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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:
** Visitor crush forces museum to close Egyptian tombs
Unexpectedly high visitor interest has forced the Metropolitan Museum of Art
to close two Egyptian tombs that were opened for unrestricted viewing last
month
** Curtains for toy theatre museum?
Tucked behind Goodge Street Tube station, central London, is one of the
city's quaintest and quirkiest museums
** Lay visitors may wince in urology museum
The permanent collection is enough to make anyone's knees buckle -
19th-century speculums that used candlelight to examine the urinary tract,
scopes shaped like pistols
** Treasure hunters find possible Viking burial boat
The discovery in northeast England has sent a thrill through the world of
Viking scholarship
** Explosion, fire damage Annapolis museum site
A long-awaited $5.5 million renovation and expansion of the
Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis suffered a setback last night
** Museum staffers off limits for gifts
The new code of ethics says that "gifts of works of art to staff from
artists, dealers and suppliers are prohibited
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** China Makes No Bones About Corpse Show
One enthralled exhibit-goer plucked the tendons of a dead man like a Chinese
zither, until finally, a caretaker stepped in
** Tsar exhibit coming to Museum Centre
The glittering exhibition, organized by the State Hermitage Museum in St.
Petersburg, Russia, is the first comprehensive show about one of the most
dramatic and tumultuous epochs of Russian history to be seen in the United
States
** 12,000-year-old mastodon bones found in Fulton County
Brad Kelly knew he had something unusual when he uncovered a bone while
using excavating at the aggregate plant where he worked
** Architect slams MDF makeover at museum
The alterations have been branded "tacky, crude, cheap and inappropriate" by
Peter Wilson, the former project architect for the museum
** Gallery defends Caravaggio work
The National Gallery of Ireland has said it is confident one of its most
important paintings is authentic
** Illegal Gold Dealers Threaten National Mining Museum
The museum is constructed on a former gold mine, a location which is a prime
target of the illegal gold miners, popularly known as "makorokoza".
** Asian Art Museum may hold rite for souls
The remains of 97 Gold Rush pioneers that lay hidden in the earth for well
over a century as the city of San Francisco built over them - twice - at
long last are being sent to their final resting place
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** Retro exhibition of Captain Cook era painter
Hodges' association with Cook is a key theme of the exhibition and
illustrates his links with the history of global maritime expansion
** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn: (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You will be hunted to the ends of the earth by
torch-wielding opera traditionalists after enraptured reviewers refer to you
as the "long-sought Fourth Tenor."
** Our white lies
More was probably learned from the mistakes and aggressions, as well as from
the brutal denunciation of the first exhibition than from the merits and
restrictions of the second
** Impressionist Paintings a Runaway Hit in Budapest
A Budapest exhibition of Claude Monet's impressionist paintings has proved
such a hit that even his French compatriots are flocking to Hungary to see
it
** A time when science must take precedence
There is no human being on Earth who can say with any confidence who his or
her ancestors were 9300 years ago, or where they lived, or even what
language they spoke
** Fake ossuary leads Israel to look into sellers of antiquities
An Israeli documentary Wednesday claimed the James ossuary, the ancient
burial box bearing a discredited inscription mentioning Jesus, is just the
tip of a long-running forgery ring that has duped antiquities collectors
worldwide for the last 15 years
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** A Breeze Over Troubled Water
** The Edwardians: secrets and desires
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professional lives
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