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The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine) in this
week's edition include:
** Churchill's Wartime Bunker to Open to Public
Secret areas of Winston Churchill's underground bunker, the nerve center for
British military planning and intelligence in World War II, are to be opened
to the public for the first time
** Herreshoff museum has grand design plans, $350K federal grant
The 200-foot original pier, the north and south dock, has already been
replaced and the central plaza refurbished, and a new flag pole added
** Peruvian mummies in TB surprise
It would seem the Spanish cannot be blamed for introducing tuberculosis to
South America's indigenous populations
** Kennedy rejects Irish job to stay at NGA
National Gallery of Australia director Brian Kennedy rejected yesterday a
million-dollar offer to head a museum in Ireland
** Export of Alice in Wonderland Photos Banned
Britain slapped a temporary export ban on a rare set of photographs of the
little girl who inspired Lewis Carroll to write "Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland."
** Thousands flock to free entry museums
The country's top museums have seen thousands of people flock through their
doors today on the first day admission charges were scrapped
** Science Museum's 'dumb down' row
Blueprint would let Burger King and Starbucks turn national asset into a
theme park, say critics
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** Freedom Center will house exhibit for children
Parts of the Underground Railroad exhibit will tell the stories of children
involved in the secret network that helped escaped slaves find their way to
freedom
** Kimbell director artfully leaps to the world of commerce
The biggest surprise, though, was his decision to step away entirely from
the world of art scholarship and nonprofit institutions and enter the world
of commerce instead
** Berlin welcomes back its Old National Gallery
Berlin has welcomed back the Old National Gallery after a facelift to erase
some of the scars of World War Two and later decades of neglect
** Web wizards test technology
Most design on the internet is "dreary at best", says a large placard
introducing Web Wizards, the new exhibition at the Design Museum
** Delve into historic paper trail
Right now the Karpeles Manuscript Library is home to the original version of
Florence Nightingale's receipt for the establishment of female nurses in
hospitals
** Whitney Pares Staff, Exhibitions
The 70-year-old facility will trim 14 workers from its 210-member staff and
cut back on its scheduled roster of exhibitions for 2002
** Library to Museum: leave our Joyce alone
A rift has emerged between the British Museum and the British Library over
the growing literary flavour of the former's exhibitions
** It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's SuperBuilder!
Get ready for SuperBuild Sweepstakes, the intriguing and entertaining new
cultural game show
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** Get a different look at the world at the Getty
The Getty's playful look at the history of various exotic curiosities could
be the first museum exhibit to get a thumbs up from magician Ricky Jay and a
host of tweedy art historians
** Saintly Santa
Museum display a study of man behind the myth
** Builders unearth 1st century Roman burial site
Workmen preparing foundations at a Welsh council depot have uncovered a
Roman burial site
** South Africans moved by first apartheid museum
Robben Island's most famous prisoner, Nelson Mandela, will on Saturday open
a R40-million mainland "Gateway" terminus for tourist pilgrimages to the
island
** Judge sets trial date in Museum of Art discrimination lawsuit
A Superior Court Judge set a trial date after the San Diego Museum of Art
and a former employee could not agree on settlement terms involving a
workplace discrimination lawsuit
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** "Challenging Space" Exhibition of international students and educators
** The Historic House Museum as an Important Witness of National and Local
Identities
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** Ninth Annual Meeting American Association for History and Computing
"Reading Clio's Compass: Assessing Where We Are with History and Information
Technology"
** The Association of Management (AoM) and the International Association
for Management (IAoM) 20th Anniversary Conference
** Photograph Collection of Founder of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps Display at
the Natrional Museum of Health and Medicine
** Great Australian Events. Check out the updated Dog and a a Ute website
** Fundraising fundamentals
** Museums and Citizenship
** Emergency planning
** Auschwitz, The End Phase: Dissolution, Liberation, Forensic Study,
1945-1946
** Wildlife Interest Group
** Beating the Critter Jitters: Integrated Pest Management
** Survey of Provision for Disabled Users of Museums, Archives and
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