Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
35th annual ICMS Conference
Security in museums: problems, trends and solutions
September 14-18, 2009
Québec, Canada
Site web: http://blog.mcq.org/icms2009/
Dear ICMS members,
You are cordially invited by the International Committee on Museum Security
(ICMS) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the organization
committee, the host of the meeting the Musée de la civilisation du Québec
and its partner ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
IFCPP 2009 Annual Conference & Certification Program
The International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection's Eleventh Annual Conference, Seminar & Certification Program will be held at the Art Institute of Chicago in downtown Chicago, IL, August 12-14, 2009. We are very excited about this unique opportunity to explore one of the nation’s ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Book page thief sentence halved.
Published: 2009/04/29.
An Iranian scholar who stole pages from priceless books at Oxford's Bodleian library and the British Library has had his sentence halved.
Farhad Hakimzadeh, 61, of Knightsbridge, central London, pleaded guilty to 14 counts of theft and was jailed for two years in January 2009.
Judges at ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Malta. Safeguarding our cultural heritage
Samantha Fabry.
Sunday, 26th April 2009.
The safety and security of our movable cultural heritage is vital when maintaining these objects and collections within a protected environment. Very often, however, many of our treasures are left unprotected and are placed at high risk.
These risks can originate from environmental ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
History is lost. Irreplaceable artifacts stolen from museum
By Amanda Patton, Editor.
April 28, 2009.
Numerous irreplaceable artifacts are missing after the Coolidge Historical Museum was broken into recently. With more than 100 years of memorabilia on display, intruders entered the museum located at 161 W. Harding Ave. and took an estimated $50,000 ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Archive und Bibliotheken in Deutschland schlagen Alarm und fordern eine «nationale Anstrengung» zur dauerhaften Sicherung ihrer Bestände
Archive schlagen Alarm
erstellt 28.04.09, 15:32h
Berlin/dpa. Die großen Archive und Bibliotheken in Deutschland schlagen Alarm und fordern eine «nationale Anstrengung» zur dauerhaften Sicherung ihrer Bestände.
Das Elbehochwasser 2002, der Brand in der Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Robaron una pieza del siglo XVIII del Museo Sobremonte.
Se trata de un trabuco naranjero de bronce que formaba parte de una exposición que se realiza en el Museo.
Redacción LAVOZ.com.ar
09/04/22
Un trabuco naranjero de bronce fue sustraído esta mañana del Museo Marqués de Sobremonte de esta Capital.
La pieza era del siglo XVIII ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
4 charged in museum scam
IMRAN AHMED SIDDIQUI
The anti-corruption branch of the CBI has filed a chargesheet against four senior officials of Indian Museum for misappropriation of funds.
The agency has been investigating for a year and a half the embezzlement of Rs 18 crore central funds at the museum between 2004 ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
WHOSE “UNIVERSAL MUSEUM”? COMMENTS ON JAMES CUNO’S WHOSE CULTURE?
“The restitution of those cultural objects which our museums and collections, directly or indirectly, possess thanks to the colonial system and are now being demanded, must also not be postponed with cheap arguments and tricks.”
The editor of Whose Culture? has an astonishing ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
Norman Rosenthal suggested some time ago that there should be an end to claims for restitution of Nazi-Looted art and was rightly criticized by so many others. http://www.lootedart.com Now he has given an interview in Der Spiegel in which he restates his case. http://www.spiegel His reasoning is so strange that ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Italy Strives To Return To Normalcy By Repairing Artwork Damaged From Quake
Photo's: http://snipurl.com/g4woa
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | 04/17/09 04:24 PM
The April 6 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, damaged more than just homes and buildings, it affected the culture of the region. Old churches and schoolhouses were destroyed, homes were ruined, ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Original copy of “Riben Bukvar” was found
17 April 2009 | 12:03 | FOCUS News Agency.
Kotel. Employees in “Culture-Historical Values” sector with the
Combating Organized and Heavy Crime” Directorate and their colleagues
from the town of Sliven found stolen original of first edition of
first Modern Bulgarian textbook “Riben Bukvar”. This is what Ministry
of ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Roban una Virgen en un museo del centro de Córdoba
ES UNA IMAGEN DEL SIGLO XIX
Por: Gustavo Molina
El lunes a la hora de la siesta, cuando los empleados de la Cripta Jesuítica del Noviciado Viejo -una antigua construcción bajo tierra recuperada y reconvertida en museo en pleno centro de la ciudad ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Otro robo en Casa Rosada: se llevan la banda y el bastón de Frondizi
El museo tiene custodia permanente pero robaron igual. Hace dos años
se habían llevado del lugar los relojes que pertenecieron a los
presidentes Nicolás Avellaneda y Agustín P. Justo, y la lapicera
fuente de Roberto Ortiz.
martes, 14 de abril de ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Paleontologist pleads guilty to stealing bones
By MATTHEW BROWN – 7 hours ago
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A famed paleontologist who discovered the world's best preserved dinosaur pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing dinosaur fossils from federal land in Montana.
