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week's edition include:
** Texas museum kills two healthy mules for art exhibit
Word that two, perfectly healthy mules were purchased at an auction for the
sole purpose of being killed and stuffed for a museum exhibit has sent
thousands of individuals into a tailspin of anger and dismay
** Smithsonian Seeks to Remake Stodgy Image
Although the Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex,
is already a popular and trusted brand, officials there nonetheless decided
they needed to raise awareness, particularly among young people, of
precisely what they have to offer
** Outback Museum building make world architectural awards shortlist
A building on the cliff edge near Winton in western Queensland has
reportedly stunned locals in the remote Outback town by being shortlisted in
the World Architecture Festival Awards
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** Museum to host exhibition exploring Mumbai's textile tales
The Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum at Byculla has devised an exhibition titled
'Social Fabric', which explores the impact on local communities of the
global textile trade and the movement of fabric across continents, focusing
on the city of Mumbai and the rise and fall of its textile industry.
** Elderly woman who botched religious fresco demands royalties
The elderly Spanish woman who ruined a religious fresco with her botched
restoration is now demanding royalties from her work after it became an
unlikely tourist attraction
** British Horseracing Museum has grand expansion plans
With a little prompting the 76 year old docent shared the story of the plate
in his leg, the bone grafts, and other souvenirs of his trade, but he would
rather lead the visitor around the replicated weighing room so familiar to a
century's worth of British jockeys
** Thrilled Los Angeles Museum Welcomes Space Shuttle Endeavour
The shuttle will stay at the airport for a few weeks, and then be ferried
via surface streets to its museum retirement home, the California Science
Center, in mid-October
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** Little known Sheffield museum to open to the public
The little-known Alfred Denny Museum, at Sheffield University, includes
strange items from the world of natural history such as the skull of an
extinct man-sized eagle, half a dolphin, tiny flying dinosaur skeletons and
sun spiders complete with ferocious, poisonous jaws
** Stedelijk reopens after eight years' of work
There are three main elements to the new building: a large glassed entrance,
which opens onto Museumplein, upper-level temporary exhibition galleries in
a structure nicknamed "The Bathtub" and a basement with a substantial
display area for the permanent collection
** British Museum plans major Pompeii show for 2013
Italian authorities are loaning some 250 objects for the exhibition, from
mosaics and paintings to casts of bodies encased in ash and a child's wooden
crib, carbonized by high-temperature gases from the volcano
** Ancient crocodiles ate like killer whales
An international team led by Dr Mark Young of the University of Edinburgh,
and including Dr Lorna Steel at the Natural History Museum, studied two
species of extinct marine dolphin-like crocodylians, Dakosaurus maximus and
Plesiosuchus manselii
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** 'Missing Turner' painting to be unveiled
After years of research, his belief in the work - entitled Fishing Boats in
a Stiff Breeze - has apparently been backed by art experts and by scientific
tests that investigated everything from pigments to the signature
** The Louvre's New Islamic Galleries Bring Riches to Light
Now the museum is again risking the public's wrath as it introduces the most
radical architectural intervention - a golden, undulating roof that seems to
float within the neo-Classical Visconti Courtyard in the middle of the
Louvre's south wing - since the pyramid in 1989
** The new Design Museum in London to open in 2015
With the new location, the design museum will be joining the V&A, the
Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Royal College of Art and the
Serpentine Gallery in the cultural district of Kensington
** Spanish design chosen for museum to house Afghanistan's treasures
The winning design for a new museum in Kabul to showcase a growing
collection of centuries-old Afghan treasures was selected this week,
throwing forward plans sponsors hope will restore Afghanistan's sense of
identity after decades of war
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** Dillinger, Capone featured in museum crime exhibit
Aside from Dillinger, the exhibit - which contains a mixture of enlarged
newspaper articles, photos and a few artifacts - also focuses heavily on
Prohibition, which lasted from 1920 to 1933
** 'Scream' to Go on View at MoMA
Edvard Munch's 1895 version of "The Scream" - which became the most
expensive artwork ever sold at auction when it brought nearly $120 million
at Sotheby's in May - will go on view at the Museum of Modern Art, courtesy
of its new mystery owner, for six months, starting on Oct. 24
** 9/11 museum exhibits more than just a job for local firm
What may be the most heart-rending exhibit created for the 9/11 museum in
New York City sits in storage near a railroad overpass on Elmwood Avenue,
tucked inside an unassuming brick building flanked by metal siding
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** Research for Velazquez exhibit reveals portrait in Dallas is likely his
first of Spanish king
In preparing an exhibit on 17th century artist Diego Velazquez's early work
for Spain's King Philip IV, art historians believe they discovered that a
portrait by the Spanish master at Dallas' Meadows Museum is likely his first
of his lifelong patron
** Lessons From the Nation's Biggest Architectural Toy Collection
These 2,300-odd toys were assembled by a Chicago English teacher named
George Wetzel, who spent 25 years searching trade shows and thrift stores
for toys of a quality he felt was no longer in production
** The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe since 1945
An Exhibition of the German Historical Museum, Berlin
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** To The Ends Of The Earth And Back Again
Stories of daring adventure, intrigue, heroic bravery, and awe-inspiring
natural beauty will captivate visitors in six new exhibitions for 2012-2013
announced recently by the Royal BC Museum.
** Triple Treat
Important landscape photography exhibition on view in Preus Museum in Norway
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