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webzine) edition include:
** Tempers flare on National Gallery picket line
Tempers flared yesterday as technical, exhibition and clerical workers
continued their protests in front of the National Gallery of Canada
** Gilded graveyard of Russia's imperial horses is restored
122 marble gravestones are just visible beyond heaps of crumpled junk metal,
through a haze of long grass and spring flowers
** Reptiles of Skye
The monster can hardly be a Jurassic survivor if Loch Ness was frozen solid
** Colosseum 'built with loot from sack of Jerusalem temple'
The Colosseum, the huge Roman amphitheatre used for animal shows and
gladiatorial combat, was built with the spoils of the sack of the Jewish
temple in Jerusalem
** Out Of Africa
Among the plunder from Africa, during the "great scramble" for control over
the continent in the late 19th century, art counted among the highest prizes
of imperialism
** World's 1st rainwater museum opens in Tokyo
On display are a number of tools from abroad, including a Peruvian net used
to harvest water from fog
** 3 new dinosaur species found -- 1 a pot-bellied, feathered plant eater
Three new species of dinosaurs found by an Arizona paleontologist are the
only known North American dinosaurs dating from the Turonian age
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** Looking for a good time?
It's high noon at the Canadian Clock Museum in Deep River and what seems
like 100 clocks are sounding the hour with bongs and bells, ting-ting-tings
and Westminster chimes
** Pearl tugboat is prize in tug-of-war
5 groups are fighting for control of the tug Hoga, which played a pivotal
role in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack of Pearl Harbour
** Art museum reinstates free admission, boosts endowment
The San Jose Museum of Art is one nonprofit not singing the "stingy valley"
blues during down economic times
** Rare disease rears head in Kawasaki zoo
All five were apparently infected while attending the delivery of a moose
** Galleries 2.5m demand
Museum and gallery shops are poor and need to be upgraded, as visitors spend
an average of just 69p each.
** Old artifacts found at new car park site
An air raid shelter and the foundation of old shophouses were also
discovered
** A Mummy's Sex Change
The gender-confused mummy wound up in Australia after a local, Sir Charles
Nicholson, visited the ancient Egyptian city of Luxor. (See also Mummy
Story below)
** Subway Museum offers ticket to ride
Aboard the subway cab simulator, visitors can have a virtual experience as
motormen
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** Swiss Geologists Find Mars Meteorite In The Sultanate Of Oman
Geologists from Bern University and from the Natural History Museum Bern
have found more than 180 meteorites in Oman
** Civil War Over Confederate Museum
Caretakers wage a courteous yet steely battle to keep from being squeezed
out by university art center
** Secrets of the mummy return in Egypt dig
Three 5,600-year-old bodies found buried in the Egyptian desert are turning
the theory of mummification on its head
** Past and present meet in Vietnamese art
An exhibition of modern Vietnamese art is now being held at the Bunkamura
Gallery in Shibuya, Tokyo
** Survivors of Bismarck see wreck on film
Researchers and film-makers in a Russian survey ship said yesterday that two
mini-submarines had visited and filmed the wreck
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Book Collections Maintenance & Repair Workshop (July 18-21, 2001)
** Identification, Preservation, & Management of Architectural Records
(August 9-11, 2001)
Preservation of Archival Collections (August 15-18, 2001)
** Visions of Australia Funding Forum Expressions of Interest Sought
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** The Dangers of Transcription
** New Media In Museums Seminar A Bit Flash: What's so new about new
technology?
** Maltese Conferences of Interest
** The New York Archaeological Council would like to extend an invitation
to join the organization to all qualified archaeologists working in New York
State.
** The National Gallery of Australia has launched a new access initiative -
focussing on Prints & Printmaking in Australia & the Australasian
** The Sixth International Conference on Urban History of the European
Association of Urban Historians (EAUH) will meet in Edinburgh from September
4-7, 2002.
** Fashion, Textiles & Design Lecture Series
From Federation To The Fifties: Australian Nationalism In Fashion And
Textile Design?
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