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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:
** Met Museum Buys Its Priciest Painting Ever
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to buy a tiny work by the early
Renaissance master Duccio di Buoninsegna for what it said was its most
expensive purchase ever
** Antarctic forests reveal ancient trees
Palaeobotanist David Cantrill, curator at the Swedish Museum of Natural
History in Stockholm, said the forests were unique
** Builders trash 500-year-old Chinese palace ruins
Builders who unearthed the 500-year-old Ming Dynasty ruins of an imperial
palace in the ancient Chinese capital Nanjing destroyed the site despite
being ordered to stop
** Edgar Degas - Compulsive Art Tinkerer
Not only did he rework paintings in his studio, in some cases over several
decades, he frequently pestered his friends to let him have back works he
had sold them in order to add fresh touches
** Stinging sex appeal
Ms Gershwin's seminar outlined the different kinds of irukandji species and
their toxicity levels, recent discoveries and advancements in the study of
the species, and tips for residents about stinger protection
** Bank makes big deposit to balloon museum
Albuquerque is home to the largest hot air ballooning event in the world,
the International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, which takes place annually during
the first week of October on a site located just north and west of where the
balloon museum is being built
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** Are these the worst tourist attractions in Britain?
Mr Fisher describes the Jorvik Viking Centre, which has won awards, as
geared to the imagination of a reluctant 10-year-old
** Treasure turns up on hurricane-battered Florida beaches
The efforts of dozens of beachcombers during and after the hurricanes
reportedly have produced dozens of gold coins, hundreds of silver coins and
jewellery that includes diamond and emerald rings and gold chains
** Funding Boost for Cold War Museum
Exhibitions will include the Berlin Air Lift, the descent of the Iron
Curtain and the Cuban Missile Crisis to surveillance techniques, missiles
and the space race
** Priceless artworks damaged while on tour
Stories included an Andy Warhol self-portrait caught and ripped by a gust of
wind as it was carried from a gallery to a removal van; a Rembrandt etching
posted in a glazed frame, protected only by bubble wrap and a padded brown
envelope; a Howard Hodgkin broken in half by a collapsing cupboard in a
storeroom; and a Picasso ceramic bust broken into fragments inside a
specially designed shipping case - which also destroyed its prior claim to
pristine condition, exposing evidence of earlier breaks and repairs
** Remains of 17th Century European and African Settlers Found on Eastern
Shore
The long forgotten graveyard is believed to contain the remains of as many
as 20 other individuals, including what Owsley describes as
"first-off-the-boat" settlers from Europe
** Iran bars four photographers from exhibiting 'insulting' work in Paris
Iran has blocked four local photographers from exhibiting some of their work
in Paris after certain pictures were deemed to be "against Islamic values
and mocking the image of Iranian women."
** Parks, museums feel bite of budget cuts
The lack of OTB grants this year will mean a combined $1.1 million loss for
Chicago attractions that include the Art Institute of Chicago, Field Museum
of Natural History, Museum of Science and Industry, Shedd Aquarium and Adler
Planetarium, attractions that officials say pump an estimated $500 million
into the economy every year
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** Parakeets long gone, but DNA makes some wonder
There are still 37 egg shells from the parakeets in museums around the
country and the Charleston Museum has two of those eggs
** A museum to satisfy the most rabid fanmania
In a culture pretty much up to its ribs in sports memorabilia, in an era
when just about every pack rat chronicler of what Howard Cosell called the
jockocracy thinks he's a curator, and in a region where sports and religion
are the nearly indistinguishable staples of the same pan-ethnic recipe, you
might not think the grand introduction of a 20,000-square foot sports museum
to Pittsburgh's historic landscape is exactly urgent
** Fire at mining museum building
The colliery, which closed in 1976, is recognised as the best remaining
example of a coalmining site in the UK.
** Howling polar bears and belly dancers liven up Amsterdam's Museum Night
Forty of Amsterdam's museums opened their doors on the fifth Museum Night to
show a different side of their collection
** Search for survivors of wartime hellhole
The museum has a block of concrete from the perimeter wall, a cell door, a
wooden shutter from the clock tower, a window grille and a metal grille from
over a cell door
** Science Museum investigates crack in giant granite exhibit
The creators of the Grand Kugeland the Science Museum are planning to
perform tests on the Grand Kugel to determine the depth of the crack and the
effects of thermal stress
** Munch Museum to Stay Closed Well Into 2005
Oslo's Munch Museum could remain closed until June 2005 while officials
upgrade its security system following a brazen daylight robbery in August of
two Edvard Munch masterpieces
** Museums in dialogue with people: (In)equality, differences, inclusions
and exclusions
** Jumpstarting Visual Literacy: VTS Theory and Practice
** The New York City Museum Educator's Roundtable presents The Essential
Museum: The ongoing change of museums into civic spaces
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