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week's edition include:
** Five masterpieces stolen from Paris museum could have been crushed in
rubbish truck
Five world-famous paintings including ones by Picasso and Matisse worth up
to £400million were crushed in a rubbish truck after being stolen, it has
been claimed
** A Shocking Rivalry
To further demonstrate the lethal nature of alternating current, Edison held
a widely attended spectacle in Coney Island, New York, where a circus
elephant named Topsy was to be executed after she was deemed to be too
dangerous to be around people
** Stolen Picassos recovered in Serbia
The works, Tête de cheval (Head of horse), created by Picasso in 1962 and
Verre et pichet (Glass and pitcher), painted in 1944, were stolen from an
exhibition in the small town of Pfaeffikon, near Zurich, in February 2008
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** Prehistoric dog found with Mammoth bone in its mouth - man's best friend
even then?
The remains of three prehistoric dogs have been unearthed by
paleontologists, including one with the bone from a mammoth in its mouth
** German Artisans Lay Claim to a Mysterious Tradition
Respected institutions, like the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural
History in Washington and the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, purchased the
skulls from dubious dealers and displayed them in their collections
** Turkish tourism drive threatens ancient sites
The recent decision to transfer the excavation permits from three well-known
classical sites from non-Turkish to Turkish universities - a practice almost
unheard of in the protocol-laden world of archaeology - is a cracking of the
whip over foreign scholars regarded as not working fast enough to transform
the country's extensive array of antiquities into tourist attractions
** Oldest underground train in Britain to return to London Transport Museum
The Metropolitan Railway Carriage Number 353, built in 1892 as one of 59
carriages for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee five years beforehand, rattled
along the track now known as the Jubilee Line until it was withdrawn when
the Metropolitan Railway was electrified in 1905
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** Strike threatens Leonardo exhibition at National Gallery
Under pressure from government cuts, the gallery has instructed its
warders - now called "gallery assistants" - to each watch over two rooms
rather than one, as previously
** Two new museums for India
India's sub-standard state museum infrastructure is set to be enhanced by
plans for a new museum in Bihar, east India, scheduled to open in 2015
** Tar Shrank Heads of Prehistoric Californians Over Time?
A long-term health decline - including a gradual shrinking - among
prehistoric Indians in California may be linked to their everyday use of
tar, which served as "superglue," waterproofing, and even chewing gum,
scientists say
** The world's best secret art galleries
The experience is so intimate because there's no one in the museum: you go
to Giornico, the next door village, to pick up the key from a café
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** Kauri in gallery upsets conservationists
Conservationists are outraged by Auckland Council featuring the native
timber kauri in the new $121 million Auckland Art Gallery building project
** Taiwan launches national museum expansion
Taiwan's top museum, which houses one of the world's largest Chinese
imperial art collections, has launched an expansion plan similar to France's
Grand Louvre project
** Police, protesters clash at National Air and Space Museum
Authorities shut down Washington's popular National Air and Space Museum on
Saturday afternoon after antiwar protesters tried to enter the building and
clashed with guards
** What the new movie museum could mean for LACMA
Many are already calling plans for a new movie museum run by the Motion
Picture Academy in the old May Co. building on the LACMA campus a win-win
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** Schwarzenegger unveils statue of himself at museum in Austria
It includes several items that mark significant moments in the actor-turned
politician's life, including his first barbell, life-size "Terminator"
models and his polished wood governor's desk
** Jerusalem Museum of Tolerance architects threaten to quit
Bracha and Michael Chyutin, the two architects, charged that the Los
Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, sponsor and funder of the $100
million project, "drove the architects crazy
** Rest in peace of art?
Russia is astounded by two coffins made by an African craftsman which are
traveling from a museum in Siberia to a Moscow exhibition
** Ancient cannon found in Russian museum believed to be one of Japan's
oldest weapons
An ancient cannon on display at Russia's Military-Historical Museum of
Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps in St. Petersburg is presumed to have
belonged to a 16th Century Japanese feudal lord, and be one of Japan's
oldest weapons
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** The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
The objects he has selected from the British Museum's collection are
significant enough already, even when their original purpose and meaning is
obscure - and even when they are as formally beautiful as the Boli figure, a
great bovine clay and mud creature from Mali, or as spare and complex as the
criss-crossed canes of a sailing chart for the Marshall Islands in the
middle of the Pacific
** Smithsonian Inspector General finds substandard storage conditions at
American History museum
The storage conditions at the 44-year-old National Museum of American
History (NMAH) and its offsite facilities are outdated, crowded and
generally substandard, leaving some collections in jeopardy, according to a
new report by the Smithsonian Inspector General
** The Music of Angels
Concert for lute with eleven registers by Franco Pavan
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