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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:
** Indiana Museum Apparently Torched
"People think this doesn't happen in nice little places like Terre Haute,
Indiana," she said
** Museum tries to attract adults with x-rated science
The world's first adult-only science museum opened its doors with a promise
to lift all taboos on the most sensitive issues in science
** Aviation Museum To Be Built Around Concorde
Barbados' new aviation museum will be constructed over the next year and a
new company is being created to manage the facility
** Collector Snaps Up Dracula's Bow Tie
Halloween is long gone, but that didn't stop collectors from buying up movie
monster memorabilia
** Museum tells shadowy side of JFK's death
The man behind the counter popped in a video in the Conspiracy Museum's
darkened back room and pulled a chair in front of the TV.
** Is Celtic cross really the key to the door of ancient knowledge?
"It seems that many scientific and religious minds are locked in stone too
or we would have known of it earlier"
** Claims of Trade in Corpses Rock Kyrgyzstan
A scientist at the Medical Academy, Valery Gabitov, told parliament in video
testimony that he believed a third of the bodies in the Body Worlds
exhibition were Kyrgyz - a statement described as a lie by Von Hagens
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** New species of whale is reported by Japanese
Rosenbaum said he thought the new report would be a double-edged sword for
Japanese whaling
** 'Egyptian theme park' plan attacked
Improvements planned have been ridiculed as "an ancient Egyptian theme park"
in a row over a project to spend £44,500 on a display commemorating
Egyptologist Howard Carter
** Museum janitors stage exhibit
Janitors who clean the science museum as well as other buildings in and
around Philadelphia are staging the special exhibit to protest the lack of
affordable health insurance
** Gibraltar throws wrench in researcher's monkey business
"I was very depressed and devastated," said Martin, who is also provost and
vice president of the Field Museum
** Gloucestershire pub owner plans a boring experience
The owner of a Gloucestershire riverside pub is drawing up plans to create a
Museum of the Bore
** Finns wage holy war over bone of contention
As Finnish prejudice against saintworshipping is still very much in place,
the fragment has never been on show at the museum
** Museum to display new van Gogh painting
A museum in southern Holland opens an exhibition this weekend of what it
claims is a previously unknown painting by Vincent van Gogh, and says there
may be more among a collection of 250 works once regarded as worthless
** Kalashnikov inventor opens exhibit
Millions have been produced throughout the former communist world, spreading
to all corners of the globe.
** Powerhouse Museum accused of censorship
"What we were doing was taking his collection that was offered to us, and we
were then free to select whatever material from that we may choose to select
to mount an exhibition at the museum"
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** Niepce Symposium Unveils 1826 Photograph
An 1826 image widely acknowledged as the world's earliest photograph is the
subject of its own close-up, the first in the half-century since a historian
hauled the faint snapshot out of an old trunk
** Panel urges sweeping changes at troubled Air Force Museum
The recommendations were made by a group appointed in the wake of reports of
thousands of items missing at the world's oldest and largest military
aviation museum
** This Week's Horoscopes:
Scorpio: (Oct. 24-Nov. 21) You're proud to have been cited by several
important scientists, even if it was as an example of the potential "gray
goo" problems in nanotechnology
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) will hold its
2004 Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Mid-Atlantic Conference on
British Studies (MACBS) in Philadelphia
** Learning Through Objects: Museums and Young Children
** aaANZ Annual Conference 2003
** The Golden Triangle: History, Archives, and Records Management
** The Eighth Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration,
and Public Display
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