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week's edition include:
** Museums Fear Lean Days Ahead
Across the country directors are bracing for the effects of an economic
crisis that could change everything from the size and kinds of exhibitions a
museum presents to the acquisitions it could afford and the merchandise it
should offer in its shops
** Scientific studies exclude mould damage to Da Vinci's codex
Fears that mould has infiltrated Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus, the
largest collection of drawings and writings by the Renaissance master, are
groundless officials have said
** Churchill's tender letter to Clementine
Out of government but still anxious to serve his country, he volunteered for
the Western Front and - like millions of others going to war - he wrote a
letter to be opened in the event of his death
** Exhibit has visitors warming to climate care
The American Museum of Natural History is trying to help viewers understand
what people have done to cause global warming, what impact it is having on
the planet, and what people can do to fix it
** Textile Experts Say Lincoln's Coat Shouldn't See Light of Day
Some textile conservators are worried that the hallowed garment might be too
fragile to return to full-time display when the theatre reopens in February,
and instead ought to be sheltered for the good of posterity
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** Crown among treasures at 'Kabul' exhibition
She went to her grave with it on, a woman adorned with a golden crown that
could do what no regal ornament in Europe was capable of: disconnect into
separate pieces that were easy to transport and reassemble on a moment's
notice
** Chinese Director to shoot film in the Louvre
The museum's 3,000 staff are required to cooperate with the shooting and
they are expected to help the filmmakers in case they get lost in the museum
** A Load Of Old Elephant
Two treasured elephant teeth have now been returned to Davis, after media
reports about what appeared to be an unusual fossil find on the beach
** A Pulitzer prize for Harvard museum: $45m and 31 major works of art
Fifty years ago, when Emily Rauh Pulitzer worked as an assistant art curator
at Harvard University, she knew the buildings housing the university's vast
art collection needed renovation
** Man charged with stealing Civil War-era artefacts from museum
A sword and an Army uniform dress jacket were missing from the museum a man
showed up that day and asked for water for his overheated car
** Beirut museum to recall horrors of civil war
The sandbags, sniper slits and pockmarked facade of a Beirut house stand as
a chilling reminder of Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war
** Bandung's Geology Museum houses bones and more
The Bandung Geology Museum was established in 1929, under Dutch leadership,
and from the get go was intended to be a place of research and learning
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** Study Finds No Logical Reason Why Planes Fly
According to a recent study conducted by a team of physicists at Stanford
University, there is no logical explanation why airplanes are able to fly
through the air
** Why the plans for the new Theatre Museum worry me
Although it hurts me to say this, given the passion and integrity of its
administrators, it's hard to imagine that the new Theatre Museum could make
a worse job of things than the doomed enterprise it seeks to replace
** Museum's funds in Icelandic bank
A museum in Greater Manchester has revealed that it had placed £900,000 of
its savings in a failed Icelandic bank
** The world's largest insect discovered
No living examples of the creature have ever been seen, but they are thought
to live in the tops of giant rain forest trees on the island of Borneo
** Found: Tomb of the general who inspired 'Gladiator'
Concerning the true Marcus Nonius Macrinus, we know plenty about his
military career with more than ten inscriptions have been found recording
his triumphs, the fullest one to date being from Ephesus and in the Greek
language - but tantalisingly little about what made him tick
** Drunken Students Have Field Day
Sue, Chicago's iconic T. rex, likely saw some pretty wild stuff 67 million
years ago, but a North-western University grad school party at her Field
Museum home was a real fright, too
** Volunteers in Heritage Learning
Thursday 30 October 2008, British Museum, London
** Washington DC History Conference
You are cordially invited to the 35th Annual Conference on Washington, D.C.,
Historical Studies
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