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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:
** Ancient Maori artefact discovered on beach
Three Danish tourists wandering along a deserted beach on their third day in
New Zealand, spotted a piece of history lying on the shoreline
** Vital art of hanging museum exhibitions
To the average museumgoer, such hand-wringing over the subtleties of hanging
art might seem esoteric, a curatorial version of arguing about angels on
pinheads
** Ancient 'bog men' make fashion statement
The fashion-conscious gel wearer has been named Clonycavan Man, and Kelly
said the fact he was able to buy imported cosmetics suggests he was a
wealthy member of Irish society about 2,300 years ago
** 500-Year-Old Frozen Bodies to Be Displayed at Argentine Museum
The frozen remains of three youngsters who died in an Inca suicide ritual
more than 500 years ago are stored in freezers inside a sterile white room
in the Museo de Arqueologia de Alta Montana, a museum in northwest Argentina
dedicated to their preservation and legacy
** Score is reunited 170 years after Mozart's wife sliced it in two
The two pieces, given to men from whom Constanze wanted favours, drifted
their separate ways for the better part of two centuries before they were
reunited yesterday for an exhibition at the British Library
** Berlin relives assassination of top Nazi in Prague
For the first time since the end of the World War Two, a German museum is
offering a close look at "Operation Anthropoid," the codename for the only
successful assassination of a member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle
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** Snapshots of the supernatural
The mystery and mysticism of such stories, all from an area around Genoa, is
the subject of a small but fascinating exhibition at one of Britain's most
extraordinary museums, the Ashmolean in Oxford
** Museum cafe offers free treatment for SAD
Londoners who suffer from seasonal affective disorder, otherwise known as
the mid-winter blues, can check out a popular treatment at a new museum cafe
** Steps to return heel of Parthenon statue
A German university plans to give back a fragment of the Parthenon
sculptures, marking the first time any piece of the statues held outside
Greece has been returned to Athens
** Some of nation's best libraries have books bound in human skin
While the idea of making leather from human skin seems bizarre and cruel
today, it was not uncommon in centuries past
** Manitoba Museum lays off staff
One of Winnipeg's major tourist attractions, the Manitoba Museum, is laying
off 14 of its employees
** Archaeologists Bring Egyptian Excavation to the Web
Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her crew are once again sharing their work with
the world through an online diary, a digital window into day-to-day life on
an archaeological dig
** Dig discovery is oldest 'pet cat'
The discovery of a cat buried with what could be its owner in a Neolithic
grave on Cyprus suggests domestication of cats had begun 9,500 years ago
** Valuable paintings stolen from museum in Serbia
Four works of art worth several million U.S. dollars were stolen from the
City Museum in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad
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** Phar Lap's Heart on Loan to NZ Museum
The National Museum of Australia in Canberra has agreed to the short-term
loan of one of its iconic objects - the preserved heart of the mighty
racehorse Phar Lap - to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in
Wellington
** Archaeologist Uncovers Maya Writing System
Archaeologist William Saturno has revealed that a Mayan writing system was
in use centuries earlier than previously thought
** Museum hosts exhibit of famous bikes
The National Packard Museum nearly had to mount its "Motorcycles and the
Movies'' exhibition without a Captain America and Billy Bike
** New Gallery At Brunei Museum
The highlight of the newly renovated museum is the Sunken Treasure Gallery,
which has hundreds of artefacts from the sunken ship
** Cigarette museum is an unlikely tourist attraction in Indonesia
Cabinets display old printing plates for cigarette packs and a book titled
Smoking is Good For You: a title meant to provide solace to the millions of
smokers in the world's fifth largest tobacco market
** Second Call for Papers - Conference: Tourism in Asia, Leeds, UK, 10-12
June, 2006
** Oglethorpe Museum Celebrates Mongolia
** Seeking Speakers For ICOM-MPR 2006
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