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week's edition include:
** Ancient Aphrodite Sculpture Back in Sicily
The Morgantina museum has devoted a new room for the display of the
Aphrodite, which will complement Demeter and Kore, two other
looted-and-since-returned statues, and other artifacts unearthed from this
area of Sicily which was once part of Magna Grecia (Greater Greece)
** TE Lawrence's reading chair on loan in Germany
Sitting there he must have appeared like a pilot in the cockpit of a fighter
plane, navigating his way through the virtual worlds laid out in his huge
collection of books
** Oh, the Stuff Those Lions Guard
Unlike many Old World museums, it is also not an "imperial" institution,
many of whose holdings were gathered through plunder and conquest
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** Comet Theory Comes Crashing to Earth
It seemed like such an elegant answer to an age-old mystery: the
disappearance of what are arguably North America's first people
** Palace Museum is accused of renting hall to super rich
Beijing's Forbidden City is embroiled in another scandal days after
artefacts were stolen from the former imperial palace
** Smithsonian Says African American Museum Will Be Different
With $100 million in the bank and over 10,000 artifacts ready for display,
the Smithsonian is gearing up to break ground on a new museum dedicated to
African Americans next year
** Italian museum has 750 types of roses
If you want to stop and smell the roses at one Italian museum, better plan
on staying awhile as the founders say they have 750 varieties on display
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** Risking one's neck for better grog
University of Washington sociologists are studying naval records of mutinies
as a way to see how modern-day ill-treatment toward subordinates can lead to
violence
** Fossil hunters return to Snowmass
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has seven weeks to recover whatever
treasures it can from the stunning cache of prehistoric remains that first
came to light late last fall, when a surprised bulldozer operator unearthed
the bones of a Columbian mammoth
** Memories destroyed in a flash
The shutter closed and once the roll was finished, it was off to the
high-street chemist with the film, hotly anticipating the chemical-smelling
prints that would be in our hands before the day was out
** Emin's well-travelled bed lands in Adelaide
Twelve years after the National Gallery of Australia cancelled a provocative
exhibition of contemporary art from London's Saatchi Gallery, the new
director of the Art Gallery of South Australia is set to boost his gallery's
profile with a Saatchi show
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** Stone Age cold case baffles scientists
In Asia's northern hinterlands not far from the Arctic Circle, Stone Age
toolmakers left an evolutionary calling card that's hard to read
** Getty's antiquities acquisition policy accepted
In naming James Cuno president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty
Trust, its board members surprised many in the art world by choosing a
staunch defender of the unfettered acquisition of ancient art to lead an
institution that, after a decade of scandals, has all but abandoned the
practice
** 'Museum Companion to Los Angeles' covers wide, and weird, ground
When the world starts thumbing through the recently published third edition
of "Museum Companion to Los Angeles," Borislav Stanic's exhaustive guide to
every collection of art, artifacts and vehicles, every historic site,
aquarium, botanical garden and zoo he's been able to uncover in Los Angeles
County, the world may well conclude that it didn't know the half of it
** Social Beasts: 35 Ancient Marsupials Found in Grave
The 35 partial skeletons are of the ancient marsupial Pucadelphys andinus, a
ratlike member of the marsupial mammals, which included the extinct
marsupial lion
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** Site Of Interest - The Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum
Today the Museum's permanent collection includes over 4000 pieces of jewelry
and micro sculptures from over 50 collections designed by the museum's
founder, Ilias Lalaounis, between 1940 and 2000
** Mets Manager Indicted For Stealing Millions In Memorabilia
Among the charges against the 53-year-old Queens native are criminal
possession of nearly $2.3 million dollars worth of New York Mets memorabilia
and collectibles
** Museum Puts Belgium's Antwerp on Cultural Map
Built on the docks of a once-derelict neighborhood, the MAS museum hosts
homegrown treasures and those that tall ships brought in from around the
globe for centuries
** Museum manners
From the elegant galleries of the Art Institute of Chicago to the stately
halls of the Field Museum, the blend of modern culture and modern museum
management has created etiquette issues your grandmother's curator could not
have imagined
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** Palace Museum thief arrested
It was the first theft in 20 years at the heavily-guarded former home of
emperors, also known as the Forbidden City and the thief threw away
treasures when told they were fakes
** Learning in Museums 2011
What makes an "extraordinary learning environment"? Is it a physical space?
Is it levels of audience experience/engagement?
** A Philatelic Commemoration of Xinhai Revolutionaries
To commemorate the centenary of the 1911 Revolution, the Dr Sun Yat-sen
Museum is now staging a new exhibition entitled "People Who Made History-A
Philatelic Commemoration of Xinhai Revolutionaries" until August 10.
** The Ethics of Collecting
CIPEG annual meeting, Poznan, Poznan Archaeological Museum
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