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The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine) in this
week's edition include:
** MPs condemn Government for bailing out arms museum firm
The Government's has been criticised over its handling of the new Royal
Armouries museum in Leeds. See another view by clicking HERE
** Stolen Rockwell paintings found after 23 years
The three paintings are valued at nearly £500,000 and were recovered from a
farmhouse in Brazil
** Madame Tussaud's cover Samuel Jackson's modesty
Madame Tussaud's have put underpants on their kilted model of Samuel L
Jackson to protect his modesty
** Train museum on educational track
The museum contains one of the nation's largest operating indoor G-gauge
layouts depicting the 1930s to 1960s era of railroading
** Gold Rush relic falling to pieces
In another piece of Romaggi House Gold Rush lore, a gentleman named Miller,
decidedly imperfect, met his demise
** Rare blue mineral excites scientific world
The exact location of the discovery is being kept secret to allow experts to
explore the size of the deposit
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** Nuclear submarine to go on display
A decommissioned nuclear submarine is to become a unique public display at a
Royal Navy base
** Weird big guys
It is that weirdness that will surprise, even shock, many browsers wandering
through 'Australia's Lost Kingdom'
** Group needs to make hay for historic barn
The Dougan Round Barn, located on Colley Road east of Beloit, is listed on
the National Register of Historic Places and has significant family and
community history
** Museum of the week
Thinktank has ten galleries on four floors with three main themes - the
past, present and future
** Mystic Seaport Turns Back Calendar to 19th-Century Christmas
Inside the town church, residents rehearse the Christmas pageant, while the
less-religious celebrate down the street at the tavern
** Researchers Date Stradivarius Wood
Housed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, the violin is said to be
worth $15 million to $20 million
** Fireside Intimacy for American Folk Art Museum
These modern architects have made values associated with folk art intimacy,
companionship, aspiration accessible to modern audiences
** Museum weaves tale of Tokyo's role in history of dyed-goods
For kimono lovers, this is the place to learn about the rich tradition of
dyeing popular attire worn by people hundreds of years ago
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** Santa gets his own webcam
The images capture him with his trusty elves live from Lapland wrapping
presents in preparation for their busiest day of year. Visit SANTACAM
** Sperm whale death a boon to museum
Experts from the Royal Ontario Museum will soon be hauling to Toronto the
bones of a 15-metre sperm whale
** Scientists Study Mummy's Tooth
A scientist at Emory University hopes DNA from a single loose molar will
tell whether the ancient corpse is that of the lost pharaoh Ramsses I
** Her Royal Housekeeper
When Frame, who hails from Vancouver, first got the job, in November, 1998,
she says, some people believed she had been hired by Buckingham Palace
** With Explanatory Labels Papering Museum Walls, Are We Still Looking at
the Pictures They Explain?
Stories about art don't often start with statistics, but sometimes hard
numbers can have artsy implications
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** "Not Quite Myself Today" video works by eight artists
** The third Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals course, March
10-15, 2002.
** The Armory Show 2002 taking place as planned
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