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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:
** Spertus museum shutters Holy Land map exhibit
A controversial exhibition on Holy Land maps and boundaries, both ancient
and contemporary, was suspended in the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies'
museum less than a week after it opened.
** Mannequin on toilet bids for Turner prize
Characters from The Simpsons and a female mannequin perched on a toilet have
made it into this year's Turner Prize shortlist
** Even with new toupee, Chicago Children's Museum plan still a bald
land-grab
The toupee to which I refer is a planted roof meant to suggest that the
buried museum would fit seamlessly into Grant Park
** Old timbers bring in new visitors
A Norfolk museum has recorded a large increase in visitors since opening a
unique display of the Bronze Age wood circle known as Seahenge
** Getty Trust Trims Staff
The J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles will eliminate 114 jobs and cut
programs to marshal resources for the organization's arts mission
** Public vote melts plans for waxwork British PM
Embattled British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has received yet another blow
as the public voted by a landslide to keep him out of London's Madame
Tussauds waxwork museum
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** Museum is top visitor attraction
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum was Scotland's busiest visitor attraction
last year, according to VisitScotland
** Cultural heritage not spared
Priceless artefacts and buildings of the country's cultural heritage were
seriously damaged by the 7.8-magnitude quake in Sichuan on Monday. See also
Most historical relics survive Sichuan quake
** From Holocaust hero to obscurity
Oskar Schindler saved more than 1,000 Jews from the gas chambers, but after
1945 he fell into obscurity and poverty and died without the recognition he
deserved, a new exhibition in Frankfurt shows
** Site of Interest - Worldwide Telescope
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** Wanted: human p#nis for Icelandic museum
One species conspicuous by its absence is homo sapiens, but that may soon be
rectified since a German, an American, an Icelander and a Briton have
promised to donate their organs after death, according to certificates on
display
** Israel Museum puts Dead Sea scroll on rare display
One of the most important Dead Sea scrolls is going on display in Jerusalem
this week - more than four decades after it was last seen by the public
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Leo July 23 to August 22 - A wise man once said, "To err is human, to
forgive divine." But it's the fact that he charged for the advice that made
him shrewd
** Russian museum director faces charge of inciting religious hatred
A museum director who helped organize an exhibition of censored Soviet and
post-Soviet art to protest alleged infringement of artistic freedoms under
Russia's current leadership now faces censorship himself
** Museum Kills Live Exhibit
The "victimless leather" was kept alive in an incubator with nutrients,
unsettlingly alive, until recently, that is
** Thailand museum director indicted in federal probe found dead
The director of a Thailand museum was indicted on a wire fraud charge in
connection with a federal investigation into looted Southeast Asian
antiquities
** Oldest known bust of Caesar found
Divers in France have found the oldest known bust of Roman dictator Julius
Caesar at the bottom of the River Rhone
** Drive for Islamic museum
The museum is described as the cultural front of Qatar which works for the
revival of Islamic civilisation and presenting it to the world in a modern
and stylish way
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Teaching Institute in Museum Education.
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