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

**  Museum toilets used as drugs den
As museum bosses moved to reassure families, councillors and police have 
vowed to crack down on the problem at the museum, ranked as one of the best 
in the UK

**  Much Ado About Thousands Of Shoes
International auction houses Christie's, Sotheby's and Bonhams have already 
expressed interest in holding an auction for Imelda's eye-popping jewellery 
collection, initially estimated to be worth at least $10 million

**  Scandal-rocked Los Angeles' Getty museum to return three items to Italy
The announcement by the J. Paul Getty Museum, one of the world's richest art 
institutions, came amid reports that its curator of antiquities, Marion 
True, who has been charged in Italy with conspiring to traffic in stolen 
works, had resigned to concentrate on her defence. See also: Beleaguered 
Getty curator quits over home loan controversy

**  Elvis-A-Rama Museum Leaving The Building
The current owner is selling all of the memorabilia as well but hopes to 
eventually open an Elvis museum in one of the King's favourite vacation 
destinations, Hawaii

**  Ghost Stories
The exhibition, a rich and fascinating exhibition organized by the 
Metropolitan Museum and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, 
explores the fertile cross-pollination of two beliefs: faith in the spirit 
world and in the power of photography to capture hitherto unknown reaches of 
experience

**  Original Einstein Manuscript Found, Turns Out To Be Trashy Romance Novel
Researchers were surprised to note that though the paper contained elements 
of gas particle theory, which would ultimately be the focus of what was 
published, the manuscript was mostly made up of implausible, sordid romantic 
scenarios
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**  Freedom museum for 9/11 abandoned
Controversial plans to build a museum celebrating the theme of freedom on 
the site of the World Trade Centre in New York have been abandoned

**  Brit Claims to Have Found Homer's Ithaca
Although the western Greek island of Ithaki is generally accepted as the 
Homeric site, scholars have long been troubled by a mismatch between its 
location and geography and those of the Ithaca described by Ancient Greece's 
greatest poet

**  A less Admirable Admiral
The exhibition, now at the National Museum in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, is 
part of an effort to establish the 15th-century navigator as China's newest 
national hero

** Disney's African Art Finds a Home
In a move to close his leadership of Walt Disney Corporation with a 
philanthropic flourish, Chief Executive Michael Eisner announced that the 
company would donate its African art collection, hailed by experts as one of 
the most important such collections in private hands in the U.S., to the 
Smithsonian Institution

**  Team Resumes Project to Re-Create Famed Kon-Tiki Raft Voyage
An effort to recreate late Thor Heyerdahl's famed 101-day Pacific crossing 
aboard the Kon-Tiki balsa raft resumed Tuesday after a postponement forced 
by last year's southern Asia tsunami

**  Ankara's first and only industrial museum open
Cengelhan, restored as a museum, was built in 1522 during the reign of Yavuz 
Sultan Selim by Mihrimah Valide Sultan's spouse Damat Rustem Pathorna

**  Unique rural puppet art struggles to survive
The water puppet performers rub crushed ginger onto their skin and drink 
fish sauce to keep warm when they stand waist deep in cold rice paddies and 
ponds

**  Feature Site: Amazing Maine Stories
Objects and documents from the collections of the Maine Historical Society 
tell interesting and sometimes unexpected stories about well-known and less 
well-known Mainers who have helped to make history in the state

**  Museum Deflects Pork Perceptions
Executives at the nation's largest children's museum, jubilant to land $12.5 
million in federal transportation money to improve the safety of its campus, 
now are trying to live down being labelled a prime example of congressional 
pork spending

**  Lost origami works go on display
About 300 origami works by Akira Yoshizawa, including about 50 that were 
returned to the artist 45 years after they were stolen from a New York 
exhibition, are on display at the Paper Museum in Kita Ward, Tokyo

**  Scholars Paddle Upstream With Theory on Boat
In a newly published paper, two scholars have revived the controversial and 
long-dead theory that Polynesian sailors visited the California coast 
centuries before the first European explorers planted their flags there

**  Munch Museum on the move
City administrators want to move Oslo's famed but troubled Munch Museum to a 
new site next to the newly opened Nobel Peace Centre, on Oslo's waterfront

**  Artefacts Report Used Stolen Info
J. Paul Getty Museum officials said Monday a newspaper report alleging the 
institution knowingly acquired illegally excavated or exported objects was 
based on information stolen from its files. More

**  Chinese Museum to Get New $6.5M Home
The expanded 12,000-foot museum on Lafayette Street - a walk away from the 
current space on Mulberry Street - will be feet from the bustle of street 
merchants hawking everything from fish to silk fans

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**  American Association of Museums: Current Issues and Best Practices in 
Museum Management

**  Dr. Alan Trachtenberg to Speak at 7th Annual Longfellow Forum: Hiawatha 
and American Identity: The Indian as Figure and History

 **  Imrey Culbert + SANAA win Louvre Competition

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