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week's edition include:
** Survey: Museum Artefacts in U.S. in Danger
Millions of rare artefacts in museums and libraries across the United States
are slowly disintegrating because of improper storage, according to a survey
said to be the largest-ever look at the condition of such collections
** Traditional Cuisine Museum to Open at Korea House
The museum named ``Traditional Korean Food Cooking Studio" was built to
promote traditional food culture among Koreans and visitors from abroad, and
to coincide with the ``Slow Food Movement," which encourages people to
rediscover the flavours of regional cooking
** New Orleans' ambushed D-Day Museum opens
The National D-Day Museum, looted and vandalized in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina, has reopened with a smaller staff but with its artefacts
and exhibits intact
** Radar pinpoints tomb of King Edward the Confessor
The ancient tomb of Edward the Confessor, one of the most revered of British
saints, has been discovered under Westminster Abbey 1,000 years after his
birth
** Ancient fossils to go on show
The curator said the exhibited fossils show what types of animals were
living in China 12 to 15 million years ago, and are of high research value
** Winds change in the battle over ancient artefacts
Three years ago, the directors of some of the world's top museums, meeting
in Munich, commiserated over a major annoyance: the growing demands from
countries such as Greece and Italy that they return ancient artefacts
** Unearthing Bulgaria's Golden Age
The archaeologists didn't know it but the shopkeeper's jewellery was 5,000
years old, dating from the Bronze Age
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** FBI Recovers Three Burkel Paintings
On Sept. 19, 1945, the museum reported that about 50 paintings stored in the
school's air-raid shelter had been lost "during the arrival of the American
troops" six months earlier
** Buried Secrets of the City Murder Dolls
Skilfully handled by the DNA expert, it is placed back into the equally
small hand-carved coffin in which it was secreted on Arthur's Seat almost
two centuries ago in the midst of an infamous killing spree
** National Museum of American History Sets Up Hurricane Katrina Collection
While the full impact of the tragic events following Hurricane Katrina will
not be fully understood for some time, historians and curators at the
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History have begun collecting
artefacts and photographs to preserve the impact of the disaster and its
aftermath on the nation
** British Expert to Run D.C. Art Museum
While the Corcoran's 147-year-old charter says its sole purpose is to
support American genius, Greenhalgh sees no conflict between his background
and what he considers his new mission to explore how the art of America and
the rest of the world change one another
** Macabre museum in Cape Town
In the new Museum for Medical and Morphological Sciences, one of only three
of its kind in the world, are skinless heads, chests, legs, in fact,
literally every part of the human body
** Museum audit leads to criminal inquiry
A Milwaukee County audit released Thursday alleges in stunning new detail a
web of deceit, misjudgement, nepotism, failed business ventures and runaway
spending at the Milwaukee Public Museum as it spiralled into near insolvency
over four years
** Peru to sue Yale for Machu Picchu treasures
Peru plans to sue Yale University for the return of 4,900 artefacts taken
from Machu Picchu, the fabled Inca citadel, by a US explorer nearly a
century ago
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** Shed artist 'flabbergasted' at Turner award
An artist who dismantled a shed then put it back together again said he was
"a bit flabbergasted" to win the £25,000 Turner Prize
** 1893 artefacts going back on display online
More than 65,000 items from around the world were brought to Chicago in what
Field Museum anthropologist Stephen E. Nash calls "a display of the other.''
** Christie's Russian Art Sale in London Sets Record $38 Million
Almost all the top lots found buyers, and five sold for more than 1 million
pounds, although 28 percent of the 230 paintings and drawings went unsold
** 1.7-million-year-old skull goes on display
Replicas of human skulls, including one nearly two million years old from
Dmanisi in Georgia, have recently been put on display at the Natural History
Museum
** Stalin museum to open at Volgograd, scene of Stalingrad siege
A new museum dedicated to former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin will open next
week in Volgograd, formerly named Stalingrad and the scene of a decisive
Soviet victory against German forces in 1943
** Shaker Museum owes thousands in unpaid taxes
The Shaker Museum in Enfield (New Hampshire) is in tax trouble and risks
losing its property to the town
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** Capturing the Public Value of Heritage
** Eyes on the Horizon: Envisioning and Realizing Our Future
** Conference: History of Australian Television,8-10 Dec 2005
** Joint Workshop on Future-proofing Institutional Websites
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