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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Naples Anti-Mafia Museum to Display Art and Arms
The museum will boast documentary films about the Camorra - the Mafia
organization that operates in and around the southern city of Naples -
police files, weapons and confiscated art, cars and jewels
** Vintage tools go on world tour
The secret of the gulleting bastard file is to be unveiled, with an award to
one of the world's most extraordinary collections
** Meteorite mistaken for clumsy goanna
We heard a mighty crash," recalled Mr Hancox, a real estate agent. Dashing
to the living room he found a 30-centimetre hole in the ceiling
** Peru Brain Museum a Medical Resource
For those unable to make it to Peru, images of about 700 of the museum's
brains will go online in late August
** Looking back in anger: Colin McCahon's family portrait
Colin McCahon: A Question of Faith is the first major New Zealand artistic
push into the European arena, and is predicted to considerably enhance
McCahon's status
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** Noah's Ark replica to be built
A Bulgarian historian has launched an ambitious project to reconstruct the
biblical vessel - complete with pairs of animals - as a tourist attraction
** Scots scientists challenge rules of evolution
Until now, it has been accepted thinking among biologists that the complex
cells of the human body evolved from primitive cells
** Drop in visitors to tourist venues
The leading top admission-free attraction was once again Blackpool Pleasure
Beach although, with 6.5 million visitors, it welcomed 4.4% fewer tourists
than in 2000
** Ancient ancestor's skeleton found in Fiji
The discovery is of fundamental importance because it informs Pacific Island
people of their true history.
** Archaeologists to unearth ancient Egyptian city
In a squalid suburb of northeast Cairo, a red granite obelisk towering above
ramshackle homes is the last visible vestige of a nearly 7,000-year-old city
** A rude awakening
Imagine a kind of dirty-mac edition of The Antiques Roadshow, furtively
conducted around a dusty cupboard in a dimly lit corridor at the back of the
most famous museum in the world
** New Exhibition Links Two Voyages of Discovery
Visitors will also see items collected from the original Beagle, on which
Darwin formulated his origin of species theories
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** Mystery of Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum revealed
Archaeologists have unravelled the mysterious plan of the Qin Shi Huang
Mausoleum, the 2,200 year old structure which is famous as the home of 7,000
terracotta horses and warriors
** Scientists Hope Ring Will Help Identify Monitor Remains
Excavators recovered a hand still wearing a ring Wednesday from the gun
turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor
** 'Chameleon' detective with a taste for dangerous pursuits
As a key member of Scotland Yard's Art and Antiques Squad, Charles Hill was
involved in some of the great art-theft recoveries of the 1990s
** Making Shakespeare Exhibition Takes Center Stage This Fall
Boasting an outstanding collection of rare books, manuscripts, and fine and
decorative art, the Rosenbach is a historic house museum
** Rich store of ancient artefacts lost...well, nearly
If construction workers had not alerted the Singapore History Museum when
they found four brown jars, a rich store of ancient artefacts might have
been lost
** Welsh Mary Rose to be put on display
The National Assembly will appeal to the Heritage Lottery Fund for money to
help it preserve and display Newport's mediaeval ship
** Museums dig buried treasure, after a fashion
The collection includes hundreds of garments, fashion accessories and
costume jewellery - all unused and many in their original packaging
** Underground museum plan for imperial relics could shake Forbidden City's
core
Custodians of the Forbidden City have drawn up secret plans for a
three-storey museum under the sprawling palace in central Beijing
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** Brno, 29 August, 2002
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