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week's edition include:
** The garden shed that became a naval museum
A maritime enthusiast has turned a garden shed measuring 12ft by 6ft (4m by
2m) into one of the country's smallest museums
** Tourists locked out of from Uganda museum
Without apparent notice, council employees chain locked the gates and
offices of Uganda's main museum last week over alleged failure to pay
property taxes, keeping out a number of locals who had come to see the
assembled cultural attractions kept in this governmental institution along
with tourists brought there by their bewildered tour guides
** Afghan war museum displays past's horror
Torn pieces of cloth, mangled shoes, rusty handcuffs and small personal
belongings such as prayer beads and false teeth bear testimony to lives
violently snuffed out and bodies tossed like garbage into a hole in the
ground
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** Norway's Munch Museum plan attracts more criticism
Opposition to the design of the proposed new Munch Museum on Oslo's
waterfront is increasing with the new head of the Norwegian directorate for
national heritage joining the critics, saying that he dislikes the plan and
could stop the project
** Dictator's crude scrawls laid bare for all to see
The pictures are almost all reproductions of male nudes sketched by
19th-century Russian painters; the crude and ominous captions scrawled
beneath them in red or blue pencil are unmistakably in the hand of Joseph
Stalin
** Early Man may Have Taken Up Agriculture to Get High on Booze
According to a report, as early as around 9,000 years ago, long before the
invention of the wheel, inhabitants of the Neolithic village Jiahu in China
were brewing a type of mead with an alcohol content of 10 percent
** Enlightened age for the arts in Britain is cast into shadow
A decade of unprecedented investment in galleries and museums is ending and
a return to the dark days of closures, entry charges and pandering to the
familiar looms
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** Police recover stolen Auschwitz sign
Polish police said early Monday they have recovered the Nazi German "Arbeit
macht frei" sign stolen from the site of the Auschwitz death camp in
southern Poland and arrested the alleged thieves
** London Museum Unveils Medieval, Renaissance Treasures
The V and A is lucky to have really one of the greatest collections of
European art from the Medieval and early Modern period
** Field Museum offers special display case package for marriage proposals
Neelam Patel couldn't believe it when she saw her boyfriend, Neal Patel,
reach his hand into a case at the Field Museum and grab the diamond ring
sitting inside
** Chagall exhibit pulled from troubled Fresno museum
Trouble keeps coming to Fresno's cultural centrepiece as an exhibitor pulled
65 etchings by Marc Chagall over the weekend fearing the Metropolitan Museum
is about to shut for good
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** Ship museum to follow in Expo's wake
Shanghai's century-old Jiangnan Shipyard will turn its pavilion at the World
Expo 2010 into the city's largest ship museum when the Expo ends
** Germany refuses to return Nefertiti bust to Egypt
German officials have ruled out returning an ancient bust of Queen Nefertiti
to Egypt - saying it is too fragile to be transported
** Ex-Brooklyn Museum manager admits swiping $620G
Dwight Newton, a college dropout, was able to carry out the scheme
undetected for more than three years while in charge of payroll and
accounting at the venerable institution
** Mammoths Were Alive More Recently Than Thought
The new view - that pockets of beasts survived to as recently as 7,600 years
ago, rather than the previous end times mark of 12,000 years ago - is
supported by DNA evidence found in a few pinches of dirt
** Software Tells If van Gogh Is Authentic or Not
Scientists at the Tilburg University in the Netherlands, led by expert Igor
Berezhnoy, have managed to create a new and revolutionary computer program
that is capable of recognizing an authentic van Gogh painting from a forged
one
** First look inside England's new Titanic museum
Our focus is to focus on the human stories surrounding the disaster, rather
than the event itself and we also focus on Southampton in 1912 and life in
the merchant navy at the turn of the century
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** Nelson-Atkins Museum opens new American Indian galleries
The statement was, indeed, bold: American Indian art no longer is consigned
to the "primitive" or "tribal" galleries, with dusty dioramas of mannequins
dressed in headdresses and beadwork that may, or may not, have been from the
correct tribe
** The Rosetta Stone and a new code of cultural exchange
If I want to look at the Rosetta Stone, the Egyptian basalt stele with
trilingual inscriptions that allowed scholars to crack the code of ancient
hieroglyphics, the British Museum will e-mail me detailed pictures free of
charge
** Cleopatra temple rises from sunken city
Egyptian archaeologists have lifted an ancient granite temple pylon out of
the waters of the Mediterranean, where it had lain for centuries as part of
the palace complex of Cleopatra, submerged in Alexandria's harbour
** London Debates 2009: What role do museums play in the globalisation of
culture?
The University of London's School of Advanced Study is pleased to announce
the publication of a policy document on museums and the globalisation of
culture, arising from its 2009 London Debates workshop.
** Allsorts09: Collecting sector and media partnerships
The Collections Australia Network (CAN) has posted six videos from the
Allsorts Online 09 Forum in Adelaide for the benefit of those people who
were not able to travel the distance.
** New Zealand's First Chinese Immigrant
Nelson Museum - This exhibition celebrates the life of New Zealand's first
Chinese Immigrant and early Nelson settler Wong Ah Poo Hoc Ting also known
as Appo Hocton.
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