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week's edition include:
** London museum says it will show a lost Leonardo
An oil painting recently authenticated as the work of Leonardo da Vinci will
be on display at the National Gallery in the fall as part of a larger
exhibition on the Renaissance artist
** Earliest Europeans Were Cannibals, Wore Bling
The scientists made those assessments after studying human remains and
artifacts discovered at a shelter-cave site called Buran-Kaya III in the
Ukraine
** A corpse flower by any other name
The Houston Museum of Natural Science had an unexpected sensation about a
year ago with its suspenseful blooming of a corpse flower, and now it's
ready for the sequel
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** Roman Frontier Gallery tells tales from Cumbria's origins
In fact, in enterprises with obvious parallels to the oil-chasers of today,
the Romans came to Carlisle in pursuit of silver, and their armies were
eye-wateringly expensive to maintain - a tentload of Romans required dozens
of goats and thousands of kilograms of grain to sustain themselves on
brownfield sites, let alone financial backing from an empire which stationed
55,000 troops in Britain
** Tourists trapped gaping at sculpture
According to local press, the two pensioners became trapped in the quicksand
while photographing the 100 cast iron, life-size figures dotted across three
kilometres of the foreshore
** Museum of Liverpool to be opened by Finn O'Hare, 6
A six-year-old boy has been chosen to officially open The Museum of
Liverpool after he wrote to its management asking to be able to carry out
the honour
** Qatar revealed as the world's biggest contemporary art buyer
Working through a number of advisors, as well as buying directly from
dealers and at auction, Qatar is reliably believed to be building up a
top-class collection of modern and contemporary art
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** Family ties doubted in Stone Age farmers
Blood may not always be thicker than water, if a controversial finding from
one of the world's best-preserved Stone Age settlements is to be believed
** One Man's Trash: George Washington's Priceless Refuse
For George Washington, the first U.S. President and Revolutionary War hero,
a broken chinese porcelain plate or teacup from his dining table or kitchen
would go immediately and directly into his trash pit on the grounds just
outside his mansion home, buried and forever forgotten
** Archaeological survey of 2 Civil War shipwrecks
Using state-of-the-art sonar technology to acquire data, researchers will
create three-dimensional maps of the two shipwrecks, USS Cumberland and CSS
Florida, to analysis on their current conditions and better understand the
technological innovations of the time
** New Alma museum offers medieval collection
Visitors are first greeted by one of Schlosstein's favorite pieces, a sword
used in the Crusades that he purchased from a fellow collector in the early
'80s
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** Manhattan Wine Steward Accused Of Picasso Theft
The brazen thief who walked out of a San Francisco art gallery with a
$250,000 Picasso under his arm turned out to be a former wine steward and
waiter at high-end Manhattan restaurants
** Lawmakers propose immigration museum on National Mall
The Museum of the American People would bring together all the stories of
the ethnicities that make up the fabric of our society, precluding the need
for more and more individual museums representing one particular ethnicity
or culture
** 10 great space-related sites
With the final Space Shuttle launch today, space fans are facing cosmic
withdrawal; never fear, an array of museums and historic sites can keep the
high-flying spirit alive, says Shuttle astronaut Thomas D. Jones , who has
spent 53 days living in space
** A Day At The Museum
"Okay, remember kids, this is a museum filled with very expensive items. You
absolutely may not touch anything. The guards will arrest you and put you to
work cleaning the toilets for a month."
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** Money talks
If we also consider the fanfare over the new rooms devoted to contemporary
art (the disadvantages of losing storage space within the building appear to
have been overlooked), the pattern seems obvious: the AGNSW appears to be
reorienting itself towards the contemporary field, to be turning itself into
a pseudo-Museum of Contemporary Art
** Glittering Bounty
Eighteen-foot-long gold necklaces, 1,360 kilos of gold coins of the 17th and
18th centuries, scores of diamond-studded plates, rubies, emeralds, 50
diamonds of the Napoleonic era, a 42-inch-long diamond-studded idol of Lord
Vishnu, diamonds from Belgium, Sri Lanka and Burma... the list of the
contents of the secret chambers of the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple in
Thiruvananthapuram just doesn't seem to end. Best preserved in a museum
** First-aid kit in shipwreck reveals millennia-old practices
Institute first-aid kit found on a 2000-year-old shipwreck has provided a
remarkable insight into the medicines concocted by ancient physicians to
cure sailors of dysentery and other ailments
** Tech Museum gets hacked
The thief captured museum members' names, email addresses, home addresses
and phone numbers and posted them to Twitter on Friday before the
information was taken down
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** Mother of all Polar Bears: An Irish Brown Bear?
Despite being so different, the two seem to have found love: Meeting and
breeding at least once during the last 120,000 years, the two species gave
rise to the polar bears we know today
** Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial Record
The faint, 123-year-old recording - etched into a warped metal cylinder and
brought back to life after decades of silence by a three-dimensional (3D)
optical scanning technique - appears to belong to the first record intended
for sale to the public
** Copying, Replicating & Emulating Paintings in the 15th-18th Century
This is a Call for Papers for the two-day technical art history conference
held at the National Gallery of Denmark on 21-22 May 2012.
** Money Museums Communicating with the Public
The early registration deadline for the XVIII ICOMON meeting in Nicosia
10-13 October 2011 is on 30 July 2011.
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