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thisweek's edition include:
** Happy New Year
4,500 Global Museum pages were read each week in 2007; we introduced our new
social network and readers from 176 countries paid us a visit. Thank you for
your support, encouragement & involvement these past twelve months. (Roger
Smith - Director)
** New twist in eccentric's odyssey
It was on New Year's Day in 1908 that an eccentric Norfolk man embarked on
an incredible round the world challenge wearing an iron mask and pushing a
pram
** Hirst's Skull Goes on Show at Hermitage
The plan to resell the skull came as hedge fund managers and other art
collectors lost money in the credit markets
** Queue here for the best art of 2008
First comes Hadrian: Empire and Conflict (July 24-Oct 26), about the Roman
emperor who ruled between AD 117 and 138; then we travel even further back
in history for what sounds like a fascinating exhibition about the reign of
the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar (Nov 13-March 15, 2009)
** Modern museum in Bahrain
A state of the art museum and research centre is to be built at the Saar
archaeological site - conceptual designs have been completed and building
work is expected to begin by the end of this year
** Family claims back seized Van Gogh notebook
A Greek family has claimed ownership of a notebook they believe to contain
early sketches by the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh missing since the
Second World War
** Museum gives fraud its sordid place in history
The museum does pay tribute to Enron, and other disgraced companies from
this century - WorldCom and Adelphia - with a collection of now-worthless
stock certificates, but much of the exhibition is devoted to financial
transgressions from an earlier era
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** From the cruel to the unusual
Her eureka moment happened at the Museum of Madness, Venice, while
researching a character incarcerated there in 1810
** Forensic tests in hunt for lost VCs
Police hunting for the war medals stolen from the Waiouru Army Museum have
revealed they are conducting forensic tests on objects seized two weeks ago
** Britain to woo world with first cultural envoy
Neil MacGregor will be given a £3m budget by James Purnell, the culture
secretary, to promote a new programme called World Collections, intended to
increase the profile of British museums and galleries around the world and
to bring more exhibitions to Britain from abroad
** Your Stars For 2008
Capricorn. December 22 to January 19 - After years of loyalty and hard work,
you'll be replaced by an actual metal cog this coming September
** Bound for the landfill, old photographs found a saviour
Over the decades, the photographer and master printer sallied forth from his
studio on Chicago's Near West Side on a series of rescue missions, snatching
dozens of invaluable photographic collections from neglect in wet basements
and hot attics or sure destruction in landfills
** 'America By Air' open at Air and Space Museum
Ms. Nagel, an American Airlines attendant from 1950 to 1952, was able to
explain a mysterious compartment on the DC-7 aircraft - It was used for dog
crates
** Investigators recover broken pieces of missing Paris-bound artefacts
Investigators have retrieved some broken pieces of the two stolen Vishnu
statuettes from a dump on the city outskirts and the National Museum
authorities confirmed that those belong to the 1,500-year-old relics
** Ancient history vs. Vegas development
About 10,000 bison, camel and mammoth fossils have been unearthed in recent
years in a nearly 13,000-acre ribbon of the Upper Las Vegas Wash just south
of Desert National Wildlife Refuge
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** Warhol fakes raise questions in art world, but no answers
The recent revelation that some 100 artworks long believed to be Andy Warhol
originals are probably fakes has raised a slew of questions in the art
world, notably about the work of experts, but inquiries into the affair have
so far met a wall of silence
** Old styles weave new traditions
Haruhide Tachikawa and Teruo Nakabayashi, the only weavers left in the
district, have hatched a plan to bring the brand back from the brink of
extinction and breathe new life into the tradition
** Financially ailing Fisk University struggles to turn some of its art
collection into cash
Fisk University, a historically black school on the brink financially, is
sitting on a lottery ticket it can't cash - a remarkable collection of 19th-
and 20th-century art donated by the painter Georgia O'Keeffe
** Indian Museum Director Spent Lavishly on Travel
The founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American
Indian spent more than $250,000 in institution funds over the past four
years on first-class transportation and plush lodging in hotels around the
world, including more than a dozen trips to Paris
** Inclusive Practice in Museums, Galleries, and Archives
A series of four workshops for practitioners and volunteers
** Call for Papers
Directed Session AA02 - Archaeological Acoustics
** International Call For Applicants
2008 Summer Research Workshop
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