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**  Military secures Egyptian Museum after artifacts damaged
Would-be looters broke into the Egyptian Museum and damaged at least a dozen antique pieces, including two mummies which were decapitated

 

**  Egypt's Tombs, Temples Under Siege
The West Bank, where the mortuary temples and the Valley of the Kings are located, is without any security, with only villagers trying to protect the sites

 

**  Museums: bland, academic and failing to speak to our souls?
What I didn't want, or need, was a label saying: "Consider the impermanence of things" in order to "bring on" a set of emotional or spirtitual or moral reflections
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**  Farrah Fawcett's red swimsuit goes to US museum
The red swimsuit that helped make "Charlie's Angels" actress Farrah Fawcett a 1970s icon became part of the Smithsonian museum's collection Wednesday on what would have been her 64th birthday

 

**  Philly museum removes mummies after China objects
A museum just days away from opening a long-awaited exhibit of mummies and other historical artifacts from China is gutting the display at the request of Chinese officials

 

**  Museum says unearths "only" film of Ballets Russes
A dance enthusiast has discovered what London's Victoria & Albert Museum says was the only known film footage of a Diaghilev Ballets Russes dance performance

 

**  'Punk' art rocks Rome in new exhibition
The Sex Pistols music blares out incongruously from Rome's stately Villa Medici, once home to powerful aristocracy and now the prestigious French Academy which is staging the first ever retrospective into Punk visual art
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**  The Smithsonian's lost integrity
Historians, researchers and curators at our national museums must be able to examine all of our history with determination, fearlessness and fealty to the facts

 

**  Nelson embraces technology to connect with visitors
In a recent interview, Zugazagoitia enthusiastically described the content provided by the smart phone as a “digital living encyclopedic label for the object.”

 

**  The Permanent Collection May Not Be So Permanent
Cultural institutions like the National Academy Museum and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University have generated controversy by selling or even considering selling items to cover operating costs, a practice forbidden by the professional association for art museum directors

 

**  Museum launches Cockroach Tours to explore climate change
One of the oldest and toughest life forms on the planet, having outlived the dinosaurs, the hardy cockroaches will take in the Museum’s Energy Hall, Exploring Space and Making the Modern World galleries before completing their journey in the Atmosphere gallery 
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**  Monticello Makes Ale Inspired By Past
Among the third president's lesser-known pursuits was making beer, and modern-day visitors to his mountaintop estate at Monticello can soon get a taste of the past

 

**  Historian accused of altering Lincoln document at National Archives
As the accusations flew over who altered the documents, Archives officials acknowledged that, in balancing security with providing open access to government records, they were too trusting

 

**  Google goes high brow
Google has gone all high brow on us, unveiling its Art Project, a collaboration with art museums around the world to enable people to enjoy their collections without leaving the house

 

**  Art museums to bet on Super Bowl
In a friendly but substantial Super Bowl bet, the directors of the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art, in Pittsburgh, have each wagered an Impressionist painting on their home-state football teams - the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers
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**  Museum attendance dips 3 percent in 2010
Attendance was down at Chicago’s major museums and zoos, but the institutions were still a big draw with 14.4 million people visiting them in 2010

 

**  Berlin museum presents statues from Syria resurrected after near-destruction in WWII
Unearthed in present-day Syria a century ago, the 3,000-year-old basalt statues and stone reliefs in the exhibition, "The Tell Halaf Adventure," shattered into thousands of pieces when their Berlin home was destroyed by bombing in 1943

 

**  Greatest Palaeontology Fakes Of All Time
Chinese museums are riddled with examples such as these, which is a real pain for any researcher in that they have to spend many days separating the real fossil "wheat" from the faked "chaff"

 

**  Jacqueline Kennedy's pink hat is a missing piece of history
But if there is a lasting emblem that sums up Nov. 22, 1963, the day America tumbled from youthful idealism to hollow despair, it is Jacqueline Kennedy's rose-pink suit and pillbox hat
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**  This Week's Horoscopes
Aquarius - Help out your friends and relatives with a sensitive issue this week. Clearly label all your worldly possessions with the name of the intended recipient by about 8:15 on Friday night

 

**  Museum of Performance & Design Sketch-In
Friday, February 25, 2011 Museum of Performance & Design - San Francisco

 

**  Making Museums Matter: Integrating Collection and Exhibition Programs with College Curriculum
University and college associates will provide examples of innovative or interdisciplinary models in which an academic museum or gallery has been able to deepen its integration into the parent institution’s curriculum and mission and has become an active leader in helping to support and define the academic life and culture of campus.

 

**  Museums Count Workshop: Data Definitions Expert Reviewers Group
Experts Discuss Data Priorities for the IMLS Museums Count Project

 

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