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week's edition include:
** Naked art lovers are no longer able to take dips together
The Department of Health warned the New Museum yesterday that it can no
longer have more than one visitor at a time splashing around - often nude -
in a giant bathtub that's part of an adult-playground exhibition
** Behind the scenes at the renovated Frankfurt Film Museum
Now equipped with generous exhibition space, the basic concept is the same:
Guests can take a close look at cameras and production equipment from the
early days of film, as well as costumes and screenplay scripts
** Extreme Animal Makeover
It's an extreme animal makeover at the American Museum of Natural History;
the bison got a nose job, the Alaskan brown bear got his hair dyed, and the
bobcat may need a nip and tuck around the eyes
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** German artist to buy defunct power plant
German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer says he planned to snap up a
mothballed atomic power plant in the belief that Germany's nuclear history
should be preserved for future generations
** 70,000 visit Singapore's Sun Yat Sen museum
The revamped museum is housed in a 19th century villa which served as the
home and headquarters of Dr Sun Yat Sen's revolutionary activities in
Southeast Asia
** Museum of Rotting Cars
It's called Auto-USSR and while it looks like a field full of rotting old
Russian cars, according to EnglishRussia it's actually an outdoor car museum
** A bloody good read: 'Dracula' author's journal found
Full of notes that would inform his legendary novel "Dracula" and other
stories, the thin, unmarked book had probably been lugged down from the
attic at some point, along with other things the Stoker family had passed
down for more than a century and placed inconspicuously in Noel Dobbs' Isle
of Wight home
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** France to leave Britain behind with First World War centenary plans
France will next week eclipse Britain's First World War centenary plans by
opening a £25m state-of-the-art commemorative museum three years early
** Museums of Money
Wells Fargo opened the latest repository of the region's sparling past on
Saturday, a museum in South Tyron Street, Charlotte that traces the bank's
roots from the Old West to modern days
** Plague genome: The Black Death decoded
In a bright ground-floor laboratory of the Museum of London, a short walk
from East Smithfield, osteoarchaeologist Jelena Bekvalac examines the nearly
complete skeleton of one of the plague pit's former residents
** Blackbeard's Cannon Lifted from Ocean Floor
The eight-foot-long cannon was covered in sand and ocean debris called
"concretion," which will take archaeologists and students at East Carolina
University as many as eight years to crack through before getting to the
metal cannon
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** Eons of natural history on display at new Utah museum
The new center, which makes the museum one of the most prominent natural
history destinations in the American West, focuses on the state's ancient
ecosystems, biogeography, native peoples and how climate change and
population growth are expected to shape the state in the future
** Bob Dylan accused of plagiarising art
Bob Dylan is facing some awkward questions after it emerged that several of
the paintings in his latest art exhibition were copied from photographs that
he found on the internet
** Where Visitors Take the Plunge, or Plunges
Curators tend to place Mr. Höller under the umbrella of "relational
aesthetics," which, as defined by the critic Nicolas Bourriaud, is all about
transforming the museum into a "festive, collective and participatory" space
** Museum caught in middle of ugly political cat fight
In the centre of the Royal Alberta Museum sits a sacred aboriginal relic, a
meteorite known as the Manitou Stone and for generations, the stone that
fell from the sky was venerated by the native peoples of central Alberta and
Saskatchewan as a holy object
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** Smithsonian's American History Museum shows 100 years of electric car
history
The history of electric cars is going on display at the Smithsonian's
National Museum of American History with two "electrifying cars" from the
early 20th century
** Abu Dhabi museum island hit by more delays
Branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim art museums being built as part of an
ambitious cultural district in Abu Dhabi could now open at least a year
later than planned, the developer and an official with knowledge of the
projects have said
** Mysterious Lego sculpture in Florida police hands
A huge Lego sculpture that mysteriously appeared this week on a Florida
beach will remain in police custody for 90 days while investigators try to
figure out who it belongs to
** Paul McCartney to help restore Motown piano
During a summer visit to a Motown recording studio, former Beatle Paul
McCartney wanted to run his fingers along an 1877 Steinway grand piano
played by some Detroit music greats he considers idols
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius - Usually, compromise means no one is happy. The Missouri
Compromise, however, is a great name for the mullet, a hairstyle that makes
everyone happy
** Islamic Galleries at the Met Have a Grand Re-Opening
The Metropolitan Museum has some of the richest holdings of Islamic art
anywhere - but the collection has been largely out of sight for the last
eight years, as the museum renovated
** Moving Beyond Earth: Innovations in Space
New Perspectives on Invention and Innovation symposium
** Hall of Life Renovation Completed
The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology celebrated the $1.8 million dollar
renovation of its Hall of Life at a ribbon-cutting celebration and dinner on
Friday, October 21, 2011, at The Webb Schools in Claremont, California.
** The Archaeology of Daily Life
Graduate Archaeology Oxford 2012 conference
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