Archive for the ‘cultural security’ Category
Friday, September 17th, 2010
Iran threatens to keep artefact
http://www.smh.com.au/world/iran-threatens-to-keep-artefact-20100916-15emw.html
September 17, 2010
LONDON: It was not an easy decision for the British Museum to lend one of its most treasured artefacts to a country with which Britain has a notoriously prickly relationship.
So curators in London are paying close attention to an Iranian threat not to ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
Protecting cultural heritage as development priority
http://www.mediaglobal.org/article/2010-07-29/protecting-cultural-heritage-as-development-priority
By Diana Gregor
1 August, 2010 [MediaGlobal]:The earthquake that shook Haiti in January 2010 has proven how vulnerable cultural heritage is to natural disasters. In the wake of the earthquake’s widespread destruction were museums, galleries, and other places that contained Haiti’s cultural property. Haiti’s Centre ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Conservator help salvage Haiti's cultural material
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/ap/conservator-help-salvage-haitis-cultural-material-99217269.html
By: E.B. FURGURSON III
Associated Press
07/26/10 3:50 AM EDT
ANNAPOLIS, MD. — It is slow, deliberate, frustrating, yet fulfilling work trying to preserve a people's culture.
Vicki Lee, senior conservator at the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis, already has made two trips with teams of experts trying ...
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Sinking oil threatens historic Gulf shipwrecks
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2010/07/04/sinking_oil_threatens_historic_gulf_shipwrecks/?page=2
By Cain Burdeau
Associated Press Writer / July 4, 2010
TIMBALIER ISLANDS, La.—Not just flora and fauna are getting caked in oil. So is the Gulf of Mexico's barnacled history of pirates, sea battles and World War II shipwrecks.
The Gulf is lined with wooden shipwrecks, American-Indian ...
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
The fine art of protecting a private collection
http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/static/business/article1581904.html
Dianne Nice
One morning in April, Katja Zigerlig woke up to find sunlight streaming into her New York apartment and touching upon a painting on the wall.
Instead of reposing in bed, as some might have done, she sprang into action, installing a shade on ...
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