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week's edition include:
** US Museum leaves Concorde gift from UK to rot in airfield
The once sleek and white airliner, which previously held the trans-Atlantic
speed record, has had its nose sliced off by a lorry, the windscreen is
cracked, and birds are nesting in its engines
** Beijing to host antique show to illustrate Sun Zi's Art of War during
Olympics
The Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution will open the Sun
Zi's Art of War and Military Relic Exhibition, the first of its kind in the
world
** Freaky Fish Was Cockeyed
A funky fish with one eye atop its head and another on its side lurked in
Europe's reef shallows about 50 million years ago, newfound transitional
fossils suggest
** New Italian museum offers 3D virtual tour of ancient city
Visitors to Herculaneum, destroyed along with Pompeii in the 79 AD eruption
of Mount Vesuvius, can now take a 3D virtual tour recreating life in the
ancient Roman town
** Mystery of crystal skulls may be why there is a mystery at all
To satisfy people's fascination with crystal skulls, the Smithsonian Museum
of Natural History is putting its skull on display
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** Hatches battened over letter to editor
Auckland Museum bosses have called in one of their most senior workers over
a letter to the editor printed in the New Zealand Herald - again throwing
the spotlight on the institution
** Goya sketches "lost" for 130 years sold at auction
According to the inscription, he survived the night, but in a subsequent
drawing by Goya, now at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, he was
eventually killed when they pinned him down and injected him with lime using
a giant syringe
** Dead Sea tablet 'casts doubt on death and resurrection of Jesus'
Professor Knohl defended his theory at a conference at the Israel Museum in
Jerusalem marking 60 years since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
** Cashing in on culture? Thai museum at Angkor raises Cambodian ire
Many antiquities were looted over the centuries or appropriated by museums
in France, the country's former colonial ruler
** Asylum paintings reveal tortured mind of murderous Victorian artist
Tortured images from the mind of the Victorian artist and brutal murderer
Richard Dadd will shed light on the nature of his mental illness in a new
London show this weekend
** Museum unveils woolly mammoth skeleton
A 14,500-year-old woolly mammoth skeleton dug up in 1994 has been unveiled
at the Milwaukee Public Museum, giving locals a glimpse of perhaps the most
intact specimen discovered in North America
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** Kremlin resorts to old-style Soviet censorship to suppress modern art
Yerofeyev has become the enfant terrible of the Russian art world in recent
years, organising exhibitions whose modernity has angered the Kremlin and
church leaders, who are trying to push conservative spiritual and political
values after what they regard as the chaos of the 1990s
** National Museum's message in a wine bottle
The bottle was to nestle among the cultural icons in a new permanent
exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, enjoying equal billing with
Moira Shearer's ballet shoes, Dario Franchitti's helmet and a Victoria Cross
from the Battle of Loos
** Arts Museum embezzler sentenced to prison
The former chief financial officer of the Bellevue Arts Museum was sentenced
to nearly two years in prison today after pleading guilty to embezzling
about $300,000 from the museum
** Painter Fernand Léger - the granddaddy of Pop?
The "modest and little" Statue of Liberty, a gift from his country, did not
impress Fernand Léger as he watched from the deck of a liner sailing into
the inner harbour of New York Bay in 1931
** Alamo survivor's Austin home gets new life
Susanna Dickinson and her infant daughter, Angelina, were spared by Mexican
Gen. Santa Anna, who instructed Dickinson to carry the tale of the Alamo to
Sam Houston
** Man Tears Off Hitler Head at Berlin Wax Museum
A man tore the wax head off an effigy of Adolf Hitler in Berlin on Saturday,
July 5, just minutes after a new branch of the Madame Tussauds wax museum
chain opened for the first time to the public
** Italy declares Pompeii emergency
The ancient city of Pompeii has fallen into such disrepair that the Italian
government has declared a "state of emergency" in a bid to save the ruins
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