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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:
** Museums get tough on 'trophy' returns
A group of leading European and US museums have issued a declaration
opposing the wholesale repatriation of cultural artefacts seized during
imperial rule or by means now considered unethical
** Skeleton Shatters Long-Held Theory
British scientists have found the remains of a man who died of tuberculosis
more than 2,200 years ago, shattering theories the deadly disease was
brought to England by the conquering armies of ancient Rome
** Turning up masterpieces in the attic
Do you have a Turner in your attic? Is there a masterpiece hanging -
anonymous and unrecognised - on your livingroom wall?
** How lords wrecked war-time effort to save art
The night Lord Penrhyn stumbled hopelessly drunk into the great dining room
of his castle is still remembered with horror in the secret archives of the
National Gallery
** $3 Million Donation Is 'Lost'
A philanthropist is demanding that Boston University return his $3 million
donation to renovate a library
** Bog People exhibit 'disrespectful,' critic says
The head of Canada's top arts lobby group is upset at the inclusion of
mummified corpses from Europe in a current exhibition at the Canadian Museum
of Civilization
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** Italian loan puts marbles pressure on British Museum
The choice of a piece of a statue of Peitho, the goddess of persuasion and
seduction, on a long-term loan back to Athens could not have been more
diplomatically powerful
** Million dollar cash injection to get Pele museum up and running
The 3,000 square metre museum will be housed at Santos, on the Atlantic
coast, Pele having played for the local side with distinction
** China Finds Terra-Cotta Warrior Sources
Modern science has helped the government confirm where the ancient makers of
China's terra-cotta warriors dug earth from the ground
** How the Belgians lost their marbles
The British Museum, sick of a century of Greek whingeing about its refusal
to return to sculptures to the Acropolis, was now demanding the repatriation
of the entire Parthenon to Britain where it would be rebuilt as a part of a
"shopping centre and multiplex cinema" in the West Midlands
** Te Papa a national disgrace, says Neill
Actor Sam Neill has attacked the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, describing
it as "the single worst piece of cultural vandalism of our time".
** The man who sold his life for $6,000
Toaster, sideburns, friends... when John Freyer decided to sell everything
that he had, piece by piece, to the highest bidder on the internet, he meant
everything
** Egypt to Revamp 100-Year Museum to Lure Tourists
Its stock of pharaonic artifacts is unrivalled but as Cairo's Egyptian
Museum marks its centenary most of the 160,000 priceless items are crammed
in inadequate displays or gathering dust
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** National Museum Completion Delayed Again
In addition managers note the relocation of the US forces helicopter pad
inside the building site has yet to be realized
** Part of Edinburgh's historic Old Town destroyed by fire
The Old Town is the heart of Scotland's capital city and is listed as a
World Heritage site
** Two Masterpieces Stolen from Van Gogh Museum
The theft marked a crushing blow for the museum as it gets ready to
celebrate the 150th anniversary of Van Gogh's birth next year with a series
of exhibitions and special activities
** House from China reconstructed in Massachusetts town
Its name means "Hall of Plentiful Shelter," and for almost two centuries,
the Yin Yu Tang house provided just that to the Huang family in the remote
Huizhou region of China
** Museum honors America's sideshow past
Every year, thousands willingly suspend their disbelief and gawk at the
stuffed unicorn goat that once toured with Ringling Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey
** Skeleton in Laos may be lost CIA airman
A saloon owner in China nicknamed McGovern "Earthquake McGoon" after a
hulking hillbilly character in the popular "L'il Abner" comic strip
** Sausage sales to aid cowboy museum
The Cowboy Hall of Fame will receive royalties from sales of the sausage,
just as it did with the all-beef frank that carries the Hall of Fame label
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** 7th Annual Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video
Festival
** DEMHIST'S Fourth Annual Conference, 10-12 October 2003, Lenzburg,
(Switzerland)
** The 2003 annual conference of the Association of Midwest Museums and
Wisconsin Federation of Museums
** " Flowing Through Time - Exploring Archaeology Through Humans and Their
Aquatic Environment "
** National Health Awareness Kickoff
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