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week's edition include:
** Don't miss the NY museum of complaints
The 'museum' is actually a tabloid newspaper reproducing 31 letters from
1751 to 1973, currently being distributed in city parks
** Museum charges $50 to see costliest artwork
The 1907 oil of a Viennese society woman in an elegant gown was purchased
for a reported $135 million by cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder from the
U.S. and Canadian heirs of an Austrian Jewish family, whose art collection
was looted by the Nazis
** China refuses to give up claim for return of Yin Ruins relics
In the early 20th Century, foreign missionaries and explorers bought a large
number of antiquities of Yin Ruins from the local residents at very low
prices and smuggled them to their own countries
** Global Warming Causes Coin Shortage
Just one more bizarre consequence of the omnipresent disaster that's
unfolding before our eyes and ears, Global Warming, is hitting the pockets
of the ordinary man in the street
** Researchers to map wreckage of Civil War ship
At a time when many ships were still being made of wood, the ironclad USS
Monitor was the most advanced naval vessel of its time, featuring
innovations such as a rotating gun turret and armour plating
** Canada's museums crumbling for lack of cash
More troubling still, members of a federal heritage committee recently
suggested there will be no money available for museums in the fall when a
new national museum strategy is expected
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** Dutch museum recalls Nazi use of Rembrandt
An exhibition at the Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam recalls the Nazis'
largely forgotten mission to incorporate the Dutch painter into fascist
ideology, and win sympathy in the Netherlands, which they occupied in 1940
** Culture shock as Met jumps entry to $20
Though the Met is one of the most expensive museums in the world, it does
offer "tremendous access" to its collections by not tacking on fees for
extra exhibitions
** Dummies populate convention
There are group workshops, tours of the nearby museum (which claims the
world's largest collection of "dummy" paraphernalia), nightly performances
for attendees and junior and senior open mic sessions
** Exhibition of Mexican ancient civilization to open in Beijing
The exhibition will show the ancient Indian people's worship to jaguar,
which was a popular ancient religion before Spanish colonial control over
Mexico as of 1521
** Museum gift shop forced to remove swords
Museum officials have been forced to withdraw swords from sale in the gift
shop of the newly refurbished Kelvingrove just a day after the art gallery
re-opened to the public
** Museum honours dogs - and ferrets - of war
Cruachan III, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders' mascot, was
considerably more ambitious in his nibbling: he recently nibbled the Queen
and destroyed a pair of her gloves
** Museum given Jack the Ripper names
The notes are contained within a book handed down through the family of
Chief Inspector Donald Swanson, which was formally presented to the
Metropolitan Police to mark the re-launch of its world-famous crime museum
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** Dream comes true with meteorite find
Mr Elliott is a little embarrassed to admit it, but that night he dreamed he
found a meteorite on his property, and the location of the discovery in his
dream was just 500m from the spot where he actually found the first rock
** Castrato Farinelli's bones come up for air and study
Nicholas Clapton, curator of the Handel & the Castrati exhibition at
London's Handel House Museum, and himself a counter-tenor, noted that
disinterment was quite gruesome "and some might consider it sacrilegious".
** Fire ravages main entrance to police museum
The entrance to Dubai Police Museum was gutted on Saturday following an
electric short circuit
** Get thee to England's oldest nunnery!
One of England's oldest nunneries could lie in the garden of a museum
dedicated to one of the West's most famous sons
** US lawyer on trail of Genghis Khan
One thing the 15-member team won't be able to do is dig - not if it finds
the tomb, the exact location of which has been a mystery for nearly eight
centuries - or anything else
** Prague Museum closed after parts of giant statues tumble to ground
One of Prague's main landmarks, the National Museum, was closed Thursday
after some of the building's decorative stone sculptures broke off and
tumbled 40 metres (130 feet) to the ground near the building's entrance
** Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture
** Hello Sailor! - Gay Life on the Ocean
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