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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:
** Spooky mystery at Bergen Museum
Ancient Egyptian shabti - funerary figures that represent servants in the
afterlife - are causing unease for those working at Bergen Museum
** Bush Authorizes a Black History Museum
The signing caps a turbulent, nearly century-long quest for such a museum
** 'Monkey' held over Van Gogh theft
A Dutchman known to police as "The Monkey" has been arrested for his
suspected involvement in the theft of two Van Gogh paintings
** Not just a fish story at the California Academy of Sciences
The clown fish will be scooped into plastic bags of water, carefully loaded
into plastic foam coolers and trucked across town, joining a menagerie of
5,400 fish and other animals taking shelter downtown
** Museum project cost leaps by $3.7m
The cost of 9000sq m of new space has jumped from $49.5 million to $53.2
million, half of that as a result of rising construction costs
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** Fish die after fire at museum
Millions of litres of water flooded out of Europe's biggest fish tank on
Wednesday, threatening to kill most of its inhabitants, after a fire ravaged
the Danish museum in which it is housed
** O'Keeffe Abstract Stolen from New Mexico Museum
State police said they are looking for O'Keeffe's painting "Special No. 21
'Palo Duro Canyon'," which they said was stolen from Santa Fe's Museum of
Fine Arts
** Houdini Club upset over revealing secret
Plans to disclose the secrets at the Outagamie Museum's "A.K.A. Houdini"
exhibit due to open June 2 have upset the Houdini Club of Wisconsin
** Flight not quite Wright
A bid to recreate their first powered flight failed when a replica aircraft
failed to get off the ground and came to rest in a muddy puddle.
** Tiny sculptures are oldest artworks in world
Three small ivory carvings excavated from an archaeological site in southern
Germany are the oldest examples of figurative art in the world, dating to
about the same time as the oldest cave paintings
** Pirate Museum Seeks Approval from Key West Planning Board
On display would be such artefacts as cannonballs, weaponry, flags, books,
maps and clothing, all used by pirates
** Turkish police find priceless antiques
The police recovered the haul of 363 objects from the Uratu, Hittite, Roman
and Byzantine civilisations at a house in Istanbul and arrested a man they
suspected was planning to smuggle them abroad
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** 'Safety' for £4m art and antiques
Art and antiques worth £4.2m were saved for the nation by government export
bans in 2003, it has been revealed
** Performance artist emerges from hole
The artist, a Mr Dick Tater of Baghdad, is already being nominated for next
year's Turner Prize after his moving act of self-deprivation
** Museum concept sinking
Diving pioneer Phil Nuytten says he is determined to set up some sort of
deep sea museum in North Vancouver despite the fact that it may have to
happen initially in the United States
** The day the missing link turned up in the post
In Adventures with the Missing Link, Dart later described how two boxes of
fossils from Taung were delivered to his house one Saturday afternoon in
1924, just as he was dressing for a wedding reception to be held there
** 10,000 Stolen Western Artefacts Recovered
More than 10,000 artifacts taken from historic sites in the West have been
recovered in one of the largest archaeological theft cases ever investigated
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** National Park Service's 2004 Archaeological Prospection Workshop
Ohio Memory Celebrates Centennial of Flight
** A seven-week field school focusing on both survey and excavation is
offered by Northern Arizona University
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** Global Museum wishes all its readers a very Happy Festive Season and a
relaxing holiday. We too will be taking a well deserved break and will
return at the start of the New Year with more stories from the wonderful
world of Museums!
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