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** Beachcomber finds 2,500-year-old Bronze Age necklace
Historians have described it as a sensational Bronze Age find
** 'Biased' museum audit may lead to closures
The "essential" audit of Scotland's museums has been condemned as biased and
its critics fear that it could lead to the closure of many small and rural
museums
** US wants space debris back
The debris,,a pressurisation sphere, a propellant tank and part of the
exhaust nozzle of an American Air Force rocket, are currently on display at
a museum
** Spanish royalty join Pablo Casals' widow in opening birthplace museum
A hometown museum dedicated to cellist Pablo Casals opened Saturday with
traditional Catalan folkloric dances
** Experts fear clean up could ruin da Vinci
International art watchdogs warn Italian gallery of legal action over plan
to restore unfinished masterpiece
** Crackdown set on artifact smuggling from Mexico
Mexican and U.S. authorities are teaming up to stop international theft and
smuggling of cultural artifacts
** Canadian Canoe Museum launches its "Canoe School"
The museum follows an experiential model when delivering education programs,
based on the idea that students learn best through personal experience
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** One For The Rodin
Elderly women and wide-eyed youths alike peered up at the sculpture, often
asking one another if it could possibly be the same one that had caused so
much ruckus a few years before
** Garibaldi's 1860 jeans go on display
A pair of jeans worn by the man who spearheaded Italy's unification,
Garibaldi, have gone on display in a museum
** Saddam RAF secrets fear
One of the RAF's deadliest weapons has been found intact and on public
display at Belgrade's Military Museum
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** Bus fumes 'could damage priceless paintings'
Staff at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum have voiced concerns about exhaust fumes
from the growing number of buses stopping outside it
** An early Picasso ... or how stone-age cave dwellers viewed French women
Some of the paintings in the caves are thought to date from 30,000BC
** Austrian museum displays work of Dennis Hopper
The Easy Rider star's collection of paintings, photographs and installations
is on display at the MAK museum in Vienna
** Tribe Gives $10M to National Museum
A Connecticut Indian tribe made rich by a casino gave $10 million toward the
National Museum of the American Indian
** Essex girl claims an historic first: syphilis
Historians have previously assumed that the Spanish adventurer and his crew
imported the disease into Europe
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** Historic globes go missing
Three valuable, historic globes of the Moon and Mars have been stolen from
London's Science Museum
** Wild ride teaches earthquake safety
They began screaming when Akio Onizawa, a museum guide, pushed the intensity
beyond 5
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius: Surprisingly enough, the end of your life will include 20
minutes of credits, copyright information, and a rather sad zither-based
closing theme.
** The right men for a museum
"We are not getting people saying 'you've got a warped view of history
here'," Mr Staley said.
** Earl of Elgin sells more heirlooms
The 11th Earl, has taken the "heartbreaking decision" to raise about
£250,000 to pay for repairs to his family estate in Charlestown, near
Dunfermiline, Fife
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** Master Class in 19th Century Color and Paint Finishes
** Sam Easterson - Animal, Vegetable, Video: Swamp Sanctuary
** The Art of Art Projects: Hands-on Activities for Kids of All Ages with
Interdisciplinary Connections
** Managing Electronic Records
** Africas. The Artist and the City
** Looting In Europe Illicit trafficking in cultural property
** CULT 2001 Exploring an interface between Cultural heritage, Net art and
State of the art projects
Copenhagen, October 3-5, 2001
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