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week's edition include:
** Flying Wing Joins Collection
There is a new shape in the skies of the San Diego Air & Space Museum; a
dark and ominous reminder of the menacing Nazi Luftwaffe has been raised in
the shadows above our WWII P-51 "Mustang" - the last "secret weapon" of
Hitler's Germany, the remarkable Horten Ho-229 jet-powered flying wing
** Endangered species' DNA to be stored at NYC museum
Underground in the laboratories of the museum, which was featured in the
2006 Ben Stiller movie "Night at the Museum," a half-dozen metal vats cooled
with liquid nitrogen can store up to 1 million frozen tissue samples
** LA brush fire closes Getty Museum
Ventilation systems were shut down to prevent smoke damage to the museum's
priceless art collection
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** Archives' record-keeping lapse
Brachfeld has documented thousands of electronic storage devices, including
computers and servers, that have gone missing over the past decade from the
National Archives and Records Administration
** Istanbul's first-ever 'city museum' to be built on Büyükada
The museum that is coming to the island of Büyükada really promises much
more than just the preservation of objects and sounds and memories under a
roof and between four walls; what it promises, too, is a modern creation
that will work not only to give people a perspective on today, but will also
help shape the future
** Ancient hunting site may rest under Lake Huron
Some 10,000 years or more ago, hunter-gatherers pursued migrating caribou in
a corridor between Michigan and Ontario, a ridge that today is submerged in
Lake Huron
** Who needs another lurid damsel?
A group of pilgrims to the temple of the Roman god of medicine are riveted
by what can only be described as absolutely nothing: a faint curl of smoke
in the dead centre of the painting; what a trick to pull off
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** Southwest Museum pulls itself up by its bootstraps
Why did he design a 115-foot-tall, seven-level structure, accessible only by
a central, spiral staircase, as a storage facility for what would become one
of the world's finest collections of Native American art?
** Learning Singapore's history through its money
With the recent opening of the Singapore Coins and Notes Museum, visitors
will see why it's a whole lot more than just about dollars and cents
** Italy unveils 14 artefacts returned by Cleveland Museum
Italy has unveiled 14 artefacts, including a bronze statue of an archer and
a pair of Etruscan silver bracelets, returned by the Cleveland Museum of Art
after it was discovered they had once been looted
** Desert castle restorations unearth clues to missing historical link
Qasr Al Hallabat, one of the Kingdom's so-called desert castles, a series of
fortresses built by the Romans around the 2nd century to cement their
presence in the Levant, is much more than the average castle, according to
archaeologist and Spanish aid specialist Ignacio Arce
** A Museum in Sleep Mode
The Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies issued some stunning news last week:
in response to financial difficulties blamed on the economic downturn, the
Spertus - which consists of a college, a museum, and a library - is making
operational cuts so drastic they'll practically shut down portions of the
glossy, Krueck & Sexton-designed building that opened less than two years
ago
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** 'Michelangelo self-portrait' discovered in restored Vatican fresco
Professor De Luca said that a figure on horseback in a blue turban in
Michelangelo's The Crucifixion of St Peter was clearly the artist
** Death Doesn't Lie
Death doesn't lie, so death masks - a cast of the face in wax or plaster,
taken just hours after breath has gone - promise truthful representations of
the departed
** Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution
Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors
of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than
Africa
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini May 21 - Jun 21. You're no art expert, but you know what you like,
which explains all the meatball sandwiches hanging on your walls
** Design museum steps out with a shoe show
From flip-flops slapping on the sands of Malibu to stilettos clacking on New
York pavements, what you wear on your feet says a lot about who you are
** Four
It has been 40 years since man first walked on the moon, and technology has
moved on, especially in the area of space lavatories. Doug Millard, the
Science Museum's Senior Curator of Space Technology gives his guide to some
of the more interesting and bizarre gadgets of 60s space travel
** City's jail re-opens to captivate visitors
The museum features a huge range of free activities exploring different
aspects of Aberdeen's past and heritage: from talks on witch burning in
Aberdeen in the 1590s to re-enactments exploring the strange and dark tale
of Peter Williamson, also known as Indian Peter
** Only S.F. would snub gift of world-class museum
Yes, sir, you have to get up pretty early in the morning to put one over on
San Francisco's not-in-my-backyard crowd
** INTERCOM - Museums and Community
Annual meeting in Torreon in Mexico which will take place from the 10-13
November 2009.
** 2009 AASLH and AIM Annual Meeting
Indianapolis, IN, August 26-29
** Science of nature - Museum insect detectives join forensic team
Insect detectives at the Natural History Museum in London have teamed up
with the Forensic Science Service (FSS), to create a new forensic entomology
service, launched last month
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