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week's edition include:
** Serota splashes Tate cash - to cut galleries' costs
Staff at the Tate galleries are furious about the use of two external
consultants who have made £750,000 of savings, describing their techniques
as "psychobabble" whose only purpose is to force through job cuts
** Defending national sovereignty by ancient coins
Vietnam's history is clearly reflected through ancient coins with each coin
associated with a dynasty, a king and a historical period of the country
** Strange Museums - The Dog Collar Museum
Mrs. Gertrude Hunt most generously presented her collection of collars to
the Leeds Castle Foundation in memory of her husband, John Hunt, the
distinguished medievalist
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** Archaeology celebrates 20th anniversary of discovery of 'Ice man' mummy
Twenty years ago, a German couple hiking the Italian Alps veered off a
marked footpath and stumbled upon one of the world's oldest and most
important archeological finds: Oetzi, "The Iceman"
** Museum Admission as an Expression of Mission
The museums with whom I've spoken haven't shed much light on the types of
considerations or calculations that go into setting admission prices
** World of decorative art is being revolutionised by 3D printing
An exhibition at the V&A, as part of the London Design Festival next month,
intends to open the public's eyes to the artistic potential of this
futuristic technology by featuring items from sculptures to pieces of
furniture to fashion
** Worldwide Water Under Spotlight at Science Museum
A new exhibition at the Science Museum looks at creative ideas engineers
have developed to help secure water and beat a global food crisis including
bug batteries, cloud catchers and seawater greenhouses
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** Controversy over Pompeii funding
Politicians and archaeological experts are at loggerheads over the funding
of the restoration and conservation of Pompeii ten months after the House of
Gladiators collapsed
** First dung works discovered
Ofili, who was born in Manchester of Nigerian parents, had never visited
Africa before his trip to Zimbabwe, which would have a profound influence on
his work
** US museum aims to get Taiwanese fighter aloft again
It will take at least another year for a decommissioned Taiwanese Lockheed
F-104G Starfighter sent to the US Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum in
Hillsboro, Oregon, in 2006 to take to the skies again
** The philanderer, the Archbishop and a secret funeral
It is understood that the painter, who was Jewish and came to Britain as a
refugee from Nazi Germany in 1933, was a longstanding friend and confidante
of the bishop, because of a family connection through Dr Williams's wife
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** Nazi-Plundered Jewish Museum Shows Lost Collection in Berlin
Berlin's first Jewish Museum opened in January 1933, just one week before
the Nazis seized power; Karl Schwarz, its founder, realized immediately that
the museum was doomed and his life was in danger
** Live webcam tracks Broad museum construction
The Broad Foundation has set up a live online camera feed so that people can
track the progress of the museum
** Museum to allow DNA tests for man who suspects he's ex-PM 's son
A museum dedicated to John Diefenbaker has decided to give a man who
suspects he's the former prime minister's only child access to its artifacts
for DNA testing
** Civil War doll Nina stars in detective story
While X-rays revealed that her papier-mache head was in fact hollow,
technicians at the state crime lab in Richmond swabbed the inside of Nina's
head and found no residue of either quinine, used to treat malaria, or
morphine for wounded troops
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** Judge tosses lawsuit over Custer museum raids
A federal judge threw out a lawsuit claiming federal agents illegally raided
Montana's Custer Battlefield Museum during an investigation into the alleged
sale of fraudulent battlefield artifacts and eagle feathers
** Government photos take new form online
Taken between 1935 and 1943 by renowned photographers such as Dorothea Lange
and Walker Evans, the photographs document scenes of American poverty and
were used as propaganda in government pamphlets in support of the New Deal
** Mayor wants to hire interns to keep museums open
Interns are fine if you want to have them be docents or gallery greeters to
learn about how a museum operates,but an intern, even an intern with a
degree in art or a degree in history, is not the same as an experienced
professional director, and that's what both organizations need in order to
operate
** City Hall mum on attendance at museums
City-operated museums in Toronto with low attendance and revenues may be
facing the hatchet, but exactly which ones will close is unknown
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** Lest we should ever be allowed to forget
Memorial museums are proliferating with countless galleries devoted to the
display of death and destruction
** Ancient Toothy Fish Once Prowled Arctic Waters
A large predatory fish with a fearsome mouth once prowled ancient North
American waterways, suggests an analysis of fossilized remains of the beast
** Universal Design in Museums, Archives and Historic Sites
Call for Presentations. Eastern Illinois University
** Toyland: Fun in the Making screens
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