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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:

**  Museum staff drank on duty at bash
Acting on a tip, an investigator with the State Auditor's Office crashed a
party at the N.C. Museum of Art and found workers drinking beer and wine on
the job

**  Archaeological oversight puts renovation at risk
Sadly, the ambitious and costly renovation of the Orangerie, celebrated home
of Monet's giant Waterlilies, has been unceremoniously halted

**  Stone Age Settlements Found Underwater in Britain
"These sites are set to provide us with a unique opportunity to begin to
understand early Mesolithic coastal occupation"

**  Berlin's Museum Island being transformed
Germany now is in the process of transforming the five neoclassical museums
that are clustered on an island in the Spree River into a cultural center to
rival Paris' Louvre and London's British Museum

**  Looting clampdown urged
Plans to crackdown on the black market in stolen cultural treasures have
been backed by the House of Lords

**  German cattle car arrives at Virginia Holocaust Museum
The car, nearly a century old, was transported from Duesburg, Germany, to
Portsmouth by ship

**  U.S. says 10,000 items still gone from Iraq museum
Marine Col. Matthew Bogdanos, who led a 13-member team that investigated the
museum's looting, attributed the losses to a combination of professional
thieves with knowledge of antiquities, thieves working with inside
information available only to museum staff, and local looters
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**  Head-tax compensation could go to local museum
Between 1885 and 1923, Chinese immigrants had to pay up to $500 just to get
into Canada

**  Sex Museum Flees Shanghai Streets
China's Ancient Sex Museum, once located in the city's booming streets, now
has to move to Tongli Town in East China's Jiangsu Province due to a funding
shortage

**  Tibet museum takes British to task 100 years on
The language is at times befuddling, but the bows and arrows, cane shields
and bullets on display under paintings of battle scenes fill in some of the
blanks

This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus: (April. 20 - May 20): Your recent decision to adopt the warrior code
of bushido to guide you through life will lead to a tragic confrontation
with your inept pet groomer

**  Warhol Museum sends in the clowns for kitschy exhibit
Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum opened an exhibition of some of the
happiest - and saddest - portrait faces ever to grace a museum wall

**  Professor Body and the curious case of Siberia's lost corpses
The German avant-garde scientist Gunther von Hagens, whose shocking public
autopsies and dead-body sculptures caused uproar in the UK last year,
received Russian corpses without the knowledge of the deceased's relatives

**  Shipwreck Curators Plan for Ocean-Floor 'Museum'
The public can already see museum displays of some of the artifacts
unearthed from the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck site

**  Web Site to Help Find Art Stolen by Nazis
The Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal is a searchable registry for people
looking for items that disappeared in Europe between 1932 and 1946

**  Tintypes get new exposure
Tintype photos, invented in Ohio, were a product of the industrial age that
helped boost the popularity of photographs and set the stage for the age of
the snapshot

**  Exclusive little museum honors presidential pets
When invited to the White House some years ago to groom Lucky, the Reagan
family's dog, Claire McLean deliberately cut off a little too much of
Lucky's coarse dark hair
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**  £2m boost for new transport museum
Most of the cash will go to draw up a shortlist of architects and designers
as the council aims to attract interest from firms capable of creating a
landmark on the Clyde

**  Last orders for pub´s museum piece menagerie
A last-ditch campaign has been launched to save the six-legged kitten and
the two-faced piglet, and the other stuffed residents of Mr Potter´s Museum
of Curiosities

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**  Origins of New Zealand: From Ur to Gondwanaland

**  Food for Thought: Museums and Galleries Feast and Famine

**  Making the Means Transparent: research methodologies in archaeological
heritage management **

**  The Small Museums Association (SMA) is celebrating its twentieth
anniversary with its annual Winter Conference in Ocean City, Maryland on
February 24 - 26th, 2004.

**  Museum Computer Network November 5 - 8    "Balancing Museum Technology
and Transformation"

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