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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Antique masks stolen from Angolan museum
Four valuable antique masks have been stolen from a museum in north-eastern
Angola
** Column Facing 2 Years of Repairs
According to Vladimir Timofeyev, director of the St. Petersburg City
Sculpture Museum, preliminary research was carried out by helicopter
** Old Sparky could become museum piece
Despite the affectionate nicknames - Old Smokey, Yellow Mama, Old Sparky -
there has been nothing gentle about America's most lethal line of furniture.
** Expedition finds 'ghost ship' Marie Celeste near Haiti
The Marie Celeste was found sailing off the Azores in 1872 with no one
aboard
** Dinosaurs nostrils get relocated
The study overturns a century-old misconception and could lead to new
insights into dinosaur physiology and behaviour
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** Tobacco history comes alive in 19th-century relic
A weird little slice of Lynchburg history turned up a few months ago at the
Virginia Historical Society museum
** Museum strapped for funds
The Jersey City Museum is currently operating without an executive director
and leading curator, its board in flux and its finances in question.
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** Extinct' turkey captured and eaten by hunters
It was only after they had eaten the bird that another man recognised the
remains and said the bird was "wanted".
** Hilfiger turns mansion into museum
Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger plans to turn an old mansion into a museum
housing memorabilia from his 30 years in the fashion industry
** Okura displays screen given to Mussolini
A folding screen presented to Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini has
come back to Japan to be displayed at a Tokyo hotel after almost 70 years
abroad
** Guards stop visitors groping waxwork
It has taken over from Naomi Campbell as the most groped exhibit
** North Korean Leader Visits Hermitage
" I guess it's unfitting for the Great Leader to look at a bird's behind,''
said the security official, Vladimir Gizatullin
** Rare Insect Display Flying High
The pledge of almost £15 million will help London's Natural History Museum
move a step closer to the second phase of its new development
** Escaped art vandal returns to psychiatric hospital
A vandal known for a series of attacks on artwork in the 1970s and 1980s has
returned to a Hamburg psychiatric hospital after absconding for two days
** Smithsonian Must Exhibit Ingenuity to Deal With Gifts
The Smithsonian Institution has discovered that it is indeed possible to
have an embarrassment of riches.
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** Guru tries to rid museum of restless spirits
An Indian guru has carried out a 'divine ritual' at a Leicester museum to
try to cleanse it of restless spirits
** Mystras show counts 'Byzantine Hours'
The first of a major three-part exhibition on the history and culture of
Byzantine civilization opened two days ago at the site of Mystras
** British Museum launches appeals to keep Roman sculpture
The British Museum has launched a fund-raising appeal to buy a
second-century marble sculpture of a dog
** Bronze age man discovered in Alps had fleas
Scientists are carrying out research on the cadaver which is preserved at
the Bolzano Archeological Museum in northern Italy
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** S H Ervin Gallery Symposium Modern Australian Women: paintings and
prints 1925-45
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** The Island Of Venus: 3000 Yeras Of Cypriot History Shaped In Clay
** Holy Smokes, the House Is On Fire!
** Call For Papers "Popular Culture Association 2002: Libraries, Archives,
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** The Western Australian State Heritage Convention 2001
** Human remains in Museums
** Museums, Libraries and Archives: Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing
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** Call for Papers, 2002 SAA Annual Meeting
** Children's Visions of the Future - An International Art Exhibition
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