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week's edition include:
** Families' fears over war museum security
Relatives of soldiers whose medals went missing from the Waiouru Army Museum
say they have lost faith in its security
** Travelling space show costs too much for Canadian museums
The Canadian Space Agency's elaborate plans to celebrate its 20th
anniversary in 2010 with a travelling international exhibit backfired
because the show was too big
** Paintings missing after Oslo bombing
Concern is mounting about the fate of large numbers of works of art owned by
Norwegian government ministries or lent to them by the Nasjonalmuseet
(National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design) and Public Art Norway
(Koro), following the terrorist attack in Oslo on 22 July
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** The toothless and often irritatingly capricious watchdog has this year
been chopped down to size and merged with the Design Council, but the
commission's criticisms of the original proposal had bite
** Aztec Maps Put Cortés to Shame
To expose El Gordo's greed, census takers from the Acolhua-Aztecs, a subset
of the larger Aztec group, set out to count their own numbers in the
mid-1500s and tally the extent of their farmland and hence their tax burden
** Quartet faces German court in multimillion euro bogus art case
The most spectacular art forgery trial in decades opened in the western
German city of Cologne on Thursday, with four defendants facing charges of
collecting profits of around 16 million euros ($22 million) for peddling
fake masterpieces
** Benghazi museum shows scars, triumphs of Libya revolt
Free for the first time to make art about whatever he wants, veteran Libyan
sculptor Ali al-Wakwak chose gnarled mortar shrapnel, bullet casings and
shattered gun barrels as his medium
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** Man steals 8-foot whale tooth from Norway museum
Fiskaa says the thief was between 40 and 50 years old and took off with the
tooth together with a big, white dog that he had left outside the museum
before entering
** Iconic Japan cartoon cat gets his own museum
The museum collection features 50,000 items, many of which are original
drawings, as well as a desk and other things used by Fujio until his death
in 1996
** Cyclone Yasi uncovers lost shipwreck of 1880 brigantine Belle
Months of detective work has confirmed the identify of the two-masted
vessel, uncovered in Ramsay Bay, near Cardwell, after the monster cyclone
hit in February
** Stolen Rubens found in Greece
Greek police have found a 17th century painting by Flemish grand master
Pieter Paul Rubens stolen from a museum in Belgium in 2001
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** Canterbury Museum 'will bring people back'
The museum is one of neo-gothic buildings in Christchurch that survived the
earthquakes and the first attraction in the cultural precinct to reopen
after the February 22 earthquake
** Forbidden City turning into China's palace of shame
In a year that has seen a thief tunnel through the walls, artworks smashed
by staff and allegations of tax evasion levelled against senior management,
the red-walled palace compound has also become a source of quiet national
shame
** Smithsonian To Host Exhibit On Jefferson, Slavery
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is
planning an exhibit with Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to explore the third
president's history with slavery
** Irish Museum offers reward for finder of meteorite
The glowing fireball, travelling at speeds of 100,000mph, was spotted
shortly after midnight on Monday, August 22, by hundreds of people from Cork
to Belfast and all along the east coast
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn - You're a self-made woman, which is a point of pride, but also
means explaining a lot to the people working the X-ray machine at the
airport
** The Magic and Myth of Alchemy
"The Magic and Myth of Alchemy" exhibit was created in honor of the
International Year of Chemistry, an event celebrated by chemists and
chemistry associations throughout 2011
** Te Ao Maori: Maori Treasures from the Otago Museum at the Shanghai
Museum
The first ever exhibition of Maori taoka (treasures) in a Chinese museum, Te
Ao Maori is an introduction to the culture and mythology of the indigenous
people of New Zealand
** Rare find discovered amid town's Old West kitsch
Heritage commission curators, representing the Gypsy's owner - the state of
Montana - rejected the idea, saying cashing in on this piece of history
would be akin to selling their soul
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** Tibet Was Cradle of Evolution for Pre-Ice Age Giants
High on the Tibetan Plateau, paleontologists have uncovered the skull of a
previously unknown species of ancient rhino, a woolly furred animal that
came equipped with a built-in snow shovel on its face
** Riddle of missing Third Reich files
Police in Krakow southern Poland are cooperating in a sensational
international investigation that may lead to the retrieval of a raft of lost
Nazi WW II-era files
** Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian Events
October 2011 Events
** MPMA Workshop : Introduction to Grant Writing
At MPMA's 2011 Conference. Helena, Montana: Between Yellowstone and Glacier
** Practical information management in a changing world
Wednesday 28th September 2011, Museum of London
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