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The headlines this week:
** Shroud of silence on museum numbers
It seems only yesterday that Auckland Museum boasted of being the most
visited museum in Australasia. This was justified by claims the institution
had more than a million visitors a year
** Ready For Red
The first Martian space habitat has been parachuted onto location. It will
be assembled over the next few weeks by a team of researchers
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** Museum may lose Mickey art
Mickey Mouse could be in police custody Wednesday
** St. Thomas: Birth of Impressionism?
The 19th-century master's great-grandson says the key to Pissarro lies in
his little-studied origins a world away from the drawing rooms and gardens
of Paris
** Ballot Initiative Opposing History Museum at Pier 45
Four San Francisco supervisors carried through on their threat yesterday and
filed a November ballot initiative that will try to derail plans for what
they say is an ill-conceived city history museum at Pier 45
** Your Elgin Marbles
The Parthenon sculptures known as the Elgin Marbles have been a source of
international contention for almost two centuries. But one lucky homeowner
will soon be able to watch television surrounded by the frieze
** National Museums may move to save Carrick
The National Museums of Scotland is to investigate taking ownership of the
Carrick, the world's oldest clipper, in order to save her for the nation
** Famed scrolls pass gently into our care
Sydney is experiencing one of its biggest pre-Olympic security exercises
this week - but you won't be hearing helicopters, full of men in black,
hovering overhead
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** Bruce Lee plans alive and kicking
A museum honouring kung fu legend Bruce Lee may be opened at a site in West
Kowloon
** New breed of collector fuels boom in antiques
The art and antiques market is attracting a new type of private collector
who is at least as interested in financial returns as in enjoyment of the
hobby
** Real Gauguin? A Hairy Question
Four hairs stuck in a depiction of an outrigger canoe on a harbor may help
decide whether an oil painting is the work of Paul Gauguin
** Is Okinawa museum rewriting history?
The prefecture's apparent aim was to play down the atrocities committed by
Japanese soldiers against their fellow citizens
** New tenants move into their $287 million home
Copperhead snakes destined for the Melbourne Museum's forest gallery were
still in their temporary homes when Victorian Arts Minister Mary Delahunty
visited the gallery
** Newseum Bids For D.C. Site
The Freedom Forum, the media foundation that runs the Newseum in Rosslyn,
has offered the D.C. government $100 million for a prime Pennsylvania Avenue
site
** Shanghai curator quietly brings back Treasures
Mr Ma said he was shocked and dismayed at the abundance of superb Chinese
art on offer by dealers when he visited Hong Kong in 1992.
** Camping Tips
When facing an enraged grizzly bear, be sure to wear comfortable, waterproof
shoes and thick socks
** Getty Exhibit Examines Gothic, Renaissance Stained Glass Art
An exhibition exploring the art of stained glass during the late Gothic and
Renaissance periods in Germany and Switzerland (1480-1530) opens in Los
Angeles
** The Death of Museums ?
Museums and galleries are faced with the same pressures as every other
sector of society. Funding is often precarious, and we need to be diligent
in identifying alternative sources
** Scientists Find Archimedes' Words
Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology are restoring a 10th century
manuscript - the only known copy in the original Greek of some of the
writings of mathematician Archimedes
** Beatlemania alive and kicking for new generation
Work is going full steam ahead on the John Lennon Museum in Yono, Saitama
prefecture, just south of Tokyo
** Eighth International Conference On Information Technology and Tourism
"Change - Commerce - Communication - Convergence" April 24-27, 2001 -
Montreal, Canada
** 4th National Remote and Regional Museums Conference - Australia
hosted by Griffith Pioneer Park Museum Griffith, NSW 18, 19, 20 October 2000
** AVICOM - AUDIOVISUEL ET NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES
22 - 25 novembre 2000 Budapest . Hongrie
**Gods and Heroes
Ancient Lives: Greeks Romans and Etruscans
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide July - 3 September 2000
** Herluf Bidstrup at The Workers' Museum - Copenhagen
** Wandle Valley Mapping Project - UK
** MA European Heritage Planning and Management
** Jekyll Island Management Institute
** Masters of Sea & Sail -video release
** ICOM / ICR Annual Conference Nairobi, Kenya October 29 - November 5
2000
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