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week's edition include:
** Killer fungus linked to vanishing amphibians
Studying decades-old museum samples of frogs, toads and salamanders,
biologists trace the path of a deadly skin disease across Mexico and Central
America
** Austrian officials say unearthed treasure includes pieces made for royal
court
A trove of medieval jewelry and other precious objects found by a man
working in his backyard includes pieces made for a royal court and may be
worth as much as 100,000 euros ($150,000) government experts have said
** Tunis museum flourishes after Ben Ali fall
Home to the world's largest collection of Roman mosaics, there are also
statues, busts of emperors, an important collection of fabrics hailing from
the Fatimid dynasty and a hoard of 1,600 gold pieces dating back to 430 AD
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** Capt. Kidd Shipwreck Site to Be Dedicated 'Living Museum of the Sea
Nearly three years after the discovery of the shipwreck Quedagh Merchant,
abandoned by the scandalous 17th century pirate Captain William Kidd, the
underwater site will be dedicated as a "Living Museum of the Sea" by Indiana
University, IU researcher and archeologist Charles Beeker, and the
government of the Dominican Republic
** Palace Museum apologizes for stolen relics, museum security to be
tightened
A spokesman with the Beijing-based Palace Museum offered an apology to the
Hong Kong-based Liang Yi Museum after several of the Hong Kong museum's
relics were stolen from an exhibition at the Palace Museum
** Duxford rolls out its Spitfires
This year is the 75th anniversary of the inaugural flight of the Spitfire;
one of 20th century Britain's crowning achievements in aeronautical
engineering, a plane as impressive now as it was back then
** 'Bog butter' from 3,000 BC found
This ancient food substance, thought to been buried as a form of
refrigeration, is thought to be 5,000 years old, dating from the Iron Age
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** Ice Aquarium Leaves Freshly Caught Sea Creatures (and Visitors) Cold
The Aquarium (more like a museum or a supermarket's frozen seafood section,
actually) contains about 50 clear ice columns from which octopuses, crabs,
salmon, saury and other local sea creatures gaze out sightlessly upon humans
hoping to beat the heat of Japan's notoriously hot & humid summer
** Wal-Mart family's $800-million art museum gift is stupendous - but not a
record
It makes for a good story, but the munificent $800-million gift from the
family that owns Wal-Mart, meant to endow programs and operations at Alice
Walton's under-construction art museum in rural Arkansas, is not the largest
such gift ever made to a U.S. art museum
** Manx Museum appeals for good sports
Ex-postman Stuart Slack, who would go on to become a celebrated Manx folk
musician, notched a bronze for the 120-mile cycling road race, and the Isle
has won a total of eight Commonwealth medals, including gold in the men's
skeet shooting and cycling
** Mummifying chickens for fun and educational profit
After two weeks the stench was so strong that museum security came to ask us
what was going on, because the smell was spreading to other parts of the
building
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** The Dawn of the 'Modern Woman'
Fashionable footwear in the 1920s reflected the new freedoms opening up for
women; from the invention of the T-strap shoe designed to keep women's shoes
on their feet while doing the Charleston to the menswear influenced shoes
worn by women stepping out of the domestic sphere into the public realm
** Tall ship Glenlee moves to new Riverside Museum berth
One of the world's last remaining Clyde-built tall ships has been moved to a
new berth outside the Riverside Museum in Glasgow
** Cellophane, sand, lipstick
For those who delight in the annual provocation and eccentricity of the
Turner Prize nominees, this year's batch is no disappointment
** Naked for 72 Years, a Bugatti Gets Fitted for a Suit
Mr. Mullin has specified a distinctive and streamlined coupe, true to the
period, with upsweeping papillon, or butterfly, doors, which were part of
Jean Bugatti's original design brief and predate similar designs ultimately
made famous by the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL gullwing coupes of the 1950s
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** Mayan treasures unearthed for Canadian show
The exhibit will spotlight nearly 250 artifacts - including ceramics,
sculptures, masks and other valuable pieces - drawn largely from Mexico's
Yucatan Peninsula, but also from Honduras, Guatemala and Belize
** Museum to reveal treasures of Anglo-Saxon princess
The astonishing artefacts - found in Loftus, East Cleveland, between 2005
and 2007 at the only known Anglo-Saxon royal burial site in North-East
England - have been hailed by archaeologists as some of the rarest ever
discovered
** Austrian Museum To Sell Schiele Painting
An Austrian museum says it is selling a prized Egon Schiele painting to
cover the cost of the loan it took to recover another of the expressionist
artist's works
** Director Quits After Folk Museum Misses $3.7 Million Payment
Exhibitions of paintings, drawings and quilts - many of them acclaimed -
failed to attract attendance and revenue projected a decade ago when the
bonds were issued
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** Confucius Statue Vanishes Near Tiananmen Square
Apparently, someone extremely powerful has taken the saying to heart, having
decided that a 31-foot bronze statue of the ancient Chinese sage that was
unveiled near Tiananmen Square four months ago did not belong on the nation's
most hallowed slice of real estate
** Museumpalooza
Association of Midwest Museums (AMM) and the Illinois Association of Museums
(IAM)
** Measuring and Promoting Museum Success
Registrations are now open for the 2011 Marketing and Public Relations
International Committee of ICOM Conference to be held this year in Brno,
Czech Republic from the 17th-20th September.
** Informal Universe
Kuwait Museum of Modern Art presents SOLO exhibition of Italian artist Enzo
Manara Genesis: Informal Universe.
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