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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:

**  Munch Museum Reopens Its Doors After Dramatic Heist
Museum director Gunnar Soerensen said he had for the time-being decided not
to display a second, lesser-know version of "The Scream" owned by the
museum.

**  Museum Recruits Flesh-Eating Insects
Museum staff have recruited a battalion of flesh-eating beetles to help in
the grisly task of stripping animal carcasses

**  Stolen two-headed snake returns home
There's a definite down side to swiping a two-headed albino rat snake:
There's no good way to disguise the stolen goods

**  Vaska may not know much about art, but he knows what he likes
That makes Vaska and about 50 fellow cats valuable allies in preserving one
of the world's most renowned collections

**  My private peepshow
The inaugural British Home Movie Day unfolds in a corridor at London's
Cinema Museum, where the walls are lined with yellowed posters and forgotten
film stars

**  Heirs find Viking gold ring hoarded in a builder's attic
The biggest Viking gold arm ring ever found in Britain has been discovered
in a builder's attic in York

**  Body Of Austrian Soldier Preserved Since 1918 Goes To Museum
The body of an Austrian soldier preserved in an Alpine glacier since 1918
will be handed over to an Italian archaeological museum for research
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**  The Smithsonian expands its offerings once again
The newest Smithsonian museum is gathering ancient ceramics, intricate
beadwork and modern art to illustrate the past and present of native peoples
spread across the Western Hemisphere

**  Australia Museum Unveils Holden Prototype Icons
The purchase of the Holden Prototype No.1 is the most significant addition
to the Museum's National Historical Collection since it opened in 2001.

**  Slovak town hopes to become 'Warhol City'
An eastern Slovak town that houses the Warhol Family Museum of Modern Art
plans to use a European Union grant to help change its image and become
"Warhol city."

**  Museum operates horse-drawn hearse company
"It's just something we like to do," Joe Tetz said. "We really like doing
the funerals. The families really appreciate it and say it made a tough day
a little easier."

**  Maybelle Carter's guitar staying here
The Gibson L-5 had been on loan to the museum since 1998, but its anonymous
owner decided to list it for sale in May

**  Packed Field Museum cleans out its closets
In a telegram sent from China to the Field Museum, two of Teddy Roosevelt's
sons crowed with success: "Have had extraordinary luck. Jointly shot for you
splendid old male Giant Pandar"

**  Former museum worker pleads guilty
A former conservator charged with stealing a Wright Brothers model airplane
and dozens of other artefacts from a Long Island museum pleaded guilty
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**  Expedition Aims to Find Lost Slave Ship
Archaeologists hope to find a Spanish ship that wrecked off the Turks and
Caicos Islands in 1841 carrying a cargo of African slaves

**  Slavery Museum Divides Cincinnati, and a Family
The differences over the $110 million National Underground Railroad Freedom
Centre are embodied in the stark positions taken by two of the city's
leading black religious leaders

**  The Greeks still want their Elgin marbles back
Many Greek officials admit they were deeply hurt by the absence of certain
faces they'd expected to return for the games

 **  Museum traces IT history
A rare 21-year-old laptop is one of the exhibits in an exhibition tracing
the evolution of the IT sector in Northern Ireland over the past two decades

**  Ireland Launches First Space Shuttle
Astronauts at the Experimental Space Centre Institute in Gnome, Ireland,
have announced the launch date for their first manned independent space
shuttle "Limerick."

**  Munch's Famous 'Scream,' 'Madonna' Stolen
Armed men stormed into an art museum, threatened staff at gunpoint and stole
Edvard Munch's famous paintings "The Scream" and "Madonna "  before the eyes
of stunned museum-goers

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**  Cherokee Museum seeking votes

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