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week's edition include:
** Man sprays chemical on renowned painting in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum
De Munnick said that the chemical appeared only to have affected the layer
of varnish covering the painting
** Museum acquires 55 van Gogh letters
The letters were written by van Gogh to fellow artist Anthon van Rappard
from 1881-1885, when van Gogh was undergoing major transformations in his
conception of art and his skill as an artist
** Museum honouring ex-wartime straggler opens
A museum has opened in Nagoya to commemorate Shoichi Yokoi, a former
Japanese soldier who made a surprising return to Japan in 1972 after more
than 26 years of life on Guam without knowing World War II had ended
** Admission Fee for 9/11 Museum Debated
After wrestling with the costs and design of the Sept. 11 memorial, planners
face another dilemma - whether to charge admission to the museum honouring
those who died at the World Trade Centre
** Scientists angry over museum merger plan
The scientific community is in turmoil over a NSW Government proposal to
merge the management of two of Australia's oldest institutions, the
Australian and Powerhouse museums
** The hero who wiped out Hitler's notorious tank ace
He has relived that brief but highly significant battle when he was shown
the world's only remaining working Tiger at the Bovington Tank Museum, near
Bournemouth
** Dodo skeleton find in Mauritius
No complete skeleton has ever been found in Mauritius, and the last full set
of bones was destroyed in a fire at a museum in Oxford, England, in 1755
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** Wyeth donates painting to Atlanta art museum
The Wyeths worked closely with the exhibition curator to organize the
retrospective, which was displayed in Atlanta from November through
February.
** Revamp for Taiwan's National Palace Museum
The museum houses the largest collection of Chinese art and artefacts in the
world, consisting mainly of holdings of the last emperor of China, Pu Yi,
who was forced out of the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1925
** Turkish museum seeks return of stolen rare tiles
A Turkish museum has formally demanded that the Louvre Museum in Paris and
another French museum hand over precious ceramics from the Ottoman era,
which were stolen from Istanbul
** Tate Modern revamps Web site
The tour also sports a function to let would-be visitors plan out their own
route through the gallery, depending on which art they would like to see, on
an in-depth map of the centre's layout
** Dolly bird and a cool nun: an ode to soapbox Sundays
Inara Walden, curator of the exhibition, which runs until August 27, says
visitors have suggested several reasons: we are too politically correct and
intolerant; chat rooms and blog sites have taken over; we're too busy
shopping on Sundays to think of intelligent debate
** For Map Thief, A World Of Deceit
Forbes Smiley used his expertise in antiquarian maps and exploited the trust
of his long-time colleagues to unload more than $1.8 million in stolen maps
over 71/2 years
** Biologist discovers new way to date books
A Penn State biology professor with a passion for old prints and maps says
he has found a new way to date centuries-old books by using a technique
similar to what scientists use to study mutations
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** King Tut's necklace shaped by fireball
Scientists believe they have solved the mystery surrounding a piece of rare
natural glass at the centre of an elaborate necklace found among the
treasures of Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh
** Tate brings Kandinsky to UK
The exhibition, which includes more than 50 paintings, focuses on
Kandinsky's art from the beginning of the 20th century up to 1922, when he
was at the height of his artistic powers
** Rare French book collection sets records at auction
Among the collection, built up over the past 80 years by collector Pierre
Beres, was a book of bird drawings by the painter Gourdelle, painted in the
mid- to late 16th century, which fetched 1.4 million euros, setting a new
record for a book sold in France
** Dutch constructing 35-meter tall health museum in shape of human body
Taller than the fabled Colossus of Rhodes in ancient Greece, but not quite
as high as the Statue of Liberty in New York, a giant monument to human
health is springing up in the tiny Dutch town of Oegstgeest
** Massive mummy fraud discovered after 2,000 years
Modern medical science has exposed the villainy of the crocodile mummy
sellers of Hawara, more than 2,000 years after they defied the edict of a
Pharaoh and turned neatly bandaged bundles of rubbish into a nice little
earner
** Aliens of the Deep
** Instituting an Integrated Pest Management Program at Your Small Museum
** EVA London 2006 - Electronic Information, the Visual Arts, and Beyond
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