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In your award-winning Museum Ezine this week:

**  Mona gets the last laugh **
Poor old Mona: The most reproduced portrait in the world has fallen victim
of her own celebrity. Like Elizabeth Taylor, she has long been famous simply
for being famous


**  Two millennia old boat found in the Sea of Galilee  **
It took a crane and a top secret operation to move a boat that plied the
Galilee in Jesus' time to its permanent museum home in time for an
anticipated rush of Christian pilgrims..


**  Minister to be asked not to move museum  **
The Minister for Arts, Heritage, the Gaeltacht and the Islands, Ms de
Valera, has been urged to abandon proposals to move the National Maritime
Museum from Dún Laoghaire to Dublin's docklands


**  Bones May Belong to Ancient Greeks  **
Archaeological finds uncovered at a construction site in Athens include
human remains, possibly those of citizen-soldiers from the Peloponnesian War
eulogized by Pericles in one of history's best-known orations


**  Artifacts of Female Independence  **
Women in eighteenth-century Anglo America were staked by custom and law to
rigid roles; but the women of French Colonial Louisiana enjoyed much more
control over their own lives


**  Britain takes lead in returning art stolen by the Nazis  **
Britain is to take a world lead to help the descendants of people who had
works of art stolen by the Nazis to recover the objects if they are in
British collections


**  Lennon's piano to be auctioned on internet  **
The piano on which John Lennon composed Imagine is to be auctioned on an
internet site being created by the rock musician Mick Fleetwood, the drummer
with Fleetwood Mac


**  Florida Bargain Hunter Says Bought Rodin for $1.99   **
Bargain hunting has proven to be a very sweet hobby for a Florida woman who
said on Friday she bought a drawing by French sculptor Auguste Rodin at a
thrift shop for $1.99


**  Heir gets plundered Pissarro, but Jerusalem retains canvas  **
A masterpiece by Camille Pissarro sequestered by a Nazi and later bequested
to the Israel Museum in good faith is to be formally returned to Gerta
Silberberg, the daughter-in-law of the original owner, a Holocaust victim


**  Objects of passion  **
The Passion of Collecting exhibition at the Museum of the University of Hong
Kong is also an example of the passion of curating


**  Plan to multiply Rodin statue offends purists  **
Thinking big could earn a fortune for a Paris gallery that has an original
plaster cast of Rodin's The Thinker. It has upset purists in the art world
with a plan to turn out 25 full-size "authentic" copies


**  Art expert accuses Sotheby's over $1m Madonna  **
DOUBT has been cast on the attribution of a 500-year-old painting sold at
Sotheby's last month for a record $1.1 million (£690,000).

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