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week's edition include:
** Austrian museum fires employee for washing hands, face with own urine
Alfred Zoppelt says he was fired after 23 years of working as an attendant
at the Belvedere, a castle in Vienna with a major art collection
** Backlog in Baghdad
The staff of Iraq's National Museum are struggling to create an inventory of
its war-torn collection, so far documenting 20,000 antiquities, less than
10% of its approximately 240,000-strong holdings
** Brunel archive reveals hidden treasures in show-and-tell at Bristol
docks
The archive is housed beside Brunel's restored ship, the SS Great Britain -
the world's first ocean-going, propellor-driven iron ship in 1838, now a
museum in its original dry dock
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** Rugby museum gets ready to kick off
The museum's "Rare 15" items include the oldest-known All Blacks match
programme (from 1893); a whistle from the 1905 "Originals" tour and a trophy
made from a stuffed kiwi, which was to be presented to the first team who
defeated the All Blacks on their 1924-25 tour
** The British Museum: marbles, murals... and manga!
With its crumbling pillars and fading frescoes, the British Museum isn't the
first thing you'd associate with Japanese graphic novels
** Cries of 'spiritual bankruptcy'
One former lecturer at Leeds College of Art, who taught there when Hirst
attended, has now criticised Hirst's apparent obsession with expensive,
marketable products, over and above artistic innovation
** Rembrandt work stolen from Marina del Rey hotel
Whitmore said the small piece, approximately 11-by-6 inches, is by Rembrandt
van Rijn, the 17th-century Dutch master, and is titled "The Judgment."
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** Fisherman's Sponge Museum is on his Boat
The last sponge fisherman in Turkey, Mehmet Bas, has begun to exhibit his
sponges in his 8.5-meter-long boat, named the "Aksona," which is docked in
Bodrum harbor, in the Aegean province of Mugla
** Largest Exhibition Of James Bond Vehicles Planned for National Motor
Museum
The exhibition will run at the museum through 2012 and will include some of
the most famous vehicles from the movies, to celebrate fifty years of the
film franchise
** John Brown sledgehammer goes to Marine museum
"The sledge," as its last private owners called it, is the head of one of
the sledgehammers that Marines used to batter the doors of abolitionist John
Brown's hideout at Harpers Ferry on the eve of the Civil War
** Pregnant Sea Monster in LA
The fossil, nicknamed Poly, depicts a 15-foot long plesiosaurus carrying a
two-thirds developed baby in her womb, according to the degree of
ossification, the process that turns cartilage into bone
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** Bad blood between Outfit families, mob museum
There's bad blood between some of Chicago's most notorious Outfit families
and a new mob museum in Las Vegas; in the old days, blood might have been
spilled in a situation like this
** Not Just for the Birds: A Showcase of Nests
To protect bird populations, the U.S. banned the taking of nests and eggs in
1918, and nest gathering is now illegal in most countries
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini - You're good at thinking on your feet, which means next week's
encounter with the bear trap will leave you somewhat dull-witted in addition
to everything else
** Diaries of foreign A-bomb survivors on display at Hiroshima museum
Diaries of Korean and German atomic-bomb survivors depicting the devastation
of Hiroshima and the struggle for postwar compensation are among the
exhibits drawing visitors' attention at the city's peace museum
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** US Launches $27 Million Renovation Of Statue Of Liberty
The U.S. government is shutting down access to the Statue of Liberty's
crown, pedestal and museum for up to a year as it undertakes a $27 million
renovation project to make the monument more safe and accessible
** Behind the Rain
Behind the Rain," the story of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural
History, looks back over a century, detailing the atrocious conditions in
which Oklahoma's priceless collections were housed and the struggle the
people of the state endured as they sought to raise funds for a new museum
** Peru researchers make rare ancient insect find
The director of the Chiclayo-based Meyer-Honninger Paleontology Museum, said
that the experts discovered "an unknown species of arachnid" with a head
like a dog and legs four times longer than the body
** Combing through time
Officials want to clear storage cabinets and shelves at the
5,000-square-foot repository on East Cliff Drive and find new homes for
items that may be more relevant to other museums or venues
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** Gnarly exhibit
The Rehoboth Beach Museum director hopes a new exhibit will educate the
public about how surfing started on the Delaware coast
** Museum closing ice age dig in NY after 29 years
Each summer for the past 29 years, researchers and volunteers have
meticulously scraped away layers of earth - and time - in a swampy western
New York field, uncovering a treasure of mastodon bones, spear tips and
plant fossils that have helped fill in the blanks about life in the ice age
** 29th Annual Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival
October 1 & 2. The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, MD
is hosting one of the nation's largest gatherings of small boat enthusiasts
and unique watercraft at the 29th Annual Mid-Atlantic Small Craft Festival
from 10am to 5pm on Saturday, October 1 and Sunday, October 2.
** Hello Sailor! Gay Life on the Ocean Wave
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia
** Textiles & Politics
The Textile Society of America invites paper proposals for its upcoming
symposium, Textiles & Politics, to be held in Washington, D.C. September
19-22, 2012.
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