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In your Award-winning International Museum ezine this week:
** Ripley's Museum loses its head -- to theft **
A Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum is offering a reward for information
leading to the return of its head -- a rare shrunken human head worth
$16,800 stolen on February 1
** MUSEUM VISIONARY 2000 AWARD NOMINATIONS IN FORUM **
** Guggenheim to open second Venice museum **
Next time you are stuck for something to do in Venice, ask if the new
Guggenheim museum has opened..
** Museum Reverses Decision to Sell Hitler Car **
Adolf Hitler's limousine won't be sold to anyone -- including a Las Vegas
casino owner fined $1.5 million by the Nevada Gaming Commission for holding
a Nazi- theme party
** Broadway Archive donates tapes **
The Broadway Theater Archive will donate 300 titles of taped stage
productions to the Museum of Television & Radio on Feb. 28
** Romans May Have Reached New World First **
Christopher Columbus may not have been the first European to reach the New
World -- the Romans may have got there first, New Scientist magazine said
Wednesday
** New Hayden Planetarium Brings Cosmos to Manhattan **
Imagine being able to step into a crystal box filled with galaxies, stars,
quasars, planets and all the marvels of the universe as man now understands
it. Then imagine being able to touch, examine and ponder those wonders
** Not a cultural backwater, but a creative industry in full flow **
Libraries are not what they were. They are not even what they have been
popularly misconceived to be: staid and slightly outmoded cultural
backwaters
** Stolen treasures traced after 22 years **
Part of a stolen collection of jewellery belonging to 17th-century Saxon
rulers has been traced and returned to Germany after a search lasting 22
years
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** Museum's last hurrah fetes Daumier **
Tobu Museum of Art will close its doors in March next year, but those doors
will close with a bang and not a whimper
** Fishy tale of Miami vice nets treasures **
A decade after the Museum of Ancient Corinth was emptied of more than 270
treasures in a violent robbery, the bulk of the magnificent collection has
been found in crates of fresh fish seized from a warehouse in Miami
** Tate Modern to give free admission **
Admission to Tate Modern, London's first big gallery devoted to 20th century
art, will be free, Chris Smith, culture secretary, announced yesterday
** WWII bridge museum in Normandy **
In France, a museum at the site of one of the most famous battles of the
Second World War, the Pegasus Bridge, is to open later today. The
one-hundred-and-thirty foot long iron structure, in Normandy, was dismantled
seven years ago and replaced with a modern replica to cope with the pressure
of modern traffic
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