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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Public museum builds private pottery studio for new chief's wife
In a move that gives new meaning to the phrase "public-private partnership",
the publicly funded Science Museum has built a private pottery studio. More
** Hold still, this may sting a bit
Malena Hassan, 24, climbed into the case in Kelantan Museum, northwest
Malaysia, on Sunday
** Museum Web Awards attract nominations
Global Museum's 2001 Web Awards have attracted many nominations and an
international judging panel has been selected. Nominations close at the end
of July and may be submitted online.
** Smithsonian Productions will shut down
The elimination of Smithsonian Productions was strictly a budgetary
decision, said David J. Umansky, Smithsonian director of communications
** Our Feature Site of the Week
The Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre. Envision a place where predators of
staggering proportions compete with human hunters for food
** 225 years after battle, a cannon is recovered
Senator Hillary Clinton is aboard Lake Champlain ferry as relic is raised
** Glasgow launches its dot com museum
The £600,000 Glasgow Story project will range from the earliest settlements
on the banks of the Clyde until the present
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** Don't let the architectusaurus out
The so-called architectural and urban audacity of Berlin's new face, the
Bilbao Guggenheim Museum and the National Museum of Australia in Canberra,
provoked a lot of adjectives
** Gemini 6 spacecraft to be part of museum
Cernan performed a space walk to test a jet backpack, but became exhausted
and his visor fogged over
** 'Walking with Vermeer'
A number of movies, based upon original master drawings, show the area in
Delft which Vermeer painted
** Fossil fish found in Eastern Cape
A 360-million-year-old species of fish with elegant needle-like spines,
previously unknown to science, has been discovered
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DVD: The Prado This collection features the jewels of the Prado, gathered
by the kings and queens of Spain, and shown in all their splendor
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** New museum toasts role of vodka in Russian culture
In a country that loves to commemorate wartime victories, the Battle of 1373
is often overlooked.
** The Breakfast Table
Joan Didion, novelist and a spambot slouch toward bewilderment
** Bones exhumed to verify Dante's cannibalism tale
Remains believed to be those of a 13th-century Italian count accused of
cannibalism in Dante's Inferno have been exhumed to determine the truth
** Group relives Middle Ages
Participants pick a specific span of years, create a persona and select an
area of specialty to study and train themselves in
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** Woman collects road kill to increase respect for wildlife
"It is a pretty strange thing to be collecting," she admitted.
** Miners Find Dinosaur Eggs in Argentina's Patagonia
The provincial government plans to turn the site into a natural museum where
visitors can see the fossils exactly where they have lain for millions of
years
** Redefining a museum's purpose
With the establishment of many modern museums, this 100-year-old museum, the
oldest in Taiwan, will be hard put not to become a relic itself
** Commemorating 100 years of the Wright stuff
The spruce and ash ribs and struts for the Wright 1903 flyer have all been
cut, marked and stacked in bundles in a corner for later assembly
** Hundreds flock to science centre
The titanium-clad visitor attraction was forced to close just a day after
its unofficial opening last week when it emerged that the Science Mall did
not have a vital permit
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Public Lectures: 'The recovery of Nazi looted art' , 'Stolen art and
human remains: The issues for museums'
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** "Health and Safety: Hazard Communications"
** The Government Records Section Business Meeting
** Blokes and Sheds
** Witchcraft Research
** Cultural Heritage and Technologies in the Third Millennium
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