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week's edition include:
** Museum promotes sympathy for donkeys
A Dutchman is opening a donkey museum because he wants people to be more
sympathetic to the animals
** Philadelphia Museum of Art lays off 7 percent of staff
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has laid off seven percent of its staff - 28
people - in a cost-cutting measure officials say is necessary because of low
corporate and foundation giving
** Tate photos bear mute testament
Tate Modern's new exhibition - Cruel and Tender: The Real in the 20th
Century Photograph is its first major exhibition dedicated purely to
photography
** Feature Site of the Week
The new Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust site with local Maori treasures of Ngati
Kahungunu, unique remains of land Dinosaurs, tales of the destructive 1931
Hawke's Bay Earthquake & Art Deco
** Sale Revives Mystery of Missing Sputniks
"There is so little documentation and accountability. We just don't know
what it is," she said of the latest sale
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** Museum Plans Exhibit on Chocolate
The dinosaurs and dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History will
get some edible company when an exhibit on chocolate opens next week
** Library claims earliest Cook portrait find
The National Library of Australia says it has uncovered the earliest
existing portrait of Captain James Cook
** Iraq to get digital replicas
The British Museum is to make near-perfect replicas of 1000 cuneiform
tablets in its collection and send them back to Iraq for display and study
** Tourists flock to Spruce Goose museum
More than five decades after this strange bird with eight engines made its
first public appearance, the Spruce Goose is still able to draw crowds
** Usual suspects on Turner shortlist
Shock value at the Tate could be hard to find as art world stalwarts are in
line for lucrative award in its 20th year
** Spanish museum launches exhibit honouring Joan Miro
An exhibition of 111 works from the later years of Catalan artist Joan
Miro - featuring moons, stars, suns and birds - opened Thursday at a museum
in this north-western Spanish city
** Children's museum projects set back
A high-profile endeavour that would become the first public museum in the
Valley, it had been scheduled to break ground last summer and open by
Christmas of this year
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** Monk's resting place uncovered
Archaeologists have uncovered a 14th century gravestone which marks the
final resting place of a Coventry monk
** Meet Your Cousins, Claws And All
Furry creatures large and small already pose in lifelike displays across the
room as workers scurry past, readying lighting here and display stands there
** Essex marsh may be last resting place of HMS Beagle
The final resting place of Beagle, the ship in which Charles Darwin sailed
around the world and formed his ideas on evolution, might have been found
** This Week's Second Feature Site:
The IEEE Virtual Museum with virtual exhibits including 'Socket to Me: How
Electricity Came to Be'
** In Washington, museums embark on grand expansion
Thanks to an infusion of federal and private money, $2.4 billion in spending
is in the works for new and revamped museums, theatres and other projects in
and around the U.S. capital.
** Arsonists wreck listed building
Firefighters were called to the blaze in a 19th century slate hay shed at
the Museum of Welsh Life at St Fagans near Cardiff
** Lustful fox puts historic garden in a fix
Museum horticulturalist expects a savaging at tomorrow's open day - but it's
all the fault of sexually alluring shrubbery
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Cracks in the Mask - Victoria
** Upcoming Lecture at Shedd Aquarium, Chicago Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land
** Conference on Changes and Challenges of Public Library Services to
Bridge The Digital Divide
23 - 25 June 2003, The Gurney, Penang, Malaysia
** The Society of Georgia Archivists is presenting a workshop, "We've
Scanned It, Now What? Managing Digital Assets."
** Full COLOUR - the spectrum of our world
Roses are red, violets are blue, but what do these colours mean to you?
** Reminder to send in your proposals for Technology and the Home before
June 15th!!!
Call for Papers for Technology and the Home Sessions, a permanent area of
the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Annual Conference. Technology
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