Many of our visitors at the Museum of Miniature Found Objects have sought advice on how to submit items to the collection. To aid visitors to both the museum and the website, Mrs Beryl van Buren, Keeper of Collections, is delighted to be launching a useful guide to this process after extensive research and consultation. The necessary steps required are presented here in a fully accessible form, and we hope this makes the experience of donating an enjoyable one for all our visitors.

Ms Ludmilla Pomodoro, former Keeper of Collections at the Museum of Miniature Found Objects, was arrested earlier this year in Zurich. She was due to appear at the Old Bailey on Thursday 18 July, charged with running an international ring dealing in miniature artefacts stolen from museums around the world and sold on to private collectors. However, in a dramatic turn of events, Pomodoro absconded en route to court. Whilst news is still sketchy, it’s believed the security van transporting her was forced off the road and smashed open by a number of her accomplices. Pomodoro was last seen being driven off at speed in a black BMW. The Museum of Miniature Found Objects deplores this turn of events and urges Ms Pomodoro to hand herself in to the police at the earliest opportunity.

This week the legendary Les Girls du Can Can from the Moulin Rouge in Paris take up their summer residency at the Royal Opera House here in London. They've designed an exciting programme of dance over the coming months, and in honour of this, Raoul Théière, curator of body parts at the Museum of Miniature Found Objects, has created a thought-provoking exhibit around the theme of bodily sounds and their role in organogenics. This challenging new work is on display all week in the Palm Court Tea Rooms.

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Found objects:

= black and white elastic hairband: 10.15am, Saturday 13 July 2013, Lordship Road, north London;

= doll's leg: 9.02am, Wednesday 27 March 2013, Carr Road, east London;

= green plastic foliage: 2.47pm, Sunday 9 June 2013, Scrutton Street, central London;

= pink and green curled pipe cleaners: 6.09pm, Thursday 24 May 2012, Fairholt Road, north London;

= pink fabric rose: 3.14pm, Monday 30 May 2011, Rue Saint-Lazare, Paris;

= pink hairband with 3 plastic stars: 9.10pm, Wednesday 11 May 2011, Seville Airport, Spain;

= pink paper pompoms: 10.46pm, Saturday 8 September 2012, Lordship Road, north London;
= teal plastic shoe: 2.05pm, Tuesday 11 January 2011, women's changing rooms, Highbury Pool, north London;

= white fabric blossoms: 11.00am, Saturday 13 July 2013, Stoke Newington Church Street, north London;

= white fabric flower: 5.16pm, Sunday 19 May 2013, Clissold Park, north London;

= yellow plastic bubbles: 3.20pm, Sunday 2 June 2013, Downs Lane, east London.

The National Entertainment Enforcement Authority paid a surprise visit this week to the Museum of Miniature Found Objects. Whilst overall the museum scored highly on NEEA's Customer Enjoyment Quality Index (87.4% of visitors said they 'had fun' visiting the site), several areas were recommended for improvement. In particular the 'Highlights from Dental Hygiene History' display fell below NEEA's recommended enjoyment standards, with visitors describing it as only 'mildly interesting' and 'I didn’t know it was there'. However, NEEA felt the Rivoli Rooftop Bistro provided an excellent standard of refreshment, with customer comments including, 'the views are what I come for', 'the cheapest cup of tea in London!' and 'the bean and marrow surprise is interesting'.

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Found objects:

= blue china cupcake: 10.06am, Friday 5 July 2013, Stoke Newington High Street, north London;

= blue foam star: 3.26pm, Wednesday 10 August 2011, Dunsmure Road, north London;

= blue plastic floral shape: 7.31, Saturday 20 October 2012, Wilderton Road, north London;

= yellow plastic flower: 5.45pm, Monday 2 April 2012, Woodberry Down, north London.

The Museum of Miniature Found Objects is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Keeper of Collections.

Mrs Beryl van Buren will take up the post on Monday 1 July and brings a wealth of experience, her previous post being Chief Archivist at the Museum of Sporting Impedimenta, Honolulu. Prior to that she enjoyed a twelve-month research sabbatical at MIT (Myersville Institute of Technology, Arkansas), her area of study being the cultural heritage sector's role as an aggregator drawing selectively from a notoriously distributed network of content in the digital age. Mrs van Buren says of her appointment, "Managing across the matrix and best practice in a research-driven environment is my first priority!"

The Museum of Miniature Found Objects is delighted to announce that tonight at 8pm in the Alhambra Suite, Blanche de Laine, prize-winning poet, will read from her recently completed work: Whither? In a fast-paced performance Miss de Laine will encounter, enact, experience and perform what it is to be a traveller in an unknown, and unknowable, landscape. She will be reciting her work in the 'experimental mode'. Of this piece she says, "For me poetry is a voyage, through our dreams, our innermost selves, and tonight in the Alhambra we will all be on a journey."

Please note, once the performance has begun, latecomers will not be admitted until a suitable interval.
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Found objects:
= plaster finger (large): 3.14pm, Monday 8 April 2013, Highbury Crescent, north London;
= plaster finger (small): 11.20am, Tuesday 9 April 2013, Highbury Crescent, north London;
= plastic letter U & Y: 12.21pm, Saturday 25 May 2013, Lower Clapton Road, east London;
= silver metal letter O: 9.36am, Thursday 20 October 2011, Woodberry Down, north London.