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The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Exhibit to Celebrate 40 Years of Bond
Secret agent James Bond, 007, is coming to London's Science Museum this
autumn in an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the Bond films
** MOMA now sells furniture
The store, which expects to gross about $6.7 million for the fiscal year
ending June 30, draws visitors who don't even venture into the galleries on
their first trip
** Rare Animal Parts seized
The strangest items she has come across are a fur seal's penis, an Asian
deer's musk gland and a chicken-skin bra - which turned out to be legal and
was returned to the owner
** Vatican frescoes on view in Texas
They were covered by plaster in the 1700s and rediscovered and removed
during renovations to the churches in the 1800s
** Honorary Anzac sees his Burma heroes go home
"The Australians were vigorous and ingenious and they hated all the bullshit
that I hated in the British Army"
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** Ancient city comes to light after 4,000 years in the sand
Ancient texts mentioning the great city were also found in the area and are
now housed at the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York City
** Anger over gallery chief's pay rise
Workers were further incensed by the disclosure that Sir Timothy is
currently on a six-month, fully-paid sabbatical in Italy while they are
battling to improve what they regard as low pay conditions
** Gold Watch Recovered From Civil War Submarine
Archaeologists have recovered an ornate gold pocket watch from the excavated
Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley
** Lenin Museum Looks to Capitalism as Visits Dwindle
It was all so different in Soviet times when Finland's quirky Lenin museum
could rely on a steady stream of Russians
** Hacker cracks 'dead' password
It took a 25 year-old Swedish hacker just five hours to work out that the
creator of an electronic archive of books and documents, had simply used his
name spelt backwards
** Roman amphitheatre opens to the public for first time in 2,000 years
Nearly 1,600 years after it last opened its doors, a Roman amphitheater in
the center of London welcomed visitors again
** Minister quits over Berlusconi plan to pawn Italian palaces
"But if tomorrow Berlusconi asks Urbani to flog the Uffizi Gallery in
Florence, Urbani is hardly going to oppose him."
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** An un-Victorian Victorian
Like William Morris, born in the same year and the leading figure in the
Arts and Crafts movement, Dresser was a gifted designer
** Fire Destroys Parts of Saudi Museum
Khaled Abdul Rauf Khalil was quoted as saying the decorations inside and
outside the museum, as well as some of the ancient pieces of art, were made
of wood and had burned down
** Today in History
June1944: War Rationing Board restricts Nylon use to Armed Forces, J.Edgar
Hoover only
** Museum head 'understands' strike
Almost 15% of the museum's 1,100 staff are facing redundancy because the
museum will be £5m in debt within three years
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** Cherished artifacts return home to American Indians after more than a
century
A nearly forgotten American Indian tribe from northern California hopes a
new museum exhibit will help raise awareness of its history and boost its
bid for federal recognition
** Flying monks and piercing pain at Christian exhibit
We will find ourselves throwing ourselves on the floor, writhing in
ecstasy," the portly bearded curator bellowed to stifled giggles from the
audience
** 'Monster creepy crawlies' museum
Hissing cockroaches and tarantulas are just two of the live exhibits being
added to a London museum in a new £13 million unit
** Charities Receive Strange Donations
Unusual gifts- from World War II tanks to surfboard collections - can appear
at the doorsteps of charities, whether they need them or not
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Historic House Museums as Witnesses to National and Local Identity
** Choices and Challenges: Collecting By Museums and Archives
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** The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art at the Melbourne Museum
** The Holocaust in Bulgaria: Bringing New Evidence to Old Questions
** Women and Jewish Self-Help: The German Case, 1933-1943
** Emergency Preparedness: Safeguarding Our Cultural Heritage
** MetLife Foundation Museum Connections Program Invites Applications
** Madame de Pompadour - l'art et l'amour
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