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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:
** Earth's 'oldest thing ever' gets viewing
To create buzz about an otherwise arcane subject, the University of
Wisconsin-Madison showed off a tiny speck of zircon crystal believed to be
the oldest known piece of Earth at about 4.4 billion years old
** 50th Anniversary of the Polio Vaccine
"Whatever Happened to Polio?," will tell the story of the polio epidemic in
the United States, the vaccine development, current world efforts to stop
polio transmission and the story of survivors and the influences they have
had on American society
** Elders sorry for bones display
Elders from a Papua New Guinea village have apologised for allowing bones
thought to be those of a fallen World War II Digger to be put on display in
a make-shift bush museum
** Israeli Holocaust Museum Posthumously Honours Nazi Officer
A German military officer who became known as the "Nazi who saved Jews" was
honoured Monday by Israel's Holocaust memorial for rescuing hundreds of Jews
from death camps during World War II
** 'Scream' Theft Suspect Detained for Four Weeks
An Oslo court has ordered a man suspected of links to the 2004 theft of the
painting "The Scream" be held in custody for four weeks as police hunt for
the 1893 masterpiece by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. More: Second Suspect
Arrested
** Museum honours late director with more space for odd exhibits
Fans will soon get to see more of what they love about the Mutter Museum,
known around the world for its collection of preserved organs in jars,
deformed skeletons, and lifelike wax casts of astounding medical maladies
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** Saucy Support - Heinz Gives $4 Million to Warhol Museum
The gift, announced over the weekend by Teresa Heinz Kerry, head of The
Howard Heinz Endowment, will boost the museum's endowment to $7.1 million
and coincides with a yearlong celebration of the museum's 10-year
anniversary
** Loud and lively, new museum brings all sides of Lincoln to life
A new museum tries to tell Abraham Lincoln's story with booming cannons,
holographic ghosts and latex statues that are realistic down to their
freckles
** 'Body Worlds' creator fires father over Nazi past
The creator of a popular museum exhibit of preserved human bodies has
removed his father as boss of a new corpse preparation factory in Poland
after revelations of the father's Nazi past
** Virtual Music Museum
The aim of the Web site is to gather all the musical instruments and musical
culture of civilizations that lived in Anatolia
** Mummies' CT scans exposing old secrets
There is much more to learn about the six Egyptian mummies that were wrapped
and buried in strips of resin-encrusted linen thousands of years ago to
protect them from the elements
** Black Beards Ship Found?
It was called Queen Anne's Revenge and now some scientists are convinced
more than ever that they've found Black Beard's pirate ship
** Salt Central to Ancient Maya Business
Excavations of a number of saltworks suggests that the ancient Maya business
world centred on salt and was much more extensive than archaeologists though
** Kahlo Clothes Found in Museum Renovation
A two-year renovation project at the home-turned-museum of legendary Mexican
painter Frida Kahlo has uncovered a vast wardrobe of previously undiscovered
clothing and other valuable artefacts
** Nudes Fill Museum for Unusual Exhibit
Wearing only transparent tights, the 100 nearly nude models stood, kneeled
or sat down on the floor of the New National Gallery before a small crowd of
journalists
** British Library faces a monastic fight for the world's oldest Bible
The 4th-century Codex Sinaiticus, arguably the world's most important
Christian manuscript, entered the library's collection in the 1930s
** Vandals Hit Bishop Museum Construction Site
Sometime overnight, vandals spray-painted graffiti on the entire lower wall
of the museum's Science Education Centre
** Former Museum Director Indicted in Theft of Space Artefacts
Max Ary, the former director of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Centre has
been indicted on charges of stealing artefacts from the space flight museum
in Hutchinson, Kan., and selling them, according to a press statement
released by the U.S. Justice Department
** King Tut Liked Red Wine
A new study reveals that King Tutankhamun eased his arduous journey with a
stash of red wine
** Scientists use manufacturing methods to reconstruct mastodon
Combining 13,000-year-old bones with 21st century auto manufacturing
techniques, scientists and exhibit preparators at the University of Michigan
Exhibit Museum of Natural history are reconstructing a male mastodon
skeleton for an exhibit that opens to the public May 21
** WWI Artefacts loaned to the National Library of Medicine
The NLM exhibit is designed to highlight the psychological trauma, commonly
known as shell shock, experienced by many soldiers during and after World
War I
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** American Association of Museums Annual Meeting and Museum Expo 2005 -
Indianapolis, IN May 1-5
** A Defining Moment: Museums at the Crossroads
** Last chance to sign up for a unique journey to post-Soviet Russia
** International Museums Day on 18 May 2005
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