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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:
** Pest controller stole museum specimens
A former pest controller at one of Australia's oldest museums stole more
than 2,000 animal specimens for his home collection, an anti-corruption
board revealed yesterday
** Museum told artifacts taken to sacred caves cannot be retrieved
The Bishop Museum's request to enter burial caves on the Big Island and
reclaim dozens of rare Hawaiian artifacts that it loaned to a Native
Hawaiian group was denied Tuesday
** Egypt bans new excavations by foreign scholars
Southern monuments will be off-limits for the next ten years in an attempt
to prevent the destruction of rich archaeological sites
** Museum Takes Exhibit For One Last Dive
If you're transporting visitors kilometres below sea level in a virtual
submarine, equipment needs to function properly
** Exhibits trace law-enforcement history at Seattle's police museum
They carried thumbscrews, billy clubs, saps filled with lead, and twisting
bracelets of metal and pain known as "come-alongs."
** Lawmaker Sets Sights on Latino Museum
Becerra says now is a good time for serious consideration of a museum about
Latino history in America and the contribution of Latinos to American
history
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** Unique rug collection donated to Nickle Arts Museum
A retired anatomy professor has donated about 600 oriental rugs to the
Nickle Arts Museum
** Museum of the Earth to Open
The museum was designed around the novel earth systems science approach,
which focuses on the way the various systems of the earth, such as life,
geology and climate, interact with each other
** LA County Museum given 11 Dutch paintings
Trustee Hannah Carter gave the 17th- and 18th-century artwork, which experts
said would be worth more than $25 million at auction
** Museum Of Industry Suffers $1 Million In Damage
Isabel caused sewage to flood the basement, ruining artifacts and a computer
lab. The museum has been closed since the storm and is hoping to reopen
Saturday.
** Rocky justice
A German man is sitting in a Turkish jail after his nine-year-old daughter
tried to take home a rock, which later turned out to be an antique, that she
had picked up on a beach in Turkey
** Not extinct after all: Mystery worm-eater found in Cuba
The creature looks like a brownish woolly badger with a long, pink-tipped
snout and can measure up to nearly 20 inches
** Arlington Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Protected Artifacts
An Arlington County man pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to selling
protected Peruvian artifacts, many of which are more than 1,000 years old
** Fugitive pieces
It's a tale that might be told over tiffin on the veranda, or more likely in
a parlour in the home counties among dusty photographs and leather-bound
reports
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** The order that sent 600 into Valley of Death
It is almost 150 years since the 600 rode into the Valley of Death but one
look at the hastily scrawled order that launched the Charge of the Light
Brigade is still capable of eliciting an involuntary shudder
** Scientists question whether humans caused extinction of mammoths
The idea that spear-wielding humans hunted North America's mammoths and
other giant animals to extinction has practically no archaeological support
** Auckland Museum angers family
Artefacts of Hone Heke have arrived in Canberra amid ground-shaking
thunderstorms and the first shots in a new war between Nga Puhi and the
Auckland Museum.
** Geologists' work in South America has silver lining
The new evidence - uncovered by a pair of geologists rather than
archaeologists - suggests that mining and smelting of silver ore was done on
a large scale in the Bolivian Andes 1,000 years ago, about 400 years earlier
than the well-documented silver industry of the Incas
** Make your own Barnett Newman zip painting!
Above all, attach yourself to the 'sublime' and let it speak through
everything you do, particularly in the poetically evocative titles of your
paintings
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** Call for Papers: Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archive
Professionals
** The Great ACA Garage Sale
** Coinciding with this year's Sculpture by the Sea
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