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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:
** Australian Museum rewrites history to fight bias claims
Long-serving bureaucrat Craddock Morton was appointed last week as director
for the next three years, after acting in the position since the museum's
first chief, Dawn Casey, was effectively sacked in December
** I want to be buried in a gold onion, please
Coffins shaped like a fish, a giant onion and a Mercedes saloon have gone on
show in Berlin in an exhibition on sepulchral culture
** Venice shaken by vandalism spree
The random destruction wreaked by apparently one man's folly brought home
the difficulties of taking care of this ancient city built on water
** Treasure Grab
The Russian cultural establishment has been outraged by assertions that the
Soviets bear responsibility for the wartime loss of one of Russia's most
priceless imperial treasures
** Feds Seize Art Stolen From Italian Castle
Two paintings allegedly stolen from an Italian castle in the 1990s were
seized by federal authorities before a Christie's auction
** Professor Is Indicted Over Procuring Biological Materials for Art
The federal government has indicted an artist and assistant professor at the
State University of New York at Buffalo
** Chicago museum exhibition looks at insects' role in crime-solving
"The first witness to a death is usually a fly," says Mike Sarna, director
of exhibitions at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
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** Berlin's Scientific Treasure House Shakes Off the Dust
After decades in suspended animation, the Museum für Naturkunde has adopted
21st century methods in a campaign to recapture its former glory
** Mexico sends Aztec treasures to New York
A highlight will be treasures recently excavated at the Aztec Templo Mayor
site in Mexico City's main plaza, including fired clay figures of the Eagle
Warrior and Mictlantecuhtli, god of the dead
** An Engine That Could? This One Took 526 Years to Move
Though conceived in 1478, centuries before the Model T Ford introduced mass
production, it seems a matter of debate whether Leonardo ever built one
** Alabama agrees to buy internationally acclaimed fossil site
Alabama has agreed to buy an internationally acclaimed Coal Age fossil site
in Walker County for $10,000, saving it from a federally ordered bulldozing
** US businessman dives down to Lusitania
An Irish court is considering Bemis's request to conduct a forensic dive
that could solve mysteries about the sinking of the Lusitania in May 1915,
about 12 miles off Kinsale in Co Cork
** Modernism Wasn't So American After All
A sprawling, basically right-minded tangle of a show, it broadly scans the
1940's through the 70's
** Every basket tells the story of its creator
One look at the current exhibit of baskets at the Heard Museum North puts a
new spin on the old joke about Basket Weaving 101 courses in college
** Beijing's heritage status to be questioned
Suzhou will be questioned because the location of the new Suzhou Museum may
influence the Garden of Clumsy Administration, a World heritage site
** Bishop Museum prepared to contest claims to artefacts
The Bishop Museum has adopted a more activist role in contesting Native
Hawaiian claims on cultural artefacts in its possession by asserting that
it, too, qualifies as a "Native Hawaiian organization"
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** Public to 'Virtually' Explore 3,000 Year Old Mummy
The experience delves into incredible details such as where incisions were
made to remove organs, and makes visible amulets of carved stone ceramic and
wax found on his body
** National Palace Museum to finish facelift by 2006
According to the report, the museum has done little more than erect fences
and control traffic around the buildings since it restarted the renovation
project in March
** Britain to the Moon Campaign blasts off
The British built Hadrian's wall to keep out the Scottish and you can't even
see the damn thing from the A1
** This week's feature exhibit: Fabulous Beasts
Featuring new and existing works that highlight the fascinating physicality
of insects, Fabulous Beasts shows the processes that scientists and artists
share when examining a natural object
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** Rare Chinese Landscape Paintings from Shanghai Museum on display for the
first time in Singapore
** Hammer & Hand: Contemporary American Metal 2004
** Family Fun Day in association with the exhibition "Out of the Woods"
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