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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Museums hiding away treasures
Museums are keeping too many of their treasures in store rooms away from
public view, a charity has warned
** Paper cups, cigarette butts and other sensual treasures
Alongside the humdrum vessels, Wentworth has smuggled in a number of
historical pieces and most come from the museum's extensive stores, which he
was allowed to raid
** From the cabinet of antiquities
Just never hesitated to risk his life for his treasured collection, which,
in 1946, was appraised at 305,000 Czechoslovak crowns
** King Tut-a-Comin'
The problem is what's perceived as an unholy alliance between the
not-for-profit museums hosting the show and the very-much-for-profit
Anschutz Entertainment Group, owner of L.A.'s Staples Centre and the
country's second largest rock promoter, which brokered the exhibit
** Relics of cherished love legend on display in Taiwan
The Chinese exhibition - built around a traditional Chinese love story
involving a white serpent transformed into a woman - will be the first
outside the mainland of relics from the Leifeng Tower, a 1,000-year-old wood
and brick structure in Hangzhou city in Zhejiang Province
** Great attendance for leaky new War Museum
The newly opened Canadian War Museum has a leaky roof, but is also seeing
large numbers of people come through its doors
** Director of Vienna art museum refuses to resign despite mounting
pressure
The embattled director of Vienna's Art History Museum has refused to resign,
despite mounting calls for him to step down in the aftermath of a theft of a
precious 16th century figurine valued at ?50 million
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** Museum Displays Pocahontas' Earrings
A pair of mussel shell earrings set in silver and believed to be among the
only surviving possessions of legendary American Indian princess Pocahontas
went on display at a London museum in their first public showing since 1907
** New shots about museum guns
The SA National Museum of Military History in Johannesburg is being
investigated for apparent irregularities in connection with illegal weapons
** Museum opens chocolate-bar doors
To judge by the members of the great and good gathered in the former
16th-century coach house - refashioned at a cost of £4.3m into a shrine to
the internationally acclaimed children's author - the world seems to be
going a little Dahl crazy at the moment.
** Technology searches for text on ancient parchment
The work was hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote his laundry
list over it sometime during the Middle Ages
** Found: Europe's oldest civilisation
Archaeologists have discovered Europe's oldest civilisation, a network of
dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids
** Rugby trophies will be on show
The Bledisloe Cup, the Ranfurly Shield, All Black haircuts through the
decades and a tribute to the greatest of the British Lions are among New
Zealand Rugby Museum exhibitions to mark the British and Irish Lions' tour
** '007 spy suit' found in Nasa bunker
Space historians are trying to find out who the mystery man is after his
spacesuit turned up, along with an identical outfit bearing number 008, in
an abandoned space agency (Nasa) blockhouse last used to launch Alan Shepard
and Gus Grissom into space in 1961
** Bloodied veteran finds new museum to nurture
Casey was widely welcomed as an experienced, if bloodied, veteran in the art
of getting museums up and running
** Home is where the art is for Russian vagrant
Curators at one of Russia's most venerable museums have evicted a tramp who
made his home among its priceless collection of antique china and
manuscripts
** Heroes in tights
As a speaker at the Holy Men in Tights superhero conference, Krasniewicz - a
senior research scientist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology - will examine the topic: "The True Lies
Superhero - do we really want our icons to come to life?"
** China resurrects world's earliest seismograph
Chinese seismologists and archaeologists have announced that they've created
a replica of"Didong Yi," the world's first seismograph
** Museum 'Iceman' Might Be Contaminated
Researchers suspect the corpse of a 5,000-year-old mummy frozen in the
Italian Alps might have been contaminated by bacteria since its discovery in
1991, a doctor who cares for the body said Monday
** Activists Blast SF Museum's Exhibit of Tibetan Art
Pro-Tibet activists are calling the show Chinese government propaganda that
capitalizes on the exotic appeal of spectacular religious items
** A curator in the hand...
Te Papa is experimenting with giving out handheld computers to visitors to
the museum
** The Small Museums Association (SMA) is planning its 22nd Annual Winter
Conference in Ocean City, Maryland
** Hunters of the Sky at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and
Science
** Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
** Gods and Empire: Huari Ceremonial Textiles
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