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week's edition include:
** Museum exhibits stolen as they arrived - claim
The investigation into the theft of tens of thousands of exhibits from the
Australian Museum has widened into allegations that precious gifts from
international galleries were routinely stolen from the mail room before they
could be displayed
** Vandals deface desert military museum
Vandals have defaced a popular desert museum with anti-war and anti-American
sentiments
** Original copy of Bill of Rights recovered
An original copy of the Bill of Rights, stolen from the North Carolina
statehouse during the Civil War, was recovered in an undercover sting
** Nazi ghosts in Freud's house
Hitler's taste in art was often execrable: his great weakness was for
19th-century genre paintings, kitsch on a grand scale
** Archaeologists Fear For Iraqi Sites
Chilling footage of anthrax experiments went on show yesterday in the first
major exhibition on the disease for more than 50 years
** Judge to Decide Owner of Nazi Documents
Kempner bequeathed all documents in his possession to the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, but tens of thousands of pages vanished from his
suburban Philadelphia home after his death in 1993
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** Imaginary museum for Web browsers
For museum aficionados, the Web can be a serendipitous joy - as it was for
Brown - but it can also be a tease
** Lottery grant boosts Tate loans to the regions
The loans relationship between the five regional museums and the Tate has
been quietly forging ahead for the past three years
** Study looks at museum feasibility
The Rupert Brooke Birthplace Trust has been given thousands of pounds to see
if its scheme to convert the house where the First World War poet was born
is feasible
** New interpretations of Machu Picchu
In archives at Cuzco, the former Inca capital, Rowe found a 16th-century
suit filed by descendants of Pachacuti.
** Antique Dealer Sick Of Appraising Smurf Collections
"If one more person brings in a 'rare' figurine of Smurfette in a jogging
suit, I'm going to set it on fire," said Jarry *satire
** Our Own Sweet Sounds II
This exhibit will highlight over 90 Arkansas musicians and hundreds of
musical artifacts hailing from Turkey Scratch to Berryville.
** Jet-setting with precious cargo
The work includes travelling in a cargo plane, sitting upstairs behind the
pilots, unexpected stops to refuel and unload, dealing with customs agents,
hours spent at various airports in the middle of the night and the constant
fear of damage to your precious cargo
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** Rio gets museum as Guggy goes offshore
Rio de Janiero has done a deal to build a $150 million underwater Guggenheim
Museum
** Developers menace Pasternak village
Pasternak's relatives, who have turned the cottage in the village of
Peredilinko, around three miles from Moscow, into a museum are furious
** Museum performers recreate old magic
A saw used by the Great Levante to 'cut a woman in half' features in the
National Museum's Eternity Gallery, which explores stories from the
emotional heart of Australia
** German bomber's Norwich maps for sale
As he flew over the North Sea in the darkness of April 1941, Norwich was
already firmly in his sights - in mind if not reality
** Russians suspend return of German art treasures
A captain from the Soviet occupying army seized the art collection
immediately after World War II and stored it in the Moscow architecture
museum of which he was later head.
** Holocaust Museum Cashier Has Yet Another Depressing Day
A native of Potomac, MD, Kaplan said her reasons for applying for a job at
the museum "made sense at the time." * satire
** Feature Site: UMAC 03
The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (SNOMNH) at the University
of Oklahoma (OU) is preparing to host the annualconference of the
International Committee for University Museums and Collections (UMAC). with
over 200 members worldwide
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** The Library of Virginia to Celebrate Virginia Records and Information
Management Week
** Museum trends in the digital age: a view from two hemispheres
** Call for Nominations - The Museum Education Roundtable is seeking
nominations
** In September 2003, Slovenia will host the annual meetings of three ICOM
International Committees simultaneously
** UNESCO International Summer School of Museology
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