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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:
** Crystal skull is fake, say scientists
Whatever legends are attached to the crystal skull of the British Museum in
London, there is one indisputable fact - no other single object in the
museum's extensive collection has acquired such a cult following from New
Age devotees
** Anger at waterfront museum access
Disabled groups say they are angry at the access for them at Swansea's £30m
national waterfront museum
** Former Employee of the Children's Museum Pleads Guilty
She stole more than $200,000 from her employer, The Children's Museum, and
numerous fellow employees of the museum by devising and executing a theft
scheme involving the Museum's payroll system
** Death's always nearby
As the death toll from the Indian Ocean earthquake - likely to be the worst
natural disaster in human history - rises, the verdict of Australian Museum
geologist Lin Sutherland is all the more chilling
** Stolen calligraphy recovered in Beijing
A stolen calligraphy album by ancient Chinese philosopher Zhu Xi has finally
been recovered and three people arrested on suspicion of theft, Beijing
police announced
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** US archaeologists accused of plagiarism
A Peruvian archaeologist has accused two US archaeologists of plagiarising
her work on the Caral complex, recently determined to be the oldest site in
the Americas
** Artworks, silverware stolen in EUR 10m museum theft
One of the oldest museums in the Netherlands, the Westfries Museum in the
north of the country was due to start celebrating its 125th anniversary on
Monday morning
** MOMA Peep Show
Furious residents of Tony West 54th Street feel like unwitting art exhibits
since the Museum of Modern Art unveiled hundreds of millions of dollars
worth of new galleries - along with an all-glass facade that offers views
into their private quarters
** French art addict jailed for museum thefts
Stephane Breitwieser had confessed to stealing almost 240 art works but was
on trial for just 23 items stolen in France, Denmark and Austria between
1999 and 2001. See also
** Former NBA boss opens pirate museum
According to Croce, museum highlights include one of the only two
authenticated pirate flags in the world and the world's only authenticated
pirate treasure chest, which experts have traced to Capt. Thomas Tew
** Feature Site: Turks - A Journey of a Thousand years, 600-1600
The Royal Academy of Arts-presented story begins with the Uighurs, a nomadic
people of Central Asia and China, and ends with the Ottoman Empire from the
reign of Mehmet II to Suleyman the Magnificent including the fall of
Byzantium and the spread of Ottoman rule to include Mecca and Medina. Ed:
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** Experts Seek King Tut's Cause of Death
A team of researchers briefly removed King Tut's mummy from its tomb
Wednesday and laid bare his bones for a CT scan that could solve an enduring
mystery: Was it murder or natural causes that killed Egypt's boy pharaoh
3,000 years ago?
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** Boston Tea Party chest going home?
A small wooden tea chest has returned to Boston more than 230 years after
rebellious colonists dumped it overboard during a famous protest that helped
set the scene for the American War of Independence
** When Zsa Zsa sparked outrage at the Tate
Hollywood icon Zsa Zsa Gabor sparked outrage among London's art lovers when
she was photographed half-straddling a sculpture in the Tate Gallery
** The darker side of art restoration
A stunning new show, Fake or Not Fake, assesses the darker side of art
restoration during the mid-20th century, when some great craftsmen stepped
beyond the entrusted task of retouching and succumbed to
"hyper-restoration" - and, curators say, even painted sheer fakes
** How the Science Museum reinvented itself
One of Britain's biggest attractions is launching its £50m revamp by dusting
off the machines that drove the Industrial Revolution and highlighting their
impact on everyday life
** Rare Alaska artifact returns home
Two Alaska museums have reclaimed a 150-year-old cultural relic transported
from a home in southeast Alaska to a California auction house
** Idols the Taliban couldn't destroy
The newly repaired National Museum of Afghanistan has opened its first
exhibition in 13 years - a display of life-size pre-Islamic idols smashed by
the Taliban three years ago that have been painstakingly restored by museum
and international specialists
** Entr'acte: French museums take steps away from home
And now two of them, the Louvre and the Georges Pompidou Center, are going
still further: they are preparing to open branches outside Paris
** Last known portrait of Mozart identified
A portrait of Mozart which lay anonymously in the cellars of the Berlin
State Museum until an amateur art buff identified it has gone on display in
the run-up to the composer's 250th birthday next year
** First Roman chariot-racing arena to be found in Britain
Pete Wilson, senior archaeologist at English Heritage, declared the
discovery as "not just nationally significant," but, "internationally
significant, because they are so rare."
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** Museums and Success - Association of Midwest Museums
** Digital Memories
** Film Preview and Directors' Discussion
** Robbery in the Tøjhusmuseet in Copenhagen
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