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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Painting stolen from bottom of lake
Thieves are suspected to have stolen a 50kg painting from the bottom of a
lake in Flanders after a work from the underwater Silverlake art exhibition
disappeared
** Inca may have used knot computer code to bind empire
Professor Urton believes he is close to finding the "Rosetta stone" of
South America, a khipu story that was translated into Spanish more than 400
years ago
** Columbus' Nina Visits Oyster Bay
The ship has been touring continually since 1992 as a "sailing museum" for
the purpose of educating the public and school children on the Caravel, a
Portuguese ship used by Columbus and many early explorers
** That kinky SA museum is at it again
They get up to some funny things at the South Australian Museum: one night
they had a fancy fundraising dinner in the mammal gallery and the waiters
wore nothing, not even an apron
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** French Museum Honours Lumiere Film Pioneers
The museum was inaugurated last week in an informal ceremony timed to
coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Lumiere Institute, the film
archive, library and movie theatre
** Lollobrigida Opens Sculpture Exhibition
A former art student and model, Lollobrigida began acting in movies in Italy
just after the end of World War II
** Vatican's Art Collection Goes Digital
The high-tech site allows visitors to take a virtual tour of some of the
dozen museums and galleries that make up the Vatican collection
** Terra Museum of American Art to close
After more than two years of controversy and legal infighting, the board of
the Terra Museum of American Art has decided to close the museum next year.
** No need to be ashamed
Mere mention of the word "Empire" was enough to cause ructions in Britain
until recently, but now a new museum dedicated to old Britannia is seeking
to change all that
** All in all, it's just another dent in the wall
In one section, its brown stones have been replaced by a slick-looking
limestone paste, part of a misguided local attempt at "renovating" the
ancient wall to bring tourism into this poor area
** Treasure trove of the medicine man
For sheer jaw-dropping surprise you have to see the 16th century iron
chastity belt, lined with red velvet and complete with key, or the grisly
array of amputation saws
** Pooh art a gift ... or was it a loan?
He admitted that in 1981 when the gallery had received the sketches, there
was no formal documentation procedure for differentiating between loans and
gifts, as there is now
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** Seahenge may star in town museum
Norfolk's famous Bronze Age timber circle finally looks set to find a home
in the west of the county
** Prehistoric 'shoes' better than modern hiking boots
The footwear engineer's version went on display this week at the Leather
Museum in Offenbach
** New marine species found
Giant sea spiders, jewel squid, fangtooths & goblin shrimp are among
hundreds of bizarre species brought to the surface during the first ever
deep sea exploration of waters between Australia and NZ.
** Lightbulb Collection Is Moving to Museum
The Baltimore dentist collected about 50,000 light bulbs, and had many on
display in the basement of his office
** Transformer needs $18m government boost for grand gallery plan
The ambitious proposal would see Mr Stokes spend $60 million converting the
riverfront site into a gallery akin to London's Tate Modern
** Memory man recalls 5,000 playing cards
By using locations to visualise them, he was able to successfully recall 89
of the 100 decks on which he was tested in a short space of time at the
British Museum
** Ten tonnes of gold and a tonne of trouble
The Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology described the project as a
"horror story", which showed a "cavalier disregard" for heritage
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