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week's edition include:
** French police recover four paintings stolen from Nice museum
French police recovered four paintings, including a Monet landscape, that
were stolen by masked gunmen in August from a museum on the French Riviera
** Stasi files emerge through software
At the former Stasi prison Hohenschonhausen, the main place political
prisoners were held and subjected to torture, there are criticisms that the
process has already taken too long
** Mercury-breathing bugs could clean up tainted treasures
Mercury-breathing bacteria might decontaminate crudely preserved Native
American artefacts now in museums, speeding up the safe return of the stolen
objects to their rightful owners
** Beware the 'dreaded year-end nose pickers'
They're forcing museum docents everywhere to interrupt their well-rehearsed
presentations to shout "Here we use our inside voices" and "Please! No
climbing on the artwork."
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** Instruments strike chord at National Music Museum
The 800 instruments on display at the museum - tucked away in the small
university town of Vermillion - make up just a fraction of the more than
13,500 items in its collection
** Machu Picchu ruin 'found earlier'
The story about its discovery by the western world has been shaken up by a
team of historians who say a German businessman looted its treasures more
than 40 years before
** Tate's much-hyped new show reveals a painter who's all style and no
substance
Seductive snake-haired naked women, with "wicked" expressions; an enormous
snaggle-toothed gorilla, looking like one of those oversized stuffed toys
you win at a fairground.
** Gorbachev calls for purge museum
Mr Gorbachev said the special museum should be set up inside what was one of
the most notorious Soviet detention centres, the Butyrka prison in Moscow
** Fake phone call fooled UBC security in museum heist
An experienced jewellery thief may have hoodwinked the University of British
Columbia's campus security by telling them to ignore security alarms on the
night of last month's multi-million dollar heist at the Museum of
Anthropology
** Ancient Hair Reveals Greenland Eskimos' Roots
A 3,000-year-old clump of human hair found frozen in Greenland may have
solved a scientific mystery: Where did all the ancient Eskimos come from?
** Adolf Hitler waxwork to go on show in Berlin
But in order not to give the impression that Hitler was in any way a figure
to be revered, the Nazi leader appears as a "broken man" in a mock-up of his
bunker just before the end of World War II
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** NASA's spacecraft touches down on Mars to get snacks, buy a map
The Phoenix was actually trying to find a faster trade route to China,
however, so the general mood aboard remains a bit low
** Museum opens at Woodstock concert site
Mocked recently by conservatives as a "hippie museum," the exhibits actually
give a thorough look at the generation-defining concert and the noisy decade
that led up to it
** Museum showcases many faces of Greece
Somewhere in the Mediterranean 1,200 years ago, a child probably aged nine
or 10 years old, wore a striped wool tunic, with a jaunty, fringed hood,
that has miraculously survived all these centuries
** Museum of the World: Farewell Primitive
In 1898, New York's Museum of Natural History effectively kidnapped an
Eskimo and his sons for use in a "human display"
** Tut roadshow buys Egypt a new museum
The spoils of the first Tutankhamen exhibition in the 1970s were earmarked
to revamp the Egyptian Museum in Cairo - it never happened
** Did Humans Colonize the World by Boat?
Radiocarbon dating of marine shells and burned twigs at the site shows that
humans first landed on San Miguel at least 12,000 years ago, and the dart
head in my hand holds clues to the ancestry of those seafarers
** New hurdle for art forgers as A-bomb fallout is used to identify the
fakes
Russian scientists believe that nuclear test explosions and the bombs
dropped on Japan in 1945 released elements into the atmosphere that can be
detected in oil paintings made after the Second World War
** Celebrate Matariki
Every Saturday in June, Auckland Museum celebrates Matariki with a free
programme of events for the whole family
** Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in
the Middle East and North Africa Region
4 - 7 April 2009, Amman, Jordan
** Annual IRIS Lecture: Peace and Science in the Middle East
The American Museum of Natural History, NY
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