Park
A patch of lakefront property is being turned into a park honouring the
Wright brothers' archrival, Glenn H. Curtiss, after a lengthy feud over
whether to preserve it
** Amateur historian unearths Nazi battery
Gary Sterne discovered the huge "Maisy Battery" after he found a crinkled
map which fell out of an old pair of US serviceman's trousers at a military
memorabilia fair in Stockport
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** France experiments with free admission to museums
French national museums including the Louvre in Paris will let in many
visitors free in the coming months, in an experiment intended to open up
high culture to a wider public
** Mammoth Could Shed Light on Warming
Frozen in much the state it died some 37,500 years ago, a Siberian mammoth
undergoing tests in Japan could finally explain why the beasts were driven
to extinction - and shed light on climate change
** Portrait Raises Questions About Spending
The recently retired director of the National Museum of the American Indian
spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself and
selected a non-Indian artist to create it
** Why the Royal Ontario Museum is still a technology dinosaur
Museums are not typical enterprises, and at most of these ideas still seem
far away but the technology they're using today is of the kind that should
already be under glass
** From meteorites to giant clams
The caravan will include a reference library of life on earth - 2 million
fish preserved in jars of alcohol; more than 700,000 pin-mounted butterflies
and moths; 3 million dead beetles
** 2008 Lecture Series Issues in Contemporary Architecture
The Phillips Collection Centre for the Study of Modern Art
** The Scoop on Poop!
New Exhibit at Carnegie Museum of Natural History
** 2008 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World
March 5-7, 2008
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and The
Wolfsonian-Florida International University (The Wolfsonian-FIU) announce
open registration for the 2008 WebWise Conference on Libraries and Museums
in the Digital World
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