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week's edition include:
** Ancient cosmetics brought to life
Make-up used by the "footballers' wives" of Roman times is on display at an
antiquity festival in south Wales
** Artefacts from America's birth pulled from New York lake
More than 229 years ago, Gen. Benedict Arnold led his crew of sailors on
Lake Champlain against a far superior British fleet near here and lost
** Pueblo priest holds answer to lost artefact
A widely travelled scrap of metal, which may have been part of a Spanish
expedition in Western Colorado hundreds of years ago, is on its way to a
Grand Junction museum with at least one mystery solved
** Suit over terrorism may cost Chicago museum its Persian collection
A federal judge has rejected a key defence by the University of Chicago in a
lawsuit over rights to ancient Persian artefacts, a decision bound to ripple
through the American museum community
** The British Museum's Mission - Cultural Ambassador to the World
The museum has embarked on a new mission of communication with the modern
world, not only presenting parts of its collection in countries where it
once gathered art and artefacts, but also taking into its galleries art from
regions undergoing rapid, unpredictable change
** Getty paid trustee's legal fees despite lawyer's warning
The J. Paul Getty Trust paid $64,000 in legal fees that a wealthy board
member incurred testifying in an Italian legal proceeding despite attorneys'
warnings that doing so could threaten the non-profit's tax status
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** Maori artefacts in Australian show on Cook
The items in the collection were gathered by Cook, his crew and German
naturalists Johann Reinhold Forster and his son, Georg
** Denver Art Museum opening to go all night
The event, "Hot DAM: Art at All Hours," will include access to the new
building designed by Daniel Libeskind, family programs and entertainment
** The comedy of a Cape Cod museum revealed
She says this is in stark contrast to most museums, which are often thought
up by insanely wealthy people who "desperately want to make a name for
themselves," and come up with the concept later.
** Dry Gold, Pure Silver Exhibit at History Museum
The National History Museum in Bulgaria presents the exhibit "Dry gold, pure
silver" (a folk song) through to December 31st, 2006
** Exhibit Looks at Lizards and Snakes
The show, featuring around 60 live specimens from five different continents,
hopes to educate viewers about a part of the animal kingdom that's laboured
under a bad reputation since biblical times
** DNA tests reveal China's first foreign worker
Chinese archaeologists have discovered the remains of what may prove to be
the country's first foreign worker - an early European who laboured on the
mausoleum of China's first emperor.
** Exhibit documents life and struggle in Warsaw Ghetto
A new exhibit opens a window into life in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw before
most of its residents were shipped to concentration camps or killed during
an uprising crushed by Nazi bombs in 1943
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** Hirst to replace rotting £6.5m shark
Now, it emerged, Hirst may have to replace both the shark and the fluid in
which it is suspended, which means all that will remain of what is arguably
the most famous piece of modern British art will be the glass tank
** No mummy in Valley of the Kings tomb but mystery remains whole
No tomb had been found in more than more than 80 years in this arid complex
west of the ancient city of Thebes where three dynasties of Sun kings and
their relatives had their tombs dug into the rock
** World's oldest spider's web contains uneaten prey
David Grimaldi of the American Museum of Natural History in New York has
found a piece of web - complete with its captured prey - preserved in
110-million-year-old amber
** Officials Work to Protect Buildings, Artefacts From Floods
The National Archives has brought in giant dehumidifiers to preserve
historic documents in the wake of flooding that closed the building and
other historic institutions and government structures in the nation's
capital. See also
** Museum Centre raising more than $10M in book auction
The Cincinnati Museum Centre estimated it will net more than $10 million
from the auction of a rare book collection
** Second man arrested in Bata Shoe Museum theft
He is the second suspect to be arrested since the slippers from 18th-century
India that are valued at $160,000 were taken from the Bloor Street museum
** The 34th Annual Museum Computer Network Conference- Access to Assets:
Return on Investment
** The Reopening of the Williams-Payne House-Museum
** Historic Binding Structures: Coptic Bindings
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