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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:
** Ryazan Museum Displays Medieval Jewellery
Pride of place belongs to 12th century filigree and enamelled beads, some
adorned with tiny metal balls
** Intellectual life in Roman Alexandria
The Polish mission at Kom Al-Dikka in Alexandria has made several exciting
finds over the years, but their latest discovery hard on the heels of the
establishment of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina has set tongues buzzing
** We're all geeks now - hobbits keeping us at the museums
Australia is a nation of science-fiction and fantasy film zealots, judging
by the Powerhouse Museum's attendance record
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** Feathers fly at Museum Fundraiser
The purpose of the shoot was two-fold - to raise money for the Switzers
Museum and Waikaia Promotions while culling the number of the nuisance birds
** Experts Check Prehistoric Colorado Village
The experts at a construction site here have about a month or two to make
sense of butchered bison bones, spear points, grinding stones and pit houses
** Unusual Museums Of The World: Diljeet Titus's Pro Bono Publico Car
Museum
One of his cars, the Cadillac Sedan de Ville 1959, is a car with the tallest
tailfins in the world
** Teething trouble for Churchill
A dispute over Winston Churchill's christening gown is threatening to mar a
key display in the new £6 million Churchill Museum
** Who rightfully owns Korean artefacts looted by Japan?
Eisei Miki, the head monk of Kakurinji Temple in the western Japanese city
of Kakogawa, still shivers with anger when he describes the robbery the
temple suffered in 2002
** Group fights for Graves Museum collection
As a court-appointed trustee deals with $876,000 in debt run up by the
Graves Museum, the Broward County Archaeological Society is fighting to hold
on to its vast collection of artefacts
** Hungary's grandest museum to be renovated
The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, one of the world's finest museums when it
opened in 1906, will undergo complete renovation of its galleries
** Painting removed after Muslim complaints, threats
More than 400,000 of Sweden's 9 million residents are Muslim, and the museum
received some 700 complaints about the painting, including some that were
threatening
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** Strawberry Research Center To Become Museum
A site that has housed a strawberry research center for more than 40 years
will become a strawberry museum and hall of fame
** Pricing the Old Masters
On Jan. 28 another potential museum target verified the precarious nature of
estimates in current circumstances.
** Conspiracy theorist says the 'Da Vinci Code' conspiracy is a conspiracy
Icke pointed out that Brown's work was based on little historical evidence.
"I mean, it doesn't even mention Roswell!"
** 48 impressionist masterpieces in Hong Kong
The masterpieces by 13 internationally acclaimed impressionists on show were
selected from the prestigious Musee d' Orsay in Paris and other major French
museums, revealing the impressive diversity of impressionism and the
different stages of this movement.
** UK Museum staff walk out over pay
Workers at some of Britain's biggest museums have voted to strike in protest
over a "derisory" pay offer
** Great Wall protection project launched in Inner Mongolia
The present situation of Great Wall protection in Inner Mongolia is by no
means optimistic, partly due to the huge area it covers, and partly due to
the lack of public awareness toward the protection tasks
** Rare Enigma Machine for sale
A military adaptation of a commercial encryption machine, around 40,000 of
the military enigma machines were made during WW2 but were ordered to be
destroyed by the Allies and most were, though an indeterminate number
disappeared and were traded on the black market, surfacing many years later
** Museum boost for historic regiment
The history of Scotland's only cavalry regiment is set to be celebrated at a
new £1.3 million museum at Edinburgh Castle
** Oarsome
The WA Museum curator of fish, Barry Hutchins, said usually only one or two
oarfish washed up each year and this summer had been unusual
** A thoroughly modern matriarch
To those of us who retain, in a suitcase in a little-used cupboard, the
clothes from earlier decades that we no longer wear but cannot bear to throw
away, the idea of the wardrobe as the history of a whole life is utterly
compelling
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** Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference Preliminary Program
** MA Gala Event to Recognise MAPDA 05 Winners
** The Samberg Family History Program: A Joint Project of The Centre for
Jewish History and The American Jewish Historical Society
** Raramuri: The Tarahumara of the Sierra Madre Canyons
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