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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Showcasing the pain of Nanjing
As a siren wailed across the city in remembrance of the dead, the revamped
Nanjing museum opened with thousands enduring waits of up to two hours in
the cold
** Unravelling a mystery Sargent painting at Stamford Museum tied to
Holocaust art looting
Its history as art looted during the Holocaust and later as a painting that
came to be legitimately owned by the museum has consumed and fascinated
Portell for much of the last year
** For Field, seeing is saving
An elite unit of Field Museum scientists has worked hard to protect the
Bolivian side, cooperating with officials to see that portions of it are
declared protected biodiversity zones
** New Mummy Faces DNA Scrutiny
Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a
mummy as the most powerful queen of her time, scientists in a museum
basement are still analysing DNA from the bald, 3,500-year-old corpse to try
to back up the claim aired on TV
** How America escaped Christmas pudding
Pudding is an ancient British food, originating way back in the medieval
period as plum pottage
** Powerhouse staff made redundant amid budget cutbacks
The shrinking of NSW's largest cultural institution comes as other states
have expanded funding for the arts, most recently Western Australia, which
last week unveiled a surprise $73 million package
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** Run for cover The Vikings have returned
A replica of a 900-year-old Viking longship, which set sail from Roskilde in
Denmark seven weeks ago, has arrived in Ireland
** Masterpieces from the ruins of Pompeii
The exhibition at the Roman National Museum shows the fruit of the work of
the 18th-century enthusiasts - today we would call them vandals - who, on
discovering the entombed cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, near Naples, set
about prising them from the ground and carting them off
** Museum skull gets Time honour
A skull found in the Eastern Cape which pieced together the puzzle of modern
man's origin has been named as one of Time Magazine's top scientific
discoveries of the year
** Chaplin's Switzerland home to become museum
The house, overlooking Lake Leman, was Chaplin's home for the final 25 years
of his life, and will now house a permanent exhibition, a 200-seat cinema, a
shop and a restaurant
** Scott and Shackleton's Antarctic penguin portraits found in basement
Two chalk drawings of penguins sketched by legendary explorers Captain Scott
and Ernest Shackleton have been found in a university's basement
** How makeshift ice skates cut journey times
Nearly 4,000 years ago, our ancestors are believed to have first pulled on
makeshift ice skates for a more serious reason: to make their daily journeys
a little less arduous
** China raises 800-year-old sunken ship
After 800 years at the bottom of the sea, a merchant ship loaded with
porcelain and other rare antiques was raised to the surface Friday in a
specially built basket
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** Woman nuts about nutcrackers
This year Gypsy sustained a "nutcracker injury" when a box of them toppled
from a shelf in the garage
** 1,500-year-old Vishnu statues stolen from Dhaka airport
Two 1,500-year-old terracotta statues of Hindu god Vishnu, bound for an
exhibition in Paris, have been stolen while in the custody of Air France at
the Zia International Airport, embarrassing Bangladeshi as well as French
authorities
** Russian art exhibit 'to go ahead'
Both governments have denied the clash related to the fall-out from the
murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London last year, which
has led to strained relations between the two countries
** Record-breaking haul from Gaul discovered at farm in Brittany
Asterix and Obelix, had they existed, might have paid for their mead and
other magic potions with gold-silver-copper coins stamped with elaborate
images of men and horses
** Picasso stolen from Brazil museum
Thieves in Brazil have stolen two paintings said to be worth $100m (£50m) in
a dawn raid on Latin America's most renowned museum. Brazil museum has no
insurance for stolen Picasso, collection
** Whales may be related to deer-like beast
The gigantic ocean-dwelling whale may have evolved from a land animal the
size of a small raccoon, new research suggests
** Packaging the past: The commodification of Heritage
The 9th Cambridge Heritage Seminar
** The Beat Goes On
A National Museums Liverpool 2008 highlight
** 2008 Building Museums Symposium - Are you interested in learning more
about the building boom in museums?
** The Inclusive Museum Conference 2008
The first International Conference on the Inclusive Museum is to be held at
the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, the Netherlands, 8-11 June 2008.
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