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** British Museum to open Shakespeare exhibition
Visitors will be able to explore the birth of modern professional theatre in
the UK and the experience of going to London's playhouses, including those
in Bankside, an area which curators of the exhibition describe as having a
"dangerous and notorious reputation"
** From turbines to Tetricus: engineering technology reveals secrets of
Roman coins
Archaeologists and engineers from the University of Southampton are
collaborating with the British Museum to examine buried Roman coins using
the latest X-ray imaging technology
** Lost Viking Military Town Unearthed in Germany?
Ongoing excavations at Füsing, near the Danish border, link the site to the
"lost" Viking town of Sliasthorp - first recorded in A.D. 804 by royal
scribes of the powerful Frankish ruler Charlemagne
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** Weird Museum of the Week - 44 Dioramas of Dead Gophers
Facing a closing school, a dying economy, and the exodus of both jobs and
people, the town elders got together and decided to do what all town elders
do to keep their town alive - they killed and stuffed gophers
** "Frankenstein" Bog Mummies Discovered in Scotland
According to new isotopic dating and DNA experiments, the mummies-a male and
a female-were assembled from various body parts, although the purpose of the
gruesome composites is likely lost to history
** Festival of British Archaeology digs for victory in fornight of fun
You can stomp mud and try Iron Age building techniques in Sheffield, have a
pop at clay shooting in Monmouthshire, excavate burial cairns made for
Bronze Age cremations in Scotland or become an apprentice archaeologist in
Jersey
** A wealth of unseen and rare Rolling Stones material on view in London
With privileged access to a wealth of unseen and rare material, this one-off
exhibition includes over seventy prints ranging from reportage photography,
live concert and studio session images, to contact sheets, negative strips
and outtakes from every period of the band's history - from performing in
the smallest blues clubs to the biggest stadium tours of all time
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** Henry Moore sculpture worth $770,000 stolen for scrap metal?
This is the second time a Moore sculpture has been lifted from the 72-acre
Henry Moore Foundation property: In 2005 thieves used a crane to steal the
12-foot bronze statue "Reclining Figure," worth an estimated $4.5 million
** China's earliest wine unearthed in NW tomb
Liquid inside an ancient West Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC - 771 BC) wine vessel,
unearthed in Shaanxi province, is considered to be the earliest wine in
China's history, archaeologists say
** Britain's Museum Boom - Did It Work?
Over the past decade, bold and costly new art galleries have sprung up in
towns from Margate to Middlesbrough in the hope of regenerating underloved
areas and bringing modern art to the masses
** Catherine the Great's influence felt
The Edinburgh museum's show in collaboration with the Hermitage museum is
overflowing with incredibly rich and rare pieces related to the 18th century
Russian ruler, including a freshly restored giant coronation portrait of
Catherine that has not been on public display since the Russian revolution
in 1917
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** Royal Engineers Museum begins restoration of German V-2 Rocket missile
for display
A rare surviving example of one of Hitler's infamous V-weapons, captured by
the Corps of Royal Engineers at the end of World War Two, is to be restored,
re-assembled and displayed at the Royal Engineers Museum Library and Archive
at Brompton
** A Haven National and Universal
The Israel Museum adds another kind of intricacy to this reflection, because
it is, like its nation, so young, and because the story it tells, also like
that of its nation, is so old
** After Islamist riots triggered by contemporary art fair, tensions remain
high in Tunis
Artists in Tunis still feel under threat following protests by hundreds of
hard-line Salafi Islamists last month against a number of works shown at the
Printemps des Arts contemporary art fair
** Be a work of art. It's not a stitch-up
Would you like to get a job knitting in an art gallery and become a living
work of art as part of the Innovatsia Prize exhibition from Russia?
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** Spearheads and DNA Point to a Second Founding Society in North America
Stone spearheads and human DNA found in Oregon caves, anthropologists say,
have produced firmer evidence that these are the oldest directly dated
remains of people in North America
** Eisenhower Locomotive Loaned to England
As part of a two-year loan between the two national museums, the locomotive
and its tender will be restored to its late 1940s condition and will be part
of a 75th celebration of the world steam locomotive speed record set in July
1938
** Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York closes abruptly
With the explosion of superhero-influenced movies, such as the
latest"Spider-Man" film that recently opened, comics would seem to be a
solid business, even for a museum
** Lesbian demands commitment ceremony at museum
A lesbian who sued her school district in 2010 after she was left out of the
high school yearbook for wearing a tuxedo is demanding the Mississippi
Agriculture and Forestry Museum permit a commitment ceremony for her and her
partner
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** Let the Games (and the Sales) Begin
The 1936 Summer Olympics practically introduced kitsch and collectibles to
international sports competitions; the Berlin Games were commemorated on
souvenir dishes, piggy banks, pennants and beer steins
** The Louvre Museum Is Having a Baby!
Strictly speaking, overcrowding is not the reason why the Louvre is building
a $200 million facility in the Pas-de-Calais region of France
** What Does it Mean to be Diverse?
2013 New York State's Museums in Conversation
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