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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Falling glass crisis at gallery
Barely a month after reopening amid champagne, parties and fanfare, large
sections of the refurbished National Gallery of Victoria are closed after a
rooftop glass panel shattered
** National Museum Falling Apart
The Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences, once the epicentre of historical
knowledge, is run down and now resembles "a scrap-yard" due to total neglect
** Zoo serves brandy to bears
A zoo in India is serving brandy to bears to keep them warm in winter
** Tour guide policy comes under fire
France is being taken to court by the European Commission for failing to
allow foreign tour guides the right to show visitors around major cultural
sites such as the Louvre museum in Paris.
** Criminal Case Opened Against Head of the Sakharov Museum
He had just been charged with inciting religious hatred and faced up to five
years in prison for organizing an exhibit called "Caution, Religion."
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** Museum offers midnight Rings show
It is the first time the Science Museum has had to offer midnight openings
to the public for an exhibition Digital Wizards Add Cinematic Magic
** Faberge From the Forbes Collection
The Faberge Imperial Easter Eggs as well as over 180 other dazzling Faberge
creations will be offered at auction
** New giant squid predator found
A little known shark that lives in waters off Antarctica is only the second
creature known to science that hunts giant squid for food Antarctica
Yields Colossal Squid
** Too risqué for Iran, Bacon's n*des could be shown in London
A Francis Bacon triptych bought by the last Shah of Iran and displayed in
his wife's dazzling museum of modern art was never going to amuse the
country's hard-line ayatollahs
** The British Museum D.I.Y. Repatriation Kit
Xmas may be over but here is a gift with a difference! Post that George III
mahogany D-end dining table back to Cuba
** Kamikaze's scarf held secrets of past
Mystery and heartache were folded into a white silk scarf taken from the
body of a kamikaze pilot who died in the spring of 1945 while trying to sink
a U.S. gunboat
** Natural History Museum joins waste re-use group Green-Works
The Natural History Museum has taken the initiative to reduce its impact on
the natural environment by re-using waste from its exhibits
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** Johnston hoping Pig will fly in popularity stakes
The nomination by the Design Museum is a further triumph for Johnston, who
in 1994 designed The Predator, the best-selling adidas boot
** Attendance down at Smithsonian
Attendance at the Smithsonian Institution's museums and galleries has yet to
recover from the blow of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a
situation blamed on a weak economy, harsh weather and worries about more
threats to Washington
** Horror and hope feature in Golden Triangle museum of drugs
The 400 million baht (US$10 million) steel and concrete Hall of Opium,
somewhat incongruous in its setting of lush, mist-streaked forests, hopes to
also become a leading international centre for research into opiates and a
weapon against a veritable drug invasion of Thailand
** Tate considers selling its art for first time in 50 years
Most people in the art world lament the lack of money available for
acquisitions, and Sir Nicholas has complained about how the Tate is offered
works nearly every day that it cannot even contemplate buying.
** Feisty felines guard Russia's artistic relics
For more than 250 years, the Hermitage's resident felines have waged
incessant war against the rodents that infest Russia's most prestigious
museum, set on the bank of the Neva river
** Renaissance depiction of Zeus is history's most er*tic art
The winning choice: Correggio's "Jupiter and Io,'' a depiction of the
mythological god known as Zeus in Greek mythology, in the form of a cloud,
seducing a nymph
** £7.5m showcase for memories
This year will see Coventry Transport Museum motoring into top gear as a
£7.5 million refurbishment nears completion
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** 2004 Museum Computer Network Conference - Call for Proposals: Great
Technology for Collections, Confluence, and Community
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