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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** £3.5m ransom for stolen sculpture
This is thought to be the first response that insurers or police have had
from the thieves who stole the 16th century solid gold sculpture by
Benvenuto Cellini, in a raid three months ago.
** Senua, Britain's unknown goddess unearthed
He believes Senua was probably an older Celtic goddess, worshipped at a
spring on the site, who was then adopted and Romanised
** China's dam dooms artifacts
Completion this summer of China's Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze has doomed
1,200 archaeological and historical sites as the reservoir behind the dam
begins to fill its eventual 375-mile basin
** Artists and church battle over museum show
Four days after the opening, six men from a Russian Orthodox Church came to
the museum's exhibition hall & sacked it, defacing many of the 45 works
** Pooping tiger wins crowd support
A Tasmanian tiger toy that excretes chocolate sweets has emerged as the
crowd favourite at an exhibition honouring the extinct marsupial
** Cambodians divided over Pol Pot theme park
Many Cambodians are horrified at what they see as a cynical attempt to cash
in on that terrible legacy
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** Museum district gets another attraction: free wireless service
The Cleveland Art Museum's chief information officer, said wireless access
offers another way to interact with the community, especially young people
** Museum opposes Israeli warplanes over Auschwitz
Descendants of Holocaust survivors plan to fly over Auschwitz in southern
Poland on Thursday in three Israeli F-15 jets which had earlier taken part
at an air show in the country
** Egypt to open new museum dedicated to the glory of Thebes
A new museum dedicated to the glory of the ancient Pharaonic capital of
Thebes and the warrior kings is to open in Luxor in two months
** France's expensive culture shock
The introduction of the 35-hour week has wrought havoc with museum staffing
and the Louvre, for example, on any one day has to close 15 per cent of its
display space
** Dinosaur-sized plan
A public-private partnership is simmering a $92 million plan that would
bring stores and restaurants, a parking deck, state offices and a Museum of
Natural Sciences research center
** Indian artifact stolen from Historical Society museum
The theft of an American Indian artifact from a display case at the Montana
Historical Society last week has local law enforcement searching for leads
and museum staff shaking their heads
** World's first Mediaplex
"No other country in the world has managed to bring together its national
film and television collections under one roof along with such a full range
of public programmes and access facilities"
** Mummy thought to be Nefertiti may be a man
The mummy a British Egyptologist says could be the ancient Egyptian Queen
Nefertiti, renowned for her beauty, is much more likely to be a man
** Scholars in quest to reveal the true Scott
The mistakes made by printers as they rushed Scott's books to sale in the
early nineteenth century have hindered the understanding of Scott's original
writings
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** First-class Titanic ticket goes on display
The ticket belonged to the Rev John Holden, a Liverpool vicar who planned to
sail on the luxury liner but cancelled at the last minute when his wife fell
ill
** Gulag museum memorializes victims of Soviet-era regime
Sixteen years ago, however, the bitter climate was hardly the sole source of
suffering at Perm-36
** U.S. Museums Admit to Role in Looting of Native American Burial Grounds
There was trade among the museums and even - in the case of the Field
Museum - the sale of excess human remains.
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