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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Tate looks into sunset 'sickness'
A giant lifelike foggy sunset created at the Tate Modern art gallery has led
to complaints from staff who say it is making them feel ill
** Bedlam, asylum and grog
Once admitted to the asylum, those women able to work were organised to care
for those who couldn't
** Ocean census discovers new fish
More than 600 new species of fish have been discovered by a major ocean
census and thousands more may be lurking undetected
** British Museum Curious About 'Bactrian Hoard'
A curator for the British Museum's massive collection of ancient Greek
coins, says initial news reports are too sketchy to verify from which
historical periods the artifacts might date
** Life's first vertebrate left on veranda
The beginning of human evolution is being traced back to the ancient fossil
of a tiny sea creature that has been lying on a cattle farmer's veranda for
the past five years
** Lasers reveal invisible Stonehenge carvings
The experiment scanned just part of three of the 83 stones that make up the
famous prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, UK
** Did the Scandinavians beat Columbus to America twice?
If confirmed as an authentic relic, the so-called Kensington stone would
prove that another wave of explorers, more than 300 years after the Vikings,
made it to the American continent before Columbus did in 1492
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** Toy museum dream ends in tears
Work was due to start on the Museum of 20th Century Childhood in 2001 but
never got under way because Miss Warren was concerned about the traffic from
the nearby freight terminal
** The original Chinese takeaway
British adventurer Sir Aurel Stein sent home more than 40,000 relics from
his explorations round Asia, most of which are still in the UK
** Mariners' Museum gets $2 million grant for Monitor Center
The gift will launch a $10 million private-sector campaign for the $30
million center, to be built near the Newport News museum and opened in 2007
** Old resort goes back to the future
By the time the museum - housed in an old herring curing factory - is ready
next summer, builders will have recreated a typical Row in the period prior
to the First World War
** $45m bill for museum's overhaul
The $150 million National Museum of Australia will need an extra $45 million
to overhaul its contentious exhibitions and galleries, according to a draft
response to a critical review of the embattled institution
** Mummy of Pharoah Ramesses I leaves Carlos Museum for return home to
Egypt
After 150 years, one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs is going home
** CSI: Crime Scene Insects
"CSI: Crime Scene Insects," explores the rapidly growing field of forensic
entomology, and how insects can crack cases and bring killers to justice.
** Museum Politics Black and White in World Premiere, Permanent Collection
Gibbons explores the conflict between the newly-appointed African American
director and the museum's longtime caucasian education director who holds
strongly to the museum's exclusionary charter
** Exhibit Displays Rembrandt's Diversity
"You often see Rembrandt the drafter, Rembrandt the painter," McCullagh
said. "This exhibit gives you the whole picture, the breadth of his sheer
creative spirit."
** Personal submarine for the super-rich
This is Gemini, the family submarine described by inventor Robert Leeds as
the world's first underwater sports car
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** Battle of the bulge
Hundreds of spectators assembled at a park in central London this week to
witness the art market's equivalent of a wet T-shirt contest as online
information providers compared the size of their databases
** Final Concorde Flight Lands at Heathrow
In June, Air France donated one of its planes to the new branch of the
Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, under construction
at Washington's Dulles International Airport
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** Integrating the Virtual Reference Experience: Theory and Practice
** Cuban Art from the Permanent Collection
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** Ngä Toko Rima Contemporary Clayworks Exhibition at Te Papa - Wellington
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