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Two Treasure Lectures Hot Tickets at British Museum

Artdaily (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

LONDON.- The most important treasure trove found in Britain for decades is on display at the British Museum in London and will be the subject of two hot-ticket lectures and a drop-in talk by experts in the coming weeks. The Staffordshire Hoard, discovered by metal detectorist Terry Herbert in central England in July, comprises over 1,500 mainly gold and silver items and has been compared in importance...

British Museum Winter 2009 Events for Children

A Little Corner in Wembley (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago

The British Museum continues to attract ever-increasing numbers of families with small children. They offer a wide variety of activities: British Museum - Winter 2009 Events for Children

A Secret Voyage? Zahi Hawass at the British Museum, London in December

Heritage Key blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday

Have you always wished to meet Dr. Hawass in person? Now is your chance! The world-famous archaeologist comes to London in December and Heritage World Press invites you to a special lecture by the Egyptologist - and maybe even dinner. Zahi Hawass will also introduce his two new books: Inside the Egyptian Museum and A Secret Voyage. Reception & Lecture at the British Museum Tuesday, 8th of December...

British Museum Winter 2009 Fun for Children

A Little Corner in Wembley (Free subscription) | yesterday

Are you looking for children's activities during the Christmas holidays. The British Museum is providing all sorts of events especially for young people.

Saturday Read: Loot, by Sharon Waxman

College Candy (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

The subheading of Loot, by Sharon Waxman, is "The battle over the stolen treasures of the ancient world," which gives you a pretty good idea of the content. For any of you who have visited big museums such as the Met in New York or The British Museum, you know that the majority of their historical artifacts don't come from their homeland, but rather, fascinating and exotic places like Greece,...

On This Day: Piltdown Man, Supposed “Missing Link,” Exposed as Hoax

findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

On Nov. 21, 1953, British scientists revealed that the fragments from the skull of the Piltdown man, discovered in 1912, were taken from human and orangutan skulls and doctored to look like an early human skull.

Biggest ever pre-launch event for LGBT History Month

LGBT History Month UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

The British Museum hosted a day of presentations and workshops yesterday, to encourage celebrations of LGBT History Month, next February, whose theme will be Education and Young People. Students from three local schools took part in a field trip with a difference. They had a special tour of the museum’s LGBT exhibits and had a lesson in a rainbow coloured double decker bus on the museum forecourt....

Staffordshire Hoard on temporary display

a from l (Free subscription) | yesterday

Above: I went to see some of the items from the Staffordshire Hoard on temporary display at the British Museum. Although I picked a time (just before closing) when the museum is usually fairly empty it was still difficult to get near them. In particular there was a party of elderly French people who leaned over the cabinets with no sign of moving, as if they were mesmerised by the gold. Above: I think...

Repatriation: Finders Keepers?

Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday

New York Times (John Tierney) I rather like the picture of the Egyptian statue with suitcases. Zahi Hawass regards the Rosetta Stone, like so much else, as stolen property languishing in exile. “We own that stone,” he told Al Jazeera, speaking as the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. The British Museum does not agree — at least not yet. But never underestimate...

Brown professor wins national poetry award

Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Keith Waldrop, winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Poetry.AP / Tina FinebergPROVIDENCE — Professor Keith Waldrop skipped his Thursday class, but he had a good excuse.The night before he won the National Book Award for poetry for his experimental work, “Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy,” published by University of California Press.He and other writers were recognized during...

Montreal to see terracotta warriors

CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

China's terracotta warriors are coming to Montreal in 2011. The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal will receive a rare visit of 14 of the warriors - life-sized replicas of soldiers of the Qin dynasty - it announced on Thursday.

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PhotoTopix Photography Forum (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

*Photographers Comments* After we left the British Museum, we made our way down Whitehall and over Westminster Bridge as we walked to the Royal...

Reactions to the Culture Forum at LSE

Illicit Cultural Property (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

I recommend Tom Flynn's comprehensive overview of the cultural panel which took place Tuesday at LSE. It sounds like it was much of the same kinds of polite disagreements which these kinds of events typically produce. Here's a flavor of Tom's reaction: Cuno's highly political presentation — which, paradoxically, sought to criticize what he saw as the politicisation of culture by source nations...

Bookmarks for 16th of November through to 18th of November

Archaeoastronomy (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

These are my links for 16th of November through 18th of November: The Academic Journal Racket « In the DarkTelescoper explains how academic publishing works. The only thing that would improbe the post would be the theme from 'The Naked Gun' in the background. A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’ – NYTimes.comYou can make arguments in [...]

Collections present and absent at the New Acropolis Museum, Athens

Heritage Key blogs (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Tonight at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, Director of the New Acropolis Museum Dimitrios Pandermalis will hold a what promises to be a fascinating lecture. 'Collections present and absent at the New Acropolis Museum, Athens' will no doubt touch on the 'missing marbles', the Parthenon Friezes currently held in the British Museum. Will Pandermalis launch another call for their return? Brian...

Superbreak Offers Packages to Latest Hit Exhibition at the British Museum

eprnetwork | 10/02/2009

Superbreak, the short break specialist, has created a new range of packages that will allow customers take in the latest exhibition at the British Museum. At the end of September, a major exhibition opened at the British Museum and through Superbreak's services, customers can take care of all their holiday needs - flights, London hotels and exhibition entrance - through one website. This new British

Shutdown Exhibition of the Nude Image of Brooke Shields at British Museum

saifversion | 10/02/2009

Britain's Tate Modern has temporarily closed an exhibition that includes a nude image of a 10-year-old Brooke Shields as it was controversial piece of art based on a 1975 nude photograph of actress Brook Shields and it breaches the U.K.'s obscenity laws. The piece shows a 10-year-old Brooke Shields, nude, oiled, and heavily made-up, standing in a bathtub and looking directly at the camera. Read more...

• Nude Image Of 10-Year-Old Brooke Shields Removed From London Exhibit - The PopCrunch Show

Luton to host British Museum’s Ghanaian textile exhibition

wellbeingnewseditor | 07/25/2009

Wellbeing Newsline: Bedfordshire > Edited by Jane Hill: This summer, Wardown Park Museum, Old Bedford Road, Luton will host the British Museum’s touring exhibition called ‘Fabric of a Nation: textiles and identity in modern Ghana’. Wardown Park Museum, in collaboration with the Luton Ghana Society, will hold a traditional African opening procession, with talking drums, to celebrate the arrival of the...