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Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org 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: ** Arson attack causes £250,000 damage at museum The museum often lays on trips for schoolchildren from throughout Northern Ireland to give them an experience of the bygone days of steam train travel ** Museum closing after 15 months The 15-month-old Guggenheim Las Vegas museum will close its doors Jan. 5, a reflection of funding troubles at its parent museum ** Abuse scandal, economy lead Philadelphia archdiocese to scrap museum plans The project would have been the largest archdiocesan museum of its kind and had been in the works for nearly two years ** U.S. fixing 'Southern bias' at battlefields "We want to get away from the traditional descriptions of who shot whom, where and into discussions of why they were shooting one another" ** Cuts threat to museum dream More than 12 years after it was unearthed - discovered by chance after an overnight storm - ambitious plans to put the West Runton elephant on permanent public display look no closer to reality ** Fears nonsense, says museum chief He rejected the proposition that anyone in government would politically imprint its outlook on a national museum ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________ GLOBAL MUSEUM TRAVEL - For Business and Pleasure - the leading provider of online museum travel, established in 1998. 40,000 in over 8,000 cities worldwide. 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It remains to be seen Deep inside London's Natural History Museum are the skulls and leg bones of two Aboriginal men whose lives were considered so morally "degraded" that in 1900 they were hunted down and killed ** Chaplin's Swiss mansion becomes shrine to the man and his work The conception for the future museum was developed by Quebec's Yves Durand, whose past achievements include Portugal's leading science museum Visionarium d'Europarque ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ Advertisement: THE DR. WILDERNESS SHOW, INC. PRESENTS: MAGIC IN ECUADOR - a fantastical magical journey through the South American Andes. Click this link : www.drwilderness.com "America's Premier environmental magician!" The Audubon Society ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ ** Big Dig unearths history The lopsided, grapefruit-sized ball of lathe-turned oak may not seem like much at first glance ** Beached whale first complete find of ultra rare species Longman's beaked whales, also known as Indo-Pacific beaked whales, have long beak-shaped mouths and resemble elongated dolphins ** Tough Times Hit The Whitfield Museum McBride went on to say that the cuts will leave him as the only full-time person at the Whitfield Museum - a move that he said will "essentially cripple the operation." ** Greene show opens in Vienna The exhibition, at the Historical Museum of Vienna, juxtaposes previously unseen stills from the film with historic photographs of the war-torn city ** Fresh debate over human origins US researchers sifting through data from the human genome project say they have uncovered evidence in support of a rival theory ** Marsupial lion's skull goes on show The skull of a marsupial lion has gone on show at the Kalgoorlie-Boulder museum, at least 50,000 years after it last roamed the West Australian Goldfields ** Spare Iraq's patrimony The names of some of Iraq's ancient cities - Ur, Babylon, Uruk, Nineveh, Nippur, Eridu and Lagash - echo with the voices of history. ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** Indiana Jones & the Temple of Learning ** Museum and Library Archives Institute ** New Exhibition Gallery Opens at The Botanic Garden at Smith College Global Museum: In 2002 we brought you 1,040 Museum stories of interest. 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