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** Romania hands 6-1/2 year jail term to Dutch art theft boss
A Romanian court sentenced the ringleader of a gang that stole paintings
from a Dutch museum in one of the world's biggest art heists to six years
and eight months in prison
** Shush! World's Oldest Resting Scorpion
The age of the trace fossil, as body impressions and tracks are called,
takes scorpions way back to the early Permian
** Famed Percival Mew Gull speed record air racer back
The single-engine, one-man air racer which averaged more than 200 miles per
hour during a record-breaking flight from London to Capetown 74 years ago
will be back over the skies of Bedfordshire after being bought by a local
collection
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** Ghost Hunters Burn Down Historic Mansion
While many ghost hunters engage in harmless (and fruitless) fun, as this
case shows, there can be a dark, dangerous side to the pursuit
** Appeal launched to keep 'world's most expensive selfie' in Britain
Painted by the Flemish artist shortly before he died, possibly of plague, in
1641, it has been described as "one of the finest and most important
self-portraits" in British art
** Museum display of toys confiscated from London schoolchildren
A British teacher and artist has assembled two cases' worth of toys
confiscated from London schoolchildren from 150 schools and 30 years,
soliciting them from fellow teachers
** Carnegie Museum of Natural History offers buyouts to curators
More than a half-dozen senior curators at the Carnegie Museum of Natural
History were offered buyouts during a Monday staff meeting
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** Inside The New $220 Million Art Museum Named After Billionaire
Billionaire real estate developer Jorge Perez donated $40 million to the
Miami Art Museum in 2011 on the condition that the institution be renamed
after him in perpetuity
** Giant prehistoric toilet unearthed
The 240-million-year-old site is the "world's oldest public toilet" and the
first evidence that ancient reptiles shared collective dumping grounds
** Ancient altar plagued by water leaks
The Museum of the Ara Pacis, a state-of-the-art structure protecting a 2
000-year-old ancient Roman artefact in the centre of the Italian capital, is
plagued by water leaks blamed on a lack of maintenance
** Museum of Russian Art documents tragic Czarist past
Amid all the dazzling memorabilia - maps, letters, coronation menus, photos,
paintings, china and even bejeweled Fabergé buttons - in "The Romanovs:
Legacy of an Empire Lost," it's a humble petticoat that most haunts the mind
after leaving the Museum of Russian Art in south Minneapolis
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** UK museum finds 'new' Constable oil sketch
A London museum says it has discovered a previously unknown oil sketch by
John Constable tucked beneath the lining of another work by the English
romantic painter known for his landscapes
** From bionic bats to computerised cats
A new London exhibition showcasing robots inspired by nature will let
visitors interact with an electronic cheetah cub, a mechanical flying bat
and a shoal of biomimetic fish
** Museum of Civilization taps oil patch for $1 million
CAPP, along with Canada's Oil Sands Producers, will provide $200,000
annually for five years in return for which the Canadian Museum of
Civilization will link a number of exhibits to the industry
** Bringing Life to Museums' Collections
In recent years, new museums dedicated to the automobile have opened, others
have spent millions on renovations that present vehicles in novel ways, and
institutions once limited to displays of fine art have discovered the
popular appeal of metal, glass, rubber and chrome
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** National Library staffer arrested over missing books
A staff member at the National Library of Ireland has been arrested
following a raid on his home in which detectives uncovered what they
described as an "Aladdin's Cave" of historical books and manuscripts
** One of Civilization's Oldest Wine Cellars
While excavating within the palace ruins of Tel Kabri, a 75-acre ancient
Canaanite city site in northern Israel that dates back to 1700 BCE, a joint
American-Israeli team came across a three-foot-long jar
** Crickets and worms on bug museum Thanksgiving menu
On the menu: turkey with cornbread and mealworm stuffing, wax worm cranberry
sauce and pumpkin pie with a crispy cricket topping
** Disney museum pays tribute to Italian animator
Fiecconi is the curator of an exhibition at the Walt Disney Family Museum
devoted to the prolific Italian animator, director, cartoonist and
producer.; "Bruno Bozzetto: Animation, Maestro" showcases about 60 original
pencil animation drawings, cels and backgrounds, mostly from "Allegro Non
Troppo," his masterpiece
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Libra - Your perfectionist streak will consume you this week when you
attempt to posit the world's single most precise chaos theory
** British Museum to bring better experience for children
A new app to bring better experience for children visiting the British
Museum was launched as the museum announced Wednesday morning a renewal of
contract with Samsung for cooperation of another five years
** Art Makes You Smart
Through a large-scale, random-assignment study of school tours to the
museum, we were able to determine that strong causal relationships do in
fact exist between arts education and a range of desirable outcome
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