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week's edition include:
** Hong Kong dentist to help check pharaoh's cavity'
Inspired by dental forceps - he has designed 70 of his own to properly grip
the tricky crevices of patients' teeth - Ng's team will mount tiny grippers
on an insect-sized robot expected to gently trek the winding shafts of the
pyramid without causing damage to the walls
** Japan's art deco interlude
The "modern girls" ("moga") who populate some of the works in the Japan
Society's new exhibition, "Deco Japan," inhabit a world of contradiction:
frivolity and militarism, bright colors and dark geometry, Western impulse
and Japanese tradition
** Colombo National Museum Burgled
The robbers who stole a sword, gold coins and several rings had removed
tiles from the museum roof and got into the building with the aid of a rope
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** Future tense, VII: What's a museum?
Today's museums can be tourist attractions, department stores, civic
centers, town squares, catalysts of urban renewal, food courts, licensing
brands, showcases for contemporary architecture, social clubs,
LEED-certified environmentally conscious facilities, and franchise
opportunities
** With Technology, Adding Context to the Costume
Museum curators agree that clothing exhibitions are increasingly likely to
include a technological component, or at least efforts to create an ambience
to amplify the experience of seeing the outfits
** Atomic Bomb Site Souvenir Discovered In A Mineral Museum
I should not be so surprised to see a memento of the most horrific bomb ever
conceived by man sitting in a mineral and gem museum
** Museum of the weird and wonderful
The sheer scale of some of the creatures on show is breathtaking, from the
huge mounted elephants' heads on the wall of first floor gallery, to the
gargantuan southern elephant seal, which makes you realise exactly why it
was given its name
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** A Hyderabad you didn't know about
A strategically placed 125-year-old manually operated wooden lift doubles up
as the entrance of the curator's office in the Purani Haveli, once the
erstwhile official residence of the Nizam
** Lincoln museum pulls John Wilkes Booth bobblehead
A John Wilkes Booth bobblehead doll was pulled from the shelves of the
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum gift shop earlier this week
in response to news reports that the Gettysburg National Military Park in
Pennsylvania had done the same
** German museum must return collection stolen by Nazis
A Berlin museum must return thousands of rare posters to an American man,
part of his Jewish father's unique collection that had been seized by the
Nazis, Germany's top federal appeals court ruled
** Artifacts Show Sophistication of Ancient Nomads
Ancient Greeks had a word for the people who lived on the wild, arid
Eurasian steppes stretching from the Black Sea to the border of China
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** A museum of creatures re-engineered by humans
It was once the pastime of gentlemen: collecting curious plant and animal
specimens from around the world, displaying them in home or garden and
regaling callers with tales of their exotic origins
** At Galleries, Cameras Find a Mixed Welcome
The longtime director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, was
admiring an 18th-century French painting at the Louvre when suddenly a group
of tourists with cameras elbowed her out of the way so they could photograph
the painting
** Museum Tour guide admits to theft of Civil War-era coins
The coins - a silver dollar and five gold coins dating from between 1849 and
1862 - were part of the museum's special exhibit last summer marking the
150th anniversary of the Civil War
** Museum of Email & Digital Communications Opens
The museum records and interprets computer-based ways that people
communicate, such as email, social media, instant messaging, texting, and
videoconferencing
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** Gone for a song: The lost Van Dyck worth a fortune
As the preparatory sketch, it is all the more important because it is likely
to have been created in front of the Royal Family itself, before the master
worked up the final composition in his studio
** Obesity and Other Targets of Children's Museums
While children's museums are primarily known as activity centers to divert
the younger set and to help form future museumgoers, they are increasingly
focused on social outreach
** Rare emeralds donated to North Carolina museum
The gems are among the biggest prizes in the museum's 132-year-old history,
on par with the $3 million Acrocanthosaurus dinosaur that went on display in
2000
** How an Acquisition Fund Burnishes Reputations
Although acquiring art is a core mission, private collectors donate 80 to 90
percent of what is on view in American art museums
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** Nixon's sensitive side
Decades before he became known to some as "Tricky Dick,'' Nixon was the one
penning nicknames (sweet ones) to his future bride in gushy love notes that
reveal a surprisingly soft and romantic side of the man taken down by
Watergate.
** For Train Buffs - The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Heritage Center
The story is the essential American tale of how our nation grew, how we
lived and worked, and how we were all connected together by twin rails of
steel
** Empowering the visitor: process, progress and protest
35th Annual ICOFOM Symposium - Tunis, November 2012
** How to Create, Run and Sustain an Effective Internship Program at Your
Museum
A RC-MAAM and Cornerstone Workshop - March 30, 2012
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