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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:
** French Thieves Big Haul in Louvre Heist
Police qualified the audacious heist as a "near first", adding there were no
surveillance cameras or alarms on site at the showrooms below the Louvre, a
facility that is often used for trade and fashion shows
** The Smithsonian's new travesty
"Last week's opening of the National Museum of the American Indian is
shaping up to be the museum world's gaudiest belly flop since the disastrous
1964 debut of Huntington Hartford's antimodernist Gallery of Modern Art"
** Worker charged with stealing museum funds
Charges have surfaced alleging a former administrative assistant stole more
than $200,000 from her previous employer, the Boston Children's Museum
** Washington's distillery launches new whiskey trail
The chief historian at Mount Vernon disclosed plans for the George
Washington Distillery Museum, which will be become the gateway for a new
American Whiskey Trail
** Missing page found 500 years on
A 15th Century Italian Renaissance prayer book valued at £10m has finally
been completed after a stolen page was reunited with the rest of the volume
** Aussies want Phar Lap skeleton
The skeleton of Phar Lap is in the Te Papa National Museum in Wellington,
his heart in the Australian National Museum in Canberra and his hide in the
Victoria Museum in Melbourne
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** Museum plans to re-erect Berlin Wall section
Fifteen years after the Berlin Wall fell, a museum in the German capital
plans to rebuild a section of the concrete barrier close to the former
Checkpoint Charlie border crossing
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** Support withdrawn
A long-time proponent of the $30 million Canterbury Museum revitalisation
project has broken ranks and withdrawn her support
** Dyson quits Design Museum in disgust over 'empty styling'
The Design Museum in London has been thrown into crisis by the sudden
resignation of its chairman, James Dyson, in protest at what he sees as the
museum's misguided pursuit of empty style over substance
** The love story that inspired The Great Escape
Their daring breakout from a German prisoner of war camp is one of Britain's
most legendary acts of heroism, but now the passion that lay behind the
Great Escape is to be revealed for the first time
** Paul Revere's ride: Myth and reality
"The biggest inaccuracy in the poem is the lantern story," said Edith
Steblecki, curator of the Paul Revere Memorial Association in Boston, which
assisted O'Hara and contributed several items to the exhibit. "Longfellow
has it as a signal to Revere, and it was actually a signal from Revere."
** Swiss spies
The Swiss ambassador to the United States opened a seminar on Swiss
neutrality and intelligence during World War II at the International Spy
Museum, noting that Switzerland was completely surrounded by Nazis and
Fascists, who were 30 times stronger than the Swiss militarily
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** Antiques collector's cup runneth over
When a museum suggested that he might have bought a fake, Mr Paduano's faith
in his purchase began to wane
** Archaeologists find mask to rival Agamemnon's own
A Bulgarian professor and a team of fellow archaeologists have unearthed an
ancient gold funeral mask that they say is as important a discovery as the
treasures of Agamemnon and Tutankhamen
** Jump Right In!
Art Cohn of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum helped create the underwater
preserve and considers it to be an integral part of the ever-expanding
system of museums and exhibits that can explain the long and rich history of
Lake Champlain
** Chills, Fright But Nothing Paranormal at UK Science Museum
Four reconstructions of Victorian era seances, with people sitting around a
table holding hands in the dark, at the Dana Centre of Britain's Science
Museum failed to produce a single paranormal experience
** Museum displays Saddam's sword
Russell was appointed an artefacts responsible officer by the commanding
general at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington D.C.,
which gave him authority to take items from the Middle East to be placed in
the museum in the United States
** Crypt of the Medici Digs Up a Dynasty
Was it malaria, as claimed? Or was it a double murder, as rumoured? What
killed the two sons of Cosimo I?
** Cosby pledges $1M for slavery museum
We need history," Cosby told an audience in Fredericksburg, where the museum
is planned to open in 2007. "We need proof for our children ... to see the
strength of their ancestors."
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