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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Museum Digs Skeletons Out of Closet
With its 95th birthday just a couple of months away, Moscow's renowned
Darwin Museum has raided its storerooms and come up with a grand display of
its rarest and most valuable possessions
** Fabulous tyrannosaur find on its way to Smithsonian
Last month, the team finished identifying the specimens and encasing them in
plaster jackets to be flown out
** Thieves grab Dickens 'treasures'
Three first-edition copies of A Christmas Carol worth £90,000 have been
stolen from the Dickens museum in London
** Fancy Tiberius's villa? Italy is set to sell its heritage
Italy's cash-strapped government has listed hundreds of public properties
for mortgage, including historic sites such as Emperor Tiberius's villa, to
pay for an ambitious public-works programme
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** Internet campaign to solve 30 year mystery of stolen pots
Officials trying to recover more than 100 artefacts stolen three decades ago
are mounting a 'no questions asked' internet campaign
** Smithsonian CAT scanner lets scientists peer inside precious objects
For centuries the instruments made by Italian violinmaker Antonio Stradivari
have charmed musicians with their sweet tones
** She Sees Art In The Nut
Elizabeth Tashjian has spent most of her 89 years trying to prove that nuts
are at the very core of human existence
** Australian finds mission and obsession on Death Railway
He has unearthed thousands of relics - buckles, insignia, tools, train parts
& some poignant articles like a porcelain figure of the Chinese goddess of
compassion
** Madame Tussaud's denies lengthening Kylie's skirt
The waxwork, which shows Kylie in a provocative all-fours pose, is still
Madame Tussaud's most popular model
** Face-off over hillside carving
A controversial scheme for a 260ft by 190ft image of the young Macedonian
king would resemble the giant carvings of four US presidents on Mount
Rushmore in South Dakota
** Museum cannot afford to display textile treasures
Curator Sarah Posey has one of the finest collections in the world, of more
than 18,000 textiles, ranging in size from tiny scraps of embroidery to vast
carpets and entire tents
** Bronze Age had brain surgeons
Dr Simon Mays of English Heritage said: "Trepanning is probably the oldest
form of surgery we know."
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** Italy Detains Moroccans over Possible Church Attack
The four were seized Monday morning inside the imposing 14th century
Basilica of San Petronio, one of the finest Gothic buildings in Italy
** France blocks DNA test on Napoleon's body
France's ministry of defence has turned down a request to test the DNA of
the body assumed to be Napoleon's, which lies in the Invalides in Paris,
amid claims that it could be his butler instead
** The American Way
The Australian National Maritime Museum's Michael Crayford about the new
exhibition, Patriotism, Persuasion, Propaganda - American War Posters.
** China to Repair Ancient Suspended Coffins
The Bo are believed to be the pioneers of the Silk Road leading to southeast
Asian countries
** Royal Family Shows Off New Treasures
This year visitors will glimpse different kinds of treasures: a hockey puck,
a whale tooth and a grasshopper drink cooler.
** Feature Exhibition - The Netsuke of Georges Weil
Georges Weil was the first western artist to be invited to join the Japanese
Netsuke Chokokukai (The Japanese Netsuke Carvers Association)
** Aboriginal artefacts found in rubbish bin
Department of Indigenous Affairs southern regional manager Neville Collard
found the items, thought to be about 100 years old, after a chance wander
past rubbish bins
** Yacht buried for 1,000 years to be excavated
Wooden samples from the yacht sent to Lucknow's National Institute of Paleo
Botany have dated it as 1,010 years old
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**The annual Southeastern Museums Conference Jekyll Island Management
Institute (JIMI)
** Work 'N Progress: Stories of Southern Labor
** How to Work with Donors, Development, and Deans to Negotiate and
Recognize Gifts
** ARTSPACE Mackay Professional Development Programme Arts In Tourism Forum
** VIRTUAL CONGRESS: WORLD HERITAGE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
** Forced and Slave Labor in Nazi-Dominated Europe, 1933 to 1945
** New On-line Resources from NPS
** National Archaeology Bodies Welcome Ship Announcement
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