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In your Free Museum ezine GLOBAL MUSEUM this week:
**Jesuits' Painting Identified As a Tintoretto
A religious painting that hung for decades in the dark hallway of a Jesuit
center and was believed to be a reproduction has been authenticated as an
original work by Tintoretto, the 16th-century Venetian artist
**Museum Defends Closing Installation
Officials at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) on Monday defended their
decision to shut down an exhibition after museum officials failed to reach
an agreement with the artist about changing potentially offensive pieces
**Five oil paintings stolen from Rome museum
Five oil paintings, including two by the 17th century Italian master
Guercino, have been stolen from Rome's Capitoline museums
**Scotland Wins Battle to Keep Botticelli Painting
Scotland has won a transatlantic battle for a little known masterpiece by
early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli after paying more than $16
million to keep the picture in Britain.
**Soccer-Barcelona museum racks up one millionth visitor of year
Barcelona may be struggling on the pitch at the moment -- but there is no
let-up in their attraction and allure off it. For on Monday the one
millionth visitor of the year walked through the doors of the club's museum
at the Nou Camp museum
**Britain to Clinton - Hands off our marbles
British officials said on Saturday U.S. President Bill Clinton should keep
out of Britain's dispute with Greece over ownership of the 2,500-year-old
Elgin Marbles
**Methane Explosion Theory Cited for Dinosaur Demise
A vast methane firestorm ignited by a huge asteroid that hit the Gulf of
Mexico 65 million years ago could have hastened the demise of dinosaurs on
earth, New Scientist magazine said Wednesday
**Streisand to auction rare cabinets
Barbara Streisand plans to auction two Gustav Stickley oak cabinets, despite
the protests of a museum that wants the pieces.
**NASA official to head Air and Space Museum
Gen. John R. Dailey, a top National Aeronautics and Space Administration
official, has been named the new director of the National Air and Space
Museum, the Smithsonian Institution said Wednesday
**Czech museum wants anti-Gypsy wall in exhibit
A museum in a northern Czech town asked municipal authorities Thursday for
part of the controversial wall erected to separate Gypsies from other
residents in the town
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**Now where did I put that?: Time capsules are lost to time
The '70s must have been very good to the people of Fillmore, because no can
seem to remember where the town's 1970s-era time capsule is buried
**Guide dog ban at zoo challenged: Policy angers blind woman
Mary Dignan's Saturday was off to a cheerful start. A visit to the
California State Railroad Museum, then lunch at La Bou
**Timely Exhibit at US History Museum
It was the recent invention of the stopwatch that made it possible in 1855
to determine that the stallion Lexington had set a record of 7 minutes,
19.75 seconds for a four-mile race
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