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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Peking Man cave near collapse
UNESCO has threatened to shame Beijing into action after the Peking Man
cave, a World Heritage Site, fell into disrepair
** Museum breathes life into sumo heritage
Sumo usually brings to mind images of gigantic men grappling amid cameras
flashing and the cheers of spectators
** Director rejects museum criticism
Dawn Casey, came out yesterday fighting accusations of fabricated
exhibitions, too much razzle-dazzle, and excessive use of oral history and
audio-visuals.
** Museum ship sparks emergency scare
A 100-year-old museum ship sparked an emergency scare after being lashed by
near gale force winds and heavy swells
** All in favor of an air museum stand and holler, 'That's embarrassing!'
If most people who live in Wichita don't know where the museum is, I
thought, how can it ever be expected to survive?
** German Laurel and Hardy museum to close
Germany's only museum dedicated to Laurel and Hardy is closing down after
more than a decade
** Crevice holds treasure trove of bones
A chalky crevice containing the remains of numerous prehistoric animals,
including mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and giant deer has been discovered
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** Bottles, nails and a lot of laughs
What is probably the largest collection of Canadian humour in the country is
stored between the chest freezer and the laundry tub
** Shoe firm heiress leaves £1m statue to Scotland
Her family faced owing around £2 million from her £4.7 million estate to the
tax man under inheritance rules
** The grave of Chinggis Khan?
Of no doubt, it was a sacred place of great khans of Emperor Chinghis and of
his golden ancestors
** King Arthur exhibition sets out to prove he lived in Scotland
An exhibition to prove King Arthur was real and lived in southern Scotland
will be staged in Glasgow this Autumn
** Come look in the cupboard
She is one of the few who in the past decade has been able to pry open the
cupboards of Britain's museums to find the Australian skeletons lying there
** Dublin plans new lifestyle museum
A new museum to showcase Dublin's historical treasures is to be built in the
capital
** Cannibalism widespread in Stone Age
Cannibalism was widespread among our Stone Age ancestors, who butchered
humans like animals and cooked their flesh in ceramic pots
** Playscape opens at Children's Museum
Turning household discards into creative designs has become child's play at
the Assembly Plant
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** Is Noah's Ark under the Black Sea?
A joint US-Bulgarian venture hopes to unearth the remains of a lost
civilisation, which could clarify the timing and site of the legendary
biblical flood
** Vatican goes commercial
From Vatican-themed chocolates to copies of priceless artifacts available
over the Internet, the Vatican Library is opening the door to commercial
exploitation
** Venture through the body in museum's fantastic voyage
Patrons at one of the world's most visited museums can take a shot at saving
the life of an astronaut infected with deadly Martian microbes
** African American Museum Seeks Advice
The new African American Museum of San Francisco will seek advice from the
public to determine what it will showcase
** Love story station's romantic revival
Restoration work has begun to take Carnforth station in Lancashire back to
its good old days when it formed the backdrop to the classic film Brief
Encounter
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** The Changing International Landscape Of Cultural Policies
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** Free Screenings for Prostate Awareness Month offered at National Museum
of Health and Medicine
** The Winedale Museum Seminar on Administration & Interpretation
** Call for papers "Beyond Camps and Forced Labour"
** Cultural Studies and Art History
** Ethnography in the Metropole: Colonial Meaning-making and Post-colonial
World Culture
** "Representing Design, 1400 to the present" Design History Society
Annual Conference 2001
** The Fundamentals of Digital Projects
** Picton's UltraMarine festival
** Changing exhibits and need help creating new tours?
** Museums Australia National Conference 18-22 March 2002, Adelaide
** Australian Anthropological Society Inc. (AAS) Conference 2001: 27-29
September
** Between the Sheets: A Century of Australian Music 22 August - 11
November 2001
** 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital
Libraries
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