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week's edition include:
** Historical hipsters: Shakespeare and Elizabeth I get makeovers from
modern artists
Shakespeare is an east London hipster; Horatio Nelson a chubby, desk-bound
admiral with a prosthetic arm and Henry VIII is now a Cuban-heeled lothario:
several of the world's most historic figures have been given a 21st century
make-over via a new art project
** Forensic reconstruction of Richard III's head to appear at Yorkshire
Museum
A reconstruction of Richard III's head, created by forensic artists at the
University of Dundee basing their work on CT scans of the King's skull
carried out at Leicester Royal Infirmary, will go on display at the
Yorkshire Museum as part of a summer of events and activities devoted to the
ruler whose exhumation consumed public imagination earlier this year
** Alan Alda wants scientists to cut out the jargon
He was evacuated from an 8,000-foot observatory and taken in an old rickety
ambulance to a small, dimly lit clinic, where a doctor examined him and said
he would require life-saving surgery
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** Controversy and a cock-up on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth
The cock is a national symbol of France, and the artwork will be stared down
by Admiral Lord Nelson, who led the British to victory over the French Navy
at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
** Baby's Day At The Museum Won't Be Ruined By A Nap
Jennifer and Frank Lobato certainly weren't taking any chances when their
5-month-old Sophie conked out just as they arrived at the Hands On
Children's Museum in Olympia, WA.
** Giant rubber duck sails into Hong Kong
An inflatable bright yellow rubber duck six storeys high sailed into Hong
Kong harbour on Thursday to the cheers of hundreds of people who gathered to
watch the classic bathtime-inspired artistic creation
** The Palestinian Museum reflects the heritage and history of a nation
The heritage and the 200-year-old history of Palestine are about to be
revealed in a new museum, "The Palestinian Museum," founded in Ramallah's
Palestinian village of Birzeit
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** Space Shuttle's Robotic Arm Goes on Display at Canadian Museum
The 50-foot (15 meters) Canadarm 201 completed 27 space shuttle flights
before embarking on its latest mission as a permanent display at the Canada
Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa
** The Naked Truth and More Besides
Most striking of all, the photographic nude appeared as a reproducible
medium - on postcards, cigarette cards, posters, in magazines and in
advertising, as inspiration for artists and an incentive for sportsmen, as
instructional material, and as collector's items
** Fighters With a Wardrobe to Match
Over time, this samurai society, formulated a self-defining ethos known as
bushido, or "the way of the warrior," based on an idealizing code of conduct
for living and for dying (ritual suicide was preferable to dishonor), with
Confucian and Buddhist overlays
** Middle-class museum's bid to demolish a 'labouring' class pub fails
A museum dedicated to Britain's middle classes has failed in an attempt to
bulldoze the 175-year-old working class pub next door, in the wake of fierce
local opposition
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** Jerusalem museum exhibits mysterious ancient Hebrew stone as scholars
debate its meaning
An ancient limestone tablet covered with a mysterious Hebrew text that
features the archangel Gabriel is at the center of a new exhibit in
Jerusalem, even as scholars continue to argue about what it means
** Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism
Much is still unknown about the circumstances of this grisly Jamestown meal:
Who exactly the girl researchers are calling "Jane" was, whether she was
murdered or died of natural causes, whether multiple people participated in
the butchering or it was a solo act
** A scholar and visionary with palpable charisma
Obituary: Dr Rodney Wilson CNZM brimmed with ambition for all of the museums
that he transformed with his redoubtable energy
** Teensy alien-looking skeleton from Chile poses a medical mystery
Apparently when the mummified specimen was discovered, some speculated that
it was an alien that had somehow landed on Earth, though the researchers
involved never suggested this otherworldly origin
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** Russia's great museums feud over revival plan
Russia's two greatest art museums were engaged in an unsightly public feud
over an idea to revive a Moscow museum of Western art that was shut down by
Stalin in the late 1940s
** Smithsonian closes galleries in 3 museums due to federal budget cuts
A spokeswoman said the Smithsonian will close a small exhibit space in the
National Museum of African Art, some sections of the Hirshhorn Museum
displaying its collection and the Commons area of the Smithsonian Castle,
which shows objects from every Smithsonian museum
** NY and Israel museums jointly buy ancient Hebrew manuscript that was
about to be auctioned
The manuscript was created in 1457 in the style of Northern Italian
Renaissance miniature painting and was restored at the conservation lab of
the Israel Museum, where it has been on loan since 2007 and on public view
since 2010
** British Museum's £135m extension is on time and on budget, say curators
Most of it is for museum operations normally hidden from the public - the
stores, conservation labs and offices - but on the ground floor will be a
1,100 sq metre exhibition space far better suited to the kind of blockbuster
exhibitions the museum has been staging in the reading room space
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** Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Library & Museum Opens In Pitch-Dark,
Sulfurous Underground Cave
"The Cheney Museum offers a firsthand look at the life and work of our
nation's 46th vice president," said head curator Jonathan Luddom, a
7-foot-tall blind cavern dweller with third-degree burns on his face and
limbs (satire)
** Uruk, Possibly World's First Metropolis
Berlin's Pergamon Museum is offering visitors a glimpse of perhaps the
world's first real metropolis in a new exhibition that traces the long
history of Uruk, in present-day Iraq
** Digital Cultural Heritage Symposium
May 17 at Brooklyn Historical Society
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** Repositories and Partnerships in Managing Natural History Collections in
the 21st Century
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections is meeting
in Rapid City, South Dakota, June 17-22.
** Hollywood Costume
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