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week's edition include:
** Idaho museum unveils 16,000-year-old tools
Idaho Museum of Natural History is displaying some of the nation's oldest
archaeological discoveries - ancient tools found in south-eastern Idaho in
2006
** Antiquities dealer has colourful, checkered career
Leonardo Patterson made his first archaeological find at age 7 in a yam
field in his native Costa Rica - a piece of clay pottery his cousin said
could be thousands of years old
** A museum of one's own
The world's greatest museums - the Louvre, Hermitage, Prado - began as
lavish civilisation-is-power statements by monarchs and emperors; private
individuals did not emerge as significant museum patrons before the 19th
century
** Roman invasion beach found in Kent
Excavations at Richborough in east Kent have uncovered the original beach -
now two and a half miles from the sea - where the Roman legions started
their conquest of Britain almost 2,000 years ago
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** Museum steals scary woolly mammoth's thunder
The museum has silenced the exhibit's soundtrack after complaints from
parents that the thunder frightened children and, says the museum's Janet
MacDonald, climate research shows thunderstorms were not the typical
environmental sound for real-life woolly mammoths during the Pleistocene
Era, 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago
** Visit China's Forbidden City - as a virtual eunuch
Culture fans thousands of miles from Beijing can now visit its famous
Forbidden City, through a three dimensional recreation of the vast palace
that also allows them to dress up as an imperial eunuch and meet a courtesan
** Underground art - The colourful past of the Tube
The London Transport Museum in Covent Garden is marking a centenary of such
graphic designs by exhibiting original artworks that have graced the
capital's tube platforms
** 5 police held in deadly clash at Mexican ruins
Five state police officers were arrested in southern Mexico on Sunday in
connection with a deadly raid to dislodge protesters from a Mayan
archaeological site
** Financial markets may be melting, the Georgian conflict may have sent
geopolitics sliding toward a new ice age and the Russian stock market may be
buffeted by gale-force fears, but Moscow's billionaire-backed contemporary
art scene so far is riding out the storm
** The world's strangest museums
Bunnies, bad art, and Burt Reynolds - a showcase of the quirkiest passions
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** The Onion's Historical Archive of 1783
In late 1783, change was sweeping the Western world; The Revolutionary War
had drawn to a close, the Treaty of Paris had been signed, Mozart's Great
Mass was performed for the first time, and, with the Montgolfier brothers'
balloon, mankind was poised on the threshold of flight
** Wanted: culture czar to dust off Italy's museums
As museum jobs go, it's a whopper: Italy seeks a chief curator to run all
the museums in a country that boasts more masterpieces and archaeological
treasures than anywhere in the world, but fails to exploit them properly
** Britain's first gay museum
There is hardly a minority interest that isn't celebrated in a museum;
everything from teapots to Elvis Presley gets the curatorial treatment
** The Tate Britain museum buys rare Rubens sketch
The Tate, with help from several art and heritage foundations, paid $9.9
million for the sketched version of Rubens' larger painting "The Apotheosis
of James I" - which depicts King James I being carried to heaven
** The Non-Profit Sector
Kathleen Yazbak, Managing Director at retained search firm Bridgestar,
shares her observations and thoughts with BlueSteps on the current
developments impacting on the non-profit sector
** Classic Willows story turns 100
A museum in Oxfordshire wants to see how the characters would cope with 21st
century living
** Nevada museum faces closure due to budget crunch
After undergoing recent renovations a Nevada museum faces closure due to
state budget crunch
** Paleontology for Educators Workshop
The Paleontology for Educators Workshop will provide teachers with a
museum-based, hands-on introduction to paleontology, the study of past life.
** Museums in Conversation: Fresh Perspectives for New York State Museums
Call for Participation - March 29-31, 2009 at the Doubletree Hotel in
Tarrytown, NY
** Defining Museum Ethics
The Institute of Museum Ethics is holding its inaugural conference, Defining
Museum Ethics, on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at Seton Hall University
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