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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Tin miner's plot reveals boozy past
A miner's hut was discovered on his land near Moorina and excavation work
has uncovered bucket loads of alcohol containers
** Dolly makes museum debut
From today, her preserved remains will star in an exhibit about DNA in
Edinburgh's Royal Museum
** Painting stolen by Nazis may raise £7m for its owners
After half a century in an museum in Austria, Landscape at Krumau was
recently returned to the heirs of the Jewish collectors from whom it was
stolen
** Elgin Marbles: Centerpiece of new museum?
The halves of a carving depicting an ancient Greek chariot race interlock on
the gallery wall like parts of a jigsaw puzzle
** Cannibalism 'rife among prehistoric humans'
The team found from analysing DNA samples that the same protective gene
variant is common in people all over the world
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** At POW Museum, Haunting Memories of the Past
Price, a member of a B-29 crew who was captured by the Japanese, was a POW
for five months, four of them in solitary confinement
** Workers 'want art inspiration'
Three quarters of Britain's workers want art on show in their workplace, but
less than half of offices in the UK display any art, a survey suggests
** Italy to build Holocaust museum
Widespread persecution of Italian Jews began in 1938 when Benito Mussolini's
Fascist regime issued racial laws.
** Mean Scientists Dash Hopes Of Life On Mars
NASA watchdog L. Kennan Brooks said the space agency has a long history of
being a total buzzkill, repeatedly shooting down the prospect of
extraterrestrial life in our solar system. satire
** Baghdad archeological museum looted
A Baghdad mob looted Iraq's largest archeological museum amid a breakdown in
civil authority following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime
** Hemingway's Dietrich letters saved
Thirty letters written by author Ernest Hemingway to actress Marlene
Dietrich have been donated for public display in the US
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** Coins and helmet unearthed
A treasure hidden under the rolling fields of Leicestershire for 2,000 years
had to remain secret for a further three years
** Chinese history
Curated by Jennifer Kwok from the Asia-Australia Arts Centre, it offers
intimate recollections of what it was like to be Chinese in Australian
society
** Suspect in moon-rock theft arrested, co-defendant charged with dinosaur
thefts
The FBI in Tampa began investigating in May 2002 when a Belgian rock
collector alerted investigators to Internet offers to sell moon rocks for
$1,000 to $5,000 a gram
** Old Montreal to get underground museum
The Pointe à Callière Museum of Archeology and History in Old Montreal is
about to embark on a $30-million subterranean expansion that will stretch
three city blocks
** Vandal cuts string modern artist added to Rodin's ''The Kiss''
Conservators were examining the sculpture but the museum said it did not
appear to have been harmed
** Pitter patter of tiny reptile feet
The museum is regarded as the world's most successful captive tuatara
breeder
** Breton's work set for sale
After Breton's death in 1966 the random contents of his apartment in the
Pigalle district were preserved intact, and only carefully-vetted academics
were ever allowed to view them
** US accused of plans to loot Iraqi antiques
It has emerged that a coalition of antiquities collectors and arts lawyers,
calling itself the American Council for Cultural Policy (ACCP), met with US
defence and state department officials prior to the start of military action
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Civil Rights Research in Maryland: Looking Back while Looking Forward
** Power and Influence Strategies for Records Management Professionals
** Museums and Young Children Seminar at the Smithsonian Early Enrichment
Center
** Executive Transitions, the third in its series of Templates for Trustees
** James Gleeson Drawings for Paintings
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