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** The Forbidden City Gets a Starbucks
Growing controversy about the Starbucks outlet prompted employees to remove
its trademark round green signs from outside the shop, making it virtually
impossible to distinguish from the dozens of gift shops dotting the massive
complex of palaces and courtyards where China's emperors once lived.
** Our Website of the Week - Kommern Das Museum
Europe's finest open-air museum has a web presence that is easy to navigate
and announces the best of what it has to offer. From farm animals to
heritage buildings and village reconstructions
** Brazil's poor scratch a living from fossil trade
Mr Antonio supplements his meagre income from working on the land in the
drought-afflicted northeast of Brazil by selling fossils to tourists and
palaeontologists
** New York behind plan for new Guggenheim Museum
The new 40-story museum, designed by Frank O. Gehry, would be located on
three piers at the foot of Wall Street
** Ataturk items turned yacht into a museum
Now the small bedspread is back in Ataturk's stateroom on the Savarona along
with other artifacts that have turned the two-room suite into a jewel of a
museum.
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** Treasures of the Arabia Steamboat's buried wreckage offers a glimpse of
Twain's time
Although the loss of the steamboat certainly wasn't a tragedy of the
magnitude of the Titanic or Lusitania - a mule perished, but 130 passengers
and 30 crew members were spared - the finds provide an incredible window on
life in the wilderness
** RAF exhibition takes off with £4.7m lottery aid
The RAF Museum is to receive £4.7 million from the National Lottery to build
an exhibition centre that will vastly increase the number of aircraft on
view to the public
** Carlos mummy may be pharaoh patriarch
Ever since the Carlos acquired 10 mummies from a Canadian museum more than a
year ago, museum officials have suspected that one - a 5-foot, 5-inch male -
might be of royal lineage
** "Canceled": Exhibiting Experimental Art in China
The contemporary artists and curators who make and exhibit experimental
works in mainland China face many challenges, including persistent state
censorship
** Maybe extinction is not forever
More than a century later, a taxidermist, who believes that the tragic tale
of the quagga can also be a story of redemption, has dreams of doing
something once thought impossible: bringing the quagga back to life
** Liverpool photographer's heritage to be immortalised on home ground
The National Trust is to acquire the home, negatives and old bicycle of an
internationally-admired Liverpool photographer
** Hyderabad to get to keep its jewels in the town
Part of the 141-year-old Chow Mohalla palace complex in Hyderabad, the
former seat of government and residence of the Nizams, is now being
converted into a museum
** Holocaust 'trunks' aid in teaching tolerance
Jack Adler told them he was 16, about their age, when he was liberated from
a German concentration camp. He weighed 60 pounds
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** Skeleton Has Scientists Jumpy
"Frankly, it makes me nervous," Smithsonian Institution anthropologist
Stephen Loring said of the idea that the first Americans during the Ice Age
were of European ancestry
** Guitars Take Center Stage for Boston Exhibit
Never have 129 guitars enchanted crowds so much with silence
** Ancient princess sparks a tri-nation dispute
Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan have become embroiled in an archaeological
tussle over what is believed to be the 2600-year-old mummified remains of a
Persian princess found in a house in the remote Baluchistan desert
** Business-To-Unemployment (B2U) Dubbed Next Big Thing
It's taken a couple of years for the Next Big Thing in e-business to reveal
itself
** SFMOMA Loses Fight Over Patron's Picasso
A judge has thrown out the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's lawsuit
against the heirs of a longtime patron over the sale of a prized Picasso
painting
** Storage Space Needed for Dead Whales
Two whale skulls are waiting under a tarp outside a University of
Massachusetts building in Amherst and another is in a storage trailer
because they are too big to fit through the door
** Yemen mines may be Solomon's treasures
If Charles Fipke weren't already Canada's most famous prospector for
discovering the country's first diamond mine, tracking down King Solomon's
fabled gold mines in Yemen would certainly secure him the title
** 2 WINNERS! Global Museum Caption Contest **
** Museum Professional Training
The American Association of Museums' Committee on Museum Professional
Training (COMPT)
** Canadian Archaeological Association annual meeting at the Banff Centre
** Volunteering: The Olympic Legacy
** First Call For Papers: THE 2001 ONTARIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL
MEETINGS, HAMILTON, ONTARIO.
** News for those interested in UTAGAWA Hiroshige
** Alutiiq Museum Honored with National Award
** Spring 2001 Course offerings at the University of Victoria
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NEW MUSEUM BOOKS:
English Silver in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Volume 2
by Ellen M. Alcorn, Ellenor M. Alcorn
Publication date: October 15, 2000
Publisher: MFA Publications
Binding:Hardcover
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0878464808/drdrumsnotforpro
John F. Kennedy: The Presidential Portfolio: History as Told Through the
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
by Charles Kenney, Michael R. Beschloss (Introduction)
Publication date: October 25, 2000
Publisher: Public Affairs
Binding:Hardcover
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1891620363/drdrumsnotforpro
Impressionist and Post - Impressionist Paintings
by Fogg Art Museum(Editor)
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Binding: Paperback
Subjects: Art; Stationery / Gift Wrap; History - Impressionism
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486414744/drdrumsnotforpro
Designing the New Museum
by Rockport(Editor), James Grayson Trulove
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Rockport Pub
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Architecture; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Design
& Drafting
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1564966895/drdrumsnotforpro
Coosa : The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom (Florida
Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
by Marvin T. Smith, Jerald T. Milanich
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Coosa Indians; History; Politics and government
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813018110/drdrumsnotforpro
Biogeochemical Approaches in Paleodietary Analysis (Advances in
Archaeological and Museum Science, V. 5)
by S. Ambrose(Editor), Mary Anne Katzenberg (Editor)
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples; Food; Human remains (Archaeology)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0306464578/drdrumsnotforpro
From Attila to Charlemagne : Arts of the Early Medieval Period in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia, 1)
by Katharine Reynolds Brown(Editor), et al
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Binding: Paperback
Subjects: Decorative arts, Early Christi; Congresses; Decorative arts,
Medieval
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0870999680/drdrumsnotforpro
Romantics, Realists, Revolutionaries : Masterpieces of 19th Century German
Painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
by Helga Aurisch, et al
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Prestel USA
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Art; Exhibition Catalogs; Art & Art Instruction
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/3791323806/drdrumsnotforpro
Images of Spirit for Philadelphia Museum of Art
by Graciela Iturbide
Publication date: November 2000
Publisher: Aperture
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Art
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0893818321/drdrumsnotforpro
Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Theodore E. Stebbins, Peter C. Sutton (Photographer)
Publication date: November 1, 2000
Publisher: Harry N Abrams
Binding:Hardcover
Subjects: Painting; Massachusetts; Boston
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810914247/drdrumsnotforpro
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