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week's edition include:
** Pictures stolen from Zurich museum found near mental hospital
A Swiss radio station has reported that paintings stolen in one of Europe's
largest art thefts have been discovered on the grounds of a Zurich mental
hospital
** Museum workers to strike over pay
More than 200 specialist staff at four national museums have voted to take
strike action in a row over pay
** Vermont quilts best of best
They date from the 19th and early 20th centuries, and come from the New
England, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest regions
** Museum makes cultural blunder
Auckland War Memorial Museum has been forced to put a hold on its plans to
return human remains to the Pacific after a litany of blunders
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** Charles Saatchi gallery may rival Tate
British collector Charles Saatchi is planning a 15-room private gallery of
contemporary art in London that could rival the nearby Tate museum
** Valuable religious items stolen from Ecuadorian convent recovered in
Colombia
The cloak is woven in silver and consists of six groups of emeralds of four
pieces each, 24 rubies and approximately 3,000 carats of pearls
** Archaeologists dig up 'oldest' African human sacrifice
French archaeologists in Sudan say they have uncovered the oldest proof of
human sacrifice in Africa, hailing the discovery as the biggest Neolithic
find on the continent for years
** Mummy in Argentine museum stolen
The 50 to 60-centimetre mummy which was made from a 2-year-old child about
900 years ago and was found in the northern province of Salta 40 years ago,
was stolen from the museum on Feb. 15
** Indian Museum scam
The Union Culture Ministry and the CBI have finally woken up to the scam at
the Indian Museum where about Rs 18 crore is reported to have been siphoned
off by a well-networked cartel between 2004-'06
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** Mayhem reigns at free-for-all museums
A decision to offer free entry to city museums in Shanghai has caused
authorities new headaches due to poor behaviour from the large crowds
** Inventor of `Body Worlds' exhibit says he's stopped using bodies from
China
The doctor behind the "Body Worlds" exhibits that show cadavers in different
poses says he has stopped using bodies from China for fear that some of them
may be executed prisoners
** Russian Prince Gives Artworks Worth $375,000 to Pushkin Museum
The Lobanov-Rostovsky family, descended from Rurik, a 9th- century Viking
who ruled Russia, fled the country after the Bolsheviks seized power in
1917. Prince Nikita was born in 1935 in Sofia, Bulgaria
** Natural history museum to host Seanad's political beasts
The natural history museum, famous for a collection of rare and unusual
artefacts, is about to get some more
** Medals stolen from Waiouru Army Museum recovered
The medals were returned as a result of a $300,000 reward being offered last
month by British medal collector Lord Michael Ashcroft and Nelson
businessman Tom Sturgess
** India's ageing Taj Mahal gets a mud pack face-lift
Indian archaeologists have started giving a face-lift to the centuries-old
Taj Mahal by applying a mud pack to the marble exteriors of the country's
most famous monument
** Researchers think they have found a photo of young Lizzie Borden
Borden was charged with the August 1892 slayings of her father and
stepmother in the family's Fall River home. Although she was acquitted, many
people thought she got away with it
** Rattling bones at the museum
Fear stalks the catacombs where Auckland Museum staff labour unseen,
safeguarding collections, doing research, preparing exhibitions
** SYNTHESYS Project
The SYNTHESYS Office is pleased to announce the Eighth and final call for
proposals under the European Commission's FPVI European-funded Integrated
Infrastructure Initiative.
** Rubin Museum of Art Comes to Atlanta
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art and New York's Rubin Museum of Art would
like to announce a special partnership.
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