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week's edition include:
** Gun expert indicted on fraud conspiracy in museum case
A well-known author and antique gun expert helped an Alabama couple defraud
a Louisville museum founder out of nearly $2 million by inflating the values
of some antique firearms, according to a federal indictment
** Dali, elks, a Spitfire ...
Before work started in 2003, Kelvingrove was the sixth most popular museum
in Britain and the busiest outside London, attracting over 1 million
visitors a year
** Guggenheim Foundation agrees to build its biggest museum yet in UAE
The New York-based Guggenheim Foundation has signed a memorandum of
understanding to build its largest art museum yet on an island in the United
Arab Emirates, vowing that exhibits will respect Muslim traditions
** Anyone seen our missing 38-ton sculpture?
The disappearance of a 38-ton metal sculpture, last exhibited in Spain's
greatest modern art museum, has mystified police
** Getty Museum to Return Ancient Sculptures
The works to be returned by the private museum in Los Angeles are a
sixth-century B.C. votive relief from the island of Thassos and a
fourth-century B.C. carved tombstone from near Thebes, an antiquities-rich
town some 56 miles northwest of Athens
** The Tartan wave
As a new exhibition at the Aberdeen Maritime Museum shows, Scottish men and
women were surfing years before their Antipodean cousins even knew what a
surfboard looked like
** Footprints on the Land Features Mental Hospital
There is a donated drug compendium from the 1940s, open to a page of colour
pictures of bottles including sodium amital -- an addictive barbiturate used
at Tokanui until the 1970s
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** Major Balenciaga exhibit in Paris shows perfect, princess-worthy couture
The exhibit at the Museum of Fashion and Textiles features the Spanish
designer's work from 1937, when he opened his house in Paris, until it
closed in 1968, four years before he died
** Hosts report mostly smooth sailing for tall ship event
Proceeds from the Americas' Sail will go toward Olde Beaufort Seaport, a
turn-of-the-century maritime village being developed on the museum's 36-acre
annex on Gallant's Channel
** New, Delicious Species Discovered
Very few scientists are lucky enough to discover a new species, let alone a
mammal with a palatability on par with a tender, juicy steak
** Later hand painted $67m 'fake' Madonna
A painting hailed as a 14th-century masterpiece when it was bought last year
by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a reported $US50 million
is a 19th-century fake in the view of a leading American scholar. New York
museum dismisses fake charges
** Japanese Season
The Van Gogh Museum opens an exhibition this week showing the influence that
Japanese art had on 19th-century Dutch painter
** Beastly Colours - Mammoth Blondes and Really Hairy Brunettes
Museum dioramas typically portray mammoths as having shaggy brown coats, but
some of the hairy beasts might have been blonde, raven-haired or red-bodied
in real life, thanks to a gene that controls hair colour in humans and other
mammals
** Malaysian Police museum a huge hit
Many came to see the historical site where policemen and members of their
families put up a fight against a group of communists terrorists who
attacked the station on Feb 23, two days after the Chinese New Year, in 1950
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** Native art: The thrill of first contact
But when the little man with the rakish sideburns and goatee first crossed
paths with Donald Ellis, it was guilt by association: time had deposited him
in a private Los Angeles collection of cigar store Indians
** Museum sells its yacht
According to the Seaport museum's public financial statements, it lost at
least $3.5 million restoring and operating the Enticer, even after leasing
out the boat for as much as $22,000 a week
** Museum tells story of 9/11 evacuation
An exhibit uses the voices of those who were there - tug captains, police
officers, maritime workers, financial experts, students, teachers, stock
brokers and other citizens - to tell the somewhat overlooked story of how
thousands of people escaped lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, by boat
** Using His Cranium
Krantz was a legend in anthropology circles - and semi-famous in the wider
world, too, as the eccentric professor who drove around the Pacific
Northwest with a spotlight and a rifle, searching for Sasquatch
** Dinosaur museum takes a bite of homeworking
The home of London's robot dinosaur, the Natural History Museum, is moving
to an IP communications infrastructure to help its staff work more flexibly
** The Death of President James A. Garfield: An exhibition to commemorate
the 125th anniversary of his assassination
** Security Roundtable meeting
** Industrial Heritage 2006 - First European contact weekend for industrial
heritage volunteers and associations
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