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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Archaeological find freezes Monet museum
"L'horreur!" (Horror!) reportedly exclaimed museum curator Pierre Georgel,
who was forced to suspend the works the following month pending a decision
by the authorities
** Activists Call for a Reptile Museum to Close
People would drive by the museum and hurl their sick and unwanted pets -
ranging from reptiles to guinea pigs to rabbits - from their cars and onto
Mr. Kates's doorstep
** Museum Founder Vows to Rebuild
Auschwitz survivor Eva Mozes Kor digs through a pile of scorched insulation,
charred books and glass shards, searching for the collection's most sobering
artefacts
** World Carrot Museum creator takes the cake
The vegetable-stacking vendors and bag-toting shoppers don't realize the
King of Carrots has arrived
** V&A museum opens five galleries
Many of the paintings have been cleaned for Wednesday's unveilings.
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** Church asked to disinter 'Harold'
The tomb was first uncovered in 1954 and found to contain a decorated coffin
with a headless body
** New Exhibit Showcases Fuel-Cell & Hydrogen Technology
Innovative fuel-cell and hydrogen technologies of tomorrow are on display at
the Canada Science and Technology Museum
** Mother Tongue May Be Older Than Many Think
Using computational techniques borrowed from evolutionary biology,
researchers calculated rates of change in basic words - body parts, personal
pronouns, kinship and numerals - and projected the results backward in time
** Spanish Plan Aims to Transform Madrid's Museums
Spain on Wednesday unveiled plans for a new "Art Walk" to unify three
prestigious museums in its capital Madrid as part of a $173 million
expansion plan to rival cultural hubs in Washington, London and Berlin
** Outlaw exhibition opens in Canberra
Ms Devi was murdered in 2001 just after talks with the museum about loaning
some of her personal belongings for the exhibition, and the possibility of
coming to Canberra for the opening
** Biblical artefact declared fake holds important lesson: 'Jesus sells'
Scholars are now on the trail of more possible forgeries and questioning the
roles their colleagues play in the authentication of relics that turn out to
be fake
** A New Air and Space Museum: Birds In A Gilded Cage
Like tigers in a zoo, they take our breath away with their ferocious beauty
while it breaks our hearts to see them caged
** Bad boy artist keeps experts guessing
Scholars are "99 per cent" sure that the painting on the right is by
Caravaggio, the street-brawling, hard-drinking, artist whose taste for
violence and knives made him as famous as his use of light and shadows in
his paintings
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** Cast-iron guns and bronze artefacts found in northern provinces
Bronze artefacts dating to the 19th century were also found and given to the
northern province of Thai Binh's museum
** Divers find resting place of Revolutionary War gunboat
Divers searching Lake Champlain have uncovered evidence that could lead to a
better understanding of a Revolutionary War naval battle between Benedict
Arnold's American fleet and a British armada
** What's sarong with that?
The curator of the current costume exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum
of Art, "Bravehearts: Men in Skirts", argues that overcoming "trouser
tyranny" is the next fashion frontier
** Our living dinosaur's tale told
Known now for his late-in-life progeny, a successful sire, he's successor to
the Southland Museum's first tuatara male George
** Saatchi buys auctioneer in a box
A West Country fine art auctioneer who has been on hunger strike for the
past fortnight in a Lalique glass box suspended over the River Thames, has
been purchased by the millionaire art collector Mr Charles Saatchi
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** The Tourism Council of Western Australia will host the Australian
Cultural Tourism Conference, February 11-13, 2004
** Te Awa Tupua - The Whanganui Iwi Exhibition will open at Te Papa on
Saturday 29 November 2003.
** The Grand Unveiling: SFPalm's Costume Image Research Collection
** CODATA / ERPANET International Archiving Workshop on the Selection,
Appraisal and Retention of Digital Scientific Data
** Restore America: Communities at a Crossroads
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