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address  http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:

**  National museum begins to count the losses
Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, who has just returned
from Baghdad, says that security problems are still blocking progress

**  Tracking 16 million artefacts
A combination of technical immaturity, cost and lack of technical support
for wireless systems scuttled the project. "We defaulted back to pen and
paper."

**  Damien Hirst launches new work of art
Of the two styles the wild man of contemporary art is best known for -
sharks and spots - he chose the latter

**  Hong Kong Probes Christie's Auction of Chinese Antiquities
Police here are investigating whether Chinese antiquities sold by Christie's
auction house were previously stolen

**  Thieves net rare abalone scrimshaw collection
Art thieves who broke into a Monterey peninsula museum made off with a
collection of 48 irreplaceable abalone scrimshaw carvings, one of
California's most unusual and rare historical artefacts
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**  Blushing J-Lo waxwork unveiled
Visitors to the museum can whisper in her ear to make her cheeks turn pink.

**  Feature Site: Museum of Burnt Food
Our understanding of burnt food has increased tremendously in the past
decade. Much of this progress is due to research conducted at the Museum of
Burnt Food

**  Museum of Bronze Relics Planned for South China
Sources with the county government said the museum would cover 20 hectares,
and would be built in two or three years at a cost of 80 million yuan

**  Irreplaceable objects of desire
Thefts of irreplaceable maps, books and documents attract fewer headlines
but are the bane of libraries and museums across the world

**  Ancient Nicaraguan society found
Archaeologists have discovered what they describe as a previously unknown
ancient civilisation in Central America

**  Greek museum plans 'thwarted'
Greece highest court has ruled against the government's plans on a new
museum at the Acropolis in Athens

**  Dealer's costly blunder
An antiques dealer rubbed his hands as he flogged an 800-year-old pen case
for £30,000 - only to see it resold for a staggering £1.1Million
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**  First Inflatable Auction Rooms Unveiled
"I see this is as a metaphor for the art market in general," said one
disgruntled department head from Bonhams

**  New Saddam Sculptures Finding No Buyers
The nameless sculpture factory is one of several owned by the Iraqi ministry
of culture - and a place where few artists have come back to work since the
war

**  Fish did not suffer in blender
The court acquitted Mr Meyer after a technician employed by the blender
manufacturer and a veterinarian testified the fish did not suffer & died
painlessly because of the blender's fast speed.

**  The Dialogues of Pheron - Thoughts on the recent war with Sparta
In these excerpts, Pheron grapples with weighty philosophical issues that
merit discussion to this day, even though they make our heads hurt.

**  Likely Van Gogh Fake Still Draws Crowd
A prized self-portrait by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh may be fake, but
Norway's National Gallery couldn't be happier

**  Missing Faberge Egg Has Homecoming
The museum purchased the egg last year after it emerged from nearly 85 years
of obscurity in 2001

**  Museums' visitors soar with reduced entry fees
Victorians have stampeded for some culture without cost, with attendances at
the Melbourne Museum soaring by up to 500 per cent since entry fees for the
city's three big museums were slashed last week

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**  Vision 2003 - New Freedoms Conference

**  Rescheduled: Commonwealth Association of Museums

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