Welcome to this weeks edition of GLOBAL MUSEUM,
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This weeks headlines include:
** Canada donors save repeat of epic Arctic voyage
Canada has been saved the embarrassment of having to rely on foreign money
to fund the reenactment of an epic voyage that has been cited by the country
in its claim to sovereignty over the Northwest Passage
** Dispute over rune stones continues nearly three decades after discovery
They were just three old stones with scratch marks, but their discovery
generated more than their share of controversy in Maine.
** Police catch up with mechanical mouse
A mechanical mouse worth £90,000 has been recovered six years after being
stolen from a museum whose patron is Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
** Castle boss in 'rubbish tip' furore
The owner of Mountfitchet Castle claimed this week that council-owned
recycling bins near the tourist attraction had turned the area into a
"rubbish tip" over the Bank Holiday weekend
** Killer or scavenger? Carnegie Museum wants public to decide T. rex's
reputation
After viewing the exhibit, "T. rex on Trial," which runs through Sept. 3,
patrons will render their verdict by dropping coins in boxes for guilt,
innocence, or hung jury
** City Hospital unveils nursing museum
City Hospital in Martinsburg unveiled a museum dedicated to nurses Wednesday
** 'Cathedral of cool' electrifies modern art world
A former power station opens today in London as the world's largest modern
art gallery and is already receiving a rapturous reception from critics who
have called it the "cathedral of cool".
** Jackie Chan Gets Waxed
In celebration of the new branch of the legendary London-based museum, Chan
is the first Chinese
** Skulls Point to First Emigration 'Out of Africa'
Three skulls dug from under a medieval Georgian town and dating back 1.7
million years may represent the first pre-humans who migrated out of Africa
and into Europe
** Musee D'Orsay Closes
The Musee d'Orsay, which houses some of the world's best-known Impressionist
paintings, will be closed Friday after suffering storm damage
** Sheer scale of tunnelling awes children
Two ghostly white thumbs are preserved in little bottles on a shelf at the
Waihi Art Centre and Mining Museum, like some kind of 1920s ACC rip-off
** Precious artefact broken by French was already a bust
The NGA's director, Dr Brian Kennedy, said two of last month's three breaks
on the Ambum Stone, a prehistoric sculpture from the western highlands of
Papua New Guinea, occurred where previous mending had been done. It had been
broken before the gallery acquired it in 1977, he said
** Artifacts were made by anger
Little mention has been made of the person who made the bronze heads which
were at the centre of the storm. He was not Chinese, but Italian
** Nitschke's `Death Machine' in UK museum
A British museum has bought euthanasia practitioner Philip Nitschke's
well-known "Death Machine" and will display it in a new wing next month
** Extinct 'tiger' could live again by cloning
Scientists hoping to bring the extinct Tasmanian tiger back to life
announced last week that they were within sight of their goal after samples
taken from a preserved pup were found to contain high quality DNA
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