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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:
** Tsunami throws up India relics
The deadly tsunami could have uncovered the remains of an ancient port city
off the coast in southern India
** Former science museum worker accused of theft
The former office manager of a science museum in Cedar Rapids is accused of
stealing more than $275,000 dollars
** Defence chief accused of intimidation
The intimidation complaint was made by a lawyer who is taking the case for
Waiouru Army Museum archivist Dolores Ho
** 'Cursed' Hope diamond was cut from French stone, tests show
"The evidence very much supports the theory that it was cut from the French
Blue diamond," say the curator of gems and minerals at the National Museum
of Natural History in Washington
** FBI agents in Paris probing Messier in 1990 Boston art heist
Two FBI agents investigating a bold 1990 art theft in Boston went to Paris
to investigate whether a former French media mogul embroiled in a financial
scandal knows the whereabouts of some of the stolen art, a paper has
reported
** Museum Won't Clone Tasmanian Tiger
An Australian museum said Tuesday it has abandoned a project to clone a
Tasmanian Tiger the extinct, wolf-like striped creature that carried its
young in a pouch
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** Rotten luck for Hirst's shark art
Damien Hirst's notorious shark floating in a tank of formaldehyde is
disintegrating and will need extensive conservation work to stop it
decomposing from the inside out
** For body and soul
The parlous state of the grub in Canberra makes it all the more irresistibly
ironic that the NGA recently put out a book titled Eat Art
** This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer: (June 22-July 22) Travel hinders your creativity when, for days
after your flight, all your pottery designs refer to things you read in US
Airways' in-flight magazine.
** Bust of Nefertiti to move to a new museum setting
Nefertiti's home since 1967, the Egyptian Museum in the former West Berlin
district of Charlottenburg, is scheduled to close at the end of the month,
and its collection is being moved to the heart of the capitals
** Scholars debate link between Neanderthals, homo sapiens
"I'm sure no self-respecting Neanderthal female would fancy a Homo sapiens
male," Tattersall said
** Steve Martin donates $1M to art collection
The gift is seen as a boon for a department traditionally overshadowed by
the museum's European collections
** Heckscher backs off on expansion
Faced with mounting opposition within Long Island's art community,
Huntington's Heckscher Museum has withdrawn a proposal to expand its Beaux
Arts-style building with proceeds from the $19-million sale of a famous
painting
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** Gambling website runs against the odds
The Powerhouse Museum has described its Gambling: calculating the risks
project as an educational website, designed to explain the mathematical
principles underpinning gambling, as well as highlighting gambling's
economic and social costs
** Fingerprint may find Leonardo painted disputed masterpiece
Chief restorer Elisabetta Zatti said she found the fingerprint toward the
end of the yearlong restoration that ended in November
** Menagerie of mummies unwraps ancient Egypt
Researchers say the new collection - including mummified cats, birds,
baboons and crocodiles gathered from a variety of other collections - adds
weight to the idea that the humble house cat was first domesticated animal
to provide a source of ritual offerings for the gods
** The rebirth of discontent
At the stripped-down former Lenin Museum, pensioners with gold teeth and
mink hats look quizzically at Saatchiesque art and a paunchy guard named
Igor decides, apparently impromptu, that he is an installation and begins to
dance
** Researchers Uncover Ancient Cave Engraving
Researchers say they've uncovered an engraving thought to be 10,000 years
old in a British Cave
** Art conservation reveals mystery behind broken-down masterpieces
Gordon Lewis handles some of the rarest art in the world, although it is
often a faded, cracked and even unrecognizable remnant of what it once was
** Tampa museum director faces a city's doubts
Some say Emily Kass lacks the inspirational persona and financial knowledge
that are needed for a $54-million art museum project
** "The Chicken Story" stamp exhibition at Singapore Philatelic Museum
The Singapore Philatelic Museum has put up a special exhibition to celebrate
the Year of the Rooster, complete with facts and trivia about the bird
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Dare to Dream: Development Goals for the Small Museum
** The National Council on Public History's2005 annual meeting
** This Week's Cartoons
** Living It Up: The Tower Block Story of Liverpool
** Tourism, Carnival and Folklore
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