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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Royal gems snatched in museum raid
Dutch police are trying to work out how a priceless haul of diamonds -
including some belonging to the Dutch royal family - was snatched from an
exhibition in The Hague
** Smithsonian treads lightly in runestone debate
The Smithsonian Institution, regretting its endorsement of Minnesota's
Kensington Runestone 54 years ago, takes a tougher stand in its Viking
exhibit now at the Science Museum of Minnesota
** Roger the Rigger
The fashionably bald, black t-shirt- and blue jeans-wearing rigger scampers
around running chains under the Lion of Amenhotep III
** UFOs in 15th century paintings
Italy's Old Masters were recording flying saucers and UFOs in their
paintings as far back as the 15th century, according to a scientist in Rome
** Conservation Now Focus
Archaeologists and conservators have finished removing sediment from the
Civil War ironclad USS Monitor's gun turret
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** Sarajevo Haggadah goes on display
For the first time in its turbulent history, the world-famous Sarajevo
Haggadah is now on permanent public display
** The secret language of janitors
At 23,000 single-spaced typewritten pages, Darger's "The Realms," as it is
generally known, is undoubtedly the longest story ever written by a single
human being
** David comes clean: after 130 years it's time for a bath
Minute residue that was scattered in 1991, when a vandal hammered one of
David's toes, is being analysed to check the stability of the marble itself
** Exhibition Chronicles New Yorkers' Love of Food
Much of the material is drawn from the collection of a woman known as Miss
Frank E. Buttolph who assembled more than 25,000 menus
** Antarctic adventures
This kid glove treatment stands in stark contrast to the hammering the
'James Caird' received as it made its way through the pack ice to Elephant
Island.
** Star Wars Exhibit Planned
The Museum of Science in Boston and Lucasfilm are developing The Science of
Star Wars, an exhibition that will use the film franchise as a gateway to
understanding the role of technology in the future
** Dazed and confused over Thai opium ride
First reactions to Thailand's giant new opium museum in the Golden Triangle
are confused: pleasant surprise at cool air, but then disorientation, shock,
even fear
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** A museum of tolerance in a city of fanatics
The skeletons of such white elephants are scattered throughout the city, and
others that up until recently were considered "vital for the very existence
of the city" are struggling to survive
** Guggenheim museum chair donates $12 million but only after getting
budget cuts
The billionaire who withheld money from charities in his hometown Cleveland
has given the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum $12 million
** 'Jesus box' museum goes PC by dumping B.C.
The Canadian museum currently displaying an ancient box purported to be the
ossuary of Jesus' brother James is no longer using the Christian
designations of B.C. and A.D. to mark the calendar
** £28 million museum opens in Falmouth
The new £28 million National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall, threw
open its doors yesterday for its 'sea trial' period
** Slavery museum due to open in 2007
"It has always been my feeling that, unpleasant as the subject (of slavery)
may be for some people, we need to know about it," said Harris, who teaches
African history at Howard
** 'I had a whale of a time'
Kay Mander worked for the Nazis and hung out with the communists - but all
she really wanted to do was make films
** They Almost Changed the World
It's easy to forget that the history of American invention is a huge
collection of failed ideas, some brilliant and unlucky, many febrile and
plain idiotic
** Treasures found in museum move
Other bizarre entries in the museum's catalogue include a 1792 carved
coconut showing one of the first known drawings of a kangaroo to arrive in
the UK, and an American Indian scalp
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** The National Film Preservation Foundation invites proposals for its
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** The Samuel H. Kress Conservation Fellow at the Royal Cabinet of
Paintings Mauritshuis
** When The World's Hog Butcher Met The Arts And Crafts Aesthetic
** Salvage from the wreck of the warship Sussex which sank of Gibraltar in
1694.
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