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week's edition include:
** Swiss museum withdraws Chinese human foetus artwork after scandal
A Chinese artwork comprising the head of a human foetus sewn to the body of
a seagull has been withdrawn from a museum in Switzerland after causing a
scandal, organisers said
** Lemur named for Field Museum scientist
Small enough to fit in a pocket, a tiny new type of primate has been
discovered in Madagascar - and named in honour of an Indiana Jones-type
Field Museum scientist
** Afghan cliffs the canvas for laser image Buddhas
Artist Hiro Yamagata is planning to commemorate the towering Buddhas by
projecting multicoloured laser images onto the clay cliffsides where the
figures once stood, about 130km west of Kabul
** Security comes at a price for Italian art
Italy could hike prices at culture hotspots like Florence's Uffizi museum
and the Colosseum to pay for new security measures, deterring some of the
hordes of visitors who make the sites potential terrorist targets
** Mayor plans to refurbish Czar's palace
The mayor of Moscow plans to convert the ruins of the Empress Catherine the
Great's summer palace into a major tourist attraction
** American pastor's film of Nanjing Massacre debuts at National Museum
The footage that recorded horrible scenes of Nanjing Massacre shot by
American Reverend John Magee in 1937 debuted at China's National Museum on
Wednesday
** Pay for new leader at museum criticized
The $185,000 salary to be paid to Waukesha County Executive Dan Finley to
take over the top post at the financially ailing Milwaukee Public Museum
became a political lightning rod Monday, with county and union officials
criticizing the pay as too high
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** New Technology Shows Our Ancestors Ate ... Everything
Using a powerful microscope and computer software, a team of scientists from
Johns Hopkins, the University of Arkansas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
and elsewhere has developed a faster and more objective way to examine the
surfaces of fossilized teeth, a practice used to figure out the diets of our
early ancestors
** One Ground Zero museum yanked, another faces review
One museum planned as part of a cultural centre at the World Trade Centre
site will not be moving there and another devoted to freedom will only do so
if it satisfies redevelopment officials, the head of the agency charged with
rebuilding the site said Thursday
** Zoo visitors' loss is science's gain
The Field Museum's Mary Beth Prondzinski wrestled the 500-pound, now-frozen
cat into the back of her 1999 Subaru station wagon, the first step in
Adrienne's afterlife life
** Museum's new exhibit shows Germany-to-U.S. emigration
According to the exhibit, 4 million emigrants left through Germany from 1830
to 1914
** £4m for museum and gallery plans
The biggest beneficiaries this year include the Wedgwood Museum Trust in
Stoke-on-Trent and the Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust in Kent
** Sifting through history
The remains of Fort Yamhill, an Army post in the hills northeast of Grand
Ronde, are carefully being uncovered, studied and prepared for public
viewing
** Pompidou museum planning a satellite site
The Pompidou Centre Metz in eastern France, near the country's borders with
Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium, is due to open in 2008
** VAT refunds for university museums
Universities could soon receive a windfall from the government after
ministers announced that they could reclaim the VAT paid on the cost of
running their museums and galleries
** Ripley Sets Path of Expansion for Guinness Museums
Ripley Entertainment's bold new expansion plans for its Guinness World
Record Museums may end up setting a world's record itself - for the most
museums opened in a very short time!
** A treasure trove of ancient relics and rare paintings
Called the Ayutthaya National Art Museum, it exhibits works by leading
artists nationwide, and according to its creator, was built to preserve Thai
art and culture and serve as a learning and research centre for budding
artists and scholars keen to dig into the history and evolution of Thai art
and craft
** Barbie makes comeback in dedicated museum
Barbie is making a comeback in a small town in Taiwan that used to churn out
the blonde plastic dolls for top US toymaker Mattel nearly 20 years ago
** China's National Museum to hold exhibition on Nanjing Massacre
An exhibition of historical facts on Nanjing Massacre, an atrocity committed
by Japanese intruding troops more than six decades ago, is to open in the
National Museum
** Morbid museum fleshes out history
Alan Hawk, a museum collections manager, turns the key on a big light blue
locker, opens a drawer and reveals some of history's treasures: sections of
bullet-pierced vertebrae from both President James Garfield and Lincoln
assassin John Wilkes Booth
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** Archaeology and Education 2005
** ICOM-CC 14th Triennial Meeting 'Our Cultural Past - Your Future!'
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