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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this 
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week's edition include:

**  Museum president resigns
The departure ignited a round of sniping among county officials who feel 
betrayed over getting blindsided by the museum crisis, and museum leaders
who feel politicians forced Stafford out at a critical juncture in the fight 
to win help from private donors and lenders

**  Museum director defends exhibit of Ku Klux Klan robe
The display of a Ku Klux Klan robe in the state's main museum should have 
been balanced with more exhibits explaining the contributions black people
have made to South Dakota, a long-time civil rights advocate says

**  Sceptics scuttle claim Chinese discovered Cape Breton before Columbus, 
Cabot
Nestled along the island's east coast, it has become the latest battleground 
for archaeologists with the startling claim it was discovered by the
Chinese, long before the arrival of any European explorers

**  Gerry crosses the Mersey for museum
The exuberant Pacemaker frontman was back on home turf to promote the 15th 
anniversary of The Beatles Story museum, which opened its doors in May 1990
and received this year's Best Visitor Attraction title in the Mersey Tourism 
Awards

**  Museum entices lawnmower lovers out of the shed
Brian Radam is mad about lawnmowers - he loves their smell, their sound, the 
way they look and the way they're built

**  Prison Museum Recreates Century-Old Prison Meals
The prison overseers would transport the meals to each cell using food 
carts - nicknamed "Washington," "Franklin," and "Lafayette" - and pass the
food to the inmates through a "feeding hole" in the cell wall

**  Mexico asks Austria to give back Aztec headdress
Mexico has asked visiting Austrian President Heinz Fischer to return a 
500-year-old Aztec feather headdress that has graced a Vienna museum for
decades while Mexicans are stuck with a replica
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**  Louvre to unveil new website
Evolving technologies and expanding broadband access to the Internet have 
made it possible to enrich both the content and the presentation on the new
site, which will feature an interactive 3-D map of the museum, detailed 
information of 1500 major works and a multimedia history of the museum
itself

**  Artist in heart attack drama before exhibition
The first Scottish artist to earn a seven-figure sum for one of his works, 
Bellany has also lived recklessly at times

**  Monkey bone fuels Hartlepool's curious simian myth
A bone found on a north-east beach has sparked renewed interest in one of 
England's most curious myths - that a monkey washed ashore during the
Napoleonic Wars was executed by suspicious locals for being a French spy

**  Unsigned painting by 17th-century French master La Tour discovered in 
Madrid
An unsigned painting by 17th-century French master Georges de La Tour has 
been discovered in a Madrid mansion after hanging in offices unnoticed for
decades

**  Oslo police make fifth arrest in 'Scream' theft
The latest arrest came two days after the City of Oslo offered a reward of 2 
million crowns ($310,300) for information leading to recovery of "The
Scream" and another Munch painting "Madonna" stolen from an Oslo museum last 
summer

**  Archaeologists Find Hoard of Celtic Coins
Archaeologists have uncovered 17 ancient Celtic coins in a field in the 
south of the Netherlands, the first hoard of such coins found in the country

**  German restorers find hidden Munch painting
A German museum presented an unknown painting by Edvard Munch after 
restorers discovered it hidden behind another canvas

**  Exhibit Unwraps Science Behind Candy
Children of all ages can walk across a giant white mountain to feel what 
sugar crystals might be like, enter a boudoir of chocolate to learn about
its affects on the mind and body and design their own candy wrapper

**  Kids go potty for Beatrix
The exhibition coincides with the 100th anniversary of the publication of 
The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle, which was inspired by a pet hedgehog

**  Museum of toilets a good place to go
If you lived in ancient India, you would have to observe a strict code of 
toilet etiquette that determined how often or where you could relieve
yourself, depending on whether you were single, married, a student or a 
saint

**  Help Wanted: 18 Museums Seek Directors, Ethics in Spotlight
As this leadership shift takes place in the museum world, we can expect big 
changes in how collecting institutions operate

**  Drought blamed for megafauna extinction
Giant kangaroos three metres tall, a creature called Diprotodon, which was 
not unlike a rhinoceros, a six metre-high goanna: these were among
Australia's megafauna, which died out about 50,000 years ago

**  Museum fire claims unique costumes
A 37-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with an arson attack at 
a museum that saw handmade outfits and tools worth £15,000 go up in flames

**  Museum casts worldwide net for impersonators of the King
Elvis-A-Rama, a sprawling museum that is home to a collection of more than 
six million dollars worth of Presley memorabilia, is casting a global net to
anyone who can pay the King the highest compliment: imitation

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**  Museum of Liverpool Plans Go On Show

**  Art Beyond Sight: Multi-modal Approaches to Learning

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