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edition include:
** 60 Queens over 60 years
A striking photograph of the
Queen with her eyes closed has been converted to a hologram to be projected
on to art gallery walls ** Vancouver museum pulls portrait exhibition of
missing and murdered women
Citing "serious concerns" and fears of causing
"further distress," the Museum of Anthropology has cancelled an exhibition
of paintings of missing and murdered women ** Art and science unite in
stem cell exhibit
The use of embryonic stem cells in regenerative medicine
and therapeutic cloning has generated a maelstrom of public debate, but a
new exhibit at Calgary's Glenbow Museum allows the public to view the issue
with a cool artistic
eye
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£5 million pledged to new museum in Dundee
The Scottish Government
yesterday pledged almost £5 million in funding to kick-start the ambitious
plans to build an iconic outpost of the world famous V&A Museum on Dundee's
waterfront ** From the Abacus to the IPod
The Computer History Museum
this week opens a $19 million, 25,000-square-foot building expansion and
signature exhibition titled: " Revolution: The First 2000 Years of
Computing" ** Mona Lisa enigma lies in her eyes
Silvano Vinceti claims he
has found the letter S in the woman's left eye, the letter L in her right
eye, and the number 72 under the arched bridge in the backdrop of Leonardo
da Vinci's famous painting ** Archaeologists uncork oldest wine press
discovery
Archaeologists have found evidence of wine-making throughout the
ancient world, but the 4,000 BC carbon dating at the site appears the
oldest yet for confirmed wine
vessels
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Archives cast a shadow over revered state museum director
Research
presented in Berlin for the first time at the end of last year has
tarnished the reputation of Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), the former
director general of the Kaiser Friedrich-Museum, now called the Bode Museum
** Elusive Forger, Giving but Never Stealing
He has been one of the most
prolific forgers American museums have encountered in years, writing,
calling and presenting himself at their doors, where he tells
well-concocted stories about his family's collection and donates small,
expertly faked works, sometimes in honor of nonexistent relatives ** New
Florida museum has largest Dali collection outside Spain
Some of Salvador
Dali's most famous paintings have a new home in Florida with the opening of
a $36 million museum designed to reflect the Spanish painter's surreal
style ** Tower of London calls in scientists to investigate mysterious
Medieval wall painting
The Tower of London has allowed scientists to use
eye-scanning software and infrared laser technology on a mystery Medieval
wall painting which has baffled curators at the royal
landmark
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Garibaldi is Larger Than Life
The exhibit explores the legacy of Italy's
most famous and beloved general, the man who, more than any other, was
responsible for the Italy we know today ** After the Hudson, Finding a
Home at an Aviation Museum
After all 155 of its passengers and crew members
were rescued, the plane was fished out of the water and hauled to a
warehouse in Kearny, N.J ** Beirut Cathedral Museum Reveals Layers of
Christian History
The museum is a crypt underneath the cathedral where oil
lamps, pipes, clay and terra cotta pots, miniature statues, and crosses
found in various digs are displayed ** Billionaire Unveils Design Of
Downtown LA Museum
Billionaire Eli Broad has unveiled plans for the
porous-concrete-shelled structure that will be the future downtown home of
his 2,000-piece art collection and a hoped-for catalyst for the
continuation of the city center's halting renaissance
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Museum looks back on chilly history
Delaware's long-past generations didn't
get ice cubes out of freezers: instead, they used ice harvested in blocks,
mainly from frozen ponds ** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius - You'll be
bitten by a vampire and become one of the Immortal Sanguinary Children of
the Night just when the whole fad is about to blow over ** Ukrainians
object to rights museum plans
A Ukrainian association is claiming the
current plans for the Canadian Museum of Human Rights elevates some cases
of human suffering above others ** Everyone digs in as archaeologists
uncover a wealth of history
What they uncovered surprised and delighted
heritage experts - a trove of more than a thousand gold rush artefacts,
many once belonging to members of Ballarat's mid-19th century Chinese
community
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Brown Museum in duel over Civil War-era sword
A Civil War-era valuable
ceremonial sword missing from a Brown University museum for more than 30
years has been located in Virginia, and the university has gone to federal
court to get it back ** Yu Kai's Cantonese Opera Collection
Highlights
from Yu Kai's Donation - Function Place,Hong Kong Heritage Museum ** The
Walton War and Ellicott's Rock
What happens when a property boundary is not
clearly defined between two neighbors? ** Groundbreaking Online Archive
of the Collection of President John F. Kennedy
To help mark the 50th
anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy David S.
Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, and Caroline Kennedy, President
of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, have unveiled the nation's
largest online digitized presidential archives
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