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In the GLOBAL MUSEUM headlines this week:
** Local museums facing a slow death by a thousand budget cuts
There is a crisis in the Leicester museum service this week, of passionate
interest to the museum community if not - on the face of it - to many people
outside
** Museum's hangar is empty
A museum near Port Columbus International Airport dedicated to showing
Ohio's role in aviation history is empty.
** Lizard fossil brings $167,500 at auction; Apollo 11 handle also sold
Both items are considered one of a kind, and their auction angered experts
in both fields
** Expedition yields Titanic victims' treasures
'Personal' artifacts are found, but time is running out for Atlanta salvage
company as hull corrodes
** Museum Director becomes University Professor
"A museum in a city like Adelaide should be an absolutely core activity. It
should be integrated at all sorts of levels where it is currently not"
Professor Tim Flannery
** Art as Human Sashimi
The talk of Ars Electronica was the Plastinator and fluorescent-dog man, two
artists who showed how thought-provoking the festival's new emphasis on life
sciences could be
** Could this be the eighth wonder of the world?
The animal designs are often hundreds of feet long, as are the spirals,
zigzags and trapezoids; some of the straight lines run for miles across the
desert
** Gulf War artist reaps a £17m reward
Prince Khaled will, after all, buy the 125 paintings, some of them 35ft
tall, for £17 million, to put them on display in a new museum in Riyadh
** Rescued fossil to be donated to museum
Dick Spight, an environmentalist who doesn't think rare scientific treasures
belong on the free market, explained why he spent $167,500 to rescue a
one-of-a-kind fossil from private collectors
** Plastic dinosaur bones better than the real thing
Using advanced computer technology and a laser scanner to document every
dimple, bump and scratch, scientists at the Smithsonian Institution are
building the most anatomically correct skeleton yet of a large dinosaur.
** Holding On - this week's feature audio file
Holding On is a tribute to some of America's most unique characters, people
clinging to their extraordinary lifestyles--and philosophies-- at all costs
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** Grant to help restore Wisconsin Automotive Museum
A state grant will allow Hartford's auto museum to breathe new life into its
aging facility
** Director of Arlington art museum is resigning
Joan Davidow, who as director of the Arlington Museum of Art helped
transform an old department store into a nationally acclaimed venue for
Texas art, has announced her departure.
** Arctic and Antarctic eyed as possible goldmines for dinosaur finds
In the quest for the new frontier in dinosaur bones, scientists say don't
discount looking way up or way down - to the Arctic and Antarctic
** Stuffed Bushman is finally going home
The stuffed body of a spear-throwing African Bushman will head back to his
native Botswana next month after spending much of the 20th century in a
Spanish museum
** Too pale Museum stone may be painted
The French stone sold to the British Museum instead of the Portland stone
required for its Great Court project could soon be given a colour wash to
make it look darker
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** Kiss for Rascally Little Boy Gave Birth to Museum
Ava Lavinia Gardner would have been 17 the day she kissed 12-year-old Tom
Banks, a year before she was discovered by MGM
** Museum' ' s expansion way over budget but fund-raising keeps pace
Santiago Calatrava' s soaring addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum has
balloned to nearly three times its original size cost
** Dolphins Evolve Opposable thumbs
In an announcement with grave implications for the primacy of the species of
man, marine biologists at the Hawaii Oceanographic Institute reported Monday
that dolphins, or family Delphinidae, have evolved opposable thumbs on their
pectoral fins
** Museum clicks up profits while visitors walk
The apparent decline in numbers we are trying to explain here is not 46 per
cent, but more than 60 per cent. The obvious conclusion is that hundreds of
thousands of potential visitors have been turned off by the charging and
have stayed away from the Auckland Museum
** Phar Lap arrives at Melbourne
Australia's renowned cultural and sporting icon and most popular museum
exhibit - Phar Lap - has arrived safely at his new home. Phar Lap made the
historic 1.6 kilometre journey from his old lodgings in Russell Street to
the newly built Melbourne Museum in Carlton Gardens Museum
** Wickliffe Mounds Hosts Native American Dance Weekend
** To Outwit Time: Preserving brittle Papaer
** SAMP (Swedish African Museum Programme*) General Meeting
** New ICOM Committee for university museums and collections.
** Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference
** The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic
Works (IIC)
IIC 18th International Congress
** The DISABILITY Discrimination Act
** Southeastern Museums Conference will be hosting the Jekyll Island
Management Institute at Jekyll Island, Georgia
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