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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Gasps as V&A glass artwork shatters
The accident, witnessed by horrified gallery staff, happened as outside
contractors set up a temporary display
** Tattoos rate over Dead Sea Scrolls
The Auckland Museum has passed up the chance of exhibiting the Dead Sea
Scrolls, but is going ahead with a show featuring naked body painting. MORE
** Museum Web Awards attract 66 nominations
With just a few days remaining, Global Museum's 2001 Web Awards have
attracted 66 nominations. Nominations close at the end of July and may be
submitted online.
** Russian archeologists find ancient treasure
Russian archeologists found more than 1,000 pieces of gold and bronze
jewelry and other items in a fifth century B.C. grave
** Bones of contention
On the surface it is about dust and bones, about hours of toil under the
African sun
** Castro Opens 'Elian Museum' As Cuban Boy Plays
Castro gave a two-hour speech to thousands of children, including Elian, at
an inauguration ceremony
** Definitely infinitely ahead of his time
An ancient document shows that Archimedes was more clever than people had
thought
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** Smithsonian Plans Science Commission
Now the ongoing science activities at the Smithsonian will be reviewed by
the new, 18-member commission
** FBI Helping Search for Stolen Painting
The FBI is helping search for a picture by Gerard Dou, a student of
Rembrandt
** Campaigners want Royal Pardon for 18th century killer
A convicted murderer who was hanged more than 200 years ago may soon receive
a Royal Pardon
** How our man in Mexico kept beatniks at bay
In a flurry of classified transatlantic cables to the Foreign Office in
London, the seven Hockney prints were condemned as "filthy pictures"
** Quirky museum collection goes to pieces
Hitler has left the building --- or at least his cigar box has
** History of paper unfolds at Kita Ward museum
Some 38,000 items are on display, including an old-fashioned grinder used to
pulverize logs into pulp
** Spy work celebrated at museum in Havana
To hear Cuba's spy masters tell it, their intelligence agents have had
nothing but success -- albeit with a few deaths of their own
** Paleontologist Leads Effort to Reconstruct Ecosystem
In the appropriately named Hell Creek in Montana, dinosaur hunter Jack
Horner tries to find evidence of the complete environment from a long-lost
era
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** Duxford take-off awaits lottery cash
The Imperial War Museum at Duxford near Cambridge will learn this week
whether it can proceed with a £20 million exhibition
** Quayle gives 8 tons of papers to museum
"I think historians will have a field day with these papers," Quayle said.
"What they will see is someone who worked real hard at what he did."
** Ship manager chases down donation box
S.S. Meteor manager Jason Marker saved the Superior museum's donation box on
Thursday
** Crucifix Attributed to Michelangelo
A multicolored wooden crucifix dating from 1493 that has been the subject of
debate in art circles for decades is the work of Michelangelo
** FBI drop Kennewick Man bones case
The FBI has dropped a criminal investigation into the 9,000-year-old bones
of the so-called Kennewick Man found in a coroner's cupboard
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** New Executive Council of ICOM
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