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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Field Museum Scientist Testifies In Chicken Trial
A Field Museum scientist acknowledged in court that he didn't wear gloves or
work at a sterilized table when he examined a chicken dinner found at a
suburban restaurant where seven employees were murdered
** Century-old museum marks birthday
The RNLI Zetland Lifeboat Museum in Redcar, Teesside, opened in an old
lifeboat house on 1 May, 1907, and took its name from the Zetland vessel
** Convict collectables head to Canberra
The National Museum in Canberra has bought $80,000 worth of artefacts
documenting Australia's colonial history
** Heritage push for hobbits
The cave where hobbit-like creatures were discovered on the Indonesian
island of Flores is so crucial to the study of human evolution it should be
World Heritage-listed, leading prehistorians claim
** State museum plans Katrina exhibit
Everything from a blue tarp to a Coast Guard helicopter rescue basket to
singer Fats Domino's flood-damaged piano will tell some of the story
** Historian Claims Jack the Ripper Was South Africa's King of the Pimps
Van Onselen believes Silver fits the psychological profile of the
Whitechapel murderer and he places his subject at the centre of the scene of
the Ripper murders
** Qatar buys up for its new museum
The appearance of Sheikh Saud al-Thani, once the world's biggest collector,
added intrigue to an eventful week of Islamic sales in London which saw a
buyer, believed to be the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, sweeping up many
desirable pieces at Sotheby's and Christie's
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** Currency stolen from bank museum
Someone has helped themselves to a few choice specimens from the Bank of
Canada's currency museum, newly-released documents show
** Work starts on waterfront museum
National Museums Liverpool says the new attraction on Pier Head, will
reflect the city's unique geography, 800 year history, people and culture
** Mystery Surrounds Possible Oldest Church in North America
North America's oldest church may lie beneath a small town in Newfoundland,
according to information cobbled together from the research of a historian
who recently died before publishing her seminal work
** Why do our trend-chasing museums make such an exhibition of themselves?
The thing is, while enjoying this mass museum makeover, have the keepers of
society's memories forgotten what museums are supposed to be about?
** Senior scientists desert Australian Museum
Scientists both inside and outside the Australian museum say morale is at
rock bottom, and the institution's international reputation is being damaged
** Archivists work to preserve 9/11 papers, photos and video forever
Today, the mask has become a museum piece, one small part of the largest
records trove ever assembled to document a single event.
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** Bones throw light on 18th-century quake that destroyed Lisbon
Three years after the discovery, by workers digging up the cloisters of a
17th-century Franciscan convent, forensic experts and historians say they
have solved the mystery
** Gaza's ancient treasures revealed
Curators at Geneva's museum of art and history, which organised the
exhibition, say Gaza's modern problems have so overshadowed its rich past
that most people today are completely unaware that Gaza has any
archaeological treasures at all
** Lost world warning from North Sea
Archaeologists are uncovering a huge prehistoric lost country hidden below
the North Sea
** High Museum unlocks Gates of Paradise
As the High Museum of Art opens its exhibition of three of the doors' 10
gilt panels, the conservation effort that brought them there will have
lasted 25 years - just two years less than it took to make the work itself
** Houston museum offering to buy cockroaches
The Houston Museum of Natural Science wants 1,000 American cockroaches,
which grow to 2 inches long, can fly and thrive in the city's sub-tropical
climate
** Airport's flight back in time to the Bronze Age
Archaeologists teamed up with the airport to excavate the land before work
on the GBP172m runway began
** EVA London 2007 - Electronic Visualisation & the Arts
** Summer Workshop - The Small Museum Association
** OCLC Western Digital Forum - Maximizing Metadata, Data Curation and
Applications
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