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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Families Rally Against Sept. 11th Museum
Holding up pictures of their loved ones and signs that read "Preserve Sacred
Ground," more than 500 relatives of Sept. 11 victims rallied at the World
Trade Centre site Saturday against a proposed museum
** Artists' stories will live on forever in Paris museum
Some specialists believe the Musée du Quai Branly, named after its address
by the Seine and a pet project of President Jacques Chirac, will change the
way the world looks at Aboriginal art
** Stolen 'Tarzan' Olympic medals returned to museum
Eight Olympic gold medals won by swimmer Johnny Weissmuller have been
returned to the International Swimming Hall of Fame Museum, along with other
memorabilia allegedly taken by a maintenance worker
** Leak stops ancient mariners
A bid to recreate an ancient voyage - headed by an Australian
archaeologist - came to grief when the reed boat capsized hours after
setting off in the Arabian Sea
** Dutch Museum Acquires Masterpieces
The Mauritshuis museum has acquired two 17th-century masterpieces, a rare
night scene by Peter Paul Rubens and a landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael, for
a total of $12.4 million
** Bomber's log book lands at museum
A council carer took the chocks away on a journey that enabled a war hero to
have a log book charting his flying experiences to be displayed at the RAF
Museum
** National Museum of China strengthens cooperation with British Museum
Curators of the National Museum of China and the British Museum signed a
memorandum of understanding here Tuesday to strengthen exchanges and
cooperation in the fields of exhibition and research
** Field Museum gets a new superstar
The skeleton of Clint, whose blood was used to map the chimp genome, will be
safeguarded here for future research
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** New Munch painting uncovered in Germany
A previously unknown painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch has been
discovered at a museum in Breman, Germany
** Kansas town boasts 'Wizard of Oz' museum
Those who think "The Wizard of Oz" is the story of a Kansas farm girl
singing about rainbows and skipping down a yellow brick road in red slippers
should think again
** Penang To Develop War Museum Into World-class Tourism Product
The Penang government will set up a special committee to promote and develop
the eight-hectare War Museum in Batu Maung into a world-class
history-related tourism product
** Smithsonian Offers Help to Students Affected by Katrina
The museum says it will offer internships and appointments to students and
faculty members who have had their fall semesters cancelled because of the
storm
** Woman slashes Lichtenstein painting in Austrian museum
A woman visitor to an Austrian museum pulled out a pocket-knife and slashed
a painting by the American artist Roy Lichtenstein
** Brazilian police nab 2 more alleged killers of U.S. archaeologist
Petersen, a 51-year-old University of Vermont anthropology professor, was
shot once in the chest at point-blank range on Aug. 13 while he was dining
with Brazilian colleagues at a restaurant in Iranduba
** Big Apple, other cities are raising glasses to help the Big Easy
The idea for the fundraiser came from Anistatia Miller, a Manhattan-based
co-founder of the Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans
** Mosquito museum turns to Atlanta for an upgrade
A destination for entomologists and scientists from all over the world, the
NICD is joining hands with the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, USA,
to study evolution of the mosquito species
** American Archaeology Journal goes E-X-treme!!
To help with the editorial duties of AJEMA-E-X!! will be co-editors
Funk-Master-Bixby and Ice-Oglethorpe, newly tenured professors at the
"jammin'" Stuffs University of Archaeology
** Renowned sculptor opening act at new Ukrainian Museum
Later this month, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is expected to visit
the museum, where all the employees are fluent in both English and Ukrainian
** Artefacts to Return to Bishop Museum
A federal judge ruled ancient Native Hawaiian artefacts be returned to the
Bishop Museum
** Getty museum withheld letters from Italians
The J. Paul Getty Trust, which operates one of California's most respected
museums, withheld potentially crucial documents from Italian authorities
investigating the trafficking of stolen artefacts, the Los Angeles Times has
reported
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** The devastation in New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities is
beyond belief.
** INFOLAC Web Award 2005: Best On-line Museums
** Golden Age of Radio Collections
** El Día de los Muertos Commemorated in Museum Exhibit
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