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week's edition include:
** French museum posts Concorde hoax
France's Museum of Air and Space has revealed that its announcement that
Concorde was to return to the skies for a two-hour flight in June was a hoax
** Museums brace for storm as donors shy away
Two million euros in three months: that's the cost so far for Vienna's
Albertina Museum, home to landmark Impressionist works by Monet and Renoir,
as the financial crisis pulled some of its most generous sponsors
** British art history brought vividly to life
In real life, Charles was a short man with spindly legs and breathing
difficulties, but van Dyck turns him into a heroic paternal presence,
embracing his children and, by extension, the nation
** Sonar science uncovers grim wartime secret
The rest of the crew were rescued after the Cape Otway lightkeeper witnessed
the night-time explosion and alerted the Apollo Bay rescue service, which
dispatched three rescue boats
** New museum to chart Titanic story
The $A60 million project in Southampton, from where the liner set sail in
1912 on her maiden voyage, is set to feature a climb-aboard replica of the
ship
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** CT scan reveals hidden face under Nefertiti bust
Researchers in Germany have used a modern medical procedure to uncover a
secret within one of ancient Egypt's most treasured artworks - the bust of
Nefertiti has two faces
** Battle of Britain museum at Bentley Priory under threat amid downturn
A planned £3million museum at Bentley Priory that served as the command
headquarters during the Battle of Britain is under threat after the property
deal which was intended to guarantee its future collapsed
** Hollywood Wax Museum set to auction 200 wax celebs
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four Beatles?
** Louvre's 8.5 Million Visitors Keep It as No. 1 Museum Worldwide
The Louvre in Paris and the British Museum in London were the world's most
visited museums last year, drawing 8.5 million and 5.93 million people
respectively
** Culture without borders
The myth of cultural supremacy and separation is one of the great hoaxes of
history, a discipline that until very recently was little more than
propaganda, written by victors
** The strange tale of a Chinese emperor's French prints
How on earth did the emperor of China come to commission French artists to
make prints reproducing 16 paintings, also by Western artists, as a way of
commemorating these conquests?
** New hand-held signing guides at the Mary Rose prove a hit with
hearing-impaired visitors
The guides utilise touch-screen technology so that users can navigate their
way around the Museum to learn about different displays, including the hull
of the Mary Rose ship
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** Yale sues to retain ownership of Van Gogh painting
Paintings that were nationalized by the Soviet government figure prominently
in the collections of premier institutions throughout the world
** Smithsonian unveils 6 design models for new museum
Six design concepts for the future national black history museum planned for
the National Mall have been unveiled, mostly breaking with the tradition of
boxy Smithsonian Institution museums by showcasing earthy elements and
varied shapes
** How restorers ruined the last portrait of Shakespeare
When art conservators joined hands to restore two rare portraits of
Shakespeare they thought they were removing paint daubed on the canvases
more than 100 years after the Bard's death to reveal "authentic" portraits
beneath
** Art Dealer Is Charged With Stealing $88 Million
A once-prominent art dealer has been arrested on an indictment charging that
he stole $88 million from investors, collectors and artists who had
consigned paintings and sculpture to his Upper East Side gallery
** Research Reveals Threat to Tropical Lizards
Instead of being more able to manage warmer temperatures, lizards living
under the canopy of tropical rainforests where temperatures vary very little
through the year are in fact more likely to suffer from warmer temperatures
of only a few degrees
** Forefather of bodybuilding honoured with English Heritage plaque
Cheered back to his temporary home in Leicester Square, Sandow became a
sensation in the capital, completing a sell-out season of performances at
the Alhambra, where his party tricks included balancing a board on his
shoulders carrying weights and his manager
** Lost Crusaders' Tunnels Found Near Palace on Malta
Other rumours of underground Valletta include a secret carriageway from the
city to the palace of the Roman Catholic inquisitor - charged with rooting
out heretics - under Valletta's harbour
** Ancestry hunters' bonanza
Some 77 million documents dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries and
including the ancestors of David Beckham and Britney Spears are to go online
** The Test Hill Record - Brooklands Museum celebrates centenary
Test Hill was built in 1909 as another facility to encourage use of the
track for development and test work
** The 2009 Asia Pacific Museology Conference
Tired of the dismal economic news? Like to escape to some exotic places and
visit and talk about museums?
** Pemaquid Falls, Maine Archaeological Field School
The scenic mid-coast community of Bristol is home to one of Maine's earliest
European settlements
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