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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:
** US visitor stabbed in Cape museum
When the Cape Times newspaper visited the museum later, there was still no
visible security at the entrance or in the reception area.
** The Met will return six antiquities to Italy
They include a painted vase from the sixth-century BC that is widely
regarded as one of the finest of its kind
** Bequests at risk since museum curator suspended
One of the leading museum and art galleries in Wales stands to miss out on
important bequests because of anger over the suspension of its
'inspirational' curator
** School Children find fossil giant penguin
Bones from the largest ancient giant penguin, found in New Zealand more than
130 years ago, indicate the bird stood about 1.5 metres tall and weighed
more than 100 kilograms
** Stalin museum is 'an insult to millions sent to death in Gulag'
The scandal comes half a century after Stalin's cult of personality was
officially dismantled and the crimes he perpetrated against his own people
exposed
** New museum to lure back sub-Saharan Africa's lost art
More than 100 years after a British force torched the capital of the old
kingdom of Benin and carted off the exquisite Benin Bronzes, an
international campaign is being launched for a museum to lure back some of
sub-Saharan Africa's lost artistic heritage
** Thieves hit two museums
Small museums in Colorado have recently been the victims of a series of
thefts
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** Row over Israeli tolerance museum
The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre is constructing a Museum of
Tolerance on the cemetery
** Largest museum of national art in the Baltics opened in Tallinn
The museum also contains educational centre, library, and auditorium with
modern facilities and different workshops
** Wax figures show 'real' George Washington
In a former box factory on an old Brooklyn street named for him, half a mile
from where his defeated army escaped by night to fight another day, George
Washington has all but come back to life
** Museum opens £1m science gallery
A replica Formula 1 racing car with inbuilt race simulator was one of the
star attractions as Edinburgh's Royal Museum opened a new £1m gallery
** 1,400-year-old moccasin found in Canadian glacier
Archaeologists studying melting alpine ice for clues on early life in
Canada's North have uncovered a 1,400-year-old moccasin
** Museum offers the good oil
The new eucalyptus museum will showcase the rich history of the Wedderburn
region's eucalyptus oil production
** Rare photo sets $2.9m sale record
A rare print taken by US photography pioneer Edward Steichen has set a world
record for the highest price paid for a photograph auction
** Warsaw paintings are by Rembrandt
Two paintings from Warsaw's royal palace collection are by the 17th- century
artist Rembrandt, a Polish art official has said
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** Getty Trust buys $3.5 million, mold-riddled home for new museum director
Valerie Fitzgerald, a leading Coldwell Banker agent in Beverly Hills, said
she was surprised the trust didn't have a $300 to $500 basic mold inspection
done "just for peace of mind."
** Painting by Swedish author August Strindberg stolen from Stockholm
museum
Strindberg, one of Sweden's most famous novelists and short-story writers,
painted the work in 1893 in Berlin
** Museum hedges its bets
The museum is one of the main non-competition Games sites, with many art
exhibitions and a giant video screen to be erected in the plaza
** Cash-strapped galleries watch as art heritage is sold abroad
Museums and galleries will watch helplessly this week as a pair of historic
paintings of London by Canaletto, the 18th-century master, leave Britain
** An Expedition to European Digital Cultural Heritage
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** Ancient Chinese Pastimes Exhibition - Hong Kong Heritage Museum
** Revealing a Brief History of Underwear and the Fashionable Ideal.
** Scarfies Roll into the Museum
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