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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:
** 'Garden shed forger' fooled fine art experts
When curators at the archaeological museum in Madrid got their hands on what
seemed to be a fine piece of Islamic art last year they did not want to let
it go
** A Grim Reminder Of The Great Lakes' Fury
The Shipwreck Museum honours the 30,000 mariners who have lost their lives
in more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the Great Lakes over time
** Rift Grows, Challenging Leadership at the Getty
He wanted it to be the perfect evening - the kind of courting of collectors
the museum should do more often, he told the staff
** Powerless museum forced to release aquarium fish
A Fort Lauderdale museum released seven large saltwater fish following
Hurricane Wilma because power outages stilled their aquariums' water
circulation system
** US stamp swap worth millions
Gross plans to exhibit his newly acquired "Z Grill" at the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington in May, at the same time as the "Inverted Jenny"
is to be displayed at the National Postal Museum
** Italy says Boston Museum art was stolen
Evidence has reportedly surfaced indicating Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has
acquired ancient artefacts that were stolen and smuggled out of Italy
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** 'Body of Copernicus' identified
Scientists say they have probably solved the mystery of where the father of
modern astronomy was buried
** Palace Museum sued over new logo
Three designers, who lost out in a competition to design a logo for
Beijing's Palace Museum, have taken the museum to court
** Live Snails Make for Moving Museum Exhibit
Housed in a glass case without their shells and with two cabbages for
sustenance, the snails are part of a sculptural installation called
"palimpsest."
** Astronomer Discovers Black Hole At Centre Of Own Marriage
The world scientific community is reeling following Monday's announcement by
California Institute Of Technology astrophysicist Miles Lindgren that he has
discovered evidence of a black hole at the centre of his 27-year marriage, a
commitment vortex from which no love can escape
** Lotto 'bales out' maritime museum
One of Cornwall's newest museums had to be given lottery money to help it
weather a major financial crisis
** DuSable Museum skimming admitted
A former finance director at the DuSable Museum of African-American History
admitted that he embezzled about $34,000 from the museum
** Museum raid: New salvo fired
The notorious raid on the military history museum in Johannesburg in January
took an unexpected turn on Wednesday when Safety and Security Minister
Charles Nqakula said mud on the tyres of the museum's trucks could serve as
evidence in court
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** Digging for antiquities at the Egyptian Museum
Egyptian archaeologists, who normally scour the desert in search of
treasures of the past, have discovered that one of the greatest caches of
antiquities may well be in the basement of the Egyptian Museum
** Ex-head of Kansas space museum convicted
The former head of a Kansas space museum was found guilty of stealing and
selling spacesuit components and other artefacts that belonged to the
institution and NASA
** For sale: paintings by the artist formerly known as the Führer
When he was resident in Vienna between 1907 and 1912, he specialised in
knocking out postcards and "frame-fillers", sometimes completed at the rate
of three a day
** Portrait found under Van Gogh painting
An Amsterdam museum employee has found what may turn out to be the first
self-portrait painted by Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh
** Exposed: images from Hell
The historian Peter Barton stumbled on the photographs, taken by the Royal
Engineers for military intelligence, in the archives of the Imperial War
Museum, where they had lain unseen for decades
** Feature Event: Global Catastrophes - A Punter's Guide
Discover the facts and explore the issues in a revealing and engaging
lecture by Professor Bill McGuire, one of the world's leading authorities on
geohazards and author of Surviving Armageddon: Solutions for a Threatened
Planet
** Rare historic documents lost to Katrina
As Hurricane Katrina approached, local historians were confident a vault
filled with precious pre-Civil War pictures, maps and documents cataloguing
the history of this Gulf Coast community would be safe
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** New Constellations: Art, Science and Society
** Call for entries: John Moores 24 exhibition of contemporary painting at
the Walker Art Gallery
** Genetics! - The Morris Museum
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