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The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine) in this
week's edition include:
** New museum chief makes early start
Neil MacGregor is being consulted about major current initiatives at the
cash-strapped British Museum even though he does not become its director
until August
** Maritime legacy of city to be recognised
The Glenlee tall ship, one of only five Clyde-built sailing ships still
afloat, will provide a centre-piece for the new museum
** Former Permanent Secretary Charged With Sh11m Theft
Former Permanent Secretary, Dr Mohammed Abdi Isahakia, was yesterday charged
with theft of more than Sh11million from the National Museums of Kenya
** Stolen Chagall Possibly Found
Agents said the 8-by-10-inch oil is probably the French-Russian painter's
``Study for `Over Vitebsk,''' valued at about $1 million
** By George! Cherry trees outside Brooklyn museum are chopped down
A museum publicity campaign about the project included brochures describing
the new front structure as a civic plaza for people to walk dogs and let
children play
** Museum manager walks the dinosaur
Where she'll end up is up in the air, and Pendleton refused to say whether
she'd prefer one museum over the other
** Register your dinosaur
A deadline is looming for anyone who has ever succumbed to the temptation to
pick up a prehistoric stone tool, or a chunk of fossil wood and take it home
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** Charities Hurt By Enron Collapse
The 6-year-old Holocaust Museum Houston, which depends on Enron for up to 10
percent of its annual budget, is planning to find that $235,000 elsewhere
** Scientists to study Giant Asteroids by steering them into Earth
Scientists hope the redirected asteroid, now expected to strike Earth by
June of 2003, will also settle a pair of long-running debates
** Royal treatment for a princely collection
Just six years before the museum opened, Poland's powerful neighbors -
Russia, Prussia and Austria - had carved up the country between them
** Weisman museum installation addresses women's aging
Once that blush is off, they have nothing to go on but wit and workouts,
brains, moxie, resumes and little white lies
** Roy Rogers Saddle Set Sold for $412,000
In all, 30 pieces from the Rogers collection were sold during the 12th High
Noon auction and show
** Museum robbed
Burglars have plunged the Papua New Guinean National Museum and Art Gallery
into further trouble with another raid on the Waigani institution
** Italy Battles Back Tomb Raiders
Say ``Italian crime'' and Mafia dons in shades and sharp suits may spring to
mind
** Feature site: the Cold War Museum
Spy tours, trivia games and the 'Cold war Times'. Visit this Smithsonian
affiliate online
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** Davie museum shows children the pioneer way
Milking a cow, juicing an orange and pumping water from a well are just a
few of the things that John Diaz, 5, learned visiting the Old Davie School
Historical Museum
** Restored fighter on display
An F-15 Eagle jet fighter has gone on display at the Imperial War Museum at
Duxford in Cambridgeshire.
** Museum of Barbarism Recalls Cyprus's Bloody Past
Nearly 40 years after it was shed, curators have painted over some of the
blood and brain spattered on the bathroom walls of the Museum of Barbarism
** Whale of a Deal in Internet Sale
A Canadian amateur anthropologist has gone online to sell the 158-year-old
skeleton of a humpback whale after the museum that had housed the artifact
closed down
** Nigeria wants Bronzes back
In language reminiscent of the festering row between Britain and Greece over
the Elgin Marbles, the motion declared that the Bronzes were ruthlessly
plundered by the British Empire
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** FamiSalute to Educators
** Documenting Underdocumented Populations & Communities
** Further 10 million Pound boost for UK non-national museums
** Rediscover The Walker
** Communities Everywhere 'Get Involved' in World IT Congress
** Digital Cultural Heritage IV: Networked Virtual Museums and Memory
Institutions
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