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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Museum thinks big after Tutankhamun loss
The British Museum plans to build an enormous exhibition centre in London
that will enable it to stage the biggest shows from all over the world
** Staircase collapses at Irish museum
A 150-year-old staircase collapsed at Ireland's Natural History Museum on
Thursday, injuring a group of elementary school teachers - 11 of whom were
hospitalized
** Ancient tombs destroyed in Ikea construction
City archaeologists say the tombs might have been those of a wealthy family
of the period as the workmanship was of high quality
** Mysterious Tasmanian Tiger May Not Be Extinct
Australian wildlife scientists have re-opened the cryptic case of the
Tasmanian tiger, a marsupial carnivore that resembled a striped coyote and
which was last seen alive more than 70 years ago
** Auschwitz museum lab keeps victims' memory alive
The challenge was how to preserve masses of suitcases, shoes, eye-glasses,
human hair and other poignant reminders of the lives of those exterminated
under Hitler's "final solution."
** Museum row Tory loses job
David Cameron tonight sacked the shadow arts secretary who suggested a Tory
government would revoke free admissions to museums and galleries -
introduced by Labour to popular acclaim
** Patna Museum to be modelled on Singapore Museum
It is planning to work over the development project in collaboration with
the Singapore Museum, seeking technological support and guidance from
Singapore
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** Museum's Iraq art sparks anger
The National Army Museum is at the centre of a political row after it
acquired a painting that pins the blame for the July 7 bombings on the Iraq
war
** Retiree builds war museum to honour promise to soldier
A retired police officer who built a Japanese war museum in Mae Hong Son has
been given a royal decoration by Emperor Akihito of Japan
** Viking ship sets sail for Dublin
A Viking ship has set sail for Dublin from the Danish port of Roskilde, in
an attempt to recreate the voyages undertaken by early Norsemen. Video
** Self-loathing and the American tourist in Europe
Shouldering past you at some museum or church in some city somewhere in
Europe this summer, an American tourist will aim his video camera at some
treasure or ancient trinket and start rolling
** Engine problems stall WWII fighter plane's trip to England
A World War II fighter plane that spent decades entombed in snow and ice in
Greenland will have to wait to complete a mission it began almost 65 years
ago
** Painter Malevich's heirs can sue Amsterdam for art
A U.S. court has ruled that the heirs of Kazimir Malevich, a noted Russian
painter of geometric abstract art, can sue the city of Amsterdam to recover
14 artworks worth tens of million of dollars
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** This week's Horoscopes
Taurus, April 20 to May 20 - The booming illegal ivory trade will continue
to make life hellishly stressful for people like you with unusually
prominent and oddly-shaped collarbones
** Die Hard Items Donated to Smithsonian
Bruce Willis gave the Smithsonian Institution the sleeveless shirt, a
promotional poster, an ID badge and the original script from the latest film
** Dead Sea Scrolls to be pampered in exhibit
The first commandment for showing the Dead Sea Scrolls is "Let there not be
too much light."
** Scientists fly into raptures over flightless Fred
The remains of a dodo found in a cave beneath bamboo and tea plantations in
Mauritius offer the best chance yet to learn about the extinct flightless
bird
** Robotic glove lets users feel images
The company sees likely applications including museum exhibits where
visitors can feel rare objects, ceramics classes that let students feel how
a pot is made and videoconferencing systems that allow users to shake hands
** Robbers take watches worth millions from Swiss museum
Two men posing as delivery men overpowered, bound and gagged a woman who was
cleaning the museum, which belongs to watchmaker Girard-Perregaux
** The Making of a Mummy show
** Association of Midwest Museums Speakers
** New Uris Centre for Education to Reopen at the Metropolitan Museum
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