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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Truman Museum Opens Dramatic New Exhibit
A table for two is set beneath a smashed window frame, with two bowls filled
with a grim-looking gruel.
** Cocoon of translucent curves chosen to house natural history collection
The new development will be one of the last in a splurge of museum expansion
helped by lottery money
** Museums - Relevant or Relic
For some time now, museums in Australia have been riven by fierce debate
about their role and their future
** Stronger measures needed to stop looting
Officers refer to "a big problem" regarding illegal cultural trade, but do
not have facts or figures because it seems the situation is unclear
** Malacca seeks Portuguese aid in conservation
The State Government will ask the Gulbankian Foundation in Portugal to help
it restore some of the historical monuments
** N.Y. museum's origami tree speaks of harmony, courage
Faces were illuminated as the Museum of Natural History celebrated its 29th
origami tree lighting ceremony
** When is a room not a room?
At the launch of this year's Turner prize show, a disgruntled painter
suggested that the ice cream van that parks outside the Tate should have
been shortlisted
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** In the picture at last
Britain's hospitals, schools and trains may be heading downhill but the
nation's national museums are soaring to the skies
** Circus art exhibit paints a world known to few
Many people who ran away to join the circus had an artistic bent, a creative
urge, a desire to do something out of the ordinary
** Attendance increases at improved prison museum
The prison's history is rich and includes a visit from Boston Strangler
Albert DeSalvo
** Our Virtual Exhibit Pick of the Week
The Floating World at the Royal Academy of Arts. Early Ukiyo-e treasures
from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
** Baden presents Austrian version of Madame Tussaud's
Featuring 35 of the most important and famous paintings in history, the
exhibition has the masterpieces in a life-size tableau featuring wax models
** Museum rehab is history
Lincoln, according to several accounts, told the audience to try to save the
building, even pitching to help fight the blaze
** Father and son unearth 3,500 year old urn
A link to the ancient Ireland of at least 1,500 years BC has been discovered
on a building site at Kilmurray
** Impressions of space in the art world
Space technology could be used to restore a fire-damaged Impressionist
painting by Claude Monet to its former glory
** 24 Hour Vigil over Nizam's Jewels
Behind the grill gate will be the police control room with electronic
gadgets
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** Egypt Finds 2,500-Year-Old Tomb in Cairo
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a 2,500-year-old limestone tomb, in
a densely populated area of apartment blocks in Cairo
** China Yields East Asia's Earliest Fossilized Frog
Chinese scientists announced that they have discovered the earliest frog
fossils in Asia, whichthey believe would solve the riddles in life
evolution.
** Taliban's orgy of art smashing
Ministers toured museum with axes and destroyed thousands of priceless
pieces
** Peanuts gallery
What does this posthumous ''Peanuts'' fest tell us about Schulz and the most
beloved comic strip in history?
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Tuhoe Exhibition Opens At Te Papa
** Call For Papers 'Social Theory 2002'
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** Powerhouse Museum Announce Final 100 Australian Innovations of Twentieth
Century
** 2002 DEMHIST conference
** Call for Papers: Ninth Annual Meeting American Association for History
and Computing
** Whaling Crew List Index Project
** Museum Educators of Southern California program: Defining and Extending
Community
** The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
** 'Commonwealth of Yarns': Stories of Nation Building conference
** Connecting with Communities through Interpretation
** 3rd Science Centre World Congress, 10-14 February 2002, Canberra,
Australia
** Renaissance Go-Betweens Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe
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