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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:
** Oregon museum banks on opening historical safe
The Eagle Point Museum in Oregon is looking for someone with experience at
cracking safes
** Director of the Museum of the City of New York announces resignation
The director announced his resignation just days after Mayor Michael
Bloomberg scuttled a plan to have the museum move into a newly refurbished
historic courthouse
** Holocaust museum reinstates Israel trip
The Museum has reversed itself, cancelling a decision to prevent five of its
staff from travelling to Israel next month for a conference
** China sets up museum for Bruce Lee
China has opened a museum dedicated to Hong Kong martial arts icon Bruce Lee
in his ancestral hometown in the southern province of Guangdong
** Historic Scots football up for sale
One of just a handful of rare, painted balls, it would originally have been
sold for the then princely sum of two shillings
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** Experts say £25m Van Gogh sunflowers is genuine
Art experts have declared that a £25m painting suspected of being a fake Van
Gogh is genuine
** 'Horrified' father vandalises controversial exhibition
A lone protester has vandalised a London art exhibition featuring dozens of
flayed human corpses
** Museum Displays Armstrong's Trumpet
Washington's American History Museum Displays Jazz Great Louis Armstrong's
First Cornet
** Antique Plane Crashes Near Seattle
A vintage passenger plane owned by the Smithsonian Institution crash-landed
in Puget Sound near Seattle shortly after takeoff
** Dirty bed is art, lost cat not
Such is Tracy Emin's fame that when she pinned up posters asking for help to
find her missing cat Docket, several were ripped down by people apparently
thinking they could be worth hundreds of pounds each
** What price infamy? Terrorist's cars are up for sale
That doesn't deter Mr. Glynn, who thinks some day a museum might want the
Atta cars
** Little Black Dresses And Outrageous Hats
Between 1750 and 1945, if you wanted to be fashionable, you went to Paris to
be fitted. Everyone who was anyone did so
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** This Week's Horoscopes
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** A distinct past, an uncertain future
What's in a name? For the Sunrise Museum, its heritage and history, but not
necessarily hope
** Reconstructing the tomb of Christ
High-tech tools and fresh archaeological insights have sharpened scientists'
view of the prime religious real estate at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy
Sepulchre
** Russians seek old Egyptian city
Memphis, the capital of the so-called Ancient Kingdom that existed on the
territory of Egypt in the IV-III centuries BC, remains an all-time mystery
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** Thieves nab Dutch masterpieces
Thieves snatched five 17th-century Dutch paintings worth $5 million from a
museum in the Netherlands city of Haarlem
** Louvre hopes Web is picture perfect
All of its 35,000 exhibits will be on show in a virtual, 3D tour at the
revamped site by 2003, according to the museum
** Spalding claims museums put fakes on display
Julian Spalding, one of the best-known figures in Scotland's arts world, has
claimed that museums are riddled with "a surprising number" of fakes
** Women spies honoured in exhibit
Julia Child had a hand in concocting a shark repellent that helped Allied
forces blow up German U-boats during World War II
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** Attack of the Giant Mold Spore!
** The University of North Carolina-Greensboro and Old Salem announce two
field schools for the summer of 2002.
** Earth Day, April 21
** Iklaina Archaeological Project in Pylos, Greece
** Plans to restore the prehistoric setting of Stonehenge
** Two exhibitions at Te Papa
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