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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:
** A walk through the life and times of Chinese migrants
The idea is for the Hua Song Museum, as the place will be called, to tell
the stories of Chinese migrants and how they adapted to life in foreign
lands
** Washington's National Gallery gets major gift
An exhibition of the works owned by art scholar and collector John
Wilmerding, a former deputy director of the gallery, opens on Sunday
** Tourist's Trinkets Really Ancient Statues
A Dutch tourist's souvenir Hindu statuettes will be sent back to Indonesia
and put on show in a museum after they turned out to be valuable 13th
century works of art
** X-ray to see what's gone wrong with Mona Lisa
Last week, the Louvre Museum said warping was discovered during a recent
routine check and announced a new study of the painting
** Picasso Painting Sets Record for Auction Sale
Pablo Picasso's 1905 "Boy With a Pipe" fetched a record $104 million at
Sotheby's sale Wednesday night of the Whitney collection
** The Scorpions Taste Kinda Fishy
The nutty goodness of crispy crickets aside, few of the attendees at
Adventures in the Global Kitchen, the first in a series of planned programs
on global cuisine held at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History,
seemed fully converted to the joys of eating insects
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** Seized: an entire museum of illicit antiquities
The raid came as a surprise to many locals as the bodega's antiquities
museum had been in existence for over 20 years and was even listed in a
number of guide books to the region
** Tigers to strut their stuff at Tallahassee museum
Jones and other Tallahassee Museum animal workers will occasionally place
new scents such as vanilla extract and curry powder around their tiger pad
** Dali centenary puts his art in focus
Shameless showman, brilliant artist and the proud owner of one of the
world's pointiest moustaches, Salvador Dali was a cultural icon known as
much for his eccentric lifestyle as for his art
** Hummingbirds May Be 30 Million Years Old
Fossil remains of the rare birds have been identified from a site in
Germany, extending the age of hummingbirds well back in time
** Iconic items off the shelf
Among the highlights is the ice cream cone. Italo Marchioni invented it in
1896 to reduce his losses from broken glasses
** Druidic doubts over Stonehenge tunnel plan
Modern pagans are clashing with the custodians of Britain's most famous
Neolithic site over the fate of their buried predecessors
** African-American museum lays off employees
Budget woes have led the African American Museum in Philadelphia to layoff
all of its paid employees, although the museum is being kept open by
volunteers
** Mayan Queen's Tomb Found in Rain Forest
While excavating an ancient royal palace deep in the Guatemalan rain forest,
archaeologists made a rare discovery - the 1,200-year-old tomb and skeleton
of a Mayan queen
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** Moscow museum seeking to recover $250,000 from Topeka museum
A Moscow museum is seeking to recover $328,000 it says it is owed by the
Kansas International Museum for the loan of 267 artefacts displayed last
year in Topeka
** Belgium Jewish museum moves into ex-Nazi quarters
Belgium's new Jewish museum opened Wednesday in a restored building that
served as a Nazi police station during World War II
** Camera bank for young shutterbugs
A team of 16 students - eight photographers and eight researchers - is now
working with the Singapore History Museum to document the history of Katong
** Unmasking China's Sanxingdui Ruins
The discovery of the jade, which the family thought to keep secret at first,
later brought archaeologists
** Scientists racing time, pirates for secrets of Persian Wars ships
Now, the first big expedition has gotten under way to look for the lost
fleets of the Persian Wars, seeking to bring triremes back to life
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** Antarctic Heroes - the race to the South Pole
** Masters of Animation: William Kentridge
** The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh awarded the 2004 Promising Practice
Award
** Debate: Human Remains: objects to study or ancestors to bury?
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