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week's edition include:
** Saddam to Stand by Bush
A waxwork of Saddam, dressed in a suit and hat and holding up a rifle, will
stand alongside Bush in Madrid's Waxworks Museum in a couple of weeks
** France Moves Artworks to Avoid Floods
Worried it might be caught unprepared for the type of flooding that swamped
Europe last year, France has launched its biggest operation since WWII to
protect its vast art heritage
** Businessmen arrested over theft of skulls and foetuses
Thai police have arrested two men who allegedly stole preserved foetuses &
human skulls from a hospital museum to use as talismans
** Underwater Palace' for World's Oldest Water Survey Device
Baiheliang, an 1.6 km-long massive reef important for observing water level
changes, will be covered by an elliptical transparent shield so visitors in
the future can still see it.
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** Vincent van Gogh was not only a prolific painter
As part of the 150th birthday celebrations for the Dutch master, researchers
have pieced together his words and his art
** Dolly the Cloned Sheep Put to Death
Dolly's body has been promised to the National Museum of Scotland and will
eventually be put on display in Edinburgh
** Barbarians at the gate
At the Singapore Art Museum for example, works were pried off the wall,
mixed-media pieces lost components and sculptures were defaced, reports a
curator
** Female Artists Exhibited in D.C.
Paintings by noted female artists of past centuries, on loan from the
Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia, will be seen in the United States for
the first time
** Stolen art treasures recovered by police
Two stolen paintings by Monet and Renoir with a combined value of nearly $7m
have been recovered by undercover police in Miami
** Bean there, done that, got the label...
Magpie Week celebrates the world of collecting and aims to encourage younger
visitors to the museum to start up collections of their own
** Make it free and we'll make it work, pleads museum
He said predictions about the number of visitors had been wrong for all the
museum's two-and-a-half-year existence
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Capricorn: (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) It's nice that you enjoyed the chicken pot pie,
chips, and beer, but the genie was surprised you didn't try the old "wishing
for more wishes" trick.
** Ancient Silk Road Loulan Tombs Robbed, Desecrated
A number of ancient tombs have been ruined, and a host of beautiful mural
paintings within the tombs have been destroyed
** Mammals 'sailed to Madagascar'
All mammals on the island of Madagascar are descended from four ancestral
species that sailed from Africa clinging to rafts
** Exhibit Dishes Out Automatic Nostalgia
The meal wasn't complete without a steaming cup of "gilt edge" coffee, which
flowed from gleaming dolphin-head spouts modeled after fountains preserved
in the ruins of Pompeii
** Museum sculpts touch tour under critical eyes
''Yes, of course,'' says Singh. ''The stone sculptures won't be damaged by
occasional human touch,'' he insists
** Time for a rethink on stalled racing museum
As far as the Government is concerned, museums are not exactly the flavour
of the month, with the Melbourne Museum facing a financial crisis and asking
for extra funding
** For sale - plaster casts of Dutch writers' genitals
A book show in Utrecht has made plaster casts of the genitals of Dutch
writers and is trying to sell them
** Exhibit Shows How Mount Vernon Was Saved
If not for seven women and their public appeal for help 150 years ago,
George Washington's magnificent estate might today be an open field or a
housing development
** Museum hit by asbestos scare
Staff evacuated to avoid potential contact with asbestos fibres from the
exposed ceiling cavity on the floor
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