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week's edition include:
** Iran's National Museum Drops Ties with British Museum
Iran's National Museum on Saturday cut ties with the British Museum in
protest at the delayed implementation of an agreement held earlier between
the two sides on sending the Cyrus Cylinder to Iran
** Cupid's Keep and much more
Museum of Art is a labour of love for James Draper, even more so now that
he's in charge of a special curly-haired Cupid that first caught his eye in
1990 and was later attributed to Michelangelo
** British Library puts Captain Scott's final diary online
By the end of March, he recognises that there is no hope of survival and
begins to consider the legacy of his expedition, which maintained a
scientific program throughout (Scott's party lugged 35 pounds of geological
specimens to their deaths)
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** Kansas City art museum announces 400 donated works
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has announced a major gift
from dozens of patrons, including its single largest donation
** Oil palm industry threatens survival of Malaysia's tribal arts
Their artworks have been recognised as part of the world's heritage and can
fetch thousands of US dollars in auctions, but the Mah Meri tribe, and their
wood carving tradition, are increasingly falling victim to Malaysia's
lucrative palm oil industry
** Reprieve for rock art
Efforts to preserve the ancient rock art of Utah's famed Nine Mile Canyon
received a much-needed boost on 5 January with the signing of an agreement
to safeguard the 10,000 petroglyphs and pictographs that decorate the canyon
** Staff at the National Portrait Gallery dealt with unwanted visitors by
stamping on their heads, according to previously unseen documents
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** Explorers' century-old whisky found in Antarctic
Five crates of Scotch whisky and two of brandy have been recovered by a team
restoring an Antarctic hut used more than 100 years ago by famed polar
explorer Ernest Shackleton
** Queen steps in over museum signature slip
Museum volunteers in Norfolk have been left red-faced after the Queen
reminded them to let her sign a visitors' book
** Snooty the Manatee on
In the more than 60 years he's lived in Bradenton, more than one million
people have visited Snooty, and students nationwide have learned about
manatees with the help of the South Florida Museum staff
** Pirates plunder shipwreck safe
In a modern-day act of piracy on a sophisticated scale, one of the safes
aboard the Heritage-listed wreck has been cut open 75 metres down and its
contents stolen
** Passion portraits: A new exhibition reveals the delicate beauty of
'paper mosaiks'
There is hope for us all in the knowledge that Mary Delany, whose intricate
paper flowers are the highlight of an exhibition opening this month at Sir
John Soane's Museum in London, only began making these collages at the age
of 73
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** Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies
The last speaker of an ancient tribal language has died in the Andaman
Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world's oldest cultures
** Four women work to prevent Dead Sea scrolls from fading away
Their job is to ensure the manuscripts on show are exhibited in ideal
conditions and to restore the tens of thousands of fragments that suffered
not only from the ravages of time but also from past conservation efforts
** Met Museum Portfolio Fell by Over $600 Million Amid Staff Cuts
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art shed 14 percent of its staff in the
year ending in June as its long-term portfolio declined by about $660
million, or 24 percent, to $2.1 billion
** Kate Moss to be honoured with museum show
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris will stage a major exhibition in 2011
based on the 36-year-old supermodel for serving as an inspiration to
designers and artists
** Museum Directors Engage in 2010
In an online betting match that began via Twitter, museum directors Maxwell
L. Anderson, The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis
Museum of Art (IMA), and E. John Bullard, The Montine McDaniel Freeman
Director and CEO of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), agreed to a
three-month loan of a significant work of art to the museum in the city
whose NFL team won the Super Bowl
** John Lennon museum in Saitama Japan to close
Under the themes of "Love & Peace," the Museum has presented to visitors 40
years of his life from various angles, and many people sympathised with not
only his music but also his way of life and thinking
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio. Oct 24 to Nov 21- Your hatred of the strange and unfamiliar leads
you to open hundreds of identical fast-food restaurants
** Archaeology and the struggle for Jerusalem
John Seligman has worked for Israel's Antiquities Authority for years and
says that it was not his job to agree or disagree with the political
motivation of the sponsors of an archaeological site
** Universal Access to Culture: History and Technology
The M.A. Program in Museum Professions at Seton Hall University is pleased
to present Universal Access to Culture: History and Technology
** Museums in Conversation
Registration is now open for the 2010 Museums in Conversation Conference
** Smithsonian Early Enrichment Centre
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Centre: Upcoming Seminars
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