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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Zurich's Art Theft Prompts `Naïve' Museums to Review Security
The haul, estimated at $163 million, was Switzerland's biggest art theft and
the second in the region in a week
** Students outraged after museum destroys diorama
Highland High students and faculty are up in arms after hearing that a
diorama they helped build was destroyed by Texas museum officials who said
it was historically inaccurate
** Restorers find Claude Monet painting in Cologne museum is forgery
The painting, previously believed to be Monet's "On the Banks of the Seine
by Port Villez," was unmasked as a fake when restorers analysed it ahead of
an exhibition on the Impressionist period, according to the city government
in Cologne, where the Wallraf-Richartz Museum is located
** Thousands Of Humans Inhabited New World's Doorstep For 20,000 Years
The human journey from Asia to the New World was interrupted by a
20,000 -year layover in Beringia, a once-habitable region that today lies
submerged under the icy waters of the Bering Strait
** British Museum takes collection online
Around 275,000 of the museum's more than seven million treasures spanning
two million years of history have already been uploaded to the new site, and
the remaining items will follow over the coming months
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** Museum to shed light on diggers' world
World War I Kiwi tunnellers are to be remembered in a new museum in the
French town of Arras - appropriately built 22m underground
** Reward beats risk for art thieves
Steven Spielberg led the FBI straight to a stolen $700,000 Norman Rockwell
painting someone snatched from a Missouri gallery
** Lasers conserve Pictish treasures
High-tech laser technology has been used to record and conserve one of the
finest collections of Pictish carved stones in Scotland
** Expert On Anteaters Wasted Entire Life Studying Anteaters
Today Now! host Jim Haggerty consoles a severely depressed zoologist on the
latest Critter Corner instalment
** Charlie's ring fetches a princely sum
An 18th-century Jacobite ring used by Bonnie Prince Charlie to pass on
secret messages has been auctioned for GBP12,200
** Chinese archaeologists find fossil, 580 million years old
Chinese archaeologists have found a fossilized body of an octoradiate spiral
organism dating back 580 million years in the south-western part of the
country
** Nation's Oldest Operational Bowling Centre Rediscovered, Restored to
Gilded Age Elegance
Bowling was one of the sports of the social elite during the end of the 19th
century and now ranks as a leading participatory sport and the
fastest-growing high school sport in the United States
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** Paris's architectural pride and prejudice
The world's largest architectural museum, the Cite de l'Architecture, is a
bombastic monument to chauvinistic vanity
** Liens filed in Denver Museum of Contemporary Art project
A half-dozen contractors who worked on the new, $16 million Museum of
Contemporary Art/Denver say they still are trying to get paid for their work
and have filed liens against the museum property
** Roman pots to go on display
A large collection of Roman artefacts is to go on public display in Norwich
for the first time, 30 years after they were unearthed by an amateur
archaeologist
** Chicago-based art museum calls out to lovers
The interactive game let the museum patrons flirt with other attendees by
registering their phone numbers to receive an attendee number
** Board settles ethics charge against NY women's museum chief
A former aide to Gov. George Pataki will pay $15,000 to settle ethics
charges stemming from her role as president of a proposed women's museum in
New York City that was allocated $2.2 million in tax dollars
** Treasure island
The exhibition is possible only because Austria, like America, France and
Germany, the three earlier destinations, passed legislation granting
exhibits immunity from judicial seizure, to stop China staking a legal claim
to them
** West's Travel Topped Other Smithsonian Directors
The arrangement between the Abu Dhabi cultural agency and the Smithsonian
has stirred concerns within institution museums, because art, science and
anthropology curators were not consulted, according to internal Smithsonian
e-mails obtained by the Washington Post
** The Finishing Touch: Accessories from the Bolivian Highlands
On view at The Textile Museum from February 15 through September 18, 2008
** 2008 Pemaquid Falls archaeological field school
The scenic mid-coast community of Bristol is home to one of Maine's earliest
European settlements
** Commonwealth Association of Museums
Preliminary Announcement & Call for Papers - CAM General Programme and
Meeting 2008
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