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week's edition include:
** Museum director goes after feds
The founding director of the Custer Battlefield Museum in Montana has filed
a lawsuit alleging that two dozen armed federal agents violated his
constitutional rights when they raided the museum, his home and other
businesses in 2005 and again in 2008
** Da Vinci script unearthed in French town library
A long-lost fragment of manuscript by Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci
has been uncovered in a public library in western France after lying
forgotten in storage for nearly one and a half centuries
** Feature Site - The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museums
The Museum is dedicated to the preservation, advancement and presentation of
the maritime history and shipwrecks of the North Carolina Outer Banks from
the earliest periods of exploration and/or colonization to the present day,
with particular emphasis on the period from 1524 to 1945
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** Maritime Museum rescued
A shipowner and the City of Oslo have thrown out a life preserver to the
financially troubled Norwegian Maritime Museum; it won't have to close to
the public after all
** Taiwan turns military brothel into museum
The brothel, which has been given the euphemistic name "Special Tea House
Museum" by the organisers, was originally established to entertain officers
and soldiers stationed on Kinmen, a fortified island just off the Chinese
coast
** Jimmy Stewart Museum needs a George Bailey miracle
Similar hardships have closed the doors at museums dedicated to other icons
whose once-gleaming luminescence has begun to fade with age
** Museum Sells Pieces of Its Past, Reviving a Debate
These were just a few of more than 2,000 items quietly sold by the
Philadelphia History Museum over the last several years, all part of an
effort to cull its collection of 100,000 artifacts and raise money for a
$5.8 million renovation of its 1826 building
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** Space Science and the 16th Century
Led by the University of Leicester, this innovative heritage science project
draws together space scientists, art-historians, archaeologists and
museologists from Leicester, Oxford, Yale, and English Heritage
** Thieves steal truck full of art in Spain
Thieves near Madrid, Spain, have stolen a truck with 28 works of art,
including at least one Picasso
** Johns Hopkins opens new museum housing archaeological collection
Ancient sculptures, pottery, jewelry, weapons and tools from the Americas to
the Middle East will now get their moment in a mix of sun and cool museum
light that illuminates an expanded new display space after an $85 million
renovation
** Time to lose control
The AMDM is a mesmerising virtual ride but it bears little resemblance to
how museums are using digital tools, or to what lies ahead once they fully
embrace new media
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** Recovering China's Past on Kenya's Coast
In the early 1400s, nearly a century before Vasco da Gama reached eastern
Africa, Chinese records say that the great admiral Zheng He took his vast
fleet of treasure ships as far as Kenya's northern Swahili coast
** Inside the world's 'most expensive' book
To others, John James Audubon's "Birds of America" is a rare blend of art,
natural history and craftsmanship, unique enough to be the world's most
expensive book, expected to fetch more than $9.5 million at a London auction
** Art museum directors issue stern Smithsonian rebuke
The Assn. of Art Museum Directors have issued an unusual, strongly worded
rebuke to the Smithsonian Institution and the National Portrait Gallery in
Washington, D.C., for censoring a work of art
** Avatar Gets Its Own Museum Exhibit
On June 4, 2011, the Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum
(EMP|SFM) is opening Avatar: The Exhibition.
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** Rare Degas painting heading back to France
A rare Degas painting that was stolen nearly 40 years ago from a French
museum will be returned to France under an agreement arranged by the U.S.
Justice Department
** Natural History Museum Revives Silk Road
"Traveling the Silk Road" is an impressive journey for the student price of
$18, one in which each traveler is supplied with a passport, which is
stamped at every destination
** Ashmolean Museum in Oxford plans to expand
The museum, which dates back to the 17th Century, plans to expand the
Egyptian and Ruskin collections into space partly occupied by the shop
** Vietnamese folk paintings showcased
51 Vietnamese folk paintings are showcased in an exhibition on Vietnamese
folk paintings, by the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, the Quang Ninh Museum and
the Quang Ninh Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Halong Bay
** Robert Burns museum opens at his former home in Ayrshire
A major new museum celebrating the birthplace, life and poetry of Robert
Burns has opened at his former home in Ayrshire, after a two-year delay and
a series of controversies about its handling
** The Archaeology of Recovery: Adaptive Strategies in Response to Crisis
Following the success of last year's "Death, Downturn and Destruction: the
Archaeology of Crises", we are excited to announce a re-exploration of this
theme for the 2011 Graduate Archaeology at Oxford Conference: "The
Archaeology of Recovery: Adaptive Strategies in Response to Crisis" 18-19
March 2011.
** Museums in the 21st century. Ideas, projects and buildings
To follow the Anselm Kiefer exhibition, Musea stad Antwerpen, the Museum of
Contemporary Art (M HKA) and the Royal Museum of Fine Art (KMSKA) are
holding another exhibition entitled Museums in the 21st century
** Social Media, Online Collections Tools, and Small Museums
Part of Sustaining Things: Museum Studies Workshops at the University of
Delaware
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