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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** We Have the Winners!
The Global Museum Web Awards. 77 were nominated and 5 chosen by the
international judging panel
** Museum-of-Hoaxes highlights online gullibility
Visitors to cyberspace, the home of custom-shaped "Bonsai kittens" and the
potato-powered Web site, know a thing or two about hoaxes
** Robotic dust-busters go on show
Hi-tech machines are set to go on display to mark 100 years of the vacuum
cleaner
** Archaeologists take the wraps off Lady Godiva
Archaeologists have reconstructed what is thought to be a 660-year-old glass
portrait of Lady Godiva from
** Berlin's Jewish Museum prepares for opening with broad permanent
exhibition
The permanent exhibition at the Jewish Museum, opens with a gala celebration
** Museum's cure for lack of space: The Web
Of more than 3 million objects the museum owns, fewer than one out of 20 are
on display, Museum Director Spencer Crew said in a statement
** A blue and white matter
As early as the 16th century, blue-and-white pottery was being made in
London where the market for it grew steadily
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** Welcome to the Self-Explanatorium!
The museum where kids learn about what they already know
** Sailor who was thrown out of Navy for being gay has poem in Smithsonian
exhibit
A Smithsonian Institution exhibit on submarines includes a poem by a sailor
** Indian jewels set to dazzle
They give an insight into the vast wealth of the Nizams, once the rulers of
the princely state of Hyderabad
** Fast food coming to National Air and Space Museum
The museum announced Tuesday that it will close its cafeteria to make way
for three fast-food restaurants
** Cowboys and Indians Vie, Politely, for a Museum
It is hard to avoid an almost electrical surge of emotion when browsing in
the storerooms of the Southwest Museum
** Museum Helps Jewish Family Regain Relic Nazis Stole
"It is such a wonderful story of redemption, and of the efforts of one man
who did careful research"
** Museum photographer opens e-commerce art site
Linthout, who was born in The Hague, says the original idea was simply to
build an e-commerce outlet for his daughter's handmade purses
** Living history will save our stately homes
This week the 8th Marquess of Bristol declared his anger at not being
allowed to move back into his ancestral home of Ickworth in Suffolk
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** Hatcher firm profits from museum fund drive
Seeking money for a proposed civil rights hall of fame has been a profitable
business for the man spearheading the fund drive
** Honey, I shrunk the festival!
Australia's premier cultural event, the Adelaide Festival, is facing severe
reductions in revenue
** Tools, Termites and Hominids
The researchers analyzed bone-tool collections from modern chimps and the
early hominids
** Lennon's Imagine piano goes back on display
The Steinway Model Z upright piano is back at Liverpool's Beatles Story
museum where it had been on loan from a private collector
** A bug's life is Gary Hevel's life
Neighbors sometimes see him dragging a net over his unmowed grass in long,
purposeful sweeps.
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** The Changing International Landscape of Cultural Policies
** Cemetery Preservation
** MCN/CIMI Joint Conference Explores Key Applications that Shape Museum
Visitors' Experience
Real Life: Virtual Experiences New Connections for Museum Visitors
** Grants available to fund Museum Assessment
** "Inspiring a new generation" is the theme of the 3rd Science Centre
World Congress to be held in Canberra, Australia
** "Do free-choice learning institutions change visitors' attitudes and
behavior? How? and How do we know?"
** Volunteer for the VRD 2001 Conference and Receive Free Registration
** Learning From the Fossil Record.
** "Digging for Vikings" web project
** Delivering Content to Mobile Devices: An Implementers Forum
** The 6th Colloquium of the International Association of Museums of
History: "Museums, Media and Tourist Attractions" will be held at Fellmann
Congress Center in Lahti (Finland)
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