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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Tycoon gives Royal Ontario Museum $30-million
A Jamaica-born former bouncer who went on to become one of the world's
wealthiest men was the surprise donor yesterday of a $30-million gift to the
Royal Ontario Museum
** Collection of millions, a great career lost in cuts
Ratcliffe and his colleagues are rallying in support of the research
divisions of the Nebraska State Museum, which are slated for elimination
under Chancellor's tentative budget proposals
** Bag full of weapons found in rural ditch
"That sounds like an interesting collection," said Col. Stuart Beaton,
curator of the military Museum at Canadian Forces Place Borden. "I wonder
why they would have thrown them away in a ditch like that?"
** Is this war erecting another Tower of Babel?
At Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, visitors invariably stop in their
tracks and gaze intently at ``The Tower of Babel,'' a painting by Pieter
Bruegel
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** Animal crackers
Night after night, all through January and February, traps were set at the
College Street museum - and all for the benefit of hidden cameras
** RM70 Million Museum Job
The Albukhary Foundation has been given a RM70 million contract to manage
the Malaysian Islamic Arts Museum
** 'King James' visits Berwick
He claimed the English throne following the death of Queen Elizabeth I,
becoming the first monarch of both realms
** Ancient and contemporary goddesses make works of art
Two hundred exhibits from the 18th to the 21st centuries will reveal the way
in which classical dress has become a truly timeless style
** Museum to focus on Mesopotamia
The Louvre Museum says it will devote a special series of exhibitions, film
screenings, concerts and conferences to ancient Mesopotamia, much of which
is included in present-day Iraq
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** Eyes as big as dinner plates
Fishermen off New Zealand have made a rare catch: a Colossal Squid with eyes
as big as dinner plates and razor-sharp hooks on its tentacles
** High-steppin' trip down wartime memory lane
A whiff of that bygone greasepaint will float across a performance area at
the museum as dancers, singers and comedians do their stuff
** Nostalgic Small Town Puts Cannabis on Its Flag
In the 18th and 19th century, Novozybkovo was a major supplier of hemp, the
tough coarse fiber of the cannabis plant
** From Marsh Debris to Museum Pieces
Some of the more precious pieces were originally Roman imports from the
burial chamber of a local dignitary, including a set of Roman drinking cups,
and there is a golden bust of the (Roman) emperor, found in an Italian sewer
** Imperial China Woven Into Art
"It may have come out of China after the 1911 revolution, or in the 1920's,
when a warlord known as the Christian general took over the Imperial Palace,
expelled the last emperor and sold some imperial robes to raise money for a
military campaign."
** Gramophone Museum Established At Cape Coast
The Gramophone Records Museum Research Centre of Ghana has begun a 250
million project aimed at digitising colonial Ghanaian highlife music on the
Internet
** Chicago museum features robot's role
The CIM process. . . that would be. . . ah, what, exactly?
** Shirt that won the west - and selected outposts
" I just instinctively grabbed the corner of my flannelette shirt and the
stubbie just went straight through the hole"
** Christie's Offers Prized Cézanne
Looking in the mirror as he worked, he created an image of a balding man
with his signature beard and a wariness conveyed by highly arched eyebrows
and a penetrating stare
** This Week's Horoscopes
Taurus: (April. 20-May 20): The inexplicable rain that always pours from
underneath your umbrella will finally stop, moments before your derby hat
catches fire
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** 2003 Museums Australia National Conference
** Engaging your Community in a Culture of Sustainability: Museums as
Agents of Change
** Society of American Archivists 2003 Annual Meeting Session Information
** An all-day symposium is being held on May 3rd in conjunction with the
exhibition Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock (April
13-June 22), both organized by the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY.
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