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week's edition include:
** Ancient Relics, Drug Lord's Cave Adorn Ecuador Beach
In a 15-minute stroll, one visitor picked up from the sand a finely-carved
redstone human figurine and an animal figure, possibly a jaguar, that were
still in good condition although worn by the tide
** Galleries tap rich vein of public's lust for blood
It is the golden rule for cinema and circuses, and now the august world of
museums has got the message - gore sells
** The Chill From The Friezes
Virtually as long as museums have existed they have held and displayed items
acquired unethically, if not illegally
** War relic resurfaces after 60 years
A relic from one of the darkest moments in Scotland's maritime history has
been found after 60 years, serving as a London houseboat
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** Chill - scope out the ice art museum
Arguably, this is the world's most temporary exhibition. Or, to put it
another way, the iceman goeth. Nature takes its inevitable toll, and the
sculptures' details diminish slowly, shriveling drop by imperceptible drop
** Events celebrate Lewis and Clark adventures
The nationwide bicentennial celebration of the Lewis and Clark expedition
appropriately starts at Monticello, in Virginia
** Show reveals spy-camera secrets
An exhibition of spy cameras is being held at the Camera Museum of the Japan
Camera Industry Institute
** A Rare Peek at China's Treasures
It was a frosty December morning and the line of people waiting for the
Shanghai Museum to open wrapped halfway around the building
** Excalibur, the rock that may mark a new dawn for man
To the palaeontologists who found this axe-head buried in a deep cavern on a
Spanish hilltop, it is proof of a terrible and defining moment in the
evolutionary history of the human mind
** Custodian Sought for Lennon Museum
More than 20 people have applied to become the custodian of a new museum
being built in a Liverpool house where John Lennon lived as a young boy
** The strange history of a cartoon cat
They were the unsung heroes of the Golden Age of Movies, the forgotten men
and women who took anthropomorphic mice, ducks & cats and turned them into
living beings
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** Caterers cash in as museum visits rise
Caterers at museums and galleries that scrapped their entry charges 12
months ago have reported increases in sales and customer numbers, although
the amount each visitor spends has dropped
** Saddam makes an exhibition of himself
It is supposedly stored in a warehouse elsewhere in Baghdad, or is perhaps
even being worn by Saddam himself - a pair of golden riding spurs presented
by former US president Ronald Reagan in the early 80s
** Polish museum celebrates Jews
Poland, anxious to stamp out charges of anti-Semitism, is to open eastern
Europe's first major museum to celebrate the everyday lives of the region's
Jews
** Georgian skull's link to our past
But as he sifted gingerly through the baked patch of ground before him, his
fingers touched something different
** Cad to sell Di's love letters
He brushed aside suggestions he should donate the letters to the British
Museum and declined to say what he would do with the proceeds.
** Red tape ruins return of remains
The elders have had to resign themselves to never finding the other skeletal
remains of Yagan, who was shot by white settlers in the Swan Valley in 1883
and whose smoked head was taken to Britain as a curio
** Lynching Exhibit to End at MLK Site
The exhibit features 40 photographs showing corpses of young black men and
women hanging from pine trees, telephone poles and, in one case, a theater
stage
** US battle for £2bn undersea treasure
For nearly 250 years the caskets of gold, silver and emeralds lay
undisturbed alongside the fish-cleaned bones of the sailors who went to the
bottom of the sea with them
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** "The Best in Heritage"
** CIMI is exploring issues that will influence its future program of work
through broad consultation with the museum community.
** Strategies For Changing Times
** Te Papa's new Chief Executive, Dr Seddon Bennington, commences his role
at the museum
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