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week's edition include:
** Visitor numbers on the rise at Australian museums
The country's natural history and science museums have shaken their
traditional image as drab institutions overrun with specimen drawers and a
few taxidermied animals in dusty glass boxes
** Under the Spell of Gilded Age Magicians
Thurston's black waistcoat and top hat and his female assistants' costumes
trimmed in rhinestones are hung beside his "spirit cabinet," a walk-in
armoire painted teal and crimson, with a secret back trapdoor
** Easter Island statues have full bodies and contain ancient petroglyphs
In October 2011, the Easter Island Statue Project began its Season V
expedition, revealing remarkable photos showing that the bodies of the
statues go far deeper underground than just about anyone had imagined.
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** Banksy artwork destroyed by Melbourne builder
A Melbourne builder has inadvertently destroyed a valuable piece of street
art by British graffiti artist Banksy, by drilling a hole through it to put
in a bathroom pipe
** Agents discover archaeological artifacts west of Tucson
Officials from the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument were notified and
identified the clay vessel as an olla, an ancient pot that was used to hold
water and was stored in shade to keep the water cool
** Refugees from the Ice Age: How Was Europe Repopulated?
Scientists have used DNA analysis to gain important new insights into how
human beings repopulated Europe as the Ice Age relaxed its grip
** 26-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe sculpture lands in Palm Springs
The sculpture by Seward Johnson, the 80-year-old artist and Johnson &
Johnson heir who's known for casting famous images into giant sculptures,
re-creates the scene from the 1955 film "The Seven Year Itch" in which a
drafty New York subway grate blows the sex symbol's skirt well above her
knees
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** Ontario Military Museum to Receive Decommissioned Oberon Submarine
The museum will fund the physical transfer of the 90-metre Ojibwa from
Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, to a site at Port Burwell, Ontario
** Museum director arrested for smuggling stolen icon
A museum director was arrested at an airport for allegedly trying to smuggle
a 17th-century icon valued at $1 million stolen from Russia in 1994
** British naval heritage at risk of being sold off
Archaeologists are up in arms over the Ministry of Defence's (MoD's)
decision to transfer the management of an 18th-century British warship to a
newly formed charitable body, the Maritime Heritage Foundation, which has
entered into an agreement with the US ocean salvage company, Odyssey Marine
Exploration, to raise the wreck
** What price street art? (Quite high, actually)
One of the obvious problems with street art is that while it might try to
highlight social ills, it can end up selling for many thousands of pounds to
the elite that it supposedly rails against
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** New Delay in Opening African Art Museum
For the fifth time in three years, the Museum for African Art has been
forced to delay opening its new home at 110th Street and Fifth Avenue, in
East Harlem, as it continues to work to raise the money to finish the
project
** Ecuador to US Museum: Stop Hiding Our Treasures
More than 3,000 Ecuadorian archaeological finds, including the most
impressive works of the Manteņo civilization, are kept in the storerooms of
a Washington museum
** Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Recorded in Octopus DNA
These retiring creatures offer a rare opportunity to help understand how
this extreme part of the Earth has changed in recent geologic times - and
what climate change might bring there in the near future
** Bronze Age boat replica sinks
A team of craftsmen and archaeologists had been working for several months
to build the replica boat, using the same tools and the same methods as
their ancestors would have used when the original boat was built more than
3,500 years earlier
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** A Museum Turns Wind Into Gold
In addition to a sculpture garden featuring artists of the Pacific
Northwest, Maryhill's grounds - all 5,300 acres of them - now include 15
wind turbines, part of a vast installation that sends 500 megawatts of
electricity to Los Angeles and about $250,000 each year into the operating
revenues of one of the most isolated art museums in the contiguous United
States
** Unprecedented flooding inundates Virginia Living Museum
Even the beavers had to be moved to safety when flash flooding inundated the
Virginia Living Museum with almost five feet of water on Tuesday evening
** Barnes Foundation museum a bland shadow of once great self
The result is one part Colonial Williamsburg, where authentic and ersatz
mingle; one part Lehman Wing, where an excellent New York collector's
expensive period taste is enshrined in a Metropolitan Museum of Art replica
of his apartment; and one part Disneyland's Main Street U.S.A., where a
spiffed-up version of what time has torn asunder offers commercial
entertainment
** Canada museum kills masturbation video after outcry
Canada's federal science museum has removed an animated video showing youth
masturbating from an upcoming sex exhibit following a public outcry
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo - The stars will give you fifty bucks if you go over to that guy in the
next cubicle who's always talking loudly into his hands-free device and pour
scalding hot coffee into his lap
** Amateur sleuth helps stop National Archives thefts
From his home in Connecticut, filled with antique radios and tape reels,
Goldin launched an amateur sleuthing effort that helped uncover a thief
ripping off the country's most important repository of historical records
** Archaeology of Buddhism: Recent Discoveries in South Asia
SAARC Culturan Centre, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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** Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage: Visiting Pasts,
Developing Futures
University of Birmingham - Ironbridge Institute and National Taiwan
University
** Sports Heritage Symposium
20th September 2012, National Football Museum, Manchester
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