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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Asbestos shuts famous museum
An asbestos scare has forced the indefinite closure of the Rijksmuseum in
Amsterdam, the biggest museum in the Netherlands.
** Too hot to handle: art thieves panic and ditch £2m booty
The three paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh & Gauguin stolen from a Manchester
gallery were being prepared for urgent restoration last night after they
were found in a damp cardboard tube outside a public lavatory
** Iraqis keep looted property safe from exploiters
A "neighbourhood watch" team in a Baghdad suburb is refusing to return 500
trunks of artefacts looted from the National Museum because it fears museum
staff are too closely linked to Saddam Hussein's regime to be trusted
** Confederate Ironclad May Have Been Found
An underwater survey found what might be remnants of the Confederate
ironclad warship Virginia, the former USS Merrimack
** Jeff Koons to Erect Sculpture in Germany
Artist Jeff Koons plans to erect a 360-foot tall sculpture in Hamburg - two
cranes with outsize inner tubes dangling down
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** US accused of failing to halt smuggling
Looted Iraqi antiquities are being smuggled out of the country because of
inadequate border controls by US forces, it was alleged on Tuesday
** Chinese Scientists Depict 1,000-year-old Mummies
Scientists from Jilin University in Northeast China's Jilin Province have
completed the portraits of two 1,000-year-old corpses with the aid of
three-dimensional viewing technology
** Walled garden reveals its secrets after 70 years
Next month it will be open to the public, who will enter the walled haven
via a white stone building, The Enamelling Room, so called because it was
where Lady Plymouth's artistic, eccentric mother would sit on rainy days,
decorating enamelware
** Unsinkable Molly
"She used her influence to raise about $10,000 to put women up in hotels,
radio families," Atter said. "She also made sure victims had proper
burials."
** 'Spirit of Glen Ellyn' 1903 Wright Flyer Replica Takes to the Air!
"It's hard to describe what yesterday's flight means to this group," said
Co-President, Mark Miller. "All the work and all the planning came down to
one moment"
** Elizabeth Exhibition Opens In London
Chief among the exhibits is an exquisite locket ring, made for the queen in
1575 from diamonds, rubies and mother of pearl
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** Czar's Freak Show Helps Fight Russian Alcoholism
The stomach-churning collection of preserved mutant babies and pickled body
parts is part of the Kunstkammer, Russia's first museum, which the Czar
founded in 1714
** Museum Of US History Acquires Wireless Technology Collection
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History received a collection
of early cell phones and other wireless technology devices dating from the
early 1970s to the present
** America denies responsibility for loss of Iraq's treasures
America's Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has rejected charges that the US
military was responsible for the damage.
** Percy Grainger Museum seeks $1m
The hoard of original materials, which includes valuable musical
instruments, paintings, clothing and 50,000 letters by key 20th century
composers, is held in bunker-like conditions
** Car museum owner pays £108,00 for Batmobile
Devoe Moore, who runs the Tallahassee Antique Car Museum in Florida, said
he'd meant to bid about £58,000 at first
** Indigenous remains to be returned
The remains of 300 Aboriginal people taken from their graves more than a
century ago will be returned to their people in South Australia
** Curators: Iraq Art Thieves Were Experts
Professional thieves appear to have slipped in among the bands of looters in
Iraqi museums, curators said as they urged U.S. authorities to tighten
border security & stop the flow of stolen treasures
** Sharks: Facts And Fish Tales
It's no wonder the National Aquarium in Baltimore has opened an exhibit to
counteract some of the misconceptions about sharks
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