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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:
** Scientists Find Prehistoric Dwarf Human Skeleton
In a breathtaking discovery, scientists working on a remote Indonesian
island say they have uncovered the bones of a human dwarf species marooned
for eons while modern man rapidly colonized the rest of the planet
** Former guard pleads guilty in O'Keeffe museum theft
Court records say Crumpton worked as a guard at the O'Keeffe museum and
called police January Eighth to report a burglary in progress
** Smithsonian prepares to open shuttle display
Come November 1, visitors to the National Air and Space Museum's northern
Virginia branch will be able to see the space shuttle Enterprise, the
museum's second-largest artefact after the Concorde
** Sentosa to showcase shipwrecked Tang Treasure
The Tang Treasure includes Changsha ceramic ware; rare blue, green and white
porcelain pieces and silver and gold artefacts found to be 1,200 years old
** Collector sentenced for keeping stolen museum pieces at his home
It was a case that involved a former university lecturer with a passion for
natural history, a stuffed lion and the state's top anti-corruption body
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** Smuggled Ancient Egyptian Artefacts Return Home
Hawass unpacked some of the antiquities, including a coffin, at the Egyptian
Museum in Cairo. They also included a collection of vases, lamps, pots,
amulets and beetle-shaped scarabs, on which ancient Egyptians inscribed
prayers
** Munch Museum remains closed
Oslo police now say they have nothing new to report in their search for
brazen thieves who made off with two famous paintings by Edvard Munch in
August
** Mozart's relatives face DNA tests
The scientists hope to find out if a skull currently held at Mozart's
memorial foundation in the city is his
** Brain surgery to beam live to UK museum
Live from Brainworks is the second live operation to be shown at the
museum's Dana Centre, which was set up to engage the public in science
** Field Museum 'reuniting' scattered collections from ancient Iraq site
With the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the museum
recently began to study, catalogue and reconcile the scattered but priceless
collections of materials from the famous 5,000-year-old archaeological site
of Kish, 50 miles south of Baghdad
** Museum Official Arrested in Alleged Bribery Scheme
In exchange for the payments and gifts, Ashlock allegedly forged signatures
on documents showing program participants worked at the museum when they
actually hadn't
** Bulgaria dig suggests rich past
Archaeologists in Bulgaria say they have found hundreds of tiny gold jewels
dating back 5,000 years, possible proof of Europe's earliest civilisation
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** Luther's lavatory thrills experts
Archaeologists in Germany say they may have found a lavatory where Martin
Luther launched the Reformation of the Christian church in the 16th Century
** Berlin Art Museum and Coin Museum Reopens
Two museums are set to open in Berlin -one after extensive building to
create a home for an important collection of German art, and another
offering an early look at a collection featuring coins dating back nearly
3,000 years
** Louvre forges new links with U.S. museums
It may seem like an unlikely partnership - the world's most famous museum
establishing a satellite in the American Southeast
** Satellite technology to create first interactive 'mountain museum'
Mountains will be museums and geological gems could form galleries, with the
help of new technology to be publicly launched next month
** One-man show flies to heart of museum row
The chairman, abruptly resigned last month claiming the direction taken by
the museum's director, had "betrayed" the proper ideals of its founder and
had focused on iconography and style at the expense of the industrial design
process
** Art and science merge in ambitious plans for new museum and gallery in
London
An extraordinary museum collection, which includes Napoleon's tooth brush,
Nelson's razor, and a small piece of the 18th century philosopher Jeremy
Bentham, will feature in a new centre for arts and science in London
** Artist's political works run afoul of his printer's policies
"Clinton had uploaded some images to our site and after we printed them, we
notified him that two of them violated our guidelines, and we issued a
credit and destroyed them."
** Row over disputed etchings
Dr Casey warned that for the sake of the three disputed artefacts, 40,000
other indigenous objects and remains held in overseas institutions "would
most probably never be seen in Australia again".
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Back to the Drawing Book: re-examining furniture and furnishings 1760 -
1950 conference
** Ontologies - Methods - Humanities - Informatics
** They're Back - The Global Museum Web Awards
Two years ago, with the help of an international panel, we sought the best
museum and museum professional web sites. The standards were high and only a
select few of the nominations received this accolade.
** Opening of new Natural History display + Launch of $2.5M Fundraising
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