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The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine) in this
week's edition include:
** Smithsonian loses out on $38m donation over 'dumbing-down' claims
The episode, involving the businesswoman and philanthropist Catherine
Reynolds, is the latest instalment of a feud, that increasingly disturbs the
usually quiet corridors of the American museum world
** eBay prepares for mammoth sale
A 50,000 year-old mammoth skeleton is going up for sale on eBay
** Car that sees around corners unveiled
A car that sees round corners has taken centre stage at a new London
exhibition
** Museums see turnstiles still turn
An Old Master rules, but museum visitors still go for Van Gogh, too. And New
York museums turned the turnstiles fastest - until Sept. 11 hit
** Judge asked to forbid sale of Titanic artifacts
Now, with the company in financial straits, R.M.S. Titanic wants to sell
some or all of the artifacts
** Hidden treasures hooked in Antarctica
Fish without blood, with long goatees, and others resembling an eel-cod
cross are among startling new finds in the Ross Sea in Antarctica
** Memories are made of hiss
There was a time - fast disappearing - when tape was wound, reels of film
spooled, and images produced by the physical movement of materials
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** Louvre Reports Missing Candlesticks
The Louvre has reported that a pair of 18th-century candlesticks has
disappeared from a museum storeroom - just days after the world's largest
museum was criticized by state auditors for a lack of vigilance.
** Winnie Mandela Fights Eviction
It is now a museum, but Madikizela-Mandela uses it to conduct some of her
business dealings.
** Day's Outing Aboard the Tolstoy Train
The trip to the Yasnaya Polyana estate museum also used to be a trying one
for Tolstoy fans
** WWII relics found at Chino Airport
Volunteers with the Air Museum Planes of Fame found parts of numerous World
War II-era aircraft in mounds of dirt taken from the construction project
** Image of Stone Age death
This small object is at the centre of one of the most extraordinary stories
in modern archaeology
** Exhibition dedicated to Pele's life and career opens in Sao Paulo
It ranges from a ball made of old socks he kicked around as a poor child to
the leather ball he scored his 1,000th goal with in 1969
** Exhibit of the Week: The Uncanny
A wide-ranging exhibition that explores historical and contemporary
representation of the cybernetic body
** Golden Boy coming down for restoration
Tall, handsome, athletic prairie resident, 84, seeks companions for
friendship, short-term relationships
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** Denver Museum gets highly sought after art collection
The Tate Museum in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art were
among several that sought the collection
** Today in History - an alternate view !
February 11th, 1945. FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet for a Mutton Luncheon
in the Crimea
** London museum flushed with pride
"The Holborn loo had goldfish in the cistern so when anyone flushed the fish
had to swim back up - just as if they were in the sea."
** Andean 'Silk Road' may lead to origin of civilisation
Archaeologists working in the Peruvian Andes have found evidence that a
trade route used by locals dates back more than 4,000 years
** Hunt stepped up for 15th-century Bible
A national investigation into the disappearance of a rare 15th-century Bible
from a council's office almost eight years ago has been launched
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** University of Hildesheim, Germany, 21-23 March 2002
** InterActivity 2002: Children's Museums Celebrate Shared Values, Many
Voices
** Calling all Promising Practice Award Entries!
** The Friends of the UCSB Library 2002 Travel Grants
** The Archaeology of Space and Place in the Great Lakes Region.
** Museum offers Personal Body Fat Analysis
** Discovering Discovery Rooms
** Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
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