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week's edition include:

**  Prince Charles Pays 350-Year-Old Debt During Museum Visit
The Clothiers Company of Worcester had never forgotten the Royal Family owed 
them money after King Charles II failed to pay when he commissioned them to 
make uniforms for his troops in 1651

**  Whale Hunting Museum to Open in Ulsan
Another highlight of the museum will be handwritten records by Roy Chapman 
Andrews, a famous American explorer and palaeontologist and the model for 
the movie character Indiana Jones

**  Vatican looks to modern artists for divine inspiration
In an attempt to lead by example, the Pontifical Council for Culture is now 
setting up a committee to find "world-famous" contemporary artists it can 
commission to produce new religious and spiritual works

**  Treasure hunters head to sea for salvage season
In 1985, Fisher found what was said to be the richest booty ever at the 
time - more than $400 million worth of gold and silver bars the size of 
bread loaves, coins and emeralds from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de 
Atocha that sunk in 1622 off the Marquesas, about 30 miles west of Key West
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**  More 'museum' items set for sale
Reed amassed the collection with nearly $8 million in nontax city money from 
the Harrisburg Authority, which owns the city's utilities

**  History's hand grenades
Tate Britain's new show The Lure of the East marches straight into the fray 
with a brave, sparkling attempt to unpick how a century of paintings made 
with no apparent political agenda became art history's equivalent of hand 
grenades

**  More than 5,000 artefacts on display at Islamic museum
Commenting on the event the Director of the Sharjah Museums Department said 
the museum is significant as it contains interesting and rich display of 
Islam's history from a vast area of the world extending from Portugal in the 
west to the borders of China in the east

**  Couple turn home into army museum
A couple from Invergowrie, near Dundee, are throwing open the doors of their 
home to allow the public to see their collection of Scots Guards memorabilia

**  Germans aghast at 'Holy Disneyland' plan
Brunch in the Tower of Babel, a stroll round Noah's Ark or a big-dipper 
splashdown in The Flood are experiences that will shortly be available to 
millions of Germans if a controversial biblical-themed park near the ancient 
university town of Heidelberg is given the go-ahead

**  Chariot of ire - museum told to return Etruscan gem to Umbria
It must have given him a nasty scare, but the day Isidoro Vannozzi fell into 
a hole in the ground was the luckiest day of his life

**  Hair analysis deflates Napoleon poisoning theories
For decades, scholars and scientists have argued that the exiled dictator, 
who died in 1821 on the remote island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, 
was the victim of arsenic, whether by accident or design
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**  Carnegie Museum guard 'snapped' before vandalizing painting
Officials at The Art Institute of Chicago are trying to determine if a 
vandalized painting can be restored

**  Italian police recover 3,500 looted artefacts
Police say the items include a fragment believed to belong to a fifth 
century B.C. wine cup by Greek artist Euphronius which was returned by 
California's J. Paul Getty Museum in 1999

**  Rediscovering the classic American game of pinball
Schiess has more than 300 pinball machines in his possession, but due to 
space limitations, only a few dozen are actually on display in the Lucky 
JuJu pinball museum and gallery in Alameda, California

**  Austria plans Sound Of Music museum
But residents of the district where the real von Trapp family lived before 
fleeing the Nazis at the start of the Second World War have protested the 
plans

**  Moldovan president says 2 paintings stolen from Russia's Hermitage 
museum found
Two paintings stolen from Russia's Hermitage Museum have been found in 
Moldova and will soon be returned says Moldova's president

**  Montezuma's palace unearthed in Mexico
His reliance on such predictions may have contributed to his downfall, 
possibly prompting him to mistake Spanish conquerors for divine figures when 
they arrived

**  'Bad painting' exhibit on view at Austrian museum
They challenge their medium by using a range of incorrect, bad or ugly 
approaches in order to attack and criticize it by its own means

**  Digitization and Museums: Bringing Your Collections into the 21st 
Century
The registration for AASLH's Digitization and Museums workshop scheduled for 
July 16-18 Raleigh, NC, is now open

**  Getty Institute Bursaries to New Zealand
ICOM - INTERCOM is delighted to announce that thanks to a grant from the 
Getty Institute, they are able to offer bursaries to a number of museum 
professionals from low GDP countries

**  Darwin's Canopy
To celebrate Charles Darwin's two-hundredth anniversary, the Natural History 
Museum will commission a new work of art to be installed in the ceiling of 
one of the galleries.

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