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week's edition include:
** Museum Experience may be History
The museum has been accredited since 1972, but it stands to lose its
accreditation this fall because of a lack of staff to look over the
thousands and thousands of historical artefacts
** Italian Police Arrest 52 People in `Tomb Raider' Smuggling Case
More than 300 carabinieri of the finance police and paramilitary art squad
searched suspects' homes in eight Italian provinces early today and found
smuggled goods of considerable worth
** Portuguese museum proves donated painting is Gauguin original
The authenticity of the charcoal painting, which is believed to represent
the French master's first son, was confirmed by a specialist from the
d'Orsay museum in Paris
** Abu Dhabi commissions world's top architects for museum design
The commissioned designs are for iconic museums and a performing arts centre
which will position the UAE capital's Saadiyat Island, that lies just
offshore the emirate, as a world-class cultural destination
** Hobbit human is a new species
The tiny skeletal remains of human "Hobbits" found on an Indonesian island
belong to a completely new branch of our family tree, a study has found
** Abu Ghraib's horrific images drove artist Fernando Botero into action
His New York gallery, which presented the Abu Ghraib work for the first time
in the United States, received some hate mail for its trouble, some visitors
evidently perceiving the work as anti-American
** Seattle sculpture park draws 40,000 visitors in first week
Despite signs asking visitors not to touch the artwork - greasy hands can
leave marks - the museum's chief conservator has had to power-wash
handprints and scuff marks off some of the sculptures
** Stolen picture returned to Russian museum
The picture was handed over to the Communist party by someone who said he
knew he could trust it not to keep or resell the painting
** Hundreds of historic items damaged at Royal Oak museum
A steam pipe burst and soaked hundreds of archives and artefacts at the
Royal Oak Historical Society Museum
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** Letters written by Anne Frank's father discovered
The company is demanding the artworks, which the museum has had since its
founding, on the basis of a new law stipulating that property whose owners
perished in the Holocaust must be transferred to it
** Joe Louis's gloves go the final round
For the next 45 years until his death in October 1981, Cuzzens, a man who
made a fortune in the numbers racket in Detroit, kept the Brown Bomber's
gloves under safekeeping
** Meet the queen of terror
As well as the old favourites, the special exhibition at the Museum of
Science and Industry will also feature the first public appearance of the
Queen of Racnoss, a four-metre-high spider woman
** Auschwitz curator tries to preserve camp
Most sensitive, perhaps, is what to do about the remains of gas chambers
which are slowly sinking into the ground, the result of weather, erosion and
gravity
** China accuses Taiwan museum of trashing tradition
Taipei's National Palace Museum houses 654,500 art works and artefacts
shipped in 2,972 crates from the mainland after 1948 when Nationalist forces
fled to Taiwan from advancing Communists
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** Normandy grave hints at 300-year defiance of the Roman Empire
A macabre 1,700-year-old mass grave of people and horses, discovered in
Normandy, poses perplexing new questions about the Roman conquest of France
** Railroad car revives memories of Nazi horror
On the side of the rusted, hulking relic, faintly stencilled in black and
grasped in the talons of a rampant eagle, is the 20th century's unmistakable
insignia of evil: a Nazi swastika
** Olmec-influenced city found in Mexico
A 2,500-year-old city influenced by the Olmecs, often referred to as the
"mother culture" of Mesoamerica, has been discovered hundreds of miles away
from the Olmecs' Gulf coast territory
** Portugal to open major modern art museum
Portugal will open a major modern art museum later this year, giving the
public its first ever chance to view a collection of major 20th-century
artists belonging to one of the nation's richest men
** Closure threat to Morris museum
Treasures from the Arts and Crafts movement worth millions of pounds,
including Morris's original sketches for the acanthus-leaf wallpaper, a
design classic, and his woodpecker tapestry, will be lost to the public and
potentially put up for sale, along with bronzes by Auguste Rodin and work by
pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
** Stayin' Alive - The 23rd Annual Small Museum Association Conference
** Workshops offered in the Spanish language
** ICOM-CC - The Conservation Committee of the International Council of
Museums (ICOM-CC) is now calling for abstracts of papers and posters to
contribute to its Triennial Meeting
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