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week's edition include:
** Titanic auction not popular at Maritime Museum
As a member of the congress, a worldwide organization of maritime museums,
"it's our belief that we don't go salvage things from shipwrecks," she said.
"We're into preserving and documenting - not into pillaging."
** Vermeer's silent women draw a record attendance
While the Leonardo juggernaut crams crowds into the National Gallery in
London, 117,000 people have packed into the small first-floor space to see
the contrasting collection of only 32 paintings depicting the world of
17th-century Dutch women, as portrayed by Johannes Vermeer and other Dutch
masters
** Darwin gun may rewrite history
A Darwin boy may help to rewrite Australia's history after unearthing what
he believes is a 500-year-old Portuguese swivel gun on a Northern Territory
beach
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** David Hockney vs Damien Hirst
A row is threatening to break out between two of Britain's most celebrated
artists after David Hockney criticised Damien Hirst for the "insulting" use
of assistants to create his works
** Museum set for more restoration heroics after storms batter historic
windmill
A windmill built more than 200 years ago which has become one of
Worcestershire's most cherished historic structures will require urgent
salvation efforts after museum staff returned for the new year to find
"horrifying" damage caused by recent fierce storms
** China's tomb raiders laying waste to thousands of years of history
China's extraordinary historical treasures are under threat from
increasingly aggressive and sophisticated tomb raiders, who destroy precious
archaeological evidence as they swipe irreplaceable relics
** Picasso Works Stolen From Greece's Largest Art Museum
Thieves executed a brazen early-morning burglary of Greece's largest art
museum Monday, making off with three works, including one by the
20th-century master Pablo Picasso
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** In Ancient Pompeii, Trash and Tombs Went Hand in Hand
Emmerson's research counters long-held assumptions about how and why tombs
around Pompeii have been found piled high with ancient trash deposits in and
around the structures, including butchered and charred animal bones, dog and
equine bones, broken pottery and broken architectural material
** Saving A Century - The Victorian Society
The Victorian Society has been championing Victorian and Edwardian buildings
for more than 50 years and photos from their archives form the basis of the
exhibition, Saving a Century, now open at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum
** Top museums in Spanish capital post record attendance numbers last year
Madrid's top three museums - the Prado, the Reina Sofia and the
Thyssen-Bornemisza - received a record number of visitors last year as
blockbuster exhibits drew crowds despite a weak economy
** Aussies truly Louvre famed museum
The tired stereotype of the bogan Aussie traveller looks set for a revamp,
with new figures showing Australians are among the top four visitors to the
Louvre
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** Ancient Pornographic Artifact Discovered by the Thames
The example found near Putney Bridge and given to the Museum of London is
evidence that brothels in Roman Londinium were just as busy as they were in
ancient Pompeii, where brothels and their lewd wall paintings are among the
well-preserved everyday shops of a Roman town
** Woman punched and scratched $40m Clyfford Still painting and rubbed her
buttocks on it
A 36-year-old woman is accused of causing $10,000 worth of damage to a
$40million painting after she punched, scratched and rubbed her behind
against it before urinating on herself
** Prehistoric Predators With Supersized Teeth Had Beefier Arm Bones
The false saber-toothed cats - also known as nimravids - and their catlike
cousins, a family of carnivores called the barbourofelids lived millions of
years before cats came to be, and had knife-like canines along with
well-built arm bones
** British Museum canters through 5,000 years of equine history
The British Museum is planning its first exhibition devoted to the horse,
with a display tracing the animal's story across thousands of years of human
history
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** Bonnie, Clyde guns await auction gavel
The weapons are believed to be among those seized after a raid April 13,
1933, at the outlaws' apartment hide-out near 34th Street and Oak Ridge
Drive in Joplin and until recently were displayed in the Springfield Police
Museum
** From The Blogs - Branding at the university museum
I've always been a bit suspicious of branding; important for selling things,
perhaps, but museums aren't in the selling business and university museums
are even further removed from the market
** The Museum of Celebrity Leftovers
A couple in Cornwall are showcasing food left behind by stars; it's one of
the great cultural phenomena of the 21st Century - the appetite for learning
about famous people's lives, no matter how banal the details
** Polish art student hangs own painting in museum
Art student Andrzej Sobiepan didn't want to wait decades for his work to
appear in museums so he took matters in his own hands, covertly hanging one
of his paintings in a major Polish gallery
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** Scientists create invisibility cloak - with a wrinkle in time
Think of it as an art theft that takes place before your eyes and
surveillance cameras; you do not see the thief strolling into the museum,
taking the painting down or walking away, but he did
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio - The circumstances of your life will combine in such a way as to
grant you possession of a great many lemons. However, all the advice you
receive regarding their purpose will be useless and trite
** Enriching Cultural Heritage
CIDOC 2012 Helsinki - 1st Call for Contributions
** Call for Applications for the 2012 Museum Education Marketplace of Ideas
The Standing Professional Committee on Education (EdCom) of the American
Association of Museums in collaboration with the Museum Education Roundtable
(MER)
** Small Museum Association 28th Annual Conference
Sunday, February 19 - Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Clarion Resort
Fontainebleau Hotel, Ocean City, MD
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