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week's edition include:
** In Memoriam - September 11
The attack ,The World Trade Centre ,WTC eyewitness account , Museums Respond
to 9-11 Anniversary
** Stitches for Broken Hearts: 'Pentagon Quilts' Go on Exhibit
The dozen "Pentagon Quilts" are representative of the 72 handmade quilts
sent, unsolicited, to the Pentagon after last year's terrorist attacks
** Missing Neanderthal baby skeleton found in French museum
A French scientist has found the skeleton of a Neanderthal baby in a museum
where it had been lost for 80 years
** Don't just snipe at art, create something of value
Over the past few years there has been a ghastly fashion for the kind of
criticism that was once reserved for politicians
** The fine art of stripping
The painting is riddled with revolver shots - 14 to be exact - none of which
hit its bovine prey. Recent X-ray photographs of the work, taken by National
Gallery of Victoria conservators, show that the only bullseye struck one of
the blissfully bathing boys, straight in the back
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** £12 million on closed doors
The long- awaited Docklands Museum, seen as a flagship cultural project and
funded with more than £12 million of Lottery money, is lying unused and
closed to the public
** National Museum to Open Sept. 11 Exhibit
A scorched piece of the Pentagon's limestone facade and a scrap of twisted
steel from the World Trade Centre will be on view when the exhibit opens
Wednesday, the one-year anniversary of the attacks
** Praying Hitler statue angers Dutch
The Italian sculpture is about to go on display in Rotterdam which was once
destroyed by Nazi bombs
** Neo-Nazis desecrate Holocaust memorial near Berlin
Firefighters battled the blaze at the small wood-frame museum building for
over an hour before dawn Thursday
** Learn more about life in the slammer
Visitors to a Warwickshire manor house are being invited behind bars to
learn more about the history of punishment and imprisonment
** Opening a time capsule of Japanese woodcuts
On Nov. 27, the most extraordinary sale of Japanese woodcuts in the last
quarter of a century is to be held at Sotheby's Paris
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** Exiled American King Triumphantly Returns To Washington
After nearly three decades in exile, King William IV returned to the U.S. to
reclaim his throne Monday
** Govt pinpoints sunken treasures
"We have identified several locations but we cannot disclose them because
unscrupulous people might go in to steal the artefacts"
** Revealed: last fearful days in India as Empire crumbled
Historians have been stunned by previously unseen footage of the human
misery that followed India's Partition
** Museum depicts surfing history
Inside a quaint little lighthouse overlooking the waves of famed surfing
spot Steamer Lane in Santa Cruz, there's a tiny surfing museum that draws
crowds from all over the world
** Museum cheesed off about mice invasion
The British Museum is under siege by mice after losing its 'army' of eight
cats in the past 18 months
** In search of Indiana's jacket
At America's venerable Smithsonian Institution, the same museum that proudly
displays Thomas Jefferson's desk, Abraham Lincoln's top hat and the actual
Star Spangled Banner, you will find an equally notable piece of US history
made of faded brown leather
** Digging the Fens for crashed plane
The aircraft struck the rich fenland soil with such force it created a large
crater and buried most of the plane's cockpit and engine
** Agent 007's secrets set to be unveiled
The Bond, James Bond exhibition opens next month at the Science Museum in
London and will showcase more than 100 gadgets, cars and hidden weapons
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Women's Arts News
** The Midwest Archives Conference's first-ever meeting in South Dakota!
** National Breast Cancer Awareness Month on Saturday, Oct. 5 from 11
a.m.-2 p.m.
sponsored by the National Museum of Health and Medicine and Y-ME National
Breast Cancer Organizations.
** A Reading of "What Happened: The September 11TH Testimony Project"
Featuring Rita Moreno and a cast of leading Bay Area actors
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