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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:

**  International Museums Day - May 18th
This edition of Global Museum News is dedicated hard working museum
professionals worldwide.  There is a particularly poignant Guatemalan story
below, that reminds us that some colleagues have also given their lives
protecting heritage.

**  Judge assails museum panel on closure vote
A circuit judge on Thursday harshly criticized trustees of the Graves Museum
of Archaeology and Natural History

**  WWII Code-Breakers Tackle Inscription
Former code-breakers from Britain's World War II intelligence centre at
Bletchley Park set out this week to decipher a cryptic inscription on an
18th-century monument at an English country estate

**  State museum prepares for royal Russian exhibit
Curators at the Santa Fe museum began emptying wooden crates & documenting
the hundreds of belongings of Russia's last royal family

**  Museum chief plans to pay laid-off staff
The president of the African American Museum in Philadelphia today plans to
begin paying his staff, which he laid off last week

**  As caretakers fight over space, George's museum crumbles
Much of George Washington's New Jersey legacy is stored in the museum at the
Morristown National Historical Park in a building that is deteriorating to
such a degree that people entering the archive wear respirators because the
room is so moldy

**  Museum exhibit honours Californian women
A new state museum exhibit salutes some of the biggest names in California's
history - more than 200 women from astronaut Sally Ride to television chef
Julia Child
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**  European museums recognised in awards
Museums in Iceland, Turkey and Spain have walked away with the top accolades
at this year's European Museum of the Year Awards

**  Sleuth in the picture
"Every collector, every Nazi institution, storage facility, museum or
gallery had left its stamp or mark, so that their history had become legible
on the pieces themselves"

**  Fernbank Museum Receives Priceless World-Class Collection
In 1981, a group of archaeologists announced the discovery of a lost mission
site abandoned more than 300 years earlier on a barrier island off the coast
of Georgia

**  Turkey displays Troy treasures in time for film
The Istanbul Archaeology Museum has thrown open the doors to its ancient
Troy exhibition, shut for years due to lack of funds, just in time for the
world premiere of the mega-budget film "Troy"

**  Museums to Lay Off 241 as $9.5m Reform Takes Off
A mixture of hope and anxiety has gripped the National Museums of Kenya
(NMK) with the onset of the long-delayed restructuring programme meant to
increase efficiency

**  Physicists probe ancient pyramid
The largest particle detector in Mexico is being built inside a pyramid in
the ancient settlement of Teotihuacán

**  Sculpting in sound
As you walk into the Raphael Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum a
small drum sound resonates, like a heartbeat, deep in your ears

**  War Boosts Thailand's Infamous Death Railway
Despite its historical link with the conflict, Kanchanaburi's first war
museum opened as late as 1977, the brainchild of a Buddhist monk who thought
the centre could enlighten people

**  Museum exhibit chronicles Civil War siege
The towering steeple of Second Presbyterian Church was used by Union
batteries to sight the guns that lobbed shells into Charleston during a
587-day Civil War siege

**  Boomerangs a 'British invention'
The Horrible Histories writer argues the carving, said to be 3-4,000 years
old, can only be a throwing device

**  This Weeks' Horoscopes
Cancer: (June 22-July 22) Your emotional stasis, lack of imagination, and
inability to tell right from wrong will continue to be valuable assets in
the world of high finance

**  Iran's Museums Offering Free Admission on World Museum Day
Sassanid coins, Elamite statues, prehistoric earthenware, automobiles of
monarchs, and costumes of the Pahlavi royal family will also be displayed
during the week-long event

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**  Tragedy at the Colonial Art Museum in Guatemala
The Association of Guatemala Museums / Guatemalan Committee of the
International Council of Museums which joins all public and private
Guatemala museums, rejects and laments the attack against the Cultural
Heritage and the loss of Human Life committed at the Colonial Art Museum

** Here Come the Baby Boomers! Designing Museum Programs for Adult Learners

**  Education Yum Cha: Taste of Museum Learning

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