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In your international museum ezine this week:


** Bulldozer driver finds rare fossil  **
Mr Danny Gilbert discovered the fossilised amphibian's skeleton last
December while removing shale waste in a Leigh Creek coal mine in South
Australia's mid-north


**  Sisley's work makes an impression in Japan  **
Viewers are able to discern the delicate nuances of light, movement and
temperature from his renderings of the sky, which often consumes up to half
or more of the canvas


**  How the Nazis stole that art  **
In his book The Faustian Bargain, Jonathan Petropoulos examines how some 20
such individuals sacrificed scruples and their professional integrity to
collaborate in the implementation of a repressive and rapacious regime
throughout Germany and its occupied territories in Europe.


**  Greek police confiscate antiquities from suspected illegal excavation
**
Authorities confiscated more than 50 ancient burial objects found in the
home of a man suspected of illegally excavating tombs dating from the
Mycenaean period


**  Bone Study Suggests Ancestors Were Knuckle-Walkers   **
When humanity's early ancestors first jumped down from the trees, they did
not walk fully upright but probably scooted along on their knuckles much
like chimpanzees and gorillas do today


**  Vintage models can drive up profits for enthusiasts  **
Collectors purchasing vintage or classic cars should buy what they like
rather than buying for investment, according to a Donegal-based collector


**  Old Tate with new name  **
A doughty Victorian building in London reopens today when the old Tate
Gallery opens its doors to the public with a new name: Tate Britain ( see
also story below )


**  Broad canvas for new face of Tate Britain  **
The rainbow palette of artists who gathered on the steps to celebrate the
reopening personified the depth and range of British art


**  Fencing Pantheon angers Rome's monument lovers  **
Should art and architectural treasures be left to be enjoyed as they are,
despite the risks of vandals, thieves and pollution? Or should they be
fenced off, sealed behind bulletproof glass or hauled off to museums with
modern-day copies as stand-ins?


**  Mammoth discovery  **
Curators at the Dawson County Museum are cleaning the bones for future
display. The mammoth bones are over 13,000 years old and very fragile. The
bones were found in loose soil, which deprived them of minerals and water,
and prevented the bones from petrifying.


**  Humans caused quick extinction in New Zealand, study says  **
The first humans arrived in New Zealand around 1250, bringing with them
sharp stone points, wood and bone clubs, controlled fire and a hunger for
meat..


**  Governor General inaugurates awards for arts  **
Sculptors, painters and others who have made a major contribution to art in
Canada were honoured Thursday with the first Governor General's Awards for
Visual and Media Arts



**  Bollywood's wax dreams **
One of the world's most famous waxwork museums, Madame Tussauds of London,
is to create its first ever Indian film figure in wax


**  Te Papa, NZSO plead for more Govt funding   **
National Museum Te Papa says it will suffer a slow death, and the New
Zealand Symphony Orchestra says it will have to close its doors, if the
Government does not give them more money

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