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GLOBAL MUSEUM, your free international Museum EZINE, brings you its final
posting of the old Millennium!
** Great Millennium Moments **
An irreverent sheep's eye view of Year 2000 celebrations and the rising of
the sun on Pitt Island. Courtesy of the Wool Street Journal
** Mother of modern seafaring in £10m battle against rust **
The SS Great Britain, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's revolutionary iron-hulled
steamship, is rusting away at an alarming rate and could be lost forever,
her curator warned
** Canada 1,000 years ago **
Dozens of silent, skin-clad people would have watched as double-ended wooden
ships scraped onto the ancient beach, hauled ashore by fair-haired strangers
wearied by days on the cold open sea and invigorated by the richness of this
new land.
** Fake fish, giant pickles, flaming farm animals to ring in new millennium
**
As humanity enters the new millennium, some great minds are planning to mark
the occasion by dropping fish down a pole, lowering a giant pickle from a
fire ladder, parading flaming puppets through the streets and skydiving into
a volcano crater.
** Storm damages France's premier monuments **
France's premier monuments offered visitors a desolate sight Monday
following a devastating storm that broke windows at Notre Dame and ravaged
the royal park at Versailles
** Developer can evict museum, judge declares **
J. Paul Beitler, a top Chicago developer, can evict a small architecture
museum from its North Michigan Avenue home, but not before Jan. 10, a Cook
County judge ruled Wednesday
** Museum Built with International Assistance **
Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosni told the Middle East News Agency last
Monday that construction will begin next month on Egypt 's long-awaited new
museum, which officials say will house one of the world's largest historical
collections
** Arts mecca for Geelong **
Victoria,Australia will become an arts mecca under plans to build a $300
million-plus version of the world-famous Guggenheim Museum. The Guggenheim,
planned for Geelong, will share one of the planet's greatest art collections
** Rubbish dump put to good use **
Before visitors enter a new exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, they
first have to spend four minutes watching a film about garbage. The bare
walls of this small, almost clinically-designed open room contrasts sharply
with the scenes of this short documentary
** Collection of O'Keeffe Paintings Declared Fakes **
A collection of paintings, displayed over the years in a Kansas City museum
and in exhibits across the United States as notable works by the famed
American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, have been declared fakes
** Art Show Questions Post-Communist Change **
Visitors to the latest show at Stockholm's modern art museum are met on
their arrival by the sound of hammers chipping away at stone and concrete.
** OCLC Database of Library Records Holds More Than Bestsellers **
WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) contains more than 43 million
bibliographic records for items held in libraries around the world
All this and more in GLOBAL MUSEUM - the EZINE read in 68 countries. New
site design in the next issue!
PLUS the latest CAREER POSTINGS for Year 2000, a new RESUME POSTING SERVICE,
BOOKSHOP, TRAVEL CENTRE & more
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