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** Florence asks Louvre for Mona Lisa on loan
Authorities in Florence on Thursday asked the Louvre Museum to loan them Leonardo's closely-guarded Mona Lisa for an exhibit in 2013 - 100 years since the last time the work was displayed in Italy

** A heritage ignored no more
The staff of the 107-year-old museum working diligently to honor those from other cultures - the backbone of a whaling industry that made New Bedford the wealthiest city on earth, per capita, in the mid-19th century

** Tiny camera reveals secrets of 1,500-year-old Mayan tomb
A small, remote-controlled camera lowered into a 1,500-year-old Mayan tomb in southern Mexico has revealed an apparently intact funeral chamber with offerings and red-painted wall murals

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** Rare blue lobsters named Kate and William
Two rare blue lobsters caught off the coast of P.E.I. and currently living in the Rustico Harbour Fishing Museum in the village of North Rustico, have been dubbed Kate and William in honour of the royal visit to the province next month

** Van Gogh Museum closing 6 months for renovations
Dozens of the tormented Dutch impressionist's finest works will remain on public display, moving across the Amstel River to the Hermitage Amsterdam museum during the work, scheduled to last from October 2012 through March 2013

** Stolen Inuit remains returned to Labrador
We know that William Duncan Strong knew it was wrong, and the institution knew it was wrong because they tried to cover it up and kept it secret...so they had a real awareness the community was unhappy

** National Museum's monster attractions unveiled
The new-look National Museum of Scotland has unveiled the first glimpse of a stunning animal display set to become one of the star attractions when it fully re-opens next month after a £46.4 million overhaul

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** Iraqs Ancient Ur Site in Danger
Standing before the imposing ziggurat which was once part of a temple complex at the Sumerian capital of Ur, Iraqi archaeologist Abdelamir Hamdani worried about the natural elements that are eating away at one of the wonders of Mesopotamia

** Germany Celebrates 125 Years of Car-Loving Tradition
This summer, join in Germany’s celebration of the 125th anniversary of the car by taking part in a multitude of events on the theme of the automobile with special exhibitions at three state-of-the-art museums

** Reclusive Art Maven Emerges From the Shadows in Death
The sometimes-musician and artist was apparently quite the party girl in the 1930s, but went into relative isolation after the death of her mother in 1963

** Ramallah museum to show Picasso for first time
The 1943 canvas, "Buste de Femme," was loaned by the Van Abbe museum in Eindhoven, Netherlands, as the centrepiece of the "Picasso in Palestine" project in which local artists will lecture on the late Spanish painter's work

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** National Gallery of Victoria executive kept quiet on ban
A senior figure at the National Gallery of Victoria failed to disclose that he had been banned from running Australian companies until confronted with an anonymous tip-off two years later

** From The Blogs - We Visit Fishy Relatives, Geology Wonderland
We got in and discovered beautiful paths with ammonite shapes carved in and exquisite fish laid out in stones, as well as, you guessed it: more giant statues of conodont teeth

** Suddenly, Lalique Is Back in Vogue
French government agencies worked with Art & Fragrance to set up the Musée Lalique, with a dozen galleries built atop a ruined 18th-century glassworks in Wingen-sur-Moder, France, a village in Alsace near Lalique’s manufacturing plant

** The market can launch careers, but museums still matter
The hype surrounding some of the “emerging” artists on show at Art Basel this week suggests that, for some, it is the market, not museums, that is driving taste

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** Forests, Rocks and Torrents
The National Gallery is examining a vibrant body of work from nineteenth century Norway and Switzerland that reveals how a group of painters emerged as masters of the mountains, rocks, rapids and oceans of the Scandinavian and Alpine landscapes

** NASA Reveals New Batch Of Space Program Artifacts
NASA is inviting eligible education institutions, museums and other organizations to examine and request space program artifacts online; the items represent significant human spaceflight technologies, processes and accomplishments from NASA's past and present space exploration programs

** World War II Mystery Solved in a Few Hours
We could see he had amazing access: taking portraits of Russian and Jewish prisoners one month, standing just a few feet from Adolf Hitler the next

** The oldest art in the Americas depicts a 13,000 year old mammoth
Realizing its potential anthropological significance, Kennedy turned the bone over to experts at the Smithsonian Museum and the University of Florida, who have now been able to confirm that this really is authentically ancient, and not just a clever forgery (making counterfeit mammoth engravings was a big thing in the 19th century, for whatever reason)

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** Some September 11 families angered by museum entry fee
Some family members of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks expressed outrage on Wednesday at a potential admission fee to a National Memorial Museum currently under construction at the former site of the World Trade Center towers

** Bulger arrest may yield clues on heist
The capture last week of Boston’s most sought-after criminal has given rise to speculation about the potential return of the city’s most sought-after art objects: the 13 pieces of artwork stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990

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