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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:
** Egypt Displays Vibrant Mummy
A superbly preserved 2,300-year-old mummy bearing a golden mask and covered
in brilliantly colored images of gods and goddesses was unveiled Tuesday at
Egypt's Saqqara Pyramids complex south of Cairo
** Party of the year found at Metropolitan Museum of Art
An eclectic mix of celebrities arrived Monday night to celebrate the opening
of the Chanel exhibit, one of the most eagerly anticipated fashion
retrospectives
** Foreign debt museum opens in Argentina
Three years after staging the largest debt default in modern history,
Argentina opened what may be the first Museum of Foreign Debt to teach
people the perils of borrowing abroad
** Museum for lucky lions opens with a roar
With huge glaring eyes, a cavernous mouth and sharp fangs, Shisa statues-a
traditional symbol of the prefecture-have terrifying, but somewhat amusing
faces
** Samsung to Sponsor Nobel Museum's Global Exhibition
With a theme based on the life of the Nobel Prize founder, titled "Alfred
Nobel and His Times," the international exhibition will start in 2007 and
end in 2010, visiting one major world capital per year at a prestigious
venue
** Arrest over stolen Picasso piece
Seven stolen works of art, including a piece by Pablo Picasso, have been
recovered in Italy
** Arson behind Millicent museum blaze
Investigators have confirmed that arson is the cause of a fire which
destroyed millions of dollars worth of artefacts at the Millicent Museum, in
south-east South Australia
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** Museum display mounted ivory-billed woodpecker
In honour of the recent rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker, a
Pennsylvania museum is displaying a mounted ivory-billed it received decades
ago
** MFA sending more paintings to Vegas
It was a gamble when the Museum of Fine Arts decided to loan more than a
dozen Monets to a Las Vegas casino gallery last year
** Imperial Palace gets a world-class makeover
The Meridian Gate of the Imperial palace in Beijing, which was built in the
18th year of the reign of the Ming Dynasty emperor Yongle (AD 1420), has
been renovated as the most modernized exhibition hall in the world
** Young Man Saves All That Is Old
Among Hue's collection of historical relics is a piece of the board of a
warship believed to have been used by national hero Nguyen Trung Truc during
his struggle against the French
** Police Doubt Report That 'The Scream' Burned
Norwegian police expressed scepticism about a newspaper report that thieves
had burned Edvard Munch's missing masterpiece "The Scream" out of fear that
investigators were closing in
** V&A museum handed £2m donation
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has been given £2 million to create a
new garden from the multi-millionaire owner of Reading Football Club
** The new Lincoln Museum - Infographic
The high-tech Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum opened recently and The
Onion presents this exhibit infographic
** Russian vases bring in $3.5 million for museum
After his death in September, Wood left the vases to the museum and they
were sold at auction at Sotheby's in New York City last week
** Gardener unearths Bronze Age tools, weapons
A man landscaping his garden in eastern England has unearthed a major hoard
of tools and weapons dating back nearly 3,000 years, an archaeologist
revealed
** Rare treasures: Recent discoveries bring Silk Road to life
Shin Shiruku Rodo Ten (Treasures of the Silk Road: Recent Discovery from
Xinjiang and Shaanxi) at the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Sumida Ward features about
130 items on display, taking visitors on a short trip to ancient times
** Fake Modern Art Museum Puzzles Sofia
A group of Bulgarian artists caused a major public scandal by organising a
fake opening of a Modern Art Museum in Sofia
** Las Vegas Sands partners Guggenheim Museum in integrated resort bids
They want to bring the world-famous museum to Singapore to fill the missing
Asian link in its global chain
** 200-year-old pistol stolen from new museum
The new Canadian War Museum hasn't even opened its doors yet, but someone
has already walked off with a 200-year-old artefact
** Asian Civilisations Museum showcases collection of traditional kebayas
True to the exhibition's theme of Nyonya Kebaya as A Living Art, almost
every female guest came dressed in exquisite kebaya gowns.
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** Excavation opportunities for students, July 2005
** The Museum Nights Festival takes over the Czech Republic
** Annual CAA Conference in 2006
** Souvenir for the 150,000th visitor to "From Eastern Han to High Tang"
exhibition
** Seeking Speakers For ICOM-MPR 2005
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