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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this 
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week's edition include:

**  Timely natural disaster exhibit
Workers a couple of weeks ago were busily putting up the Field Museum's new 
temporary exhibit, "Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters," when a 
killer cyclone hit the coast of Myanmar, and a few days later a major 
earthquake devastated central China

**  Australia opens world's first goat museum
A tiny town in outback Australia hopes to lift its fortunes with the world's 
first museum dedicated to the humble goat.

**  Museum Stripped of Valuable WW2 Artefacts
A three-page signed letter, headed "Robben Island in Continuous Chaos", 
faxed to a newspaper by a museum employee alleges "total mismanagement and 
chaos" for more than four years

**  Museum of Art snags modern works
A gift of more than 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and 
photographs by some of the 20th century's most important artists is headed 
to the N.C. Museum of Art

**  The Scream goes back on display
A version of the Edvard Munch painting The Scream has gone back on public 
display after it was stolen from a museum in Norway four years ago

**  Museum bosses cover up naked Egyptian mummies to protect 'sensitivities' 
of visitors
We hope the decision will be reversed. If not, it will be a sad time for 
Egyptology in Manchester and indeed the UK
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**  Flood shuts Canada's national archives
According to the 2003 auditor general's report, the building had suffered 
116 "environmental incidents" since 1988, including 60 incidents of floods 
or excessive heat that damaged 30,000 documents

**  South African Museums celebrate International Museum Day
A number of activities have been lined up for International Museum Day on 
Sunday with a number of museums in South Africa offering free entry on the 
day

**  San Diego Zoo, Prison Merge
Plagued by a lack of funding and growing staff shortages, the San Diego Zoo 
and Ironwood State Prison were combined earlier this week, bringing local 
inmates and wildlife together for the first time under the same roof

**  A monument to the possible
A 10th-century bronze fountain head from Andalusia, a 10th-century Iraqi 
astrolabe and an extraordinary 14th-16th-century silk carpet from Samarkand 
illustrated with a strange blend of garden and chessboard are among the 700 
exquisite items that make up the display

**  Gigantic contemporary art gallery to open in Moscow
A flashy new gallery for contemporary art and culture in Moscow is slated to 
launch this fall, with backing from the girlfriend of Russian billionaire 
Roman Abramovich

**  Reclaimed From The Nazis
Jacques Goudstikker arranged passage out of Holland but fell into a cargo 
hatch while aboard the SS Bodegraven and broke his neck
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**  National Museum of Crime & Punishment shoots for May 23 opening
The museum, funded with private contributions, spans three floors that 
covers the history of American crime and its consequences, touching on 
everyone from pirates and Wild West outlaws to serial killers, mobsters and 
white-collar criminals. Line Between Reality and Fantasy Blurs Uneasily at 
Crime Museum

**  Do the Superfriends Have Library Cards?
One of the world's largest collections of comic art has found a home in 
Columbus, Ohio

**  Extinct bird's egg goes on show
A rare egg belonging to a flightless bird which has been extinct for more 
than 150 years has gone on display at a museum in Liverpool

**  Picasso's heirs and the mystery of the evil stepmother
Two of Pablo Picasso's heiresses are suing an author over her book about the 
artist's second wife, Jacqueline Picasso

**  Iwi 'fidgety' over museum changes
The museum will not say how many jobs are at risk, but says the 
restructuring will see the creation of an extra three full-time-equivalent 
positions

**  UK Museums on the Web Conference 2008
By drawing together an impressive range of national and international 
speakers, from academia, from industry and from the sector, this year's UK 
Museums on the Web conference explores how a raft of new projects and 
initiatives are beginning to take museums into a new era of online 
integration

**  The Structure of Paintings and the Mechanical Properties of Cultural 
Materials Course
A new four-day course offered by the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation 
Institute

**  Seized! Revenue and Customs Uncovered
New gallery opens at Merseyside Maritime Museum

**  Darwin's Reach
A Celebration of Darwin's Legacy Across Academic Disciplines

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