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week's edition include:
** There's WHAT at the museum?
Inside a glass case at the Brigham City Museum of Art and History is the
prosthetic leg of former Mayor Jonah Mathias and the Farmington Historical
Museum has a pair of giant metal folk art heads
** 18 years and counting to finish Spanish royal painting
The artist famous for his realistic style has been ordered to stay in the
royal palace and complete his portrait of the Spanish royal family that he
began 18 years ago
** Medieval crown jewels on display at Prague castle
The medieval works of art consist of a gold crown decorated with 96 precious
stones including rubies and sapphires, along with a sceptre, royal orb and
other precious objects
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** A job for the maggot squad
Few museums can boast staff with the specialist skills of Amoret Whitaker, a
motorbike-riding zoologist who is one of its two forensic entomologists -
experts whose craft is focused on helping police in murder investigations,
principally by examining maggots and other insect life found in and around a
corpse to determine a time of death
** Piles of stolen Ai Weiwei sunflower seeds grow as Couriers of Taste
exhibition idea succeeds
The curators were looking for anyone who had pocketed one of the millions of
porcelain sunflower seeds that made up Ai Weiwei's artwork at Tate Modern in
2010 to lend them their souvenirs for the show
** Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire
To help solve this mystery, scientists investigated ancient DNA from the
teeth of 19 different sixth-century skeletons from a medieval graveyard in
Bavaria, Germany, of people who apparently succumbed to the Justinianic
Plague
** U.S. museum defends plan to honor Hamas-linked journalists killed in
Gaza
Since 1996, the Newseum, the Washington D.C. journalism and media museum,
has been holding an annual ceremony in which it honors journalists killed
while reporting
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** A museum to showcase farmers' innovations
The late Mr. Joseph, a primary school dropout with several inventions and
patents to his credit, was the inventor of the coconut climbing machine,
widely being used in many Indian states today
** Family album of Tsar Nicholas II resurfaces in museum exhibition
Held a virtual prisoner by the Bolsheviks months before his execution,
Russia's last Tsar Nicholas II pasted informal snapshots of his family into
an album which has now come to light in a Russian provincial museum
** Google Earth fuelling 'armchair archaeology'
The detail in many of the images is astonishing and allows archaeologists to
investigate sites without leaving the safety of their offices
** Getty Museum buys 'Rembrandt Laughing'
The exact price could be revealed when the Getty applies for an export
license from the British government, which gives museums there a chance to
match the price for an artwork of "outstanding significance" historically or
artistically and keep it in the country
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** 8 Famous People Who Missed the Lusitania
On the day the Lusitania set sail from New York, the German Embassy ran ads
in U.S. newspapers, warning travelers to avoid liners flying the British
flag
** Museum prostituted for populism
The Powerhouse Museum has been prostituted in pursuit of misguided populism,
says one of Australia's leading arts figures
** Mobster With Suspected Links To Boston Museum Heist Gets 30-Month
Sentence
It also was disclosed in court that a government polygraph examiner
concluded there was a 99 percent chance that Gentile, whose arrest record
begins in the late 1950s, was lying last year when he denied having
knowledge of the unsolved Gardner heist
** To Raze or Not? MoMA Rethinks Plan
One person involved in the plans, who was not authorized to comment and
therefore spoke on condition of anonymity, said that MoMA was still likely
to arrive at the same conclusion
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio - Every day, in every way, you're getting better and better. But at
this rate, you won't be good enough for 64 more years
** New Gettysburg exhibit features 8 flags recovered from battlefield
Among the swords, the wrenching letters home and the haunting photographs in
the Museum of the Confederacy's new exhibit on Gettysburg, few artifacts
embody the ferocious battle more than the eight battle flags recovered from
the bloodied fields where Pickett's Charge was fought
** Canada's museums could learn from Greece
In early morning, when dishevelled revellers stumble home after another
all-night bacchanal, the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki is open
** Princess Diana museum to close, contents to go to sons
Diana's brother, Charles Earl Spencer, quoted as saying the museum at the
family estate, Althorp, would close next August and the contents would be
transferred to the custody of her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry
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** 9/11 museum admission fee plan angers some victims' families
Some families of 9/11 victims are outraged over the National September 11
Memorial Museum's decision to charge admission for visitors
** Beijing museum window vandalized
The breaking of a window and damage to an antique clock at the Palace Museum
in Beijing has prompted authorities to speed up the upgrading of security
measures
** XV International Museum Festival INTERMUSEUM
May 31 - June 4, 2013. Russia, Moscow, Central House of Artists
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** 2013 Indian Summer Showcase
The National Museum of the American Indian
** Navigating Freedom: The War of 1812 on the Chesapeake
A new major exhibit entitled "Navigating Freedom: The War of 1812 on the
Chesapeake" opened May 11 at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in
St. Michaels, MD.
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