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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** China's Terracotta Army Museum denies reports of major new discovery
We are not allowed to discuss this too much with outside sources - I think
there has been a discovery, but there is no way there are so many figures
** Rude Britannia: Er*tic secrets of the British Museum
This is my exclusive peek inside a piece of antique furniture that, for many
decades, has been privately known to the department's staff as "the P#rn
Cupboard"
** Workers museum 'misused federal grant'
A museum that celebrates Australia's working history has been accused of
misusing a federal grant to repay an arm of the Labour Party
** Covered-up pig emerges in 1600s painting
A restorer has found a hidden image of a butchered pig in a 17th century
Dutch painting owned by a Michigan college
** Controversial museum planned in Poland at site of first Nazi invasion
Apart from a huge, socialist-style monument, there's not much left on the
Westerplatte peninsula on Poland's Baltic coast, except for bunker ruins and
a few plaques commemorating the Polish soldiers who died when the Nazis
invaded on Sept. 1, 1939
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** Banksy runs risk of public unmasking at Bristol show
Banksy, the enigmatic artist who fiercely guards his anonymity, has risked
being unmasked by sneaking into the museum housing his latest and biggest
exhibition to make changes to his artworks
** Armed with facts about historic guns
Visitors to Kelham Island Museum will no longer have to clamber precariously
in a bid to see the inscription on Sheffield's historic Town Guns
** Nepalese Ethno-museum dream to come true
A group of anthropologists and sociologists had initiated NNEM project at
Champadevi, Kirtipur 13 years ago with the objective of showcasing cultural
and religious artefacts of all communities in the country
** Art museums struggling in Mexico
In a country that prides itself on a unique artistic tradition, the crisis
resulting from the global economic meltdown and swine flu is particularly
acute
** Till's Casket Donated to National Museum
The original casket of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was the victim
of a racially-motivated killing in 1955, has been donated to the National
Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
** From the Blogs - A fresh take on the Walker's collection
Conceiving of and assembling this expansive series of installations - which
will fill five galleries - was a priority for Alexander after arriving as
the Walker's new chief curator last winter
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** Ball and chain from 17th-18th century discovered on Thames riverbank
Mudlarks in the river Thames have discovered a ball and chain dating from
the 17th-18th century which has now gone on display at the Museum of London
Docklands
** Examining the roots of family tree
There are re-creations of our ancestors in various locations around the
world that help us better understand what was going on, and Wells's travels
are lavishly shot on location around the world
** Wright Exhibition Sets Guggenheim Attendance Record
A recent exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright went very right indeed for the
Guggenheim Museum: it was the highest-attended exhibition in the museum's
history since it started keeping track of such figures in 1992
** Viking ship burial found in Sweden
Swedish archaeologists have discovered a Viking ship burial dating from the
seventh century, the oldest ship of its type to be found in Scandinavia
** Doubts cast on authenticity of Picasso in Iraq
The painting has a tag on the back with several misspellings that says it
was sold by "the louvre" to "the museum of kuwait," with the words Louvre
and Kuwait in lower case
** 2,000-year-old skeleton found in Mongolia
The National Museum of Korea said yesterday it has unearthed a
2,000-year-old skeleton of a Mongolian nomad at the Xiongnu Tombs of
Duurlignars, about 500 kilometres northeast of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of
Mongolia
** Milk Drinking Started Around 7,500 Years Ago In Central Europe
The ability to digest the milk sugar lactose first evolved in dairy farming
communities in central Europe, not in more northern groups as was previously
thought, finds a new study led by UCL (University College London) scientists
published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology
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** Unhappy guards plan 'welcome' for Art Museum chief
This bash will unfold outside, on the museum steps, with the New York Rude
Mechanical Orchestra providing entertainment and a number of the museum's
security officers explaining the program's substance
** The Museum 2010
An international conference exploring the value, purposes and priorities of
museums at the start of the 21st century
** World heritage and tourism: Managing for the global and the local
3-4 June 2010, Quebec City, Canada
** Wanted! The Goss on your geckoes
Stowaway Asian House Geckoes have been arriving by cargo ship to Australia
from exotic locations and they're settling in to our homes
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