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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Scales of justice for goldfish in blender
The director of the Trapholt modern art museum in Copenhagen went on trial
on charges of cruelty to animals
** Research fear over return of human bones
Plans to return human remains from museums and study collections to their
ancestral owners would be a disaster for research in fields from forensic
medicine to anthropology, scientists warned
** £100,000 prize for legal museum
An audacious attempt to keep potential young offenders off the streets last
night won for a small independent Nottingham museum the largest cash prize
in the arts
** Russia to Unveil Restored Amber Room
Mosaics of semiprecious stones sparkle, adding to the sensation of being
enclosed in an oversized jewelry box
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** Last pictures of Titanic to be auctioned
The last photograph of the Titanic, taken on April 10 1912, showing the
great liner steaming confidently away across a millpond sea, is still in the
album given to a 12-year-old passenger who kept it all his life
** Director of Whitney Museum to Resign
Ashcroft spoke at an Interpol conference aimed at creating a database
listing pieces of art and historical objects stolen in the aftermath of the
war.
** Panama recovers stolen artifacts
Several people were arrested in the operation, and police said that some
museum staff may have been involved in the robbery of the pieces, which
included ceramic vessels, jewelry and figurines
** Great Blue Whale Returns to New York Museum After Renovations
A life-size replica of the world's largest creature returns to public view
Saturday after a $25 million makeover of the American Museum of Natural
History's ocean exhibit
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio: (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): You've never lost sight of your childhood dreams
of rainbow-colored pegasus-unicorns, which makes you a truly formidable
geneticist.
** Jordan's customs confiscates Iraqi artifacts from travelers
Officers at al-Karamah border post are finding and seizing archaeological
treasures, artwork & manuscripts
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** Museum of Eroticism to Open in Seoul
The curator, Kim Young-su, explained that he created the museum in order to
challenge Korea's puritanical traditions and educate people
** Fashion museum breaks new ground
The exhibition space is the brainchild of Zandra Rhodes, the grande dame of
British fashion, famous for outfitting the likes of Jackie Onassis, Diana
loss and Princess Diana
** 'Mona Lisa of sculptures' stolen
A work of art that has been described as "the Mona Lisa of sculptures" has
been stolen from Vienna's art history museum. MORE
** Rising from the Ashes
Victims are shown amid their belongings - savings, jewelry, statuettes of
gods they clutched for protection, a piece of sculpture or a painting from
their homes - at the final moment of their lives
** Blow to Neanderthal breeding theory
Early humans and Neanderthals probably did not interbreed, according to
evidence collected by Italian scientists
** Blake paintings may leave UK
The pictures, which were only discovered in a second-hand book store in
2001, were considered an exciting find by scholars of the poet and artist
** Thumbs-up for new Christchurch Art Gallery
"Dramatic"... "stunning"... "beautiful"... were the verdicts from Friday
night strollers.
** Teen Killed After Fall at Chicago Museum
A 17-year-old girl was killed after she tried to slide down the railing of a
staircase inside a museum, lost her balance and fell
** Woman Reports Seeing Memphremagog Monster
Newport resident Barbara Malloy said she saw the creature, known to some as
Memphre, May 1 in the 30-mile-long lake shared by Vermont and Quebec
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