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satisfying 2005.
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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:
** Wildlife saved from Tsunami by a mysterious sixth sense
According to Australian Museum archaeologist Robin Torrence, communities
that maintain their oral history are less vulnerable to disasters than those
where the local culture has been disrupted
** Museum hoping to recover lost pieces
With exquisitely bad timing, two weeks ago I gave a little good-news story
about the Sargent Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and how it had
finally gotten the money to clean up environmental problems at its future
home in the center of Manchester
** Overseas demand fuels rise in smuggling of Chinese relics
Relics that are illegally excavated, stolen from museum collections or
smuggled used to flow mainly to Europe, Japan and the United States but are
now also turning up in private art collections in major Chinese cities
** How a giant fire on the moors revealed Britain's secret past
The blaze, which destroyed a square mile of heather, uncovered thousands of
artefacts - including a unique stone carving more than 4,000 years old which
could be a map
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** 'Fake' Mary Rose sell off halted
A plan to pass off a cannonball as being from the Mary Rose shipwreck and
then sell it on the internet for £5,000 has been thwarted by police
** Relic from Solomon's temple fake
An ivory pomegranate believed to be the only relic from Solomon's temple
will be withdrawn from public exhibition after experts declared it a fake
** Field Museum to use X-ray machine to scan priceless specimens
Researchers have narrowed the museum's anthropology collection of 1.5
million objects down to 40 specimens that will go through the X-ray
** Museum World Roundup
What's been called one of the premier American cultural monuments of the
20th century is being allowed to pick up and move, a prospect that is
energizing some in the art world, and enraging others. AUDIO
** Museum Visitors Soar after Charges Scrapped
Visits to England's museums and galleries have risen by 75% since entry
charges were scrapped three years ago, new figures show
** Shrunken heads museum to expand
Curators at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford - known for its displays of
shrunken heads - hope to make visiting a more interactive experience
** Thieves steal artifacts from Mojave desert museum
A break-in discovered Christmas Day has robbed the museum in this Mojave
Desert town of its most prized possessions
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** Germany fights for Rubens
The Russian businessman who now says he "owns" the painting, Vladimir
Logvinenko, insists he bought it legitimately in 1999 from a Russian
antiques dealer
** Ox or donkey? Tiny animal stirs huge art debate
To many people's surprise, however, Wang believes that the Ming Dynasty
restorers did not paint an ox on their silk patch but a donkey in heat
** Strange But True - Welcome to the Museum of Coathangers
" 'Tis a poorly fellow who hath not a hanger for his cloak." - Sir John
Vanbrugh The Suitor (1704)
** Janitor stole Olympic medals from swimming hall of fame
Police said they traced the theft to Christow, set up a sting, and caught
him on tape trying to sell more Olympic goods
** Tiny gold reliefs found in Norway dig
The small reliefs are called gullgubber, which basically translates to
"golden old men," but a relief of a couple was also found -- perhaps
representing the mythological figures Froy and Gerd
** Report: One of stolen Munch paintings seriously damaged
There are rumors circulating in the art world that one of the two stolen
Edvard Munch paintings has been seriously damaged
** Family Secret turns out to be boring
** Bedrock world of Petra at Cincinnati Art Museum
Petra is probably the only lost city which was found virtually intact,
unlike its fellow city-states like Troy, Babylon and Nineveh
** Museum to lose Clive of India flask
A 17th century jade flask, which used to belong to Clive of India, is set to
disappear from public view after Sheikh Saud al Thani, its present owner,
withdrew his application for an export licence
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** Leisure Studies Association Conference July 6-8 2005 Edinburgh
** The Public Meaning of Archeological Heritage
** Submitting grant proposals to the Museum Loan Network
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