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week's edition include:
** Italian museum boss sacked after leaping to defend a crucified frog
The director of an Italian museum that defied the Pope by refusing to remove
a modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog has been dismissed
from her post
** After the Building Boom
The economy's swoon and Wall Street's woes are taking a particularly
specific and tough toll on art museums
** Minnesota museum concludes painting was Nazi loot
In 1997, the museum received a letter claiming the painting had been taken
from noted French collector Alphonse Kann
** Art up in flames
Bonfire societies across Sussex stage processions and fireworks in the
autumn and traditionally burn effigies
** A Rich Culture, Fed by Oil
Oil booms are evident in a lavish exhibition at Berlin's Ethnological
Museum, called "Azerbaijan: Land of Fire," which chronicles 5,000 years of
history and culture in the Caucasus, with highlights from Baku's major
museums
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** Museum interested in saving pub
A museum spokesperson said it would "gladly consider" preserving the Vulcan
at St Fagans and would be taking a "closer look" at the pub
** Ex-museum head to repay Smithsonian for expenses
The founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian has
agreed to repay the Smithsonian Institution more than $9,700 for improper
travel and entertainment reimbursements
** Site shows humans as fire starters
A new study shows that humans had the ability to make fire nearly 790,000
years ago, a skill that helped them migrate from Africa to Europe
** Governor fires head of Lincoln Museum after shoplifting charges
The August incident at was the second known shoplifting arrest for Beard,
who also was arrested in February 2007 on security guard reports that he
shovelled neckties into his shopping bag at a Macy's in Springfield
** From Your Attic to the Nation's
I think it's because people love their stuff, whether it's their penny
collection or their vacuum cleaner, and they want to find a good home for it
** New Museum Invites a Hands-On Approach to Insanity
The logo of the Mind's Museum is an overturned funnel; a reference to a
15th-century painting by Hieronymus Bosch that depicts a doctor using a
scalpel to extract an object (the supposed "stone of madness") from the
skull of a patient
** Rare Qajar era stamps donated to Mashhad museum
The Stamp and Banknote Section of the Astan-e Qods Razavi Museum houses a
rich collection of rare stamps from about 180 countries and is visited by
many Iranian and foreign pilgrims, tourists and philatelists
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** Museum to Honour 'Comfort Women'
A museum to honour the Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery for
the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II will be built at the
Independence Park in Seodaemun, Seoul
** Museum head ignorant of Anzac tradition - vets
Disgruntled World War II Bomber Command veterans are accusing the Auckland
War Memorial Museum's director of having little knowledge of Anzac
tradition, after they were refused space for a memorial inside the museum
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius - November 22 to December 21. Look for a sign this week when
deciding whether to stop, yield, feed the animals, or touch high-voltage
power-lines
** Southern Cloud disaster remembered
The mysterious disappearance of the airliner Southern Cloud during a flight
from Sydney to Melbourne in 1931 captivated Australians for decades
** Global financial summit to be held at D.C. museum
The historic building constructed in the late 1800s was modelled after the
Palazzo Farnese in Rome and is now "a forum for the development,
exploration, and exchange of ideas
** Holocaust museum urges Vatican archives to delay
The Vatican long has denied reports that the pope withheld efforts to
protect European Jews as a means of protecting the church from the Nazis,
both during his papacy and when he was a cardinal in Germany before the war
** Strolling in the Fragrant Garden: Paintings of Ju Chao and Ju Lian
Hong Kong Museum of Art
** A Transatlantic LEAP
Call for Proposals
** Topf & Söhne: Builders of the Auschwitz ovens
Workers' Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
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