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week's edition include:
** German museum admits showing faking Terracotta Warriors
Art dealer Roland Freyer has lodged a complaint with the police over the
Hamburg exhibition after Chinese authorities assured him that the warriors
on display there could only be fakes
** Ancient polar bear jawbone found
The find is a surprise because polar bears are a relatively new species,
with one study claiming they evolved less than 100,000 years ago
** Polish PM Calls for World War II Museum
Poland's new prime minister thinks that the Baltic port city of Gdansk is
the perfect location for a museum commemorating the war and its consequences
** Hirst donates pickled cow to Tate gallery
Multi-millionaire artist Damien Hirst says he is donating four major works
to the Tate Gallery, including a sliced and pickled cow and calf
** Museum on eunuchs to re-open in Beijing
Once opened, the museum will definitely evoke the kind of curiosity that the
Ancient Chinese Sex Culture Museum in Jiangsu in eastern China has been
generating since 1996
** Few understand real reason behind rebellion
To next month's traditional Australia Day fare of cricket on the beach,
ferry-racing on the harbour and citizenship ceremonies in parks has been
added a new attraction: humiliation of a NSW governor on the forecourt of
Government House
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** Roman ruins cast new light on a trip to doctor
An ancient doctor's surgery unearthed by Italian archaeologists has cast new
light on what a trip to the doctor would have been like in Roman times
** Edward Steichen's colour vision
In 1907, when the autochrome process was first marketed, Edward Steichen was
a restless 28-year-old out to prove that photos had the same aesthetic power
as paintings
** Non-profits ignore new money, says fundraiser
Fresh from a world tour of zoos, museums and art galleries, investigating
fundraising activities, Shanthini Naidoo said that while Australia appeared
to be advanced in the art of raising funds to support institutions, it
lacked the sophistication of markets such as the US and Britain, where
museums, art galleries and zoos held the hands of the philanthropists
** Polish woman is the millionth visitor to the Vasa Museum
For the first time since the Vasa was salvaged, the Vasa Museum has received
over a million visitors in one calendar year
** Mummy entombed in CT scanner in bid to unlock his secrets
Nesperennub, a male whose body was enclosed in a linen and plaster case
inside a coffin 1.5m long, has undergone a whole-body CT scan as researchers
attempt to reveal more of his secrets
** £46.4m overhaul for 'tired' Royal Museum
The Royal Museum project will renovate 16 of the 25 galleries, create two
new entrances and a new floor of exhibition space at street level, which is
currently used for storage
** Picassos sold during Nazi era prompt a legal battle
The Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation asked a
court yesterday to declare them the rightful owners of two Picasso paintings
that a Jewish scholar claims were the rightful property of a relative
persecuted in Nazi Germany
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** Crowds flock to see Magna Carta manuscripts
Large crowds have laid siege to the Bodleian Library in Oxford for the first
opportunity probably in 800 years to see four original copies of the Magna
Carta displayed together
** ABBA to get three-floor museum in Sweden
The three-floor museum, which will be dedicated to the music, clothing and
history of the pop four piece, will feature a host of fun places for fans to
immerse themselves in their favourite '70s pop obsession
** London artefacts likely Roman middle class
A unique collection of pots and pans found in a well in central London has
given a rare insight into the lives of the bourgeoisie in what was then a
remote northern outpost of the Roman empire
** Ancient skeleton goes on display
A 29,000-year-old skeleton is being displayed in Wales for the first time
since it was discovered in a Gower cave in the 1820s
** Army museum's director confronts his fears
Inside his office, the stress shows as he slumps against a table, head in
his hands and revealing that he has slept even less than usual in the past
few nights
** Leonardo Da Vinci may have been an Arab
Professor Luigi Capasso, an anthropologist who led the team, said the
central whorl of the fingerprint was a common pattern in the Middle East
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