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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:
** Jet set magnate Baron Thyssen dies
A black sash was hung Saturday over the entrance of the Thyssen Museum in
Madrid, which houses hundreds of works that the Spanish state bought from
Thyssen in 1993 for $338m.
** Beauty Who Lived 2,200 Years Ago Comes to Life in Pictures
A Chinese professor has made four portraits of a beautiful woman who lived
about 2,200 years ago
** Art 'stolen to order' in Russia
Russian police are currently looking for 40,000 stolen works of art and
among the missing works are two sculptures by 19th-Century French artist
Auguste Rodin
** First auction of an emperor's seals
Seals used by a Chinese emperor more than three centuries ago were auctioned
in China in the first such sale of an emperor's seal
** New Egyptian King Discovered
A new Egyptian king has been discovered, according to Italian archaeologists
digging at Luxor.
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** Convict's tome tops rare list
Its author is a Creole shoplifter known as the "antipodean Paxton" and only
three known copies survive
** War and peace and quiet
Here is a building of immense power and integrity, one of the first of a new
wave of British museums in which the architecture and the installation of
exhibits work hand-in-aluminium glove
** Gypsies 'squat' at museum dedicated to their history
A museum devoted to Romania's gypsies has been taken over by modern-day
members of the community
** China Sets Up First Abacus Museum
China's first abacus museum has opened with a collection of over 600 abaci
in Qixian County of North China's Shanxi Province
** New Evidence of Neanderthal Violence
It was a face-to-face showdown 36,000 years ago, maybe over food, maybe a
woman
** Promise of touch technologies
Advances in haptics could allow blind people to feel objects that others can
see, or allow visitors to a museum website to feel the shape and texture of
an ancient object
** Luzhkov Promises to Give Moscow a Vodka Museum
The museum will be opened near Moscow's Kristall Distillery, which already
runs a small museum within its walls featuring its drinks
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** 'Toilet paper capital of world' prepares for exhibition
A museum in Wisconsin is preparing to open an exhibition charting the
history of the toilet and toilet paper
** Aga Khan's £24m museum bid gives hospital nowhere to grow
The Aga Khan has made a bid for one of the most desirable sites in London on
which to build an Islamic cultural centre
** Dick Clark sues operators of Queen Mary ocean liner for breach of
contract
Dick Clark is suing the operator of the Queen Mary ocean liner, alleging
that fraud and breach of contract prevented construction of a music-themed
museum
** Czars exhibit in Memphis features treasures collected by Romanovs
The Wonders series exhibition "Czars - 400 Years of Imperial Grandeur" has
266 objects, including snuffboxes, costumes, a garden carriage and Faberge
eggs
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** Widow quashed bid to rebury Lincoln
A trove of newly donated Lincoln-era letters presented Friday offers an
extraordinary glimpse of the passions surrounding the search for a final
resting place for the Great Emancipator
** Feature Site: The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art
Contains more than 500 paintings, objects of metal and stone, and large
architectural pieces from China, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia
** 'Spectacular' fossil taken in Burke Museum thefts
An animal fossil recently housed at Seattle's Burke Museum first existed
about 320 million years ago on the sea bottom
** Museum Might Restore Crashed Spitfire At R8 Million
The SA Air Force Museum was on Friday contemplating raising about R8 million
to repair South Africa's last flying World War Two Spitfire which crashed
near Pretoria
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** OZeCulture Conference - Sydney - 28-30 May 2002
** Announcing Second Annual Midwest Archives Conference
** 2003 Visual Resources Association Annual Conference
** The Upper Midwest Conservation Association presents: Building a Low-Cost
Anoxic Pest Eradication System
** "Who's Running the Show: Issues of Governance in College and University
Museums and Galleries"
** Theft in Utrecht
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