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In your International Museum EZINE this week

**The Largest International Cultural Project
$ 3 500 000 for the completion of the reconstruction of the Amber Room in
State Museum "Tzarskoje Selo" Russia St.-Petersburg

**"Art, Law and the Holocaust"
Courtauld seminar (the first of its kind in the United Kingdom) traces the
emergence of claims for works of art taken or lost during the Nazi era.

**School District Scraps Art Visits Over Nudity
Fort Worth schools canceled class trips to an art museum after parental
complaints about nudity and homosexuality in an exhibition of paintings by
Francis Bacon.

**China Displays Newest Discoveries From Qin Tomb
 China has put on display its newest discoveries of weighty armor and
brightly colored 2,200-year-old figurines from the tomb of China's first
emperor, Qin Shihuang

**Nazi-Looted Van Gogh Drawing To Be Sold
A drawing by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh that was recently returned to its
rightful owner after being looted by the Nazis more than 50 years ago is to
be sold in London

**Old, New Tools May Unlock Canada Iceman's Secrets
It will take modern science and ancient Indian oral tradition to unlock the
secrets of an iceman found in a Canadian glacier

**Heyerdahl Defeats Oceans, Battles Scholars
After braving the world's oceans on flimsy rafts, Norwegian explorer Thor
Heyerdahl still hopes to defeat scholars who sneer at his theory that
ancient South Americans sailed the Pacific.

**Scott's South Pole flag saved for nation by museum
The silk sledging flag used by legendary explorer Robert Falcon Scott on his
ill-fated Antarctic trip will stay in Britain after the National Maritime
Museum bought it just a day before it was due to be auctioned.

**Pope's Polish home sought by former Jewish owner
A descendant of the Jewish owners of the house in Poland where Pope John
Paul was born has begun legal steps to recover the property, which is now a
museum on the Pontiff's life. .

**Greece recovers stolen antiquities hoard in Miami
Scores of precious ancient artefacts stolen from the Corinth Museum nine
years ago have been recovered in Miami and will soon find their way home

**Austria faces court case over Nazi-seized paintings
Lawyers for the heiress of an Austrian Jewish industrialist who fled the
Nazis in 1938 charged Austria on Tuesday with refusing to restore five
world-famous paintings to their rightful owner

**Museum's dinosaur headed for safety, too
As Hurricane Floyd barreled toward Florida, people panicked. As it turned
out, humans were not the only species to lose their heads.

**Do you have story of old Chinatown?
Over 100 stories of the past have been recorded in an ongoing project to
preserve a Sinpgapore area's history

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