Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Make Museum A Porsche Not A Minivan * Art Attacker Strikes Again * Wayward Rabbit Discovery * Cleveland Museum Bears Winter Chills * Hanging Noose Custody * Treasures of Heaven * Museum's Snail Sex Show * Ivory Coast Mourns

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** Natural History Museum announces Snail Sex Show on South Bank
Snail courtship, in case you didn’t know, involves mating rituals which are unusual even by the standards of an exhibition counting bees and gorillas among its seductive parade, played out on South Bank in a “gastropod peep show” courtesy of a street theatre group

** Create polar museum in Edmonton
In the 500-year history of the search for a Northwest Passage, more than 140 vessels and a handful of overland expeditions tried and failed to find the fabled route

** Stolen Rembrandt piece may not be a Rembrandt after all
None of the curators, art historians and other preeminent Rembrandt experts contacted by the media since the theft were familiar with the drawing, including one of the world's top Rembrandt scholars and director emeritus of CODART, the international council of curators of Dutch and Flemish art

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** Wreck of 16th century Swedish warship found in Baltic
The wreck of a Swedish warship that historians hope is the Mars, head of king Erik XIV’s fleet before it sank in the Baltic in 1564, has been found off Sweden’s coast, museum officials have said

** Ivory Coast museum mourns stolen artefacts
Bullet holes pock the vault door and empty display boxes litter the showroom floor of Abidjan's Museum of Civilisation, robbed of 100 ancient artefacts under the cover of deadly conflict in April

** Museum in China admits to loss of precious antiques
A top official of Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City admitted to the loss of three antiques costing millions of dollars due to human negligence

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** Museum's hanging noose awarded to sheriff's granddaughter
The Franklin County History Museum in Benton still exhibits the gavel used when Birger was sentenced to death along with a number of photographs of the execution

** Museum should be a Porsche, not a minivan
Unlike the designs for the Art Gallery of Alberta, which had all kinds of flair and wonder to them, the designs for the new RAM are boring and institutional, like a collection of buildings that could just as well be hospitals or high schools

** Treasures of Heaven
The exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, relics and devotion in medieval Europe at the British Museum, is an exploration into the deeply spiritual world of medieval relic veneration

** Japanese-American Internment Camp Site Reopens as Museum
During World World II, as the United States battled Japan and the other Axis powers, 14,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated at a remote camp

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** Cold-weather Cleveland to test no-furnace concept
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is testing the concept of a $500,000, environmentally friendly house with no furnace or air conditioner in cold-weather Cleveland

** What relics from past romances would YOU leave in the Museum of Broken Hearts?
She was impossibly beautiful, she walked with an insolent slouch, her hair smelled of honey and, to cap it all, her accent was different from everyone else's

** Freer Gallery to open shutters
The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art is opening the shutters to display its famed Peacock Room in natural sunlight for the first time in 25 years to give visitors a fuller view of its artworks

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** Wayward rabbit found in woods
Brer Rabbit wasn't hiding in the briar patch; the thieves who took the 3-foot tall rabbit statue from the Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton left him in some woods about five miles east of the city

** Museum Owes $5M More
A New York City-based architectural firm is owed more than $5 million from the U.S. National Slavery Museum, but it's unclear whether the firm will be able to collect any of it

** Art attacker strikes again at DC museum
A woman who attacked a painting at Washington's National Gallery of Art earlier this year has struck again, police say, this time lashing out against a Henri Matisse painting at the museum

** Largest Cheetah Lived, and Killed, Among Ancient Humans
Cheetahs might have been the bloodiest killers at one of the oldest known sites for humans, leaving behind more carcasses than any other predator there

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