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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:
** MoMA's Kikkoman Soy Sauce Dispenser
It is an instantly recognizable tabletop icon in restaurants worldwide, and
now the familiar bell-shaped Kikkoman Soy Sauce dispenser bottle has been
recognized as a work of art
** From chook shed to museum glory
The biggest dent was in the left-hand front mudguard caused by a collision
with a cow's head
** African Art Director Cuts Five From Staff, Citing Cost, Priorities
They included a conservator who worked at the museum for 15 years and a
senior curator
** Clinton accuser planning high profile visit to former president's new
library
Paula Jones plans to make her first visit to the Bill Clinton presidential
library a profitable one - she plans to wear a T-shirt emblazoned with a
sponsor's name
** Egypt wants pieces of its history returned
Egypt announced yesterday it was launching a campaign for the return of five
of its most precious artefacts from museums abroad, including the Rosetta
Stone in London and the graceful bust of Nefertiti in Berlin
** Looking for The Scream
I'd travelled to the other side of the world to find what I was looking for
back where I'd started
** Workers find 5 sets of mastodon bones
Indiana State Museum palaeontologist Ronald L. Richards estimates the bones,
which were found along with tusks and teeth, are between 11,500 to 20,000
years old
** 'Lost' book is sold for £230,000
A unique sketch book dating back to the 1520s and linked to Renaissance
artist Raphael has sold for £230,000
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** Stolen Chagall recovered in Russia
Russian police seized a stolen painting by Marc Chagall as it was being
given to smugglers in a St. Petersburg restaurant
** Retired king designates royal birth home as future museum
Seeking to safeguard a piece of his country's royal heritage, Cambodia's
retired king Norodom Sihanouk said he wanted the house where he was born to
become a national museum
** Pittsburgh museum looks at 'bog people'
Prepared by two European and two Canadian museums, the exhibit focuses on
seven bog mummies and other objects dating back to 2700 B.C. and recovered
from the bogs of north-western Europe
** Van Gogh Museum buys classic café posters
The Van Gogh Museum says it has purchased two rare 19th-century Parisian
cafe posters, including Theofile Steinlen's famous 1896 La Tournee du Chat
Noir
** Birds exhibition takes off at museum
Dunedin taxidermist Max Wilson demonstrates how to stuff a pukeko at the
City Birds exhibition at the Otago Museum on Saturday
** Scientists Detail Study of Kennewick Man
Cloistered around padded tables, scientists from around the country have
been peering through microscopes and measuring bone fragments trying to
unearth the history of an ancient skeleton found along the Columbia River
** Humans may have wiped out megafauna
Thousands of years ago, there were giant kangaroos, huge wombats and
six-metre long goannas
** Drawings of U.S. soldiers killed by A-bomb given to Hiroshima museum
A Japanese historian presented to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on
Monday three drawings depicting U.S. soldiers killed while being bound when
the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini: (May 21 - June 21) You'll enter the record books in style, better
than tripling Roy Sullivan's old mark of being struck by lightning an
amazing seven times
** Ford gift to fund Nushu language museum
A written and spoken language used only by women, Nushu was "discovered" by
linguists in Jiangyong County in the 1980s
** Museum digs up Scotland's gold rush
The project hopes to bring back to life the Kildonan gold rush of 1869, when
hopefuls from as far afield as India and Australia came to the Highlands
following news that gold had been discovered
** Valuable museum pieces missing
Papua New Guinean museum artefacts, including a weapon made from a human
bone, have disappeared during a delivery in Melbourne
** The censoring of our museums
Certain artefacts in the British Museum are deemed to have such religious
significance that the director himself cannot examine them, and Australian
male totems are barred from female eyes at the Hancock Museum in Newcastle
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** International Conference to Celebrate the 600th Anniversary of Zheng He's
Voyages of Discovery
** Museum Education Roundtable August Forum "Encouraging Creativity"
** New Zealand in Bloom: The commercial art of Bernard Roundhill
** The National Railway Heritage Conference in Tamworth
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