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In this week's edition of  GLOBAL MUSEUM  we celebrate the opening of the
new Melbourne Museum and wish all concerned  a festive and successful
opening!

The International News stories in Global Museum this week include:

**  Man Who Knew of Stolen Art is Freed
A former antiques dealer who has had an intriguing link to a decade-old
museum heist, the still-unsolved theft of art work worth $300 million, is
out of jail and says he still intends to claim a reward for the stolen
pieces

**  Golden Mummies Tell Tales of Egypt's Greco-Roman Rule
When a donkey stumbled into a hole in the ground at the Bahariya Oasis in
western Egypt in 1996 its owner, a guard at the nearby temple of Alexander
the Great, peered into the space and glimpsed the glint of gold

**  Russian architectural treasures falling to ruin
Like so many landmarks, Russia's Museum of Architecture is falling apart.
Deep cracks slice through its floors, ceilings and windows

**  Latest series of Blackbeard dives winds down
They didn't bring up a large cannon or a ship's bell with a date, but this
fall's dive expedition to the shipwreck believed to be the Queen Anne's
Revenge (QAR) has given up unique treasures for study

**  Celebrating a Demonized Plant
Only in Bolivia can one find a museum dedicated to the much-maligned and
misunderstood coca leaf

**  Gold of the Nomads: Scythian Treasures from Ancient Ukraine
The first major exhibition of Scythian art in the United States in more than
a quarter century, the exhibition includes more than 170 crafted pieces,
many of them excavated in the last decade from lavishly provisioned tombs

**  Sabah Museum to charge entrance fee
For years, visitors wanting to learn Sabah's history at the state museum
could do so for free but this is going to change from January
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**  Stolen ENIGMA Machine Sent to Jeremy Paxman
The device was stolen from Bletchley Park Museum in April and a man,
claiming to be an intermediary, had demanded £25,000 for its safe return

**  Excursion rules list school guidelines
The government published detailed guidance on school trips two years ago
after a series of incidents including the Lyme Bay canoeing tragedy in which
four sixth formers died

**  Waitomo Museum upgrade
The Waitomo Museum of Caves claims a $300,000 upgrade has turned it into the
world's best place to learn about caves

**  Oscar Wilde: second-rate poseur and plagiarist
Why is the Barbican honouring Oscar Wilde with an exhibition perpetuating
the myth that the old fraud was a judge of art and arbiter of taste?

**  The Quackatorium
Welcome to the fascinating and somewhat creepy world of antique medical
quackery and electrotherapy devices. Discover the Radio Disease Killer,
Sinusoidal cabinets and other contraptions

**  Settlement is reached over Matisse
The Seattle Art Museum will get at least one free work of art or cash to
settle a dispute with a venerable New York art dealer over an Henri Matisse
painting

**  Cultural group claims 'raw deal' from museum
The new Employment Relations Contract Act did not influence the Auckland War
Memorial Museum's decision to dump Maori cultural group Pounamu, says
director of programmes

**  Atlantis city is discovered under ground
The ruins of an ancient town whose fate could have been the basis for the
legend of Atlantis have been discovered on the southern shore of the Gulf of
Corinth

**  Women's course from the barrier to the line
In one display at Caulfield's Australian Racing Museum is an elaborate
collection of Lillian Frank's hats. In another is a sign that says "Ladies
not permitted beyond this point".

**  Barnes art display threatened by poor funding
One of America's national treasures, the Barnes Foundation's $6 billion art
collection, is threatened by lack of operating funds that enables it to
opens its doors to the public even on a limited basis

**  A wonder to behold
Art works dating from the Renaissance are displayed alongside medical books,
wax models and instruments

**  French ceramic works on display
An exhibition of French ceramic masterpieces will kick off in downtown Seoul
tomorrow, showcasing the irresistible beauty of the exquisite ceramic
traditions of the European fine arts powerhouse

**  The Family Silver
For nearly 2 1/2 centuries, the Buccellati family of Italy has kept alive a
craft dating back to the Renaissance, turning silver into exquisitely
wrought jewelry, candlesticks, cups, urns, bowls and other household items

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**  Victorians  invited to take part in history
Victorians have been invited to join in the history-making celebrations that
will mark the opening of Melbourne Museum Stage One in Carlton Gardens on
the weekend of October 21 & 22.



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