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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** France to test free museums in six-month experiment
If museums are free, culture officials wonder, will they attract the kind of
people who would usually rather watch television?
** Dutch Museum reduced to ashes
An entire museum burnt to the ground, complete with all of its exhibits: it
is a nightmare that has become reality for the director of the Armando
Museum in the Dutch town of Amersfoort
** Oldest natural history institution in U.S. dusts itself off
The Academy of Natural Sciences, battered by budget problems, is crafting a
multimillion-dollar plan to refurbish its exhibits, replenish its coffers
and reinvigorate its staff in time for the venerable museum's 200th birthday
in 2012
** Dutch scholar traces ancient seal to Bible's Jezebel
After close scrutiny of the images on the seal, which dates from the 9th
century BC, Utrecht University Old Testament scholar Marjo Korpel concluded
that it must have belonged to Queen Jezebel
** More than 30 Malaysian museums in Klang Valley but few know that they
exist
Where museums are concerned, the Klang Valley alone boasts more than 30 but
how many local and foreign visitors know about them?
** Prehistoric 'fish finger' fins link to human digits
The palaeontologist at London's Natural History Museum, said the small fin
bones of the Queensland lungfish were much the same as fingers and toes in
modern vertebrate land animals
** Dilettante archaeologist's hoard worth millions
Police in the Venice region were stunned to find 12,000 items ranging from
bronze age combs to jewellery, weapons and pottery from down the ages - many
in display cases in the man's home
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** Taiwan signs museum exchange
The director of the National Taiwan History Museum, Wu Mi-cha, said that
although Taiwan was the root of the Austronesian ethnolinguistic family, it
had much to learn from its Pacific counterparts
** Thailand's terrible macabre museum
Of course, the joy of a great museum come not from the dry learning of
facts, but from the electric thrill of being near something that has had a
role in history - something that was present at some mad, ghastly scene,
such as the instruments and surgical gowns used in the 1946 autopsy of
Thailand's murdered king, Ananda Mahidol
** Chatty Cave Men?
Since their discovery more than 150 years ago, researchers have found out
they could make tools just like our ancestors could, but whether
Neanderthals also had advanced language, rather than mere grunts and groans,
has remained hotly debated
** Hippie Museum Funding Shot Down in Senate
Republicans say presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton can forget
about getting $1 million in taxpayer funds for a Woodstock museum
** Museum commemorates heartbreak
Donations made by Berlin residents include a wedding dress and an axe that
the donor claims was used to destroy an ex-lover's furniture
** This Week's Horoscope
Cancer - June 22 to July 22: Fears of being exposed as a fraud will be
realized this week when you're revealed to lack the fluid colour, strong
lines, and playful style of Matisse's trademark works
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** Mona Lisa up for privatisation?
Since the 16th century, any work that enters a French national museum
collection has been considered legally "inalienable": meaning it can only be
sold or given away after a lengthy procedure to deregister it
** Digital scans reveal Mona Lisa secrets
The Mona Lisa's famously enigmatic smile was originally wider and more
expressive, according to new scans of the painting
** David Copperfield's Museum and Warehouse raided by the FBI
The warehouse - known as the International Museum & Library of the Conjuring
Arts - also houses an apartment on the second-floor, a 'career archive' and
a private museum featuring 80,000 pieces of magic memorabilia, which are
stored by a full-time curator in climate-controlled cases
** Museum can keep Nazi-looted art
The Stroganoff family was thought to have lost the paintings when Bolsheviks
seized them during the Russian Revolution, according to the museum's version
of their history
** Dutch museum hunts elusive crab lice
The Rotterdam Natural History Museum has appealed for somebody - anybody -
to give it a single crab louse for its collection, amid fears they may be
dying out
** Man arrested in theft of Toledo museum's 1778 Goya painting
The painting, insured at a value of about $1 million, was being shipped to
the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan from the Toledo Museum of Art
last November
** Military Manoeuvres On Target For Brooklands Museum
** Next year's World Archaeological Congress - WAC6 has a major theme on
Heritage Tourism Agendas
** Dressed to Rule: 18th Century Court Attire in the Mactaggart Art
Collection
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