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week's edition include:
** Museum names new species of tree after No Parking sign
A new species of tree found in a rural lay-by has been officially named "No
Parking" after the sign once nailed to its trunk
** Museums push to decode Leonardo da Vinci
Nearly five centuries after his death - and six years after "The Da Vinci
Code" hit bookstore shelves (and later, theatres) - the original Renaissance
Man has become a major draw for science, flight, and art museums, even
though it's difficult, if not impossible, to display his original works
** Chinese art auction stunt backfires
According to an art expert, the businessman who Mr Cai beat at the
record-breaking Christie's auction to secure the Qing dynasty bronze heads
of a rat and a rabbit was planning to give them back to China
** Declassified MI5 file shows Nazi spy almost changed course of war
The story of a Portuguese wireless operator and the dramatic decision to
pluck him from his vessel on the high seas to prevent him from betraying the
position of a huge convoy bound for North Africa is revealed for the first
time in a declassified MI5 file released by the National Archives
** Darwin Centre staff move into cocoon
The botany and entomology laboratory scientists are the first Museum staff
to swap their old offices and labs for the new high-tech molecular
laboratory suite in the second phase of the Darwin Centre building project
** Is this the real Shakespeare at last?
A portrait owned for nearly 300 years by a family will tomorrow be claimed
as the only known picture of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime
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** Masterpieces could be lost from Britain amid galleries' cash crisis
In 2006/07, institutions including the National Gallery, the National
Portrait Gallery and the British Museum spent £14.5 million on acquisitions,
in 2008/09 it will be £3.4 million
** Moisture plagues 'impermeable' gallery
The new Frank Gehry-designed Art Gallery of Ontario, designed as an
impregnable fortress against the harsh Canadian weather, is already showing
cracks in its armour
** Gandhi possessions 'to be donated to India'
The auction had earlier been criticised in India where many see the items as
part of their national heritage and fit for a museum, not a private
collection
** Prince Charles love letters for sale on eBay
If she's embarrassed why would she want the letters in a museum where
millions of people could go daily and read them? It would be better to see
them sold to a private collector
** Ancient Hindu sun god bead stolen from Thai museum
Police said they suspected the thief removed a magnifying glass that was
placed into the top of the glass case so visitors could better view the
two-centimetre-wide bead
** City's oldest museum gets £3.5m
The buildings on the museum site around Bugle Street date back to about
1150, and also include King John's Palace and a 15th Century mediaeval
cottage
** 70 Years Later, a Berlin Museum Reopens . . . For 3 Days
The Neues Museum, originally built in 1859, is the third of five museums on
Berlin's Museum Island to be been reconstructed and fully modernized
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** Museum finds "secret" message in Lincoln's watch
A gold watch owned by Abraham Lincoln bears a message marking the start of
the U.S. Civil War, but the president never knew of the "secret" inscription
** Con-artist says Dali faked it
When little-known Belgian art dealer and former convict Stan Lauryssens
published a memoir alleging that most of Dali's works were fakes and done so
with the artist's approval, it shocked the art world even though it was long
accustomed to fantastical claims about one of its most fantastical members
** De-Accessioning Isn't So Easy These Days
For sale (still): one Old Master painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, dated
1518, which found no takers five weeks ago when it went on the block in New
York
** Oldest sea turtle fossil unveiled in Mexico
The sea turtle inhabited the northern region in the late Cretaceous period ,
72 million years ago, and is the ancestor of the present day green turtle
** Historical Tweets
Use Twitter, you'll enjoy these great Twitterstoric moments in history
** Museums and galleries offer light amid the economic gloom
The economy has gone south, high street names have gone bust, but next year
could still be a good time for culture vultures
** Indonesia opens tsunami museum
The four-level building in hardest-hit Aceh province exhibits photographs of
victims, stories of survivors and an electronic simulation of the massive
undersea earthquake that triggered the 30-foot-high waves
** Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital
Collections
San Diego, California
** NAEA Museum Division Preconference
This year's NAEA Museum Division Preconference will take place on Thursday,
April 16 in Minneapolis
** War in Paradise
Auckland Museum
War in Paradise tells the story of soldiers of the 3rd New Zealand Division
as they prepared for battle while stationed in New Caledonia
** Environmental Art at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum
Tuesday, March 17, 6 P.M.
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