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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:
** Museum's entire board resigns
The director and all 16 trustees of a Southwest history museum resigned
under pressure over the selling of museum artifacts to cover a $1 million
deficit
** Museum Sued Over Stolen Russian Art
The grandson of a Russian aristocrat has sued a Los Angeles museum over a
forthcoming exhibit that includes paintings taken from his family at the
time of the Russian Revolution
** New Acropolis museum work blocked by court
Residents and cultural associations claim the construction of the new museum
does not adequately address risks to buried antiquities
** Heathrow reveals historic legacy
An archaeological dig at the site of the new Terminal 5 building at Heathrow
Airport has provided a unique insight into 8,000 years of human history,
excavation leaders have said
** Museum CCTV shows woman opening pistol case
The theft of the weapon, which symbolised defeat of Pakistani troops during
the Bangladesh war, represented a major security breach in the museum
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** Great-white-bloke history is bunk
If the National Museum of Australia is to continue to aspire to being a
world-class institution of "authority and distinction", it should ensure
future reviews do not deteriorate into the chaos of an amateurs' day out
** British tycoon may bid for penis museum
The Icelandic Phallological Museum is up for sale and it's understood
there's an interested British buyer
** Kiwi Scientist Aims for Earth's Core
To start the crack, he suggested using some sort of blast that would be
equivalent to an earthquake of magnitude 7 on the Richter scale, or a
nuclear device such as those already possessed by many nations
** Researchers Retrieve Frozen Genes for Cloning Prehistoric Wooly Mammoths
Remnants of what scientists think is from mammoth bone marrow, muscle and
skin were unearthed last August in the Siberian tundra where they had been
preserved in ice for thousands of years
** It's pasta joke, Brits claim lasagne
Researchers have found a British recipe for lasagne dating from the 14th
century - long before Italian chefs came up with the delicious concoction of
layers of pasta topped with cheese
** 'Fifth Beatle' died after fight with Lennon, sister claims
Beatles historians have long been divided over the cause of the haemorrhage
that led Sutcliffe, who left the band after two years to pursue a fine-art
career, to collapse in Hamburg
** Decision to go on with air show 'was right'
The director of the Imperial War Museum has defended the decision to
continue with an air show, following a plane crash which killed two men
** British Museum, 250 years old, strolls down memory lane
Some 60 objects and images from the museum's vast collection have been drawn
together to show how they have helped create a "collective memory" of human
civilisation
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** Police sniff out Gogol's missing nose
Life imitated art when the marble sculpture, went walk-about last September
from the house where the story's hero is supposed to have lived
** New York City Tightens Cultural Budgets
Because the cuts weren't as deep as feared, she said her museum will be able
to continue its education programming in the fall, and she'll be able to
hire a new director of education
** 2 Accused of Stealing Exotic Pets From LI Reptile Museum
The couple are accused of taking a Nile monitor and quince monitor, which
can grow to 4 to 7 feet long, from a Long Island reptile museum without
permission
** Man 'tried to steal' death- camp door
A German tourist has been charged with theft after being caught trying to
take a crematorium door from the former Stutthof concentration camp in
northern Poland
** Graves Museum goes bankrupt, but stays open
"It's one of the weirdest bankruptcies you'll see," said Rudy Pascucci, the
museum's director
** Guggenheim may open in Taiwan
The Taiwanese city of Taichung is the latest to pin its hopes for
international cultural recognition and economic regeneration on the
Guggenheim Foundation
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** Off the Wall and Online: Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections
** The Line on Hirschfeld A special presentation by Hirschfeld
archivist David Leopold
** American Beauty: Ennoblement or Entertainment?
** British Association of Friends of Museums (BAFM) BAFM 30th Conference
& AGM
** Cosmos & Chaos: A Cultural Paradox
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