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week's edition include:
** Rock art highlights ancient east-west Polynesian links
The discovery of more than 50 ancient rock engravings in Tonga has excited
archaeologists, who say they demonstrate the links between the Pacific
island and Hawaii before Europeans arrived
** New German museum pays tribute to 60 years of Porsche
Engines, interactive displays, Porsche memorabilia and 80 cars - including
prototypes and icons like the 911, all polished to a mirror-sheen - are
parked on two floors of pristine, white galleries
** What vice will save Vegas?
Is there any reason organized crime should have a museum to study and curate
exhibits as if this admittedly interesting history were an academic field in
need of study or a period of such significance that a museum is required?
** Meditations on Asia in American art
It's rare to see Frank Lloyd Wright's pristine white spiral looking funky
and inharmonious; but now, in a mild way it does, like a half-emptied attic
or a convention hotel for mad scientists, poets and saints, with cluttered
stretches and blank stretches and a few sculptures tossed here and here
** Going To The Dogs
The 88 dogs are not alive, but are stuffed specimens that have been on
display at the Museum in Hertfordshire since the 1960s
** Climate change pushes moths up mountain
Populations of moths living on a mountain in Borneo have moved uphill by
more than 60m over the last 40 years
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** Heard Museum returning artefacts to Zunis
The Heard Museum in Phoenix is returning five artefacts and cultural objects
in its collection to the Zuni tribe in New Mexico
** Wreck of renowned British warship found in Channel
Deep-sea explorers who found $500 million in sunken treasure two years ago
say they have discovered another prized shipwreck: a legendary British
man-of-war that sank in the English Channel 264 years ago
** BBC to put nation's oil paintings online
The BBC is to put every one of the 200,000 oil paintings in public ownership
in the UK on the internet as well as opening up the Arts Council's vast film
archive online as part of a range of initiatives that it has pledged will
give it a "deeper commitment to arts and music"
** First evidence of damage to Gaza's cultural sites emerges
The Antiquities Museum of Gaza, privately founded and run by Gazan
contractor and collector Jawdat Khoudary, was badly damaged during Israel's
22 days of air and land strikes
** Book world's silence helps tome raiders
Libraries across the world, archive collections, auctioneers and
international book dealers were given a brief respite when William Simon
Jacques, a Cambridge graduate with an IQ on the genius rating, was jailed
for four years for stealing £1m worth of rare and ancient books from the
British Library in one of the biggest hauls in legal history
** £50m raised to secure Titian masterpiece
The Renaissance painting will be shared by the National Galleries of
Scotland and the National Gallery in London after campaigners reached their
cash target
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** Hobbit feud
Incredibly these "hobbits" stood less than 40 inches tall and had brains
about a third the size of modern humans, although they were buried with
Stone Age tools, which indicates they had some smarts
** Dinosaur dung stolen from Natural History Museum
In 2005 an entire draw of butterflies was lost while being moved from the
museum's entomology building, and a parcel of 50 mosquitoes lost in the post
** Evolution of funeral hearses makes for interesting presentation
The first all-motorized funeral procession took place in Chicago in 1909
months before the release of the first commercially built, motorized hearse
** Ancient Horseshoe Crabs - Canadian Fossil Discovery Makes Waves
The fossil horseshoe crabs were recovered in the course of fieldwork studies
on ancient tropical seashore deposits, providing yet another important link
to their modern descendants that are today found along warmer seashores of
the eastern United States and the Indian Ocean
** PM's plan for 'Britishness' museum consigned to history
Gordon Brown's dream of creating a permanent museum of Britishness appears
to be over after being savaged by sceptical curators
** British director of New York's Metropolitan Museum to safeguard its
finances
Thomas Campbell admitted that the museum's enormous endowment has been
damaged by the stock market crash and that he was also expecting a fall in
donations and other revenue
** Rare 1,800-year-old figurine found in Jerusalem
An 1,800-year-old figurine believed to have originated from the eastern
stretches of the Roman Empire has been discovered by archaeologists outside
the walls of the old city
** SMU's museum opens exhibit of Etruscan artefacts
Italy's ancient Etruscans were buried with a dazzling array of objects -
everything from delicate gold jewellery to items one would need for a
banquet like chalices, plates and a strainer for wine
** In and Out Air Strategies. From Climate Change to Microclimate
Library, Archives and Museum Preservation Issues
** Putting University Collections to Work in Research and Teaching
UMAC's 9th International Conference
** The Power of Chocolate
National Museum of the American Indian
** Effective Adult Programming in Museums
The Greater Boston Museum Educators' Roundtable invites you to join them for
our next meeting
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