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In you free international Museum Ezine this week:
**Art Dealer Wins 'Bullets in Candy Bowl' Fight
A Manhattan judge on Monday granted a prosecutor's request to dismiss
charges against Fifth Avenue art gallery owner Mary Boone for displaying
live bullets in a candy bowl as part of a sculpture exhibition
**Hungary Holocaust museum to meet ``just demand''
Hungary announced plans on Thursday to renovate a disused Budapest synagogue
as a Holocaust museum to answer a rightful claim of the Jewish community.
**Joyce's Ulysses manuscript comes to Ireland
The manuscript of James Joyce's ``Ulysses,'' one of the most influential
novels of the 20th century, will go on show in Dublin next year, the first
time it has ever been seen in Ireland.
**Germans mull database to return art taken by Nazis
Germany is considering creating an Internet database to promote the return
of looted artefacts to victims of Nazi persecution or their heirs
**Mondrian masterpiece stays in UK instead of tax
Britain's government on Friday said it had accepted an important painting by
Dutch 20th century abstract artist Piet Mondrian in lieu of tax liabilities
and had given it to the Tate Gallery.
**Mars Polar Lander's ominous silence is just the beginning of NASA's woes
Not only are its next two Martian landers nearly identical to the stricken
craft, but there is also very little chance that engineers will ever
discover what went wrong.
**Electronic wizardry is about to bring dinosaurs back to life
t's not quite Jurassic Park, but it's getting there. Engineers on a
Europe-wide project are developing life-size robotic dinosaurs that will
walk around museums, chew on plants and interact with visitors as if they
had just stepped off the prehistoric plains.
**Cezanne painting brings $30 million, works belonging to Versace $17.5
million
An anonymous buyer has paid $30 million at auction for a Paul Cezanne
still-life painting that was stolen from a Massachusetts home in 1978
**Lumberton museum planned
Mary Ann Masters unveiled plans for the 6,300-square-foot museum during the
Robeson County Board of Health's annual dinner Thursday night. The museum,
which will be called Exploration Station, will provide interactive learning
activities for children up to age 7
**Marilyn Monroe Photo Auctioned Off
A photograph of Marilyn Monroe standing over a sidewalk grating in the
"Seven Year Itch" brought in $2,990 at auction
**The house that Frank rebuilt
California industrialist Norton Simon bought his first major painting on a
whim. He'd just built a new home in Los Angeles and needed something to
decorate the walls
**Hefty price fails to materialize for Ice Age relic on Internet auction
block
The bones of Mambo the woolly mammoth were pulled from an Internet auction
site after five weeks of online bidding failed to come close to the $115,000
minimum.
**Guggenheim Announces New Museum
The Guggenheim Museum is opening a new outpost in an old space, converting
the 17th-century Customs House on Venice's Grand Canal for the latest of its
international branches.
**Jonah popularity waxes in London
The wax figure of All Black Jonah Lomu has been one of the star attractions
at Madame Tussaud's in London this year
**Mysterious Object Lands in Dam
Is it a UFO, space junk, a meteorite or simply frozen sewage? Whatever it
turns out to be a mysterious flying object has landed in an Australian
country dam, leaving a large crater, and sunk beneath the mud
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