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Read in 69 countries in the year 2000.  In your free international Museum
Ezine this week:


**  San Francisco museum sets $50,000 Internet art prize **
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has set up a new, $50,000
annual prize for Internet art, one of the largest single awards for online
art and media in the world

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**  British Lawnmower Museum Takes to the Internet **
Britain's Lawnmower Museum has taken to the Internet to sing the praises of
its cutting edge attraction.


**  Picasso -  homage to the bullfighter   **
Picasso sought the explanation of life and death in Dominguin's art of
bullfighting. A huge number of projects emerged from the friendship between
the painter and the bullfighter


**Australia Fish Fossil May Be Distant Human Relative **
A 400-million-year-old fossilized fish recently discovered near an
Australian dam may be one of the human race's earliest relatives, according
to researchers at the Australian Museum


**  Yellow Submarine Resurfaces -- Virtually  **
Visitors to Berlin can take their seats next to John, Paul, George and Ringo
on the Yellow Submarine and help the Fab Four in their quest to save the
world from the Blue Meanies. At least they can in a museum of music ..


**  Biggest Dinosaur Believed Dug Up in Argentina **   The bones of what may
be the largest dinosaur species yet discovered were found by a villager in a
vulture-ridden series of canyons in Argentina's southern Patagonia region,
local paleontologists said on Tuesday.


**  Internet Auction Flogs T-Rex Bones for $5.8 Million **
In a monster sale on the Internet, online auctioneers on Monday put a
fossilized Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton on the block with the opening bid set
at $5.8 million


**  Baffling Viking Artifacts Found in Cave **
A hoard of Viking artifacts found in a cave in southern Ireland is baffling
archaeologists.

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**  West Virginia Finds Ancient Indian Hunting Ground   **
Workers removing a 19th-century graveyard from the planned site of a new
state prison have stumbled on an Indian hunting ground used as far back as
8000 B.C.


**  Getting Away / Pottering around in kiln country **
The name Arita is synonymous with ceramics. As the birthplace of Japan's
porcelain industry, the town in Saga Prefecture boasts a 400-year history of
producing Aritayaki pottery .


** Stolen Constable paintings recovered **
Undercover detectives posing as art buyers have recovered two Constable oil
sketches, worth £1 million, that vanished from the Victoria and Albert
Museum two years ago


**  Women have no appetite for canteen nude **
A sculpture depicting the naked and voluptuous body of Buddha's mother is to
be removed from the British Library canteen because it puts women staff off
their soup and sandwiches


**  James Card, 84, a Leader in Film Preservation, Dies **
James Card, one of the world's leading film preservationists, a passionate
devotee of silent movies and the founder and first curator of the Department
of Film at the George Eastman House of Photography in Rochester, died on
Sunday at a hospital in Syracuse


**  TAAL -  Rich In History & Heritage **
The Taal Heritage Village project in the Philipines, involves the
restoration of areas in the town by transforming them into living museums,
showcasing crafts, culture, history and tradition and reminders of the
town's past as a prosperous center of the sugar and coffee trades


**  Holy See dotcon **
The Vatican is finding out the hard way that there are some places where
nothing is sacred. It has become the latest big-name victim of conmen
operating on the Internet


**  Mild-Mannered Partners Embark on Very Sexy Plan **
Dan Gluck and Alison Maddex -- the stylish young entrepreneurs who hope to
build the Museum of Sex on Fifth Avenue


**  Duke of Wellington's income from battle site under fire **
A Belgian politician wants to stop the present Duke of Wellington from
receiving $240,000 (all figures Cdn) a year from a 1,050-hectare estate at
the scene of the Battle of Waterloo


**  Ancient sculpture goes home   **
The sculpted head of an Egyptian queen has been handed back to Egypt at the
British Museum.
The model of Nefertari, wife of Pharaoh Rameses II, dates back to the 13th
Century BC. It was smuggled into the UK 10 years ago disguised as a cheap
tourist souvenir


** New archaeological discoveries in Syria date back to 2500 BC **
The Syrian- European expedition team working at Tel Beidar, near al-Hassaka
city (northern Syria) found a collection of cuneiform clay tablets that date
back to 2500 BC
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