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week's edition include:
** Director leaves £30m museum
The director of a £30 million museum in Manchester is to step down, just
eight months after the attraction opened
** Village churches take fight for stolen brasses to US
Parishioners at two churches in East Anglia have taken on America's museum
establishment by demanding the return of three priceless tomb brasses stolen
from the churches' flagstone floors in the 19th century
** Cash strife threat to arts institutions
Several of Melbourne's leading cultural institutions are in financial strife
and their future is uncertain because of what they say is a
multimillion-dollar shortage of Government
** American extinctions not caused by humans?
The ancient hunters of North America - accused of widespread extinctions
upon their arrival 11,000 years ago - may have been innocent, says new U.S.
research
** Findings of review into museum might be kept under wraps
Forster was critical of the decision to cut short the tenure of the museum
director, Dawn Casey, who has received only a year's extension of her
contract
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** Peru wants Yale to give back relics
Nearly a century after a Yale professor became the first foreigner to reach
the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, Peru is asking the university to give back
artifacts he took with him
** Archaeologists worried about postwar Iraq
Researchers with long experience in Iraq say they are worried that postwar
looting could cause even more damage to the antiquities than combat
** China's National Museum Set up
The National Museum of China was established Friday, with its name inscribed
by President Jiang Zemin
** Free museums 'failing to attract lower-income visitors'
People are making shorter visits and the extra numbers mean there is more
wear and tear on the attraction.
** Congestion Charge On Museum Car
Officials sent the fine after the 105-year-old Daimler was supposedly
snapped by cameras entering the £5-a-day zone
** Empress Place reopens, as a museum
Fresh from an $83 million restoration that took 5 years to complete, the 135
year old dowager was opened officially by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong MORE
** Dozens hurt in Alexandria library fire, historical books safe
A fire in the newly-built Alexandria library left nearly 40 people hurt, two
of them critically burnt and the rest suffering from smoke inhalation
** Concordes museum-bound, says BA
British Airways is planning to give away its five remaining Concordes to
museums around the world
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** The Iceman Acheth
When you think of the health hazards that stalked prehistoric man, what
comes to mind? Saber-toothed tigers? Sub-zero temperatures? Starvation?
** Vatican Items Make Stop in Houston
One of the stranger pieces is a reliquary from Pope St. Pius V, who died in
1572. It's a container that holds his finger, his ring still around it
** Pot luck award for wheelbarrow-wielding historian's quarry excavation
An unrivalled expanse of Bronze Age landscape has emerged from the floor of
Bestwall quarry, outside the Saxon walls of Wareham
** Exhibition reminds Russians of horrors under Stalin
The exhibits on the illness that killed Stalin on March 5, 1953 also put
paid to the lingering myths that the Soviet leader was poisoned by doctors
from within his own entourage.
** Islamic art exhibition called off on 'security' grounds
An exhibition of Islamic treasures due to open at Somerset House in London
this spring - potentially in the middle of a war with Iraq - has been
postponed after a year of preparations
** Taste of Caesar's home life rises from the ashes
After a £10m programme of archaeological digging and cleaning, the public
can visit the former seaside retreat of Caesar's father-in-law, buried when
Vesuvius erupted in 79AD
** Museum rapped for safety faults
A Norfolk visitor attraction which had a multi-million pound refurbishment
two years ago reopened with a catalogue of health and safety faults
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** Responding to Change: Museums in a time of Uncertainty
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