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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:
** Greek museum roof collapses, reportedly damaging ancient artefacts
Athens daily To Vima said several ceramic vases dating from the early Minoan
era - around 1,900 BC - had been smashed
** Historic gun stolen
A century-old pistol that belonged to a legendary cowboy and outlaw is
missing from a rural museum, and the Montana Historical Society is offering
$4,000 for information leading to the weapon's return
** Stroke of genius separates art classics from forgeries
US scientists have developed a computer technique that can tell an art
masterpiece from a forgery with unprecedented accuracy
** Museum Gives Kalashnikov Experience
From Wednesdays to Sundays at 15.30 sharp, a guide-turned-military
instructor is teaching how to assemble the gun
** New Dallas exhibit sheds light on Oswald's killer
There is much the public doesn't know about Ruby, and in an effort to set
the record straight on his life, crime and trial, a new exhibit at the Sixth
Floor Museum has opened
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** Slow path to recovery
Fourteen months after sustaining a devastating whack from Hurricane Isabel,
Mariners' Museum Park is nearing the end of a $1 million campaign to repair
the wounds left by more than 3,000 fallen trees
** Cost may sink Berlin's Museum Island restoration scheme
A proposal by the British architect David Chipperfield to regenerate
Berlin's Museum Island, the city's historical heart boasting five museums in
the former communist east, could be derailed because of the project's cost
** Maritime museum hunts down piece of history carved in the jawbone of a
whale
It shows a frantic whale hunt in NSW waters: three small whaleboats chase a
pod of whales followed by the mother ship, ominously called The Terror,
owned by Benjamin Boyd
** Israel's Holocaust museum unveils victims database
Israel's Holocaust museum on Sunday posted on the Internet for the first
time biographical information about three million of the six million Jews
killed by Nazi Germany
** 'Worst waxworks in world' could be yours
Hundreds of holidaymakers every summer pay £3 (£2 for children) to see the
collection of celebrity not-so-look-alikes - despite pranksters dubbing it
the world's worst waxworks
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** Museum of Art director steps down
The Indianapolis Museum of Art director said today he was resigning because
his "work here no longer offered the best fit for the museum."
** Norwegian team in Peru to plan for recreation of famous Kon-Tiki
expedition
Nearly six decades after Thor Heyerdahl's epic Pacific Ocean crossing aboard
the balsa raft Kon-Tiki, members of a new team, including his grandson, are
in Peru laying the groundwork for a modern repeat of the feat next year
** This Week's Horoscopes
Pisces: (Feb. 19 - March 20) You'll be granted a momentary glimpse through
the omniscient eye of the Creator, causing you to remark that now you've
seen everything
** High standards set for museums
The initiative will govern how museums look after their collections and the
information their visitors should expect to receive
** Italy grants Syria US$7.8 million to restore archaeological site,
national museum
Built by the Seljuks, a nomadic Turcoman tribe, in 1078, it is the only
fortress in Syria whose foundations are on the same level as that of the
surrounding settlement
** Tudor cannon recovered
The gun was made, and the ship may have been part-owned, by Thomas Gresham,
Kent entrepreneur, iron founder - and fixer and probably spy to both Henry
VIII and Elizabeth I
** Fire-hit museum ready for comeback
The museum has long been recognised as the largest and finest of its kind in
the world and, before the fire, attracted about 250,000 visitors a year
Museum's tribute to the Bevin Boys
With ordinary miners called up to serve on the front, the men - nicknamed
the Bevin Boys - helped the war effort by keeping the country's pits in
production
** MoMA: The re-imagining of a museum
Architect Yoshio Taniguchi's re-imagining of the Museum of Modern Art
launches a rush of emotion, triggers an avalanche of ideas, and will leave
visitors twirling around inside the new-and-improved building like Julie
Andrews in The Sound of Music
** 'Original' great ape discovered
Scientists have unearthed remains of a primate that could have been
ancestral not only to humans but to all great apes, including chimps and
gorillas
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Swedish Arts and Business Award 2004 to "Wasa aids the Vasa"
** Simplicity and Splendour: The Arts & Crafts Movement from 1882
** World Museum Liverpool - the new Liverpool Museum
** Who were the winners? The Global Museum Web Awards
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