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week's edition include:
** Space-flown Buzz Lightyear toy lands in the Smithsonian
A 12-inch Buzz Lightyear toy that spent 15 months orbiting the Earth on the
International Space Station has been donated to the Smithsonian's National
Air and Space Museum
** Rare Insight Into 19th Century City Life in Britain
A curious photo archivist from Newcastle stumbled on an amazing treasure
trove of street photographs which capture the city's Victorian residents
going about their daily lives
** Turkey asks U.S. museums for return of antiquities
The government of Turkey is asking American museums to return dozens of
artifacts that were allegedly looted from the country's archaeological
sites, opening a new front in the search for antiquities smuggled out of
their original countries through an illicit trade
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** Fossil foot poses human origins puzzle
Swinging from trees like an ape but sometimes ambling on the ground, the
owner of a foot fossil some 3.4 million years old poses a puzzle for
paleontologists over humanity's history of walking
** Museum exhibit tries to dissect the brain
A new London exhibition explores that fascination, displaying everything
from mummified Egyptian cerebral matter to slices of Albert Einstein's brain
in the story of our quest to understand what's inside our skulls
** The Brightest of Creatures
A thoroughly engrossing exhibition at the American Museum of Natural
History - "Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence" - teaches us quite
a bit about the phenomenon
** Museum in Buraidah showcases Kingdom's contemporary history
Exhibits in the Saudi museum include copper utensils, coffee pots, kitchen
wares, hunting weapons, measuring devices, animal hide products, tools for
shoe making, agricultural tools and mills used in the region in the past
centuries
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** Titanic museum creating buzz in Belfast
Gleaming and just as high as the great ocean liner, that was built in these
docks, the Titanic Belfast museum cost £100 million and as I walked around
it, it was clear to see why it cost so much
** Museum spotlights prehistoric monster snake
A prehistoric monster snake the length of a school bus that likely fed on
supersize turtles and crocodiles has made its way to the Smithsonian
Institution for an exhibit
** Photo albums related to Nazi art theft unveiled
Among the items U.S. soldiers seized from Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Alps
hideaway in the closing days of World War II were albums meticulously
documenting an often forgotten Nazi crime - the massive pillaging of artwork
and other cultural items as German troops marched through Europe
** Sydney Museum Offers Nude Tours
An au naturel Ringholt will lead the buff brigade on an after-hours tour of
his work, which deals with themes of fear and embarrassment, at the Museum
of Contemporary Art Australia
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** Videogames Politely Invade Smithsonian Art Museum
The most impressive moment of the party was immediately following the
curator's: a playable version of the Xbox 360 game Geometry Wars was
projected on a massive scale across the outside walls of the museum
** Museum plays April Fool's joke on forger
Mark A Landis, who has dressed as a Jesuit priest or posed as a wealthy
donor driving up in a red Cadillac, apparently never took money for his
forgeries and has never been arrested
** 40 hot chicks celebrate museum's birthday
Hancock Shaker Village has loaned Berkshire Museum 40 chicken eggs, resting
in an incubator, that are set to hatch on Sunday, in time for the Museum's
109th anniversary celebration
** Blogs - Free China Saved
More than four years after I launched efforts to save the Free China, and
nearly 57 years after its historic trans-Pacific crossing from Taiwan to San
Francisco, the junk will make its return trip to Taiwan later this spring,
where it will be preserved as an museum exhibit there, thanks to the Taiwan
government
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** Legal battle over Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged gravestone
A quirky auto museum in northern Illinois has somehow become the home of
what's believed to be Lee Harvey Oswald's original tombstone
** Historian uncovers Australia's censored books
It's a prude's nightmare but a book collector's dream: Nicole Moore found
793 boxes filled to the brim with books Australians were never allowed to
read
** Nelson Mandela's life in a digital museum, courtesy of Google
As you move through the different sections, you'll find the earliest known
photograph of Mandela, scans of the desk calendars where he scribbled notes
during his 27 years in prison, and handwritten notes he sent his daughters -
including one written shortly after the arrest of their mother
** Merseyside museums at risk of major cuts
Cuts in central government funding may force the organisation responsible
for the new Museum of Liverpool, the Walker Art Gallery and several other
museums and galleries on Merseyside, to reduce staff numbers by up to one in
four, close some display galleries and introduce charges for special
exhibitions
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** Tests show da Vinci "Lady" ruined by age, beetles
Bark beetles and old age have damaged Leonardo da Vinci's 15th-century
painting "Lady with an Ermine," but the masterpiece is still holding up
well, according to a conservationist at the Polish museum where it is
displayed
** Titanic centennial: Museums, events, dinners
There are replica ships in Tennessee and Missouri, graveyard tours in New
York and Nova Scotia, traveling exhibits from Las Vegas to Atlanta, and two
brand new museums in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Southampton, England
** Museums and Written Communication. Tradition and Innovation
ICOM/CECA-2012 in Yerevan, Armenia. CfP
** Mercator. Exploring new horizons:
Exhibition in the Museum Plantin-Moretus/Prentenkabinet focusses on the
relationship between travelling behaviour of Europeans in the 16th century
and the development of cartography
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** Art And Mathematics: from the aestherics of Art to the logic of
Mathematics
The Museum Herakleidon presents an exhibition of works by M.C. Escher and V.
Vasarely, from its permanent collections
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