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The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine) in this
week's edition include:
** Museum boom 'makes no sense'
An Oxford academic says that Britain was establishing too many museums and
expanding collections too quickly-even though existing ones faced serious
financial problems
** Politics kept Kennedy out
Marie Donnelly, the former Chairman of IMMA, was directly canvassed by a
senior politician not to appoint Dr Brian Kennedy as director of the gallery
** German Xmas Museum
Experience the history of this festivity so rich in tradition for the first
time in a permanent exhibition in Germany
** Extra-terrestrial squid seen in the abyss
The world's largest ecosystem? Not the Amazon rain forest, nor the Great
Barrier Reef. It is the abyss
** Paraffinito! Famed Wax Museum 'Yanks' Yasser
One of New York's most controversial figures - the wax image of Yasser
Arafat at Madame Tussaud's New York museum in Times Square - has disappeared
** Frescoes unearthed under Siena cathedral
A stunning cycle of 13th century frescoes, said to be of "extraordinary"
importance, has been found in an oratory beneath Siena's main cathedral
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** Storied zoo sees a wolf at the door
The characters include a popular zoo director, the governor's wife,
combative city officials and who knows who else twisting arms and greasing
palms behind the scenes
** Museum Advanced $1 Million by Council
Backers of a plan to build a children's museum in Lake View Terrace won an
advance of $1 m. in city funds and a 1 year extension from the L. A. City
Council
** Slave trade revealed in historic papers
Documents giving an insight on the slave trade have been purchased by the
Merseyside Maritime Museum
** Site of the Xmas Week: The Wild Turkey Center and Museum
Forget the stuffing! This is the only museum in the world dedicated to the
restoration, management and hunting of the wild turkey
** 'Rings' director plans museum
Peter Jackson would like to set up a museum to display some of the costumes,
special effects and models used in the trilogy
** A royal wedding dress rehearsal
The wedding dress of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, hasn't been seen in
public since April 26 1923
** Tom Hanks Lassos the Moon For Rose Center Exhibition
Tom Hanks has rescued an exhibition at the Museum of Natural History's Rose
Center for Earth and Space
** Priceless Italian tapestries damaged
The Barberini tapestries, from a set of 12 made on the official papal loom,
suffered heavy smoke and water damage in the blaze
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** 'Looted' Afghan art offered to museum
Rare works of Buddhist art from Afghanistan have been offered to Australia's
largest art gallery
** Coat exhibit shows art of garments
A coat's main purpose might be utilitarian, but outerwear also has the
ability to convey the wearer's status, ethnicity, profession and religious
beliefs.
** Greece to build £40m home for absent marbles
Greece is planning to spend up to £40 million building a museum to house the
Elgin Marbles which Britain refuses to return
** Picasso paintings declared forgeries
Art lovers from as far away as Japan have come to see the paintings
attributed to Picasso at a national museum in Turkey, but officials said
yesterday four of the five works were fakes
** This Week's Horoscope
Capricorn: (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Your feelings of resentment over having to live
on a reservation are unwarranted, as you are an endangered Cape buffalo.
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** International conference "National identities and national movements in
European history"
** Spring School in New Media 5 - 7 March 2002
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