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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:
** For using bathroom, museum wants $4
Trips to the Wisconsin Historical Museum now come with a price - and so does
just stopping at its bathroom
** Body of serial killer, bullet-riddled skulls on view at Bangkok's museum
It's a rare museum where visitors are welcomed by the founder's skeleton
** In hock, Milwaukee museum sells art
Loaded with debt after opening a $122 million expansion two years ago, the
Milwaukee Art Museum has begun quietly selling off pieces of its permanent
collection
** A Museum and a Mission
Darat Safeya Binzagr takes visitors on a journey into the rich cultural
heritage of Saudi Arabia from the minute they walk through the carved
wooden doors
** Smalls are Beautiful
A unique opportunity has arisen to acquire underwear worn by some of the
greatest artists known to mankind
** Travelling exhibit tests legal boundaries for art
It's disturbing, introspective stuff, taking familiar trademarked and
copyright material and remaking it into images their owners would never want
unleashed on the public
** Ancient history damaged by farmers
Ploughs had damaged or destroyed valuable sites, including Neolithic long
barrows, Roman villas, Anglo-Saxon cemeteries and medieval field systems
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** Taipei's amazing National Palace Museum
While the exterior of the museum was built in the graceful style of Ching
Dynasty (1644-1911) palaces, the inside hums with frenetic activity
** Skeleton theft baffles museum
The museum's curator, Julie Baird, said the theft appeared amateurish and
that she doubted the skeleton was headed for the international black-market
** Nasa Debates Shuttle Debris Display
NASA officials are delicately seeking advice about what to do with the
84,000 shattered pieces from Columbia, cautiously broaching the idea of
putting some shuttle parts on display
** New museum wants old contraceptives
Directors of a new museum in Vienna are calling on members of the public to
donate old condoms and other contraceptive memorabilia
** Experts Say Moscow Cathedral Unstable
St. Basil's Cathedral, Russia's most recognizable landmark with its
swirling, multicoloured onion domes, is on shaky ground
** Clinton Haters Look to Mock His Library
Just a few blocks from the future site of Bill Clinton's $160 million
presidential library, a couple of Clinton haters hope to open a museum
devoted to mocking his presidency
** Visitors to Spanish prehistoric museum approach million mark
The cave itself, a world heritage site, can only be visited by prior
appointment - and even then only 8,500 people are allowed in annually to
preserve the site
** The duke, the Raphael and £11m of lottery money
While the gallery celebrated last night, the arguments about whether the
painting, barely nine inches square, was worth saving for the nation raged
on.
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** Dame Kiri to open exhibition of dresses
The exhibition consists of 18 dresses dating back to the one she wore at her
21st birthday party through to the gown she wore at a concert for the
Queen's jubilee last year at Buckingham Palace
** Ellis Island's Jersey side to get facelift
Half a century after the closing of Ellis Island, eight vaults in the musty
morgue and autopsy theatre are reminders of the 3,500 immigrants who died
there
** Sister Loyola of Estonia's Lonely Arts Page
International Museum Director, 44, married, NSOH, rimless glasses, greying
at the temples, wishes to meet single woman in early twenties for fun and
frolics
** First war crimes museum opens
A windowless, bullet-ridden building here that once housed prisoners has
been turned into Iraq's first a war crimes museum
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** ichim03 - the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting
exploring Cultural Institutions and Digital Technology
** Obituary for A Global Museum 'Regular' and Online Friend - Mr. Roger
Wulff
** Mencía de Mendoza: Renaissance Collector and Patron Los Angeles,
Getty Research Institute
** The Meta-Geographies of Paper Sydney Art on Paper Symposium
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