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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:

**  NYC Museums Offer Free Entrance
``We offer sanctuaries of respite and contemplation that we hope can provide
some comfort to the people of New York City during this very sad and
difficult time,''

**  BBC Panorama Programme on Bin Laden
Who is America's Most Wanted man?  BBC's Panorama programme traces the life
of Osama Bin Laden  Video

**  Plane Abandoned in Glacier Turned On
Glacier Girl has roared back to life, nearly 60 years after being abandoned
on a glacier in Greenland

**  Chicago's Field Museum Hosts Discussions of Recent Events
The Field Museum will host a series of town meetings to help people absorb
and contemplate recent events

**  Cultural Life Slowly Returning
Four days after the World Trade Center tragedy, New Yorkers and tourists
sought diversion - and maybe a few laughs after all the tears

**  Arts provide some balance in an off-kilter world
Amid feelings of obsessive sadness and anger there is a need for relief

**  Peru's lost kingdom rises from the desert
Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed new evidence of the technology and
culture of the Moche

**  Parton Announces Dollywood Expansion
The expansion includes an interactive museum of stories and memorabilia from
Parton's life and career as a country music singer and actress

**  $5.7m portrait gem uncovered
A previously unrecognised portrait by Hans Holbein, thought to be worth more
than £2 million ($A5.7 million), has been discovered in London's V&A Museum

**  International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent stirs emotions
Any doubts about the power of the material were dispelled even before I
walked through the door

**  A trip to the past on Tokyo's last tram
The Toden is a genuine streetcar, running a 12.2 kilometer course eastward
from the edge of the Waseda University area in Shinjuku Ward

**  Art, aristocracy and a £2bn family row
Trial judge's resignation may force the baron and his son to settle

**  Shipwreck found laden with Ming Dynasty ceramics
Divers have discovered a 19th century shipwreck laden with Chinese ceramics
from the Ming Dynasty off the coast of Malaysia

**  Past, Present Merge at D-Day Museum
As Mareen Moore walked through the National D-Day Museum, she thought about
the terrorist attacks and how they undo the legacy the museum celebrates

**  Museum takes down 'Terrorist' painting
A stark painting featuring the word terrorist has been moved from display at
a US museum
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**  This Is Not A Lobster, It's A Fashion Statement
Surrealism will be back this autumn, thanks to the exhibition devoted to the
movement that opens this week at Tate Modern

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**  Artist among those missing in World Trade Center attack
Amid the rubble of the World Trade Center, a 31-foot piece of sculpture
stands apparently unharmed

**  Minds in the museum
The explosion in counselling and psychotherapy in the late 20th century is
fuelling interest in the history of psychology

**  Year's Work Unearths Additional Terracotta
After toiling for more than a year, Chinese archaeologists have discovered
another large pit next to the world-renowned Qin Terracotta Warriors and
Horses

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**  MCN/CIMI Joint Conference Explores Key Applications that Shape Museum
Visitors' Experience
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**  Collecting the Colony: Contemporary thoughts on imperial histories

**  The Secret Self: Exploring Biography and Autobiography

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**  Call for papers: The International Journal of Heritage Studies

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