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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:
** Museum worker stole 2,500 items
A series of thefts by an attendant at the Victoria and Albert museum went
unnoticed for around two decades, according to National Archive records.
(See also V&A story below)
** World Heritage Sites damaged by tsunami
UNESCO will eventually send representatives to the region "to assess damage
to these sites and decide on appropriate action."
** Museum Hosts Two Month Open House To Benefit Tsunami Relief Efforts
Museum trustees, staff and volunteers looked into ways the museum, through
its resources, could assist with relief efforts while at the same time
involving the immediate community
** Martial Arts Leaders Do Their Part for Tsunami Victims
The entire Martial Arts Community is being urged to join the Martial Arts
History Museum in aiding the victims of the Tsunami disaster
** Under a Thick Layer of Shrubbery, Traces of Vermeer
An art restorer says he has solved a centuries-old mystery with the
discovery of the studio of the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer
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** Fifth suspect named in major antiquities fraud case
The former head of the antiquities laboratory at the prestigious Israel
Museum is the fifth suspect in a sophisticated forgery ring that allegedly
produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artifacts
** New insight into ancient Americans
Ancient Americans settled in the Norte Chico region of Andean Peru more than
5,000 years ago, abandoning hunter-gathering and quickly developing a
society that featured monumental architecture, agriculture, housing and a
barter-based economy, recent archaeological excavations have revealed
** Orient your sense of dress
This exhibition from the Chinese National Museum of Ethnology in Beijing
raises more questions than its exhibits and text boards can answer - and
sadly, there is no catalogue
** Concorde Museum Reopens after Pensioner's Death
Tickets for the attraction wouldn't go on sale to the public for some weeks
as there was a large backlog of visitors who bought tickets prior to the
museum's closure who now have priority on visiting the site
** Officials Propose Sing Sing Prison Museum
Westchester County is hoping to bring tourists "up the river" to a new
museum at Sing Sing, the 176-year-old prison where the Rosenbergs were
electrocuted and Willie Sutton scaled the walls
** Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People
A team of British and Egyptian archaeologists made a stunning discovery
Monday, unearthing several intact specimens of "skeleton people" - skinless,
organless humans who populated the Nile delta region an estimated 6,000
years ago
** Prof's grasshopper collection catalogued
An extensive collection of grasshoppers, gathered over a 60-year career by a
university professor, has found a sanctuary
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** Engineering student uses computer models to help Smithsonian preserve
art
Engineering and art came together as one discipline for a University of
Michigan mechanical engineering student who used computer modeling to help
set new guidelines for how the Smithsonian stores art - and believes he has
even determined why the Mona Lisa keeps deteriorating despite its controlled
environment
** Italy may dust off tourists to protect David
Custodians of Michelangelo's David are thinking of blasting air at dusty,
sweaty tourists to stop them sullying the Renaissance s*x symbol
** Thieves hit London museum third time
Thieves have struck the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for the third
time in as many months
** Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher respond to lawsuit over museum
Actress Debbie Reynolds and her son, Todd Fisher, said structural
limitations of a shopping centre prevented them from building a museum to
display their $30-million collection of Hollywood memorabilia
** International contest to establish Persian Gulf museum
A site covering 20 hectares in the Liyan Park of Bushehr which is believed
to date back to the Sassanid era has been designated as the future location
of the museum
** Stench of vice from vicinity of museum
Several suspects were questioned in the past two days, but police seemed
clueless about the thieves of the Buddha head that went missing from Indian
Museum
** Wisconsin Veterans Museum archives damaged after pipe burst
Some archival material from the Wisconsin Veterans Museum is at a
conservation lab in Chicago after a frozen pipe burst and damaged a section
of the museum's archives
** Hold the phone!
If you've never been to Eugene's Telephone Pioneer Museum, you're not alone
** Marvel donates vintage comic books to museum in Angouleme
Spiderman, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk and Daredevil have bounded
across the Atlantic in a single leap - a giant donation of almost 300,000
vintage comic books to a French museum
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** Call For Papers - 35th Annual Meeting of the Middle Atlantic
Archaeological Conference
** National Park Service's 2005 Archaeological Prospection Workshop
** Glaucoma Awareness Month Health Fair
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