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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:
** Will Britain lose its Marbles? Court to decide
Mr Tattersall claims that the earl, cousin to his great, great grandmother,
illegally acquired the 2,500-year-old marbles
** Peking Man to be modernised
Replicas of Peking Man skulls are unimpressive and the only case with
genuine artefacts contains unlabelled skulls of a human and a gorilla.
** Cambodia museum evicts world's biggest bat colony
Visitors to the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh will no longer see the dusk
flight of more than two million bats from the roof of the National Museum
** Emperor's artwork to be auctioned in Beijing
The treasured painting, which was drawn by an emperor of the Song Dynasty
(960-1279) and was believed to be lost, is scheduled to be auctioned by
China's leading auction house
** Modern shake-up for Madrid museum
Plans are also under way to secure autonomy from the state for the museum -
and with it, freedom to court private funding
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** Money-losing Roy Rogers-Dale Evans museum for sale
The contents of the museum, including Rogers's stuffed and mounted horse
Trigger and dog Bullet, are not included in the sale
** Museum Houses Flesh and Bones of History
The spinal cord of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth - still bearing the
bullet that killed him - is sharing eternity in a drawer in Washington with
President Dwight Eisenhower's gallstones
** Malevich Painting Out of Auction
A famous painting of a plain black square by avant-garde artist Kasimir
Malevich was expected to fetch millions of dollars at auction--but it was
snatched off the block
** New book says hero Billy Bishop was a fraud and a liar
Greenhous argues that Bishop lied about his victories and about the
legendary dawn raid that won him the Victoria Cross
** Oneidas Pledge $10M for Museum
The Oneida Indian Nation of New York has donated $10 million toward the
construction of the Smithsonian Institution's new museum honoring Indian
culture.
** Case Proceeds Against Austria Museum on Picture
Federal prosecutors alleged the painting was stolen property under Austrian
law and thus illegally imported into the United States
** Whale skeleton rots behind Adelaide hotel
The pungent smell, which has attracted flies and mosquitoes, is never
something you get used to, says Eugene Abraham, who has spent three months
at the site
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** Building a digital museum
Buried in dark vaults, cellars, and musty store rooms all over the UK are
thousands, perhaps millions of historical and cultural gems
** Thieves lead Sudanese authorities to mummy
Thieves in Sudan helped the authorities find a mummy believed to be a king
from the 2,000-year-old Napatan Empire, which shared similarities with
ancient Egypt
** Art houses face payout over copies of Mao painting
Two art houses and a museum will pay compensation for replicating for sale a
famous painting showing the late Chairman Mao Zedong declaring the founding
of the People's Republic of China
** PoW camp pictures sold for £200,000
A collection of paintings depicting the horrific experiences of a former
prisoner of war have fetched almost £200,000 at auction
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** Unusual Site of the Week: The Museum of Fred
Thanks to the Internet, anyone can have a 'museum', and that is exactly what
a man named Fred Beshid has done
** Love and passion in the Reading Room
It has spawned more revolutions, incited more passion and created more art
than just about any other place in the modern world
** Caruso shrine celebrates 100th anniversary of first recording
"Ten recordings, with 10 songs, done in a hotel in Milan," marvels Aldo
Mancusi, curator of the Enrico Caruso Museum, which opened its doors 10
years ago
** Titanic Survivor Opens New Exhibit
Millvina Dean was just 9 weeks old when her mother carried her into a
lifeboat off the sinking Titanic
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** The Northeast Document Conservation Center Presents Off the Wall and
Online: Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections
** September 11: One Year After An Interdisciplinary Conference
** Colour Fills For The Conservation Of Ceramics & Glass
** UNCOVER - graduate research in the museum sector
** Local History Week Keynote Conference
** New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Annual Conference 2002
Shoulder to Shoulder: Building New Collaborations
** Playing to Learn? The Educational Role of Children's Museums
** 1st Open Archives Forum Workshop , Pisa, 13-14 May
** To Film or To Scan: Preservation Options in a Digital World
** Gwangju Biennale 2002 in focus until June on 29th
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