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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Pink Floyd set aside rift for French exhibition
The organiser of the three-month event, Emma Lavigne, a curator at the Paris
Museum of Music, said the exhibition would "pay tribute to the important
contribution of Pink Floyd to the musical history of the 20th century".
** Glories in the gloom
It is as though no one involved in the project had the slightest feel for
the glamour or the sensuous, tactile beauty of medieval art.
** Motorcycle Museum burned down due to lack of 'sprinters'
A simple spelling error by a disgruntled American museum security consultant
may have led to the destruction by fire of two thirds of the National
Motorcycle Museum collection
** Holocaust museum creates divide
A Michigan Holocaust museum's grim and stark design has sparked both praise
and criticism from area residents
** Metropolitan Museum of Art Hosts Rare 'El Greco' Exhibit
"I think it is the directness of his expression and expressiveness that
absolutely touches the heart as well as the eye,"
** Noted artist donates sculpture to Santa Rosa Peanuts museum
Christo turned over his "Wrapped Snoopy House" to the museum yesterday
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** Egyptology exhibition
Cotton barons had been forced to buy from Egypt in the 1860s when the
American Civil War interrupted supplies
** New exhibit honors mail heroes through the years
Also present are the photos of three American and two British postal workers
who perished in the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912, struggling to drag 200
bags of mail on deck in hopes of saving it
** £62,000 for Dali's Mae West sofa
It was created by Salvador Dali for his wealthy patron Edward James at
Monkton House, a Lutyens property on the family's West Dean estate in Sussex
in 1938
** Liberty Bell safely arrives at new home
The movement and condition of the bell were electronically monitored through
special sensors, said Andrew Lins, chairman of the conservation department
of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
** Welcome to the real Natural History Museum
Pickling things in jars is not always the best way to keep them in long-term
storage - fossils, ancient rocks and delicate instruments, for example, need
a different type of care altogether
** £10m violin 'the real thing'
A new study appears to have disproved allegations that one of the world's
most valuable violins, worth an estimated £10m, is a fake
** Smithsonian to Display the Wright Flyer
"We're letting people get up close to this awe-inspiring artifact," said
Peter Jakab, chairman of the museum's aeronautics division
** Career profile: Museum curator
He spent four years at the Australian National University researching rock
behaviour, before changing careers to manage a theatre company. Two years
later he headed for the "big smoke" and began working with the Powerhouse
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** Elvis Memorabilia Triggers Gun Tussle
British museum is facing a battle with the government over its plan to
import a collection of handguns once owned by Elvis Presley
** Marbles exhibition opens in London
A virtual exhibition, which shows how the Elgin Marbles would look if they
were reunited, has opened in London
** Man Wears Same Shoes For Sixty Years
A pensioner who claims to have been wearing the same pair of shoes for the
last 60 years wants to leave them to a museum after he dies
** Donation saves Turner paintings
A pair of Turner masterpieces in London's Victoria And Albert Museum have
been restored following a donation from a reader of The Times
** Britain's Earliest BBQ?
Charcoal deposits that archaeologists believe date back 275,000 years were
discovered during an archaeological investigation near Salisbury last winter
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** Join the New England Museum Association for a full day of workshops
specifically geared to children's museums
** Pearce Civil War Documents and Western Art Collections Grand Opening
** Conference Announcement: There will be conference about archaeological
textiles in Austria.
** Show and Tell: Preservation Planning for Exhibitions
** Southwestern Writers Collection has just completed digitizing La
relación, from its treasured 1555 edition of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's La
relación y comentarios.
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