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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:
** Masterpiece back in museum after visit to British kitchen
A nervous curator, Amy Barker, accompanied the painting's sojourn to north
London, & muscular security guards were planted either side of the picture
while it hung in the brothers' kitchen
** Games and Gods Return to Rome's Colosseum
The collection brings together statues, busts, mosaics and pottery, some
dating back as far as the sixth century B.C., from Italian cultural hotspots
like Florence and Pompeii and farther-flung sites such as Paris & Berlin
** Stories of the Civil War, Carved on Headstones
The brothers Prentiss were brought to the Armory Square Hospital in
Washington, and their nurse, Walt Whitman - that Walt Whitman - was stunned
by this coincidence of war
** Diefenbaker museum in Regina used as goose pen
This year, the noisy, often messy birds were corralled and penned on the
grounds at a dilapidated museum
** Museum opening ceremony is disrupted by falling frame
The centre's president was hit on the head but was able to walk to an
ambulance. A woman also was taken to a hospital but appeared to be O-K
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** Jewish museum 'was terror target'
A Jordanian man claiming an association with Osama bin Laden has testified
that he and members of a radical Palestinian group plotted attacks against
Berlin's Jewish Museum
** Museum to ditch stuffed animals for hi-tech look
The overhaul of the National Museum of Scotland is the brainchild of its new
director, Dr Gordon Rintoul
** Chileans to Send 'Blob' Samples to Foreign Labs
Scientists have been boggled by the 40-foot-long mass of grey, gelatinous
flesh that was first spotted over a week ago near Puerto Montt.
** AGO cuts staff, blames tourism
''Reduced tourism'' is being blamed for the layoffs of 29 employees
announced yesterday at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto
** Painting Depicts Giuliani Near Dung
An exhibit that opened at the Whitney this week strikes back -- with a
portrait of Giuliani that has elephant dung painted on it
** Head found in man's estate
According to Smith's son, the head came from a museum collection at a castle
somewhere in Germany at the end of World War II
** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo: (July 23-Aug. 22): The dread spectre of your own mortality will loom
over you all month, but you'll be so busy remodelling your kitchen that
you'll hardly notice
** Pistol may be in museum, say police
Although the missing pistol was not found, the police claim to have lifted
crucial evidence from the naval gallery for forensic investigation
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** Dame Edna's gems saved
"The Performing Arts Museum has been a dustbin for me - an accumulation of
debris that was previously housed in the garage"
** Iraq museum opens briefly to display recovered gold
Under heavy security, with military armoured vehicles on the museum grounds,
the priceless set of gem-studded gold Assyrian jewellery was displayed for
several hours
** Raided Lost Ark returns home
A replica of the Biblical Ark of the covenant, or tabot, has been taken back
to Ethiopia and an Irish doctor was responsible
** Birth of Photography Seen in U.S. Daguerreotype Show
Announced with fanfare in Paris by Louis Daguerre in 1839, the daguerreotype
was among the first photographic processes and the first to become
commercially successful
** Rock art find makes Stonehenge seem recent
Hidden on the walls of a rock shelter deep inside a remote area of Wollemi
National Park, the 203 drawings depict an extraordinary array of images and
styles
** Mars Bar wrapper collection dates back 70 years
Now Mr Opie, of West Ealing, wants to give the memorabilia the pride of
place in a packaging museum he plans to open in London
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Workshop on "Monitoring for Preventive Conservation", Sydney, Australia,
** Call for Papers: " New Directions and Innovation in Graduate Archival
Education: The Third Archives Educators Forum, 2004." Monday, August 2,
2004, Simmons College, Boston.
** The Ends of Portrayal: One Hundred Years of Modern Portraiture,
1850-1950
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