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week's edition include:
** Getty Museum Agrees to Return Aphrodite, Other Artwork to Italy
The J. Paul Getty Museum agreed to send back to Italy a statue known as
Aphrodite along with 39 ancient artworks, ending a dispute over stolen
relics that threatened the reputation of the world's richest art institution
** Sunken treasures
Albania is surveying the seabed along its coastline to help plot the
positions of ships that went down centuries ago
** Ancient Scots Mummified Their Dead
Initial evidence for Scottish mummies was announced in 2005, when
archaeologists unearthed three preserved bodies - an adult female, an adult
male and an infant - buried underneath two Bronze Age roundhouses in South
Uist, Hebrides, at a site called Cladh Hallan
** Rare manuscript, textile from Northeast holed up in museums abroad
A number of objects from Northeast India, much more ancient than Mahatma
Gandhi's handwritten letter recently recovered from a British auction, are
preserved in museums and private possessions in Europe and Southeast Asian
countries
** Museum staff suffer
The Fiji Museum Board of Trustees chairman, Winston Thompson said staff pay
was cut by 50 per cent because income from admissions had dropped to almost
zero after the coup
** Etching tackles history on origins of Australian footy
The black-and-white image, created from observations made by Victorian
scientist William Blandowski in 1857, precedes Australia's first known
football game - a match between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar in 1858
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** Sotheby's Aims to Sell Van Gogh's `The Fields' for $35 Million
The unidentified owner loaned it to Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum from 2001
until this year, when it went on show in Madrid
** Mysterious squid to make a splash at Seattle museum
After fuelling myth and nightmare for more than two millennia, one of the
ocean's biggest mysteries is finally yielding a few of its secrets to
science
** Fresh brew at Starbucks site in Forbidden City
A new cafe has opened in Beijing's Forbidden City where Starbucks once had a
controversial outlet that was shut down amid media criticism two months ago
** Berliners to pass judgment on museum
A ceremony to present the unfinished Neues Museum lifted the veil on what is
arguably the country's most debated construction project, and one that has
placed David Chipperfield, its British architect, at the centre of a bitter
controversy
** Mystery boy in iron coffin identified
Smithsonian scientists led by forensic anthropologist Doug Owsley set about
trying to determine who was buried in it, so the body could be placed in a
new, properly marked grave
** Museum Can Show Disputed Artwork, Judge Rules
A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Massachusetts Museum of
Contemporary Art has the right to display an immense unfinished installation
by Christoph Büchel, a Swiss artist whose relationship with the museum fell
apart early this year, leading to a bitter public battle over control of the
work and over artists' rights in general
** Bad arguments on display in museum debate
From the rhetoric being tossed around the last couple of weeks, you'd think
the Chicago Children's Museum was some cultural temple our city's children
must experience to claim a complete childhood
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** Photos show Nazis relaxing at Auschwitz
Before the former spy died, he wanted to donate an album of photographs of
Auschwitz, which he discovered in a bombed-out building 60 years ago in
Frankfurt, Germany
** Fujitsu's Enon is your robotic museum guide
The droid in question, a friendly helper named Enon, will autonomously move
to the entrance of the museum to greet guests, will guide visitors through
the exhibits by using gestures (and its chest-embedded LCD screen), and will
play video greetings from Mr. Nishimura, amongst other tasks
** Remains of Kenyan lions 'too fragile' to repatriate
A US museum will not return the remains of two infamous man-eating lions to
Kenya because they are too fragile to travel, the museum's president says
** Macau Casino Mogul Buys Stolen Relic
Macau casino mogul Stanley Ho has paid $8.9 million for a bronze horse head
stolen by French troops 147 years ago from China's imperial palace and plans
to donate it to a Chinese museum
** Penn Museum puts Panamanian treasures on display
When the Rio Grande de Cocle changed course in the early 1900s, a
tantalizing cache of golden beads and pottery pieces washed upon its banks
** Scientists get DNA from mouldy old mammoth hair
Scientists who pulled DNA from the hair shafts of 13 Siberian woolly
mammoths say it may be possible to mine museums for genetic information
about ancient and even extinct species
** Migration exhibition opens at National Museum of Australia
** Tales of the Unexpected: the Future of Curating Contemporary Craft
** Grant Information Session - Creative Capital Foundation
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