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week's edition include:
** Britain's favourite Picasso heads to Qatar after failure to raise £50m
Child with a Dove, which has been in the UK since 1924, was described by the
Arts Council as the "probably the most famous work by Picasso in a UK
collection"
** Two million-year-old creature had mix of ape, human traits
A 2 million-year-old ancestor of man had a mixture of ape and human-like
features that allowed it to hike vast distances on two legs with as much
ease as it could scurry up trees, according to research
** Getting stuffed: a tale of love and taxidermy
Does there come a day in every man's life when he looks around and says to
himself: I've got to weed out some of these owls?
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** Lauder donates billion-dollar collection to Met
Lauder, the emeritus chairman of Estée Lauder, a major art collector and
philanthropist, has pledged to give the New York museum his collection of 78
works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger,
believed to be one of the foremost collections of Cubism in the world
** Museum holds circus celebration
The Ella Sharp Museum was transformed into a circus complete with jugglers,
live music, food and beverage at the opening reception and unveiling of
their newest exhibit called "Under the Big Top"
** The Hangman's Tale: Archaeologists Dig into History of Execution
In Germany, growing interest in "execution site archaeology" is throwing
much light on how the executed died and the executors lived
** First tests of old patent medicine remedies from a museum collection
What was in Dr. F. G. Johnson's French Female Pills and other scientifically
untested elixirs, nostrums and other quack cures that were the only
medicines available to sick people during the 18th, 19th and early 20th
centuries?
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** Museum reveals new addition to Titanic exhibit
The original 1912 report of an influential British investigation into
Titanic's sinking was used by the Cunard Line to upgrade the safety
standards for its vast fleet in the wake of the Titanic tragedy
** Medieval knight's tomb found beneath parking lot
Archaeologists who were on hand during the construction of a new building in
Edinburgh uncovered a carved sandstone slab, decorated with markers of
nobility - a Calvary cross and a sword
** Museum unveils disputed painting not seen in decades
But if it were deemed a real Van Gogh, not a pretender to the brush, the
painting would suddenly enjoy art world interest, public fascination and
wildly increased value - not to mention soaring insurance premiums
** Motion Picture Academy unveils ambitious plans for film museum
The architectural centerpiece of the 290,000-square-foot complex, just west
of the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, would be a giant
glass-enclosed dome, which Piano refers to as the "sphere" and the "soap
bubble"
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their experience or our contribution to their wellbeing
** Mysterious sundial may be secret to Viking navigation
A mysterious Viking sundial found in Greenland may have helped the ancient
mariners sail at the same north-south latitude across the Atlantic, new
research suggests
** Newark Museum lays off 14 employees in restructuring that will mean
fewer exhibitions
Since the recession hit rock bottom, we've done annual surveys of the field
and they show that staff cuts and cutting back on programs have been the
rule rather than the exception
** Hope for Iraq's heritage
A decade ago in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, a curator sat holding his head
in despair amid shattered exhibit cases and broken statues
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** Paris' Louvre museum closed after staff walk off job to protest
pickpocket problem
The Louvre was closed after its workers walked off their jobs to protest
what is said to be a rising problem of pickpockets haunting the famed Paris
museum's vast galleries
** New Palestinian museum 'safe place for unsafe ideas'
The original idea came from the 50th anniversary of what Palestinians call
"Nakba" - the Disaster - the phrase that refers to the birth of the modern
state of Israel in 1948, and the displacement of some 700,000 Palestinians
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio - You've managed to overcome a lot in order to become a senior
marketing manager, primarily your hopes, aspirations, and dreams
** 'Entire streets' of Roman London uncovered in the City
About 10,000 finds have been discovered, including writing tablets and good
luck charms and the area has been dubbed the "Pompeii of the north" due to
the perfect preservation of organic artefacts such as leather and wood
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** Myanmar to open museum in home of late UN Secretary-General U Thant
A home that once belonged to a former United Nations secretary-general, the
late U Thant, is being restored and will open as a new museum in Yangon,
Myanmar's largest city
** 9/11 Museum Exhibits Will Really Talk to Visitors
When the 9/11 Memorial Museum opens next year, its first exhibit will be
spare and elegant, enveloping visitors with the personal accounts of people
from around the world describing where they were, and what they felt, on
Sept. 11, 2001
** Hear From a Real Space Station Astronaut
at the San Diego Air & Space Museum's Tenth Annual Space Day
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** Sustaining the Impact of UK Science and Heritage Research
Queen Elizabeth 2 Conference Centre, London. October 29th - 31st 2013
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