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week's edition include:
** American Tourist Snaps Finger Off 600-Year-Old Statue in Florence Museum
No, the tourist wasn't drunk, being belligerent, in a brawl, dangling from
the statue wearing nothing but his skivvies or whatever other wild imagery
your brain might conjure
** Art Everywhere turns UK's streets into world's largest art show
From a Bacon on a bus to a Hockney on your hackney, the world's largest art
show has been launched - not at an esteemed gallery, but at a shopping
centre
** Did Vincent van Gogh commit suicide or was Dutch painter killed by an
acquaintance?
The mystery surrounding Vincent van Gogh's death has taken another twist
after two experts disputed a recent biography that suggested he did not
commit suicide but instead was killed by an acquaintance
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** Ancient ship to set sail again to Egypt
A ship that served both for trade and as a warship in the ancient city of
Phaselis in the southern province of Antalya will be reconstructed by
Akdeniz University's Mediterranean Research Institute
** The Memories Museum of Dr. Mohammed al-Khatib
In the midst of one of the many cramped and crowded alleyways of Beirut's
Shatila refugee camp, close to qa'at al-sha'ab, or the people's hall, is a
brown metal door leading to a ground-floor apartment
** Museum's 'Orgasms Can Kill Pain' Ad Spices Up Exhibit
The Science World museum in Vancouver got hot and heavy in an ad for its
"Science of Sexuality" show, which explores sexual development while aiming
to put sexuality in a positive light
** 500-Year-Old Easter Egg Discovered In Ukraine
According to the country's national wire service Interfax-Ukraine, the egg
was discovered in part of a drainage system in the rich historical and
cultural city of Lviv, located around 30 miles from the Poland-Ukraine
border
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** Discover secrets of Bigfoot, Loch Ness in the only cryptozoology museum
in the world
When Coleman moved his International Cryptozoology Museum - a collection of
footprint casts, full-scale models, toys, art, photos and taxidermy, mostly
of animals not yet proven to exist, from his home to the downtown four years
ago, he wasn't sure what to expect for business
** Huge National Art Museum of China still not approved
With Hong Kong's M+ Museum due to open in 2017, it was widely believed the
city would enter an intense rivalry with Beijing as a new centre for art and
culture in Asia
** Grassroots Bomber Command Museum of Canada Continues to Grow
Starting with one derelict plane, an Avro Lancaster bomber that the town got
together to restore, the popularity of the plane and the subsequent
additions to the museum's collection have brought the museum to bursting at
the seams yet again
** Museum Tortures With Screechy Stylus, LED Frame
It's hard enough to tune out the pervasive chatter, noisy restaurants and
toddler tantrums at the congested Museum of Modern Art - New York City's
Mall of America - while you are looking at Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie
Woogie"
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** Warhol Museum Installs Webcam at Andy Warhol's Grave
Shortly after dawn Tuesday, the live video showed a star-shaped silver
balloon and two smaller black-and-white balloons swaying gently in the
breeze, next to a headstone surrounded by flowers and some decorative
grasses
** Bus over the edge - The coolest 'museum' in the world, bar none
Hardly the kind of institution that would normally be called a museum, City
Museum presents visitors with a cacophony of exciting choices: tunnels to
climb through, 10-story slides to shoot down, a chance to sit on the world's
largest pencil, and so much more
** 9 Other Times Museum Patrons Mangled Works of Art
Museums occasionally rake in some extra cash by hosting private events, and
in 2006 the Milwaukee Art Museum opened its doors for a Clear Channel
shindig that must have sounded reasonable at the time
** Historic Garment District Museum displays vintage fashions
In its so-called glory days after World War I, the district, located between
Sixth and 11th and Washington and Wyandotte, bustled as one of the country's
biggest manufacturing and distribution centers for women's, men's and
children's clothing
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** Korean Record Label Opening a K-Pop Museum in Koreatown
SM Entertainment, the Korean juggernaut record label/talent
agency/pop-group-creator/etc., is opening a Korean pop culture museum in
Koreatown
** Selling Detroit museum art to pay civic debt is dumb
In a bizarre letter to the New York Times this week, retired museum director
Frank Robinson mischaracterized the problem being faced by the Detroit
Institute of Arts in the Michigan city's ongoing bankruptcy drama
** Decoding Mona Lisa: Have archaeologists found the face behind the smile?
Last year, Mr. Vinceti's team dug up crypts under the basement of the
convent believed to be Lisa del Giocondo's final resting place
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus - Remember: The sum of the pleasure of any two sides of a right-angle
love triangle is equal to the underlying jealousy of the hypotenuse
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** NRA opens Midwest museum showing nearly 1,000 firearms
The National Rifle Association has opened an elaborate museum in the
American Midwest, displaying nearly 1,000 firearms, including those used by
French Emperor Napoleon and Hollywood cowboy star John Wayne, along with
subtle reminders of the campaign for the right to gun ownership
** The ancient 'halls of the dead' that are 1,000 years older than
Stonehenge
The two earth long barrows were uncovered on top of Dorstone Hill in
Herefordshire and are thought to date to about 3,800BC, almost 1,000 years
before the famous stone circle in Wiltshire was built
** British Museum identifies stolen Egyptian artifact up for auction
Museum researchers say they spotted the ancient Egyptian objects, allegedly
looted from Egypt, in the latest catalogue listing antiquities for sale by
Christie's Auction House
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