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week's edition include:
** French war museum in vanguard of push for more foreign tourists
From US soldiers introducing chewing gum to France in 1917 to a toothbrush
from a trench and newfangled machine guns and shells, the carnage of the
first world war has been given a revolutionary treatment in a new French war
museum near Disneyland Paris
** Florida Dali museum fails its patrons
Museums should be cooperating to expand audience and accessibility, not
squabbling in a high-brow tit-for-tat
** Museums are collecting Occupy Wall Street artifacts
Occupy Wall Street may still be working to shake the notion it represents a
passing outburst of rage, but some establishment institutions have already
decided the movement's artifacts are worthy of historic preservation
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** 18th Century 'Giant' Should Be Buried
The skeleton of an 18th-century celebrity nicknamed the 'Irish Giant' should
be removed from a museum and buried at sea in keeping with his last wishes,
two experts have argued, reviving a debate about the ethics of handling
human remains
** Search engine giant Google helps Bletchley Park find funding
The Bletchley Park Trust has moved a step closer to beginning the
restoration of the World War Two codebreaking huts at the Buckinghamshire
site thanks to a £550,000 donation from Google
** Here's a sacrilegious thought: maybe charging for museum entry would be
a good thing
A cheap season ticket to national museums and galleries - a version of the
Art Pass that the National Art Fund offers to visit museums across the
country - might bring income to galleries and ensure that tourists paid
their way
** Henry Ford Museum revamps automobile displays
The suburban Detroit museum founded by auto pioneer Henry Ford is revamping
its automotive displays, offering a fresh look at its rich collection and
showcasing the enormous influence of the automobile on culture and daily
life in the United States
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** Spain's Prado puts rediscovered Bruegel painting on display
Spain's Prado museum has put on display for the first time a canvas painted
by the 16th-century Flemish master Pieter Bruegel the Elder which was
discovered last year
** Israel museum puts Eichmann artifacts on display
Fifty years after Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann was convicted in an
epic trial that helped shape Israel's national psyche, the Israeli
parliament has put on display for the first time dozens of artifacts from
the daring 1960 operation in Argentina that captured the Nazi criminal
** Museum sells grenade-shaped ornaments
Visitors to the Swedish Army museum are questioning whether its hand
grenade-shaped Christmas tree ornaments are in bad taste
** Curses! Secret of ancient imprecation revealed
A fiery ancient curse inscribed on two sides of a thin lead tablet was meant
to afflict, not a king or pharaoh, but a simple greengrocer selling fruits
and vegetables some 1,700 years ago in the city of Antioch
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** European Union proposes world's largest ever cultural funding programme
As the economic crisis deepens across Europe, the European Commission plans
to launch the world's largest ever cultural funding programme, with ?1.8bn
allocated for visual and performing arts, film, music, literature and
architecture
** Plane 'jetnapped' from Dutch museum
The Deelen Airbase Museum near Arnhem is appealing for information after a
1:2 scale model of a F104 Starfighter jet disappeared from its garden
** From paperweights to a 'Colon Crawl,' Chicago's most awkward museum
exhibits
Lurking in their cavernous halls are also some clunkers; holdovers from an
earlier time that have managed to avoid being replaced or retooled
** Big Question for 2012: The Great Pyramid's Secret Doors
After almost two decades of failed attempts, chances are now strong that
researchers will reveal next year what lies behind the secret doors at the
heart of Egypt's most magnificent pyramid
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** Imperial War Museum launches poster app
The app, which is free features 30 posters from the Museum's collection of
over 20,000 and each has details on its designer as well as (rather too
brief) "hidden stories" behind the designs and comment from IWM's curators.
** Rhinos given fake horns
Staff at Bern's Natural History Museum cut off the horns of the six display
animals and put crude wooden ones in their place
** Thieves hit sculptures as metal prices soar
Barbara Hepworth's Two Forms (Divided Circle) joins the lengthening list of
public and private property being lost to an illicit trade that costs the
British economy an estimated pound stg. 700 million ($1.09 billion) a year
** History in the Wells
For years, it was thought that the remains of the historic Fort first
established by English colonists in 1607 had been long washed away into the
James river as the water line gradually shifted and cut its way through the
plot thought to be its location
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** Lacoste accused of attempting to censor 'too pro-Palestinian' art
A Swiss museum which removed a London-based Palestinian photographer from
the shortlist for an international award after it was allegedly asked to do
so by the luxury goods brand Lacoste has dramatically suspended the prize
** Waxwork of King of Spain's son-in-law moved away from royal display
A museum spokesman, who revealed there had been a boost in visitor numbers
since the move, said: 'He's now situated across from the sports gallery.'
** South Australian Museum Awarded $2.7M to Protect World-Class Collections
As part of the Mid Year Budget Review, the Government has allocated $2.7
million to the South Australian Museum, to stop a recurring infestation of
beetles that could threaten its world-class insect collection.
** Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport Festival 2012
Dates and Classes Confirmed for Festival - Weekend 16th & 17th June 2012
** Museums Navigating the Seas of Change: Charting a New Course from the
Gulf Coast
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