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week's edition include:
** Museum insults intelligence
It hasn't the collection to justify that term "world class", but most
importantly what it now puts on show is executed with such incoherence it is
as if the curators are embarrassed by their knowledge and the artefacts
** Conservators also oppose plan to sideline Berlin's Old Masters
Any Old Master that cannot be displayed in the smaller space will go into
storage for an estimated six years until a new space is found for the
collection on the capital's Museum Island
** Playing the Game: Manchester Jewish Museum looks at Sporting Life
It's hard to believe that when Angela Buxton won the Wimbledon doubles title
little more than 50 years ago, a newspaper carried the headline "minorities
win", owing to the fact that she was Jewish and her partner, Althea Gibson,
was black
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** Iran is sitting on a modern-art goldmine
Iran has the makings of an extremely fine museum of modern art, if it
chooses to display their treasures to the full within the building created
for them
** Neanderthals Weren't Stone Age Rodeo Riders?
Neanderthals didn't ride bucking broncos (as far as we know), but the Stone
Age hominids did seem to have one thing in common with rodeo riders:
injuries
** Rare artefacts of 'historical importance' stolen from Derby Museum and
Art Gallery
The thefts only came to light when the museum service was contacted by
another museum with a request to borrow some of the items for their own
displays and staff discovered that they were gone from the off-site storage
facility
** Poland's long-lost Raphael found
Poland's long-lost masterpiece, attributed to Raphael and feared by many to
have been destroyed, has been re-discovered in a bank vault in an
undisclosed location
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** New GPS museum app promises to reshape gallery-going experience
Tim Willis, RBCM's director of exhibitions and visitor experience, sees
Wifarer as addressing two critical museum issues: way-finding and enriching
content
** Behind the scenes at the museum
In the 21st century museum of the popular imagination, musty cases and
specimens under glass have been replaced by brightly coloured interactive
displays, whizz-bang educational sites for youngsters and holograms in place
of artifacts
** Artifacts Revive Debate on Transformation of Human Behavior
Recent discoveries establish that the Homo sapiens groups who arrived in
Europe some 45,000 years ago had already attained the self-awareness,
creativity and technology of early modern people
** Tissint meteorite helps build Museum Martian library
It may sound like a place where Martians sit and read books, but the Natural
History Museum's Martian library is in fact a database of Martian
meteorites, which has had a huge boost with the arrival of the Tissint
meteorite
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** Mystery of Lost Roman City Solved: Ancients Greened the Desert?
Once a required stop on caravan routes that brought Asian goods west to
eager Romans, Palmyra has "always been conceived as an oasis in the middle
of the desert, but it's never been quite clear what it was living from
** Roy Lichtenstein's Electric Cord resurfaces after 42 years
A Roy Lichtenstein painting missing since 1970 has surfaced at a New York
City warehouse - and a judge has ordered that it stay put until rightful
ownership can be determined, according to court documents
** Medal of Honor Museum planned in South Carolina
A $100 million museum honoring the nation's Medal of Honor recipients will
be built at a South Carolina military attraction
** Imperiled Legacy for African Art
The ruts are partly caused by erosion, but they're also scars from decades
of digging, by archaeologists in search of history and looters looking for
art to sell
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** Italy to start Colosseum repairs in December
Long-delayed repairs to the 2,000-year-old Colosseum will begin in December
in a project funded by Italian billionaire Diego Della Valle to save the
crumbling monument
** Facebook Censors Pompidou's Gerhard Richter Nude, Fueling Fight Over
"Institutional Puritanism"
The French blog "Les Notes de Véculture" sounded the alarm recently when
Facebook removed an image of Gerhard Richter's "Ema" from the Pompidou
Center's Facebook page
** New Installation at Vatican Museums: Two Priests
Starting this month the Vatican is making two priests available to museum
visitors, whether they are looking for spiritual advice or more basic
iconographic information about the subject matter of a work of art
** Spiders Alive! At The American Museum of Natural History
Spiders: love them or hate them, they are an important part of our ecosystem
by helping to keep the insect population in check; it is estimated that the
spiders in 1 acre of woodlands consume 80 pounds of insects a year
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** From The Blogs - Making Mission and Vision Visible: Put it by the Coffee
Pot
A recent visit to Museum L-A in Maine, a local history museum serving the
communities of Lewiston and Auburn, revealed a clever way to keep the
mission and vision visible and prominent
** Citizens of the Republic: Portraits from the Dutch Golden Age
National Gallery of Art
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The 2012 Directors Forum - New York City
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