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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:
** Smithsonian Will Charge For Butterfly Pavilion
As long as senior managers have a sense of entitlement and an anything-goes
culture about spending, museum-goers can't have confidence that charging
admission is really a last resort
** Nuns killed for convent treasure
The motive appears to be robbery - the killers are believed to have taken a
crucifix containing wood reputedly from the cross on which Jesus Christ died
** Museum purchases buried treasures
Norwich Castle Museum said they believed the gold bracelets made from metal
from Ireland, Wales and possibly Scotland could have been a religious
sacrifice by a wealthy man or they could have been hidden in the ground
** Minister blocks auction of Burke and Wills trek relic
Burke and Wills died of starvation during their expedition but King survived
thanks to the care and compassion of the Yandruwandha
** Huge fossilised rainforest found in coal mine
The forest was buried in mud 300 million years ago when a large earthquake
or other catastrophic event caused the entire region to suddenly drop below
sea level
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** Oslo court sentences three in theft of Munch paintings
The three defendants were also ordered to jointly pay 1.57 million kroner
(US$262 million) in compensation to the City of Oslo, which owns the
paintings
** Debt-ridden British Museum funds foreign trips
It spends less on new acquisitions than almost any other major museum in the
world and is currently £2 million in the red yet the British Museum has been
able to find tens of thousands of pounds to send its 23-strong team of
trustees and top managers on a series of foreign trips
** Egyptian statue that cost council £440,000 is a forgery
After experts from the British Museum and Christie's had vouched for its
authenticity, Bolton Council raised the money to buy the sculpture, known as
the Amarna Princess
** Stalin's bunker to become museum
In order to make the museum popular, its administration is planning to allow
the visitors to touch the exhibits and even try on the uniform and drink tea
from a traditional Russian samovar
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio, October 24 to November 21 - Your future as a songwriter ends almost
before it begins when you find that someone has already compared the depth,
power, and beauty of their love to an ocean
** Unseen footage from Gallipoli campaign found by war museum
The footage was found buried in a compilation reel of 35mm film from World
War One, which the museum bought from a private citizen in 1938 but never
properly examined
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** Museums join the game age
This partnership brings the fantastic visuals and engaging, interactive and
multi-player gameplay you get with video games to sectors that are
increasingly interested in connecting with a digitally enabled generation
** When chemistry meets culture - Scientists helping save rare art
If you're going to restore a piece of art to the way it was on the day it
was finished, you need to know exactly what materials they used
** Losing One's Marbles
The story has thus grown up that the phrase "to lose one's marbles" was
coined to describe the fury the Greeks felt in 1816 or thereabouts when they
discovered a visit to Bloomsbury was required to gaze upon a chunk of their
own history
** Ex-director of whaling museum guilty of trafficking sperm whale teeth
The former director of a whaling museum and an antiques dealer pleaded
guilty Thursday to illegally importing hundreds of sperm whale teeth from
England and selling them to U.S. merchants
** Large Shipment of Rare Paintings Reported Missing in Europe
Croatian Naive Art is a genre of art begun in the late 1920s predominantly
by self-taught farmer artists where the artist paints in reverse in oils on
the back side of a normal piece of glass
** Maharajah's Bomber restored to glory
A rare First World War two-seat bomber, which was rotting in an elephant
stable of a former maharajah's palace in Rajasthan has now been restored to
its glory at the Imperial War Museum
** Putin saves hammer and sickle after row
Russian President Vladimir Putin has intervened to stop his own supporters
removing the Communist hammer and sickle from one of the most hallowed
relics of the country's history
** Exterminator sentenced for stealing artefacts from museum
An exterminator was sentenced to prison for stealing more than 2,000
exhibits including dolphin, leopard and bat skeletons in Australia's biggest
museum theft
** International Museums Day in Hong Kong
** Rethinking Museums - An Interdisciplinary Academic Conference
Program, the Learning for Leadership Council, the College of Arts &
Sciences, and the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington,
Seattle.
** Fairies, Fiestas and Expositions: Costume as Cultural Exchange
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