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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** An object lesson in the perils of museum design
To put it simply, the guys who worried about the museum's art were not the
guys who worried about the weather
** National Gallery curator takes an indefinite leave
The National Gallery of Canada is in turmoil following the mysterious
disappearance of David Franklin, the deputy director and chief curator who
was in the midst of organizing two blockbuster exhibitions, including the
gallery's main show for 2009
** Fancy travel cheats state
Cultural exchanges are important, exhibitions travelling between cooperating
museums can have an economic impact on the museum's community, and travel is
expensive, but the expenses uncovered this week by a local paper are
difficult to justify under any circumstances, they claim
** Cocktail museum shakes and stirs history
The Museum of the American Cocktail opening in July will focus on the rich
history of sophisticated drinks that have been served since Thomas Jefferson
was president
** British Museum 'is Britain's most popular attraction'
The British Museum has overtaken Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the Tate
Modern to become the nation's most popular cultural attraction
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** New York museum admits third of its Coptic art is fake
Although some chemical testing on the works has yet to be completed, Dr
Russmann considers that 10 of the 30 examples of Coptic art - Christian
imagery in limestone from Egypt dating between the late fourth century and
AD641 - held by the museum are phoney
** Indonesian court jails museum curator over theft of ancient Buddhist
statues
The curator of a museum in central Indonesia was sentenced Monday to 18
months in jail for helping steal six ancient Buddhist statues and replacing
them with replicas to cover up the crime
** 6 wackiest museums in the U.S.
There are real, dead roaches on display including one dressed up as Elvis,
and another wearing a white mink cape and sitting by a piano (his name is
Liberoachi)
** Dig shows Paris is 3,000 years older than first thought
An archaeological dig, whose findings have been revealed, moves back Paris's
first known human occupation to about 7600BC, in the Mesolithic period
between the two stone ages
** Canada's first ambulance museum opens
Canada's first-ever ambulance museum has officially opened, on the rural
grounds of the Canadian Transportation Museum & Historic Village, adding a
rare emergency-service dimension to the sprawling site's vintage vehicle
experience
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** Bushmen denied visas to build mud-huts in Virginia
Three West African bushmen recruited to build a mud-hut village at the
Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia have been denied visas because officials
say the men were poor, didn't speak English and failed to convince them that
their visit only would be temporary
** Texas professor works to compile list of works missing from modern art
museum in Baghdad
On that fact-finding trip to Iraq with a group of fellow academics, gallery
owners and artists told Shabout how pieces once displayed in the museum were
now selling on the black market or in other galleries
** Clumsy amateurs destroy sites - and some of the artefacts turn up on
eBay
Quebec's rugged North Shore is one of Canada's richest areas for unearthing
artefacts from prehistoric and early European settlements
** Boxing fans flock to museum debut
In the crowd were aging former champions with battered faces, tattooed young
fighters eyeing each other appraisingly, and kids with autographed boxing
gloves slung around their necks
** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn. December 22 to January 19 - You will drink from the well of
wisdom this week, instantly learning all there is to know about contracting
dysentery.
** Art theft in France traced to Broward
During last year's museum heist, five men in jumpsuits entered on a Sunday
afternoon when admission was free, threatened staff members and pulled the
paintings off the walls
** Maritime Museum to Cement Hamburg's Tourist Appeal
A millionaire collector of model ships, Peter Tamm created the museum in a
refurbished 10-story brick warehouse, the oldest surviving port-storage
building in the city's old docklands
** Field Museum's genetic study rewrites family tree on birds
The secret kinship of falcons and parrots is one of many surprises in a
landmark genetic study of 169 bird species being published by Field Museum
researchers
** 36th CIMUSET Conference
Denmark 2008 25th - 31st of August, 2008
Aarhus, Bjerringbro, Copenhagen
** Big Bang
World Museum Liverpool - A ground-breaking experiment which could unlock
some of the unsolved mysteries of the universe is explored in Big Bang
** Fallen Angel
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reported that a late 15th-century glazed
terracotta relief sculpture of Saint Michael the Archangel came loose from
metal mounts that have long held the framed lunette securely to the wall
above a doorway in its European Paintings and Decorative Arts Galleries
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