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week's edition include:
** Pompidou, Guggenheim join forces to build Hong Kong museum
The Centre Pompidou of Paris and New York's Guggenheim Foundation announced
an agreement to jointly submit a proposal to build in Hong Kong a
"world-class" modern and contemporary arts museum
** Low pay culture will cause job losses, says union
Dozens of staff at National Museums Liverpool are preparing to quit because
of penny-pinching bosses, union chiefs warn
** Startling spectral shapes seen in photos shot near gallows site
Somewhere in north Edmonton, the remains of Florence Losandro, the only
woman hanged in Alberta for murder, lie in an unmarked grave, and some
believe her restless spirit now haunts the grounds of the Fort Saskatchewan
Museum 82 years later
** Tut's poison was a little red
King Tutankhamen was partial to wine at the end of a hard day, it has long
been assumed
** US museums to sell off art treasures
America's art museums are poised to put up for auction huge amounts of
artwork by some of the world's most revered painters next week, prompting
accusations from critics that they are neglecting their role as cultural
custodians in search of short-term financial gains
** Lithuanians remember atrocities by KGB
The dreaded KGB Soviet secret political police is remembered here by
thousands of people who visit a special museum designed to help Lithuanians
know about the arrests, torture and deportation of their countrymen under
Moscow's rule
** Museum's eerie past to be recreated
The Roots of Norfolk museum at Gressenhall was a workhouse from the 1770s,
up until the 1930s
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** Movieland Wax Museum gets waxed
John Lennon looks like the stern woman in the "American Gothic" painting and
Robin Williams looks like the embalmed love child of Boris Karloff and Jay
Leno
** Acropolis Museum rising
The long-awaited and much-delayed Acropolis Museum will be ready by the end
of next year, the government says, while insisting that it would keep up its
efforts toward the return of the Elgin Marbles so they can be housed in the
new building
** Museums Helping Museums: A National Relief Effort for the Gulf Region
As a result of the 2005 hurricane season, communities along the Gulf coast
have suffered a tremendous loss of natural and cultural heritage
** Pyramid lies under Bosnian hill, explorer says
The self-styled explorer with an Indiana Jones-like hat and clothes began
his Bosnian pyramid crusade in April after visiting the remnants of a
medieval royal palace at the top of Visocica Hill
** Pope's old car sparked bidding frenzy
A light blue 1975 Ford Escort GL once owned by Pope John Paul II sold at
auction in Las Vegas for $690 000 to a Houston multimillionaire who said he
plans to put it in a museum he wants to build in his hometown
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** Festival of Light at World Museum Liverpool
The performances promise to be a fitting celebration for this year's
Festival of Light, combining different styles of movement, music and dress
from various regions of India
** New exhibit features the best of Bristol's museums
The treasures tucked away in Bristol's nearly dozen museums trace the
history of Bristol back to its formative days in the late 1600s, all the way
to its emergence as a manufacturing centre in the late 1800s, and a new land
of opportunity throughout the 20th century
** Celebrating American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
To celebrate American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month in November,
the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian on the National
Mall in Washington, D.C., and the George Gustav Heye Center in New York City
will host a variety of free public programs, including lectures, panel
discussions, demonstrations, films and more
** Museum Ready for Rosa Parks Viewing
At the request of her family, her casket will be open, as thousands people
file by to pay their respects
** Museum staff walks off the job
Three workers at the Douglas County Museum walked off the job late last week
after saying they could no longer work with recently reinstated Museum
Director Stacey McLaughlin
** That's The Last Time Private Collector Loans Painting To Guggenheim
Walter Vaifale has, more than once, had his paintings returned to him
scratched, stained, or covered in peanut butter
** Committee to probe Getty museum antiquities
A panel appointed by the overseers of the J. Paul Getty Museum will look
into how it built up its antiquities collection and whether a top official
of the J. Paul Getty Trust misused funds
** Feature Site: The Three Emperors
The Royal Academy's forthcoming landmark exhibition, China: The Three
Emperors, 1662-1795, will present imperial treasures of the Qing dynasty
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Africom is very pleased to announce that its web site has been
completely reconstructed and redesigned
** The 2005 NEMA Annual Conference in Burlington, MA is coming up!
** Precious Metals - News Zealand Design in Gold and Silver opening at Te
Papa
** Electronic Records Take Centre Stage at the Second Annual NHPRC
Electronic Records Research Fellowship Symposium
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