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week's edition include:
** We dedicate this issue of Global Museum to the memory of Stephen Weil
Mr. Weil, a noted museum and art law expert who said the ultimate goal of a
museum was to improve people's lives, began his career as an administrator
at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1967
** New Director Named for the Getty Museum
A specialist in Indian art and architecture was named Monday as the new
director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, an institution beset by recent
controversy
** U.S. archaeologist killed in robbery in Brazil
Petersen, who had years of experience on archaeological digs in the
Caribbean, was at the restaurant with colleagues who are directing the
Central Amazonia Project, the main investigation into the ancient cultures
that inhabited the region
** Baseball museum not lost to blaze
"We got all of the baseball memorabilia out in time," Eisenbarth said.
"There's some smoke damage, and the roof may need repair, but no water got
into the museum."
** Ex-Employee Convicted of Museum Thefts
A former employee was convicted Monday of stealing two medals and a Mercury
astronaut's boot from the National Museum of Naval Aviation and selling them
on the Internet
** Strangely Collectable: Fried Image of Christ Sold to Online Casino
The seller, Donna Lee, said the Jesus face appeared when she was cooking
Polish dumplings for Easter dinner at her home in Point Place, a Toledo
suburb on Lake Erie
** An Indian 'Inside the Spitfire'
The Science Museum is celebrating Britain's most famous fighter plane was
built by women, from pots and pans and pennies scraped together during World
War Two
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** A museum whose time has come
An exhibit of ideas that have transformed the way we live - from the
toothbrush to TiVo - is on display in a new bright and airy museum at the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va
** Man, nature threaten Asia's cultural landmarks
From India's Taj Mahal to Cambodia's Angkor Wat, Asia's cultural landmarks
are threatened by man and nature and more must be done to protect them,
experts say
** Exhibit Shows Taste in Women's Looks
Frail, bearded, a lifelong bachelor and somewhat puritanical, Charles Lang
Freer liked paintings of attractive women, both nude and heavily draped
** Restorative powers of a satay stick
Navigating your way through a mass of cattle, camels and asses must be
difficult at the best of times, but when they're part of a fragile
19th-century terracotta relief, 60-odd miniature humans surround them and
the navigating has to been done with a small conservation brush, it's almost
impossible
** Italian archaeologists on trail of ancient warships
Italian archaeologists believe they are on the verge of finding the ancient
ships downed in the battle of the Aegates Islands more than 2,000 years ago
thanks to modern technology and a police tip-off
** Auschwitz museum officials visit Japanese germ warfare site in China
This is the first time that staff of Auschwitz museum has ever visited the
site of Unit 731, a secretive Japanese detachment which experimented on live
humans in order to develop germ weapons, such as bubonic plague, typhoid,
anthrax and cholera
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio: (Oct. 24 - Nov. 21) You will be honoured by the mayor of your city
for your continued restraint in not expressing your feelings through poetry,
song, interpretive dance, or ultra-large-scale fibre art
** Blown engine puts airline museum's centrepiece in jeopardy
The Airline History Museum's star attraction can no longer fly - and that
might ground the museum for good, too
** Rotterdam museum lends puppets
The Wereldmuseum of Rotterdam in the Netherlands has agreed to lend
collection of "Wayang Revolusi" shadow puppets to city-owned Museum Wayang
under a long-term agreement
** Museum's Cadaver Exhibit Might Be Dead
The board that oversees the delivery and use of human specimens at the
state's medical schools took notice of the upcoming exhibit at the Tampa
Museum of Science and Industry
** Jurors could get museum case this afternoon
Shaw is charged with organized dealing in stolen property, forgery and theft
after two U.S. Navy medals and their one-of-a-kind citations and a Mercury
astronaut space boot were advertised for sale on the popular Internet
auction site eBay in late 2002 and early 2003.
** Corned beef nostalgia on the menu at Uruguay museum
To relive that heady past when Fray Bentos fed the Allies in World War Two
and was dubbed "one of the largest kitchens of the free world" some local
history buffs have created what they call the museum of the industrial
revolution
** Archaeologists Seek Buried NYC Settlement
Archaeologists are digging with electronic fingers into the soil of Central
Park to learn more about Seneca Village, a vanished 19th-century settlement
of poor folks - blacks, Irish immigrants and others - that existed before
the park landscapers arrived in the 1850s
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Fundraising For Preservation And Conservation
** CAA2006 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that Online
Registration for CAA2006 is now open.
** Toowoomba Heritage Trip
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