Nate Murphy, 51, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Great Falls under a ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
L'Aquila: opere d'arte recuperate, edifici storici messi in sicurezza
ROMA (14 aprile) - Sono ripresi questa mattina i sopralluoghi da parte della task force dei Beni culturali per continuare le verifiche statiche dei monumenti nel centro dell'Aquila e nell'immediata periferia. E' in corso - comunica il Ministero - anche l'attività di ...
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
Stolen artefacts to be returned
Written by Vong Sokheng.
Monday, 13 April 2009.
SEVEN Angkorian artefacts smuggled into Thailand almost a decade ago will be returned to Cambodia, a Ministry of Culture official said Sunday, adding that negotiations are under way with Bangkok for the repatriation of dozens of other pieces.
The artefacts - ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Italian art, heritage churches damaged by quake.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 9, 2009.
The Vatican has appealed to art experts around the world for help in restoring paintings and other treasures damaged by the Italian earthquake on Monday.
The 6.3-magnitude quake damaged bell towers, cracked walls and reduced some churches to piles of ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Police Find Stolen Paintings in Sofia's Pancharevo District.
The rare artworks were stolen fifteen years ago.
While inspecting a private home in Sofia's Pancharevo residential district, the police ran into twelve paintings by the famous Bulgarian masters Dechko Uzunov, Svetlin Rusev, Encho Pironkov and Dimitar Lalev, stolen fifteen years ago. In 1994, ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Book Arouses Return of Looted Relics
By Chung Ah-young
Staff Reporter
04-10-2009
In February, two looted Chinese relics were sold at the French house of auction giant Christie's for 14 million euros ($17.92 million). But China had tried to dissuade Christie's from auctioning the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) bronze rabbit and rat head sculptures, because ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
70.000 quedaron sin techo
Más de 150 muertos tras fuerte sismo en centro de Italia
Es uno de los peores terremotos que ha sacudido al país en los últimos diez años y que destruyó casas, edificios y monumentos de la región de Abruzos, al este de Roma
elnuevodiario.com.ni
AFP - 11:55 - 06/04/2009
Más de150 ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Abruzzo church treasures lost.
L'Aquila has lost a handful of eccelestical treasures in the overnight earthquake, including the renowned church of San Bernardino di Siena.
By Our Foreign Staff
Last Updated: 4:58PM BST 06 Apr 2009
Much of the town was destroyed by an earthquake in 1703 but the San Bernardino di Siena's Renaissance ...
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
HOW LONG MUST NIGERIA WAIT FOR THE RETURN OF SOME OF THE LOOTED BENIN ARTEFACTS?
In an interview reproduced below from the PUNCH, the Director-General of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Dr. Joe. Eboreima gives his views of the question of the restitution of stolen/looted Nigerian artefacts, especially, the ...
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Suburban Library District President Indicted, Charged with Theft
Written by Press Release
Friday, 03 April 2009 01:31
Chicago, IL--(ENEWSPF)--April 2, 2009.
A south suburban library district official has been indicted and charged with stealing more than $135,000 in district funds that she allegedly used to gamble at riverboat casinos, according to the Office of ...
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Wartime memorabilia is snatched from museum
5:00pm Thursday 2nd April 2009.
By Gina Marden »
CROOKS stole beloved wartime memorabilia from a charity-run museum before torching its stables.
The Plotlands museum on Langdon Hills Nature Reserve, run by the Essex Wildlife Trust, now faces a bill for thousands of pounds to repair the damage.
But ...
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Ex-Seaport Museum chief loses appeal bid
By Craig R. McCoy
Inquirer Staff Writer
The former head of the Independence Seaport Museum yesterday lost his bid to overturn his 15-year sentence.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said yesterday that John S. Carter had given up his right ...
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Stolen books returned to library
BY MATT MANNING • Staff writer • April 2, 2009
Two men convicted in federal court for theft of an artwork
FREMONT -- Two rare books that were stolen from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center last summer were finally returned Wednesday afternoon.
The books were returned by FBI ...
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