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week's edition include:
** Berlin's 120 Million Euro Christmas Gift
It is widely considered one of the most significant collections of
surrealist art in the world; it took collectors Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch 45
years to assemble the 150 sculptures, paintings and drawings from the likes
of Salvador Dali, Joan Miró, Jackson Pollock and Rene Magritte, among others
** Spanish stolen art haul found after offer to scrapyard
Spanish police have recovered stolen art worth millions of euros after one
of the thieves tried to sell a sculpture to a scrap dealer
** Lost Images of 'Human Exhibits' in Britain Discovered
Sir Roger Casement brought back more than verbal or written testimony of
what he discovered in the Amazon - he arranged to have two 'natives' shipped
back so that he could introduce them to leading figures of the British
establishment and arrange for them to be painted and photographed
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** Nuremberg war crimes museum opens
Artifacts from the trial are on display, big U.S. Army evidence boxes, bulky
headsets worn by the accused and their accusers - the trial was
simultaneously translated into English, Russian, French and German - and
even the electrical wall panel through which all the movie cameras and
spotlights were wired for recording of the trial
** Stuff more rare animals
Stuffing rare animals will provide opportunities for Bangladeshi students to
learn the wildlife more and protect the fauna from extinction, experts have
said at a workshop orgnaised by the Bangladesh National Museum
** Culture of Recession? Or Vice Versa?
Whatever the true figures might be, the money argument clearly trumps
squishy pleas for preserving civilization to save the soul of people when
trying to bargain with besieged and parsimonious politicians
** Harry in visit to Holocaust museum
Prince Harry met a Holocaust survivor as he made a private pilgrimage to
Berlin's moving memorial dedicated to all Jews murdered by the Nazi regime
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** Pull over for the San Diego Police Museum
If you have a rebellious youngster who needs a refresher course on the
importance of local law and order, swing by the replica of the jail cell,
the one with the cautionary (if misspelled) graffiti over the toilet ("My
Life, Flushed by the Systum") and the scary popeyed mannequin on the bottom
bunk
** Big Bucks and Been-There Fare
Slaughterhouses-worth of animals have been tortured and killed to enable Ms.
Rubell's career, and everyone smiles and digs in
** Behind the scenes at the museum
As registrar and curator of textiles, Hiester has collected and cataloged
shoes and petticoats and ornate dresses from Charleston's rich past since
she began working here in 1978
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries - Love has been compared to many, many things, but thanks to your
unique outsider's perspective, you'll be the first to spot its uncanny
resemblance to the international bauxite market
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** Denver museum seeks name for mammoth
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is asking the public to help name the
first mammoth found at a fossil site near Snowmass Village
** Thieves swipe AC units from Behringer-Crawford Museum
The thieves who stole the five, 600 pound air-conditioning units outside the
Behringer-Crawford Museum left sled tracks in the snow and a $20,000 bill to
replace them
** Strong's National Museum of Play buys oldest known Monopoly version
The museum has revealed that it was the winning bidder at Sotheby's last
week for the table-sized board game created around 1933 with pen-and-ink and
gouache on a circular piece of oilcloth
** Bill Clinton museum: What memorabilia should be in it?
With its white clapboards, green trim, broad eaves, and front porch, the
place looks like it was tele-transported into this century from the early
1950s
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** Native American images from American Philosophical Society now online
The society has announced that it has digitized and made accessible more
than 1,000 images from its vast collection of Native American images,
including drawings made on the Lewis and Clark expedition, paintings by
C.B.J.F. St. Mémin, sketches by Titian Ramsay Peale, watercolors by James
Otto Lewis, and many more
** Buried in Peru's Desert, Fossils Draw Smugglers
To the bone hunters who stalk the Ocucaje Desert each day, the punishing
winds here have exposed a medley of life and evolution: a prehistoric
graveyard where sea monsters came to rest 40 million years ago
** Pompeii skeletons reveal secrets of Roman family life
The skeletons of a pair of twins show what were almost certainly the signs
of congenital syphilis which, if proved correct, puts paid to the usual idea
that the disease was brought back to Europe from the New World by
Christopher Columbus and his sailors in the 15th Century
** De Young draws the line on sketching
Welcome to the strange world of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,
where there's a ban on sketching in special exhibitions such as the
wonderful "Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond" now at the M.H. de Young
Memorial Museum
** Florida Museum unveils online butterfly identification guide
The Florida Museum of Natural History today launched a new online butterfly
identification guide to help visitors identify the different species in the
Butterfly Rainforest exhibit
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** National Park Service's 2011 Archaeological Prospection Workshop
The National Park Service's 2011 workshop on archaeological prospection
techniques entitled Current Archaeological Prospection Advances for
Non-Destructive Investigations in the 21st Century will be held May 23-27,
2011, at the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park in Brownsville,
Texas
** Read the Past: Write the Future
Using literature in museums and archives to reach young people
** Curate Me: Stewardship of Personal Digital Archives
The 2011 DigCCurr Public Symposium - Curate Me: Stewardship of Personal
Digital Archives is now open for registration.
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