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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:
** Baghdad museum too afraid to reopen
Nearly a year after war, director of Iraq's National Museum is too
frightened to reopen his doors to public amid insurgency
** Golden Saxon treasures from 7th-century England
The grave was discovered completely intact after excavation began last
October in an area to be known to be of archaeological interest
** Ottawa's small museums facing funding cutbacks
A $109-million shortfall in the 2004 operating budget for the city of Ottawa
has forced officials to consider cutting funding
** Mr Toad Returns to the Thames
The exhibition will faithfully follow the story-line, using lighting and
sound techniques on a journey through the whimsical world of "The Wind in
the Willows"
** Dutch museum sued over paintings
The heirs of a long-dead Russian artist, Kazimir Malevich, are suing the
city of Amsterdam to recover 14 of his paintings
** Academy Eyeing Film Museum
Academy officials say the museum will ultimately house the organization's
collection of priceless artefacts from Hollywood's golden age
** Chagas Disease Found in Ancient Mummies
Chagas disease, a deadly parasitic blood illness that recently has drawn
attention in this country, has infected some South and Central Americans for
at least 9,000 years
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** Russian pays 100 million for Fabergé collection
Just two months before Sotheby's was to auction the fabled Forbes family's
Imperial Fabergé eggs, Viktor Vekselberg, one of a new generation of Russian
industrialists, bought the entire collection and is bringing it back to
Russia
** Scientists can study Kennewick man
Scientists can study the Kennewick Man -9,300-year-old remains found in
Washington state - despite the objections of some American Indian tribes
** China's Er*tic Obsessions
On display are rarely seen artefacts from such distinguished lenders as
Kinsey Institute Museum, Gallerie Myrna Myers, Joel & Edie Frankel, Glenn
Roberts, and China's S*x Museum in Shanghai
** Da Vinci Invented Natural Plastics
Leonardo da Vinci not only anticipated the airplane, the life jacket, the
intercom and the robot, he also created the first natural plastic, according
to an Italian scholar
** University archaeologists return to Amuq, discover tomb unlike others in
Middle East
Those ancient items spoke of a rich system of trade connecting the community
with Anatolia (Ancient Turkey), the Aegean Sea, the Baltic Sea, Egypt and
the Indus valley in India
** Museums, university unite to bring Chinese art exhibit to U.S.
What's being billed as the largest exhibition of contemporary Chinese art
ever to travel outside China will open in Buffalo next year in a
collaborative effort between a Beijing museum, a Buffalo university and the
city's Albright-Knox Art Museum.
** Salvage Team Prepares to Raise WWII Ship
A German battleship that terrorized the South Atlantic during the early days
of World War II is to begin its journey back to the surface from its resting
place off the coast of Uruguay this week
** Today in History: Churchill Vows to Open Top Button of Trousers
History but not as we know it - an irreverent view of world events as they
unfolded 50 years ago
** Britain Marks 200 Years of Steam Trains
An invention that changed the world is 200 years old in 2004. Britain is
celebrating the bicentenary of the steam railway locomotive with a year-long
events programme, but it is not an engineering giant such as James Watt or
George Stephenson being fêted
** Where giants roamed: the big bug theory
These giants crawled and crept, slithered and scurried, burrowed, slinked,
skittered and, above all, flitted and fluttered millions of years before the
dinosaurs arrived
** Super-size photos show rovers' view of Red Planet
Eight-year-old Cody Duane-McGlashan of San Anselmo stopped by the
Exploratorium on a recent afternoon with his grandfather, marvelling at the
latest additions
** China, Korea Wrangle Over Ancient Kingdom
The ancient kingdom of Koguryo, famed for its mighty castles and horseback
warriors, has sprung back to life in a "war of history"
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** Suspended Self-Portrait," an interactive sculpture that displays the
human body in an unusual perspective
** The Walter P. Reuther Library is pleased to announce the launch of the
Virtual Motor City
** Museum educators in the Boston area are invited to join the Greater
Boston Museum Educators' Roundtable
** Digitization for Cultural and Heritage Professionals 2004
** Pig Latin: Illustrations by Arthur Geisert
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