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week's edition include:

**  Rome museum to 'rival the Louvre'
The city of Rome has approved plans to create a museum sector encompassing 
the Colosseum, the Imperial Forums and the Campidoglio to rival Paris's 
Louvre

**  Field exhibit to feature some of world's most famous maps
A major upcoming exhibit at Chicago's Field Museum will route how maps have 
changed over the centuries and how various cultures have chosen to depict 
the world

**  Earth's oldest tree had fronds, not leaves
The 385-million-year-old fossils, which scientists believe are evidence of 
Earth's earliest forest trees, put to rest speculation about fossilized tree 
stumps discovered more than a century ago in Gilboa, New York

**  Nation's controversial museum needs new wings to soar
The director of the National Museum of Australia, has admitted what many 
visitors have already concluded: it may be a striking piece of contemporary 
architecture, but it doesn't really work as a museum

**  Qala Museum explores Kurdistan's past
The Erbil Citadel is a 4,000-year-old castle right in the heart of the 
Kurdistan Region's capital city of Erbil

**  Air force vets declare war on museum display
Second World War veterans are fighting a display in the Canadian War Museum 
they say describes them as war criminals
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**  Art museum official arrested after police say he tried to steal 
paintings
Austin police arrested the finance and operations director for the Austin 
Museum of Art early Sunday morning after investigators said he tried to 
steal paintings during a downtown art festival

**  A mammoth sale, no bones about it
Although the mammoth attracted the media attention, palaeontologists were 
just as fascinated by the sale of the fossils from 40 bird, fish, bat and 
frog species from the renowned private collection of Jean Bouhanna, a 
retired French vet

**  Museum's vintage truncheons taken
Seven vintage police truncheons have been stolen from Trowbridge Museum

**  NY museum to unveil some 5,300 ancient Greek and Roman antiques
The display of the Met's long-stored collection of Hellenistic, Etruscan, 
South Italian, and Roman art - much of it unseen in New York for 
generations, is considered unrivalled outside of Italy. More

**  Berlin museum rebuffs threat over Nefertiti
Berlin's Museum of Egyptology on Monday rebuffed a threat from Egypt's top 
antiquities official to block all art loans to Germany unless the "world's 
most beautiful woman", Queen Nefertiti, goes home to Cairo

**  Vancouver gallery ousts bugs, lizards, spiders from controversial art 
piece
The curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery said insects and reptiles will be 
removed from a controversial art exhibit on Sunday rather than comply with 
continuing demands from the SPCA

**  Ancient Mexicans took sacrifice victims from afar
DNA tests on the skeletons of more than 50 victims discovered in 2004 in the 
Pyramid of the Moon at the Teotihuacan ruins revealed they were from far 
away Mayan, Pacific or Atlantic coastal cultures
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**  This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer June 22 to July 22 - You'll write one of the best-selling children's 
books of all time when you cynically put every sugar-coated lie anyone ever 
told you into the mouth of an anthropomorphic hippo

**  Peru's old treasures being looted
Smugglers are sapping Peru's ancient heritage as statues, gold finery and 
other treasures are stolen to meet orders on the Internet or be sold on the 
street, Peruvian and international authorities say

**  Museum, Google Zoom In on Darfur
The Holocaust Museum this week launched a multimedia initiative with Google 
Earth to highlight the genocide unfolding in the Darfur region of western 
Sudan, where government-backed militias and nomadic tribesmen have burned 
huts and villages to drive sedentary farmers from their homes

**  Malaysian museum cancels ghost exhibit after fatwa
A Malaysian museum, which had earlier defied calls for it to stop a popular 
exhibition on supernatural beings, cancelled it after an Islamic fatwa, or 
religious decree, was issued

**  Vatican, Israeli museum in Pius fight
The Vatican and Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial got into a public 
conflict yesterday over the wartime conduct of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi 
genocide, threatening to upset fragile relations between the Roman Catholic 
Church and the Jewish state

**  Cavemen Chose Caves on Five Criteria
The recently released three-year-long survey of approximately 230 caves in 
the Yorkshire Dales and 190 caves in the northern England Peak District 
determined that people there from 4,000 to 2,000 B.C. selected caves based 
on at least five criteria

**  Museums and Universal Heritage
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) announces "Museums and Universal 
Heritage" as the theme for International Museum Day 2007

**  Thomas the Tank Engine steams into town
A six-metre long Thomas the Tank Engine has been moved into the Australian 
National

**  Decorative Arts in America
Winterthur Institute is a 2-week course on the decorative arts in America

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