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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Museum offered head for shrinking
An artist has offered to donate his own head to an Oxford museum - if a
collection of shrunken heads has to be returned to South America
** Abba museum to open in Stockholm
The world's first museum in honour of legendary Swedish disco group Abba
will open in an old customs building in central Stockholm in 2009
** Museum employee accused of stealing donations
A senior public servant has been charged with three counts of stealing after
allegedly taking money from a public donation box at the WA Museum
** Natural history museum to turn park into carpark
There is more than an echo of Joni Mitchell in a row that has engulfed a
natural history museum in Texas
** Ex-museum president charged with fraud
The former president of a struggling museum was charged Monday with mail
fraud and tax evasion for allegedly skimming more than $1.5 million for home
improvements, artwork and other lavish trappings
** China creates museum at former POW camp
More than 2,000 prisoners from the United States, Britain, the Netherlands
and Australia were imprisoned at the camp in Shenyang, a Manchurian city
formerly known as Mukden, between November 1942 and August 1945
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** Singapore exhibition celebrates beauty
Are you beautiful? Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum aims to define the
elusive concept in a new exhibition that provides eye candy as well as
thought-provoking displays ranging from Barbie dolls to ancient artefacts
dating back 2,200 years ago
** Mumbai to get a Bollywood museum
Called Bollywood Kingdom, the museum aims to provide a unique 360-degree
touch-and-feel Bollywood experience where consumers get up close and
personal with their favourite film personality
** Goats and the Getty
Hugh of Nanny and Billy's Vegetative Management and a herding dog led the
goats Thursday afternoon onto the hillside
** Angola's historic slavery museum reopens
Angola's national slavery museum, located at an 18th-century chapel from
where more than one million slaves were transported to other Portuguese
colonies, has reopened after a year's renovation work
** Earhart Exhibition Opens in Oklahoma
An Oklahoma City museum run by a women's aviation group has unveiled an
exhibition that includes personal mementos of the Kansas-born Earhart to
commemorate the 70th anniversary of her 1937 disappearance and the 75th
anniversary of her solo flight over the Atlantic Ocean
** Laser technology will launch visitors into space at Greenwich
The Greenwich museum is convinced the experience offered by its £1 million
laser projector will be a huge hit
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** Chinese writing 8,000 years old
Chinese archaeologists studying ancient rock carvings say they have evidence
that modern Chinese script is thousands of years older than previously
thought
** Trafalgar Square skeleton forces historians to rewrite the story of
Roman England
Until the bones were found, along with jewels and other valuables, it was
thought that the Romans had abandoned Londinium around AD400 and the city
was virtually desolate until the Saxons arrived in the seventh century
** Solving murder in the museum
Somewhere between the woolly mammoth room and the dinosaur exhibit, we
discovered the tell-tale chalk outline where the murder victim had been
found
** Museums urged to ride on digital technology to engage audience
Singapore's Minister for Information, Communications and the Art Lee Boon
Yang has urged museums around the world to ride on pervasive digital
technology to engage the audience
** Hallmark Scientists Identify 3 New Human Emotions
The discovery quickly led to the uncovering of "seprudity," the feeling of
appreciating a coworker's dedication without fully understanding his or her
job function, and "trepatiousness," a synthesis of rage and jealousy, though
more muted and often accompanied by a sensation of weightlessness
** In 30 years, Mesa museum becomes focal point for fossils
The museum was similar to others in neighbouring cities, except for one
thing - it always emphasized the importance of archaeology, which allowed it
to evolve into a natural history research museum
** Shipwreck Yields Estimated $500 Million Haul
Deep-sea explorers say they have hauled up what could be the richest sunken
treasure ever discovered: hundreds of thousands of colonial-era silver and
gold coins worth an estimated $500 million from a shipwreck in the Atlantic
Ocean
** Minority reports: Indigenous and Community Voices in Archives -
International Conference on the History of Records and Archives
** Fringe Archaeologies
This is a call for papers for the session "'Fringe' Archaeologies: 'The
Other' Past" at the European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting,
which will take place in Zadar, Croatia
** Building a Legacy
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art invites you to Building a Legacy: Collecting
American Paintings for Kansas City - A Symposium in Honour of Crosby and
Bebe Kemper
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