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** Cash-strapped councils clear out their
collections
The Museums Association, which provides advice to local
authorities on museum collections, has said it has recently been approached
by at least one other council about a major art disposal, prompting fears
that other councils may soon dispose of key works ** The Captain Kidd
Story
The central narrative follows the life of Captain Kidd, a Scottish
sailor who drifted from the navy through state-sponsored privateering to
outright piracy during a short and fairly miserable career that ended with
him swinging from a rope in front of a mocking crowd at Execution Dock,
Wapping in 1701 ** French National Museums Are Turning Into Businesses,
Curators Complain
Notwithstanding public servants' pledge of professional
reserve, curators have for the first time decided to speak out: they have
just published a blueprint in which they denounce the negative effects of
having to sell products, as a result of cuts in public funding, and declare
that they are "confronted with the same problems that plague hospitals and
universities."
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** From The Blogs - Field Museum Sends Team To Save Rainforest
After we
passed the Cordillera, we flew over an immense green carpet of lowland
rainforest, interrupted only by the occasional flight of a King Vulture
down below, or colorful flocks of Blue-and-yellow Macaws who prefer the
enormous Mauritia palm swamps ** Museum crushed ancient plate
A precious
piece of Song Dynasty porcelain was damaged during "nondestructive" testing
by a research staff member, the Forbidden City authorities confirmed on
Sunday, a day after a Web user had already leaked the information online
** Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden Reveals Secret about Souvenirs
They
secretly carried nearly 400 first day covers into space and made a deal
with a German stamp collector to sell 100 of them and use the proceeds to
set up trust funds for their children ** HMS Belfast adds thrilling Gun
Turret Experience
Gun Turret Experience: A Sailor's Story 1943 uses lights,
imagery, sound, movement and smoke effects to recreate the atmosphere and
conditions as they were experienced by a wartime gun crew in action
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Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on Sept 11
Besides ending nearly
3,000 lives, destroying planes and reducing buildings to tons of rubble and
ash, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed tens of thousands of records,
irreplaceable historical documents and art ** Qld Museum won't reveal
whereabouts of prized German Mephisto tank
The Queensland Museum's most
valued possession, the captured tank Mephisto, is again shrouded in secrecy
after being whisked away to an undisclosed location for flood restoration
work ** Schwarzenegger museum opens in Vienna
The world's first museum
dedicated to former "Governator" and Mister Universe Arnold Schwarzenegger
opened its doors Saturday in his birthplace of Thal in southern Austria
** Met Museum to send 19 artifacts to Egypt
Nineteen artifacts taken from
the tomb of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun will be returned to Egypt
next week after more than half a century at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York
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Hanoi museum to display thousand-year-old jades
According to Dr. Nguyen
Dinh Chien, the museum's assistant director, the items were part of
collection owned by the Louis Finot Museum before 1954 ** Rare aircraft
parts go up in smoke
Evergreen Museum curator Stewart Bailey pretty much
knew every spare part, rocket replica, gun mount and helicopter miscellany
that was destroyed when a spectacular fire tore through a large storage
building here ** Ogdensburg museum burglary nets gold worth $400,000
The
20 stolen gold pieces were representative of gold as extracted from
specific mines in areas around the world from Australia to California **
Museum Shows History and Power of Wind Energy
Dozens of old, clanking
windmills occupy the grounds of a small, breezy hilltop, irrigating the
grass, while a 165-foot-tall modern turbine, made by the Danish company
Vestas, towers in the background and supplies the museum's electricity
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This Week's Horosopes
Aquarius - Please try to keep in mind that high
summer temperatures do not indicate the end of the world. The magma flowing
up from the cracks in the earth, however, bear thinking about ** MoMA
Raises Admission to $25, Paid Director $1.6 Million in 2009, Down 14%
Both
Futter and Campbell earned what amounts to 20 cents per visitor in
2009-2010, while Lowry earned more than 50 cents for every attendee **
Burglars hunt down rhinos in museums
The museum had never been robbed until
the July heist, when it became the latest of a rising number of science
museums in Europe targeted by thieves for rhino horns, which can fetch tens
of thousands of euros on the black market ** Museum uses Lincoln's
wrestling past for WWE giveaway
Springfield's favorite son, whose skill as
a wrestler has been recognized by induction into the National Wrestling
Hall of Fame's Hall of Outstanding Americans, may never have donned sequins
or worn his stovepipe hat into the squared circle, but the museum that
bears his name is promoting itself with a pro wrestling ticket giveaway
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Mengele's handwritten manuscripts to be sold
The archive is composed of
over 3,300 pages of handwritten text, some illustrated, largely in bound
journals, written while Mengele was in hiding in Paraguay and Brazil
between 1960 and 1975 ** The Theft That Made The 'Mona Lisa' A
Masterpiece
If you were standing outside the Louvre in Paris on the morning
of Aug. 21, 1911, you might have noticed three men hurrying out of the
museum ** The Museum Professional Network: Careers, Connections and
Community
ICTOP Annual Conference. Toronto Oct. 24-26 2011 ** Nawi -
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