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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:
** Identity theft hits Science Museum
The Science Museum is about to host an exhibition examining how a new wave
of 'identity burglars' can steal our lives through technology
** Munch Museum defends sale of 'The Scream' board game
The game targets children over the age of six, and participants play the
roles of either detectives or robbers
** Greece demands 'looted' art treasures from besieged Getty museum
The Los Angeles Times said that Greek authorities had demanded that four
items they claim were illegally moved from Greece before being purchased by
the famed J. Paul Getty Museum be handed over
** Lawrence's Lessons
A London exhibit on the 70th anniversary of Arabist T. E. Lawrence's death
leaves a curious aftertaste
** Tate acquires £20,000 performance
The Tate has acquired a £20,000 performance piece which involves members of
the public standing in a line and asking each other the time
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** Crematorium to become museum
A factory in Germany, where the crematoriums for Auschwitz and other Nazi
concentration camps were built, is to be turned into a Holocaust museum
** Henry Ford Museum Pays Tribute to Rosa Parks
All morning, groups of people boarded the bus that Rosa Parks made famous
and learned why she refused to give up her seat in December 1955
** Dali treasures in danger at museum in Florida
In a converted marine storage warehouse on Bayboro Harbour, the museum holds
the largest collection of artwork from the 20th Century surrealist painter
outside his native Spain
** Museum gets felon's mummified arm
The mummified arm of a criminal hanged in the 19th Century has been handed
to the National Funeral Museum
** Iran's National Museum welcomes Burnt City
Burnt City is one of the key historical sites of Iran, located in the south
eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan; the city has had booming times in
trade and culture about 5000 years ago, and is considered one of the
important civilizations of the world
** Salvagers, Michigan probing what may be 17th-century shipwreck
For over a year, a court battle has waged over a find that may be the
remains of the 17th-century sailing vessel Le Griffon
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** Feature Site: The Gunpowder Plot
Before Guy Fawkes was caught red-handed, a chain of events and influences
all over Europe led to the Gunpowder Plot in 1605
** Museum Preserves WWII Bomber From Crash
What remained of Hank Mascall's Army Air Corps cap was right where he said
he left it - in the nose of a World War II bomber that crash-landed and sank
in a South Carolina lake 62 years ago
** The Aliens have landed!
Real aliens could look like flying whales, plants that float like balloons
and killer swarms of tiny water creatures, a new science exhibition reveals
** New York exhibition digs into the roots of van Gogh's genius
This great exhibition, the largest of its kind ever presented in the United
States, reveals drawing as the core of van Gogh's art
** Protest arrests outside Te Papa
Police tackled a handful who made a dash for the museum door and then stood
guard as 40 demonstrators sat down and began chanting slogans including "No
arms race in our place"
** Scientists Study Gorilla who uses Lathe, Milling Machine
A male gorilla in a Congo zoo has become adept with a Bridgeport milling
machine and Newhall lathe, according to his keepers
** Russia's Hermitage museum to open branch in Portugal
The branch will display different exhibitions from the Hermitage's vast
collection every six months instead of housing a permanent collection
** Museum officials unaware of Ary's personal collection
Several Kansas Cosmosphere officials from the past and present testified
Friday that they never saw nor knew that former museum director Max Ary
possessed a personal space artefact collection he now claims to have
confused with the museum's own artefacts
** Museum deciphers China's shoe-making history
Covering 1,500 square meters, the museum consists of two parts respectively
dedicated to traditional shoes and modern brand name shoes
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** New Exhibition at the Elgiz Museum- Istanbul
** Wider perspective - broader base - CIDOC annual meeting 2006
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