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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Swedish museum cleaners get £1,700 study trip to Paris
Two cleaners from a natural history museum in Sweden have been given £1,700
to pay for a study trip to Paris
** Function, style - oh, and funding
As Alice Rawsthorn says herself, she makes a slightly unlikely museum
director
** Undoing museum dos and don'ts
You begin to feel like a 3-year old confronted with the seemingly
inexplicable rules imposed by grown-ups
** Precious gem exhibition features world's largest topazes
A unique exhibition of precious gems, a fabulous collection of the world's
largest topazes and 17 gem-inlaid sculptures from Spain made of gold and
silver
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** Honor Thy Curators
The joke, of course, is that the show is punishment because of the record
crowds jostling to see the pictures
** First library offers rare tomes and the odd ghost
Archbishop Narcissus Marsh from Wiltshire was a serious character who knew
how to get things done
** Michelangelo may be lost again
A drawing by Michelangelo, which lay unrecognised in a stately home for more
than 250 years, may be sold to an overseas buyer
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** Huge Ancient Hercules Statue Found
Officials have found a 10-foot-tall statue of Hercules, dated to 2200 B.C.,
dumped at a construction site
** Boom in illegal trade of meteorites
Some of the world's rarest meteorites are being stolen to order by
professional gangs
** National museum leads charge for ranchers to breed kangaroos
The national museum has called on ranchers in the Australian Outback to
start breeding kangaroos
** Collection bears marks of Occupation
A rare collection of Japanese children's books that survived the Occupation
is currently on display at Waseda University's Aizu Museum
** Homo Erectus And Homo Sapiens Did Little Interbreeding
An international study of Y chromosomal DNA shows that East Asian
populations migrated out of Africa
** Charities may have to sell art collections
Charities holding art collections could be forced to sell them to private
owners because of a ruling due this week
** Actual Announcements taken from Church Bulletins
A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will
follow.
** New Exhibit Looks at Early Beatles
Before there was John, Paul, George and Ringo, there was Stuart Sutcliffe
and his vision of rock 'n' roll
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** Britney blamed for museum flop
Britney Spears has upset residents in her home town by not giving away
childhood toys to a museum in her honour
** Old pair of Levi's to be auctioned
"I do know they were found in a pile of mud," said Catherine Williamson, an
appraiser for Butterfields Auctioneers
** Crowds Wait 90 Minutes for 'Jacqueline Kennedy' at the Met
This is not blockbuster season, and yet suddenly this spring, the Met has
blockbuster fever
** French act to keep heritage at home
Parliament has voted to impose a special "art tax" on casinos, and to remove
the bureaucratic and fiscal obstacles to corporate and private donations.
** Loretta Lynn Outgrows Museum
Lynn said an old museum she had on the property was decades-old and was too
small to display all her career mementos
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** "National Health Awareness Kickoff,"
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6th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management
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