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In your FREE Museum EZINE, GLOBAL MUSEUM, this week:
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**M.V. STARSHIP visits Maritime Museum
The multimedia wondership, the STARSHIP is a feature vessel at the New
Zealand National Maritime Museum
**Hormel plans SPAM museum in Minnesota
SPAM, the butt of jokes, bane of World War II soldiers and boon for Hormel
Foods Corp will be immortalized in its own museum
**Pocketwatch auctioned for record $11 million
A pocket watch was auctioned at Sotheby's on Thursday for $11 million
dollars, the most ever paid for any timepiece anywhere in the world and
about three and a half times the previous record for a timepiece
**Heirs own Russian master's artworks, Harvard says
Harvard University has recognized the heirs of Russian artist Kazimir
Malevich as the owners of two works kept by a Harvard museum for more than
40 years
**Mourned Panda to Be Displayed at Smithsonian
Hsing-Hsing, the beloved giant panda that died at the National Zoo this past
weekend, will be preserved and displayed at the Smithsonian
**Honest Brits will return Greek marbles - minister
Greek Culture Minister Elisavet Papazoi said on Thursday that Britain's
traditional sense of fair play would help Athens win the return of the
controversial Elgin Marbles
**Mandela's former prison declared Heritage Site
South Africa's infamous Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his
27 years behind bars, has been added to a handful of locations around the
planet declared a World Heritage Site.
**Italy PM returns statue in gesture to Libya
Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema made a gesture of reconciliation to
Libya on Thursday by returning an ancient statue plundered by Fascist Italy.
**Trial opens in Hungary for return of Jewish art
A case that potentially could embarrass Hungary by forcing it to return art
works stolen by Nazis from Hungarian Jews opened on Wednesday in Budapest,
where some of the paintings are on display
**U.N. defuses bombs at ``dangerous'' Afghan museum
The United Nations said on Friday it had defused hundreds of live bombs on
display in Afghanistan at what was possibly the most dangerous museum in the
world.
**Canada forgets to take weapons off scrap destroyer
When Canada sold two old destroyers to a private foreign citizen last year,
it forgot to take an anti-submarine missile launcher off one of them and may
have left other sophisticated equipment on board
**France returns stolen artifacts to Italy after years of wrangling
France returned a treasure trove of stolen vases, statues and other
artifacts to Italy on Thursday, ending their years of exile in a storeroom
of the Louvre Museum in Paris.
**Controversial 'Sensation' exhibit canceled in Australia
The Australian National Gallery has decided to cancel a controversial
exhibition by young British artists that caused an uproar in New York.
**Goodyear struggles with image of rubber museum
Displays of tires and scratchy newsreels may have wowed visitors in the
1970s, but Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s museum is overdue for a renovation
that presents a more dynamic corporate image
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