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week's edition include:
** Museum of macabre looking for a new home
The general decided to send the amputated leg to the museum in a miniature
coffin
** Met Museum Chief Faces Questions About Artefacts
Having agreed to return 21 artefacts allegedly looted in Italy, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art is left explaining its role in a scandal that
could make it harder for many institutions to acquire antiquities
** World-class natural history museum planned for city centre
A group of museum directors has begun planning the creation of a new Natural
History Museum in the middle of Copenhagen with a view of the National
Gallery and Rosenborg Palace
** Paintings Stolen From Brazilian Museum
Gunmen overpowered security guards and stole paintings by Picasso, Dali,
Matisse and Monet from a Rio museum on Friday, using the cover of a Carnival
crowd to make their getaway
** Parthenon sculptures were coloured blue, red and green
Its austere white is on every postcard, but the Athens Parthenon was
originally daubed with red, blue and green, the Greek archaeologist
supervising conservation work on the 2,400-year-old temple says
** World of insects opening in Tokyo
Daisaburo Okumoto, a scholar of French literature known for his Japanese
translation of Jean-Henri Fabre's Souvenirs Entomologiques, is on the verge
of realizing a long-held dream of opening an insect museum in the centre of
Tokyo
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** Harley unveils museum plans
Harley plans to break ground on the project by summer and hopes the museum
will attract 350,000 annual visitors
** Egypt asks US museum to return gold mummy mask
Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said it has asked a US museum to
return a pharaoh's golden mask which it said had disappeared from a storage
area in Cairo's Egyptian Museum
** National Museum jumps into hip-hop
The Smithsonian Institution`s National Museum of American History in
Washington is preparing to launch 'Hip-Hop Won`t Stop: The Beat, The Rhymes,
The Life.'
** Neanderthals in Europe Killed Off Earlier
Neanderthals in Europe were killed off by the advance of modern humans
thousands of years earlier than previously believed, losing a competition
for food and shelter, according to a scientific study
** British museum receives funding to buy important medieval jug
A small town museum it has received funding to buy a medieval jug important
to the study of bronze-working of the era
** Berlin's Pergamon Museum Secures $420 Million for Restoration
The government is providing a total of about 1 billion euros in financing
for the restoration of the five museums on the island in the River Spree and
aims to finish the work by 2015
** Giant squid grabs London audience
One of the biggest and most complete giant squids ever found is on display
at London's Natural History Museum
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries - March 21 - April 19 You will mistakenly bring your enemies list
instead of your grocery list to the supermarket this week, resulting in the
purchase of a bottle of Paul Newman's ranch dressing, a box of Uncle Ben's
Minute Rice, and artichokes.
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** Millions at stake in Pollock dispute
A Jackson Pollock expert is convinced that 32 works found by the son of a
Pollock friend were created by the artist, despite debate about their origin
** Excavation of tomb ruled out
Duan, who is also the head of the archaeological team working on the ancient
mausoleum, told China Daily that though some historical records about the
tomb have proved to be true, the latest findings differ from older accounts
** Art museum invites mobile phone use
A US art museum has broken with tradition and encouraged visitors to use
their mobile telephones - to hear lively audio tours of exhibits
** Hope thrives in ravaged gardens of New Orleans
The brave little rose is less than a foot tall, and will take years to
develop the character of the old climber it replaces, which died, along with
more than 1,000 other roses, when their roots sat for more than a week in
brackish water
** Van Gogh Museum opens unique exhibit on Rembrandt and Caravaggio
Although the two painters were not contemporaries - Rembrandt was born in
1606, when Caravaggio was at the peak of his career - they had similarities
in their lives and work
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** Call For Entries for Channel 4 Archaeological Awards 2006
** ICOM Announces International Museum Day Theme for 2006 - Museums & Young
People
** Reach for the stars at the Morris Museum's Astronomy Day
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