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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:

**  Archaeologists strike gold as Afghan treasure emerges from hiding place
Now, what is known as the Bactrian gold - 20,600 pieces of gold jewellery,
funeral ornaments and personal belongings from 2000-year-old burial mounds -
has emerged from hiding intact, a shimmering example of the heights scaled
by ancient Afghan culture

**  Strange Site of the Week: The Candy Wrapper Museum
"As frightening as it may seem, I've actually eaten most of the candy in my
collection, and yet I'm not (yet) overweight"

**  Summer Activities Start with a Bang!
One of this country's oldest military traditions will launch the summer
season of activities at the Stewart Museum, the Fort, Ile Sainte-Hélène

**  Champions a costly, ambitious plunge
Museums everywhere survive only on subsidies of some sort, and many would
not be up for the massive overheads facing "Champions"

**  Museum Looks to Cover Up Words
The markers have become a modern embarrassment in this museum village that
for centuries has been consumed with preserving history

**  Ancient villages unearthed in Utah
Rancher Waldo Wilcox kept most outsiders off his land and his secret under
wraps: a string of ancient Indian settlements so remarkably well-preserved
that arrowheads and beads are still out in the open
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**  A flowering of art in Madrid
The city plans eventually to turn part of the car-clogged thoroughfare that
joins the three museums into a pedestrian mall, or "art walk," inspired by
Museum Island in Berlin & the Mall in DC.

**  Korn singer sued over crime museum
Arthur Rosenblatt, a collector of criminal artefacts, sued Davis, a former
mortuary science student, and his associates, for about $US4 million in a
12-count lawsuit

**  Woodstock Relics Honoured In Museum
The multi-patched jeans are being displayed at the New York State Museum
among dozens of evocative artefacts from the 1969 concert: ticket stubs, a
leather head band, programs, a New York Daily News headlined "TRAFFIC
UPTIGHT AT HIPPIEFEST" and a conga drum

**  Flood fears at Museum
Underground tours at the National Coal Mining Museum have been suspended
until further notice because of the threat of flooding

**  Hunt seeks unique Arctic sealife
Russian cooperation is seen as central to the project's success:
institutions involved include the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow
State University's zoological museum

**  Britain's Web presence to be saved
The Library says it will be checking blogs, museum Web pages, e-theses, &
Web-based literary and creative projects by British subjects

**  Lights go on at new waterfront museum
The museum will tell the story of Wales's industrial and maritime heritage
and particularly the big part Wales played in the industrial revolution
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**  Hermitage curator claims concert may have damaged paintings
In a bad-tempered stand-off between high and low culture, the museum's head
claims that a recent concert by the former Beatle in a square adjacent to
the museum was dangerously loud and that the resulting vibrations have
already caused damage to the world-famous Hermitage

**  Researchers dissect Mona Lisa's smile
The enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa lies in a quirk of our brain which
interprets "visual noise," the equivalent of the white flecks called snow
which occur on a badly-tuned TV set, a pair of scientists say

**  Perot-backed museum gives up planes after investigation
Museum officials didn't know about the federal regulations when they bought
the planes, said an attorney for the Alliance museum

**  Greece's main antiquities museum reopens after Olympic restoration
Thousands of the precious pieces, from statues to Mycenaean gold vessels,
will be on display providing a visual timeline of Greek antiquity

**  I refuse to let some beached whale ruin our family outing
The view is spectacular, and just because a rude old whale decided to die
next to it doesn't make it any less so

**  Museum returns preserved Maori heads
Three 19th-century Maori heads that were hidden away in a Glasgow museum for
more than 50 years will be returned to their native New Zealand

**  This Week's feature Site: Te Papa's new Web Site
Take a look at this classy, bilingual site from the Museum of New Zealand -
with a nice welcome and FLASH movies.

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**  The fifth annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, taking place
in Bucksport, Maine

**  The Pacific Northwest Preservation Management Institute

**  Don't Sweat the Big Stuff: Training for the Rigging & Moving of Fine
Arts and Artefacts

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