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week's edition include:
** A moving tale of the quick and the dead
Starvation and exhaustion forced two to return to jail, and led the others
to pick off the weakest and eat them
** Stone stirs an ancient debate
If genuine, it would be the first independent proof of the existence of the
temple and the first incontrovertible physical proof of the biblical
narrative
** Museum on Muslim culture is thriving
The museum remains modest - at 1,500 square feet, it's not much bigger than
a clothing boutique - and boasts few historical artefacts
** Carnegie film and video cuts leave many reeling
Reaction to the elimination of Carnegie Museum of Art's Dept of Film & Video
and its international film programs has been swift and outspoken
** Facelift for 141-yr-old museum
Next month, major restoration work will begin on Bhau Daji Lad museum in
Byculla, the second-oldest museum in Asia
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** Exhibit explores Egyptian afterlife
Boston's unofficial temple to scientific learning will be showcasing 115
works of art inspired by ancient Egypt's least scientific of enterprises
** Thousands to tour famine ship
The ship tells the story of the Great Famine which swept Ireland in the
middle of the 19th century
** Toronto art museum looks to build worldwide reputation
The museum is one of seven cultural institutions in Toronto planning
facelifts using more than $200 million in government funding
** Black Sea a unique shipwreck museum
The ships, discovered last summer, went down sometime between the fifth and
third century B.C. in the Black Sea off the coast of what is now Bulgaria
** Frustrated submariners have the chance to realise their dream
But there is one hitch - they will be working inside the 90m, 2200-tonne
former Australian naval sub Ovens on terra firma
** Former British Consulate Becomes Coins Museum
Jinquan museum exhibits over 5,200 kinds of coins from the New Stone Age to
the Republic of China (1912-1949).
** Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum Will Relocate
Rock 'n' Soul will move the museum from its 8,800-square-foot home at the
Gibson Guitar Showcase into more than 10,000 square feet at FedExForum
** WWII wreck unearths memories of great escape
Last year archaeologists from the Midland Warplane Museum in the UK
recovered the wreckage from its sandy grave
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** Chinese Archeological Exhibition Opens in Auckland
The exhibition is the most important one of ancient Chinese antiquities to
visit New Zealand since the exhibition of Entombed Warriors in 1986
** New coastal 'piranhas' warnings
As if the residents of north Queensland didn't have enough to worry about
with crocodiles and deadly jellyfish
** Art giants put a brush to each other
David Hockney and Lucien Freud, the giants of British contemporary art, have
sat for each other's portraits - with the results going on show on two
continents.
** Plans for memorial near Liberty Bell under scrutiny
Unlike the original plan for the executive mansion site, the design unveiled
Wednesday incorporated a discussion of slavery and focused on the house
where Washington kept slaves
** Lava Lamp Plan To Save Ailing Town
Civic leaders are seriously considering trying to revive the tourist trade
with a psychedelic blast from the past: a towering 60-foot-high lava lamp
** Creationist Museum Acquires 5,000-Year-Old T. Rex Skeleton
In a major coup for the growing field of creation science, the perfectly
preserved remains of a 5,000-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex were delivered
Monday to Tulsa's Creationist Museum of Natural History
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Archaeology and Politics: Issues of Interaction
** Call For Papers Museum: Place, Space and Design
** The 2003 Muse Awards Competition sponsored by the AAM Media and
Technology Committee.
** The Jacob and Bessye Blaufarb Award for Video Tape Productions Relating
to the American Labor Movement
** Announcement - Art Museums: Sites of Communication' - Symposium
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