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The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine at this
address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** With Rug Pulled From Under Its Feet, Museum Is Reeling
The Museum of the City of New York, which had staked its future on a move to
the elegant, expensively renovated Tweed Courthouse downtown by City Hall,
faces uncertainty
** Faberg* Easter egg given by tsar is likely to fetch £4m
The world's most expensive Easter egg, originally given by Tsar Nicholas II
to his mother, is to be auctioned next month with an estimate of £4m
** Move to take the sex out of ships sparks a mutiny
Seafarers everywhere were outraged yesterday by the news that ships are to
be unsexed
** New Scientific Discoveries Yield Further Insight Into the Circumstances
Of Otzi the Iceman's Death
Scientists working on the preservation and study of the world's oldest
mummy, announced new findings
** Hull splashes out on tanks, coral and sharks - but don't call it an
aquarium
An elaborate "submarium" featuring 35ft fish tanks populated by baby
hammerhead sharks will be unveiled in Hull today
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** Primitive horned dinosaur was a real pussy cat
The dinosaur takes its name from the Chinese province and village - Liaoning
and Yanzigou - in which it was discovered
** Our Feature Site: The Workhouse
The workhouse was often a grim and brutal place, but its story is also a
fascinating mix of social history, politics, economics and architecture
** Populist confirmed as new head of National Gallery
The new director of the National Gallery in London is to come from the
institution next door
** Forbidden City to Start Large Repair Project
A monumental repair project to restore the grandeur and magnificence of
Beijing's world-famous Palace Museum will soon be underway
** Criticism of Giotto Restoration
From the stubble on a donkey's chin to tears staining a mother's face, a
just-completed cleaning has revealed telling new details in the frescoes of
Italian artist Giotto
** Unitas hands off to Ruth Museum
Johnny Unitas has donated his personal collection of football memorabilia to
the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore
** Longitude clock comes alive
One of the most famous clocks ever built is running again this week - the
first time it has done so in over a decade
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** Freighting a precious cargo
One regular passenger flight from Italy to Australia in recent days carried
an irregular passenger
** Gaining insight into the Great Auk
Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum's Centre for Biodiversity and
Conservation Biology have been extracting DNA from the bone of the Great Auk
** Innovative building to show dinosaur stampede
A $2 million building in western Queensland is set to break new ground in
the display and preservation of the world's only recorded dinosaur stampede
** Whew! Stealth asteroid nearly blindsides Earth
A sizable asteroid zipped near our planet this month without anyone noticing
because it travelled through an astronomical blind spot
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** Museum problems are closer to home
Its excessive caution in rejecting the opportunity last year to exhibit the
Dead Sea Scrolls did its credibility no favours
** World trade in bodies is linked to corpse art show
As shock art it's hard to beat but behind the controversial travelling
corpse show, Body Worlds, just opened in London , lies a morbid
international trade in cadavers
** Copper ingots from wreck return to Cornwall
Five ingots of Cornish copper are returning to their home county after lying
on the seabed for 120 years
** Clamour over Il Duce's Bed
Part of Benito Mussolini's private compound in Rome was opened up as a
museum and is already ruffling feathers in a country still trying to come to
terms with its fascist past
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** "Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America" opens at The Center For Maine
History Museum at Maine Historical Society
** Australian Archaeology Conferences 2002
** Archaeology and Heritage in Flanders, Belgium: A Multi-Cultural European
Past
** Midwest Archives Conference spring meeting
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