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Enjoy this week's international Museum news and associated topics:
** France's Chirac Inaugurates De Gaulle Museum Wing
French President Jacques Chirac Sunday inaugurated a wing devoted to the
Second World War and especially to resistance and post war leader General
Charles de Gaulle in the cavernous Les Invalides military museum
** Substance Abuse exhibition in Norway
"Intoxicants of the Golden Triangle: Aesthetics, addiction and poverty" An
exhibition on production processes, people and societies based on the
manufacture of opium products, betel nut and tobacco
** BOOK REVIEW Tourism & Hospitality Marketing . by Sharron Dickman.
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compass that "avoids the embarrassment of having to eat your friends", this
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** Summer sights: a Korean house of treasure
No one realized that they had just accidentally stumbled upon what is said
to be the world's richest undersea archaeological find ever, in terms of its
historical and artistic value
** Baby boomer's new rock museum opening in Seattle
A rock 'n' roll museum whose bold design suggests a colorful smashed guitar
opens in Seattle on Friday, a $240 million monument built by a baby boomer
** First 'space tourist' announced
The next crew to visit the Mir space station will include a paying
passenger - a businessman from Los Angeles, US.
** Man-Eating Lions Needed Dentists
Two lions that killed and ate 135 railway workers in Kenya in 1898 may have
suffered from extremely painful toothaches that prevented them from
attacking their normal prey
** World-Class Aviation Art Exhibition Opens June 27
An exhibition of more than 85 pieces of world- class aviation art will open
to the public on June 27 at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum
** Museum opens in Oregon Coast Guard station
The boathouse burned down and the steps are in disrepair and somewhat grown
over, but the memory of the agonizing trips up and down them, as well as the
station itself, will live on, thanks to the Point Orford Heritage Society
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** The mothership has landed
In Paris they have the Louvre Pyramid. In London over the last weekend
something equally novel but a little more amorphous disrupted the Georgian
sobriety of Somerset House
** Australia demands return of Aboriginal bodies from British museums
Australia's minister for the arts, Peter McGauran, will raise the issue of
repatriation in a move that could prove as controversial as the demand for
the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece
** Artist Drew Atrocities, Landscapes
What is striking is that the 144 pieces were done by one artist -
90-year-old Liu Kang, a man considered Singapore's national treasure. It is
his first exhibition in the United States.
** Tombs Found at 10th-Century Church
Archaeologists excavating ruins of a 10th-century church in northeast Spain
have found 18 tombs, many containing well-preserved human remains
** History buff is chasing fabled Khan to his grave
Maury Kravitz is launching an expedition he hopes will solve one of the
great archaeological mysteries of all time: the location of Genghis Khan's
tomb
** Museum Sues Owner of Titanic
The Maryland Academy of Sciences has sued the company that owns the Titanic,
alleging that it is refusing to cooperate in an exhibit scheduled to open at
the Maryland Science Center in November.
** Italian museums see another Renaissance
Visitors to Italy hoping to see the works of Michelangelo, Caravaggio and
Bernini used to be confronted with closed museums and neglected monuments
** Firm offers free search for looted art
A prominent Jewish family from Vienna made it to safety in the US, with
their lift containing the families' treasured art work supposedly following
right behind them. .
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** Zorn painting stolen from Stockholm museum
Hins Anders, a 1904 work portraying a fiddler, was among a number of works
stolen when thieves broke in through the back doors of the museum early
Tuesday
** Niigata Prefectural Museum to open
The Niigata Prefectural Museum inNagaoka opens August 1, 2000. Its focus is
on the anthropology,archaeology, and history of Niigata Prefecture with over
half of its exhibit space is devoted to exhibits on the archaeology of the
Jomon era
** Riversleigh museum to put Isa at forefront of research
The opening of the latest addition to Mount Isa's Riversleigh Fossil Museum
is hoped to attract unprecedented numbers of tourists and researchers alike
** Visitor Studies Association Conference
** American Association of Museums 96th Annual Meeting
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