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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Denver Museum Gambles Millions on Space
Facing declining attendance and thinning donor ranks, the Denver Museum of
Nature & Science gambled with a $50 million investment in permanent exhibits
and technology
** China seeks return of war spoils
In the final days of World War II, as conquered Japanese troops fled from
ports along China's eastern coast, they took with them scores of Chinese
paintings, calligraphy and other artifacts - some dating back thousands of
years
** Dawn of human race uncovered
The 160,000-year-old finds plug an important gap in the fossil record around
the time our species first appeared and provides strong new evidence that
Homo sapiens originated only in Africa
** Lost from the Baghdad museum: truth
And the only problem with it is that it's nonsense. It isn't true. It's made
up. It's bollocks
** Rare Elvis artefacts on display
A collection of Elvis's personal memorabilia, including a set of his
fingerprints and his favourite motorbike, is to go on show in Liverpool
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** Queen smells a rat to boost tourism
The Queen was treated to the smells of mid-19th century sailors'
accommodation as she opened a museum
** Museum of Chinese characters to be established
Jiaguwen, with a history of over 3,000 years, is one of the world's four
paleography, or ancient writing systems
** Russian Tea Room Golf Museum On Ropes
The golf world may have made a blooper by spending $16 million to buy the
fabled Russian Tea Room as a golfers' museum
** Streets of shame
During his rambles through the city, his eye fell on prostitutes and
parvenus, apprentices and aristocrats, the up-and-coming and the
down-and-out
** Iraq to reopen Museum
Among the items on show would be the Treasure of Nimrud, a priceless set of
gem-studded gold Assyrian jewelry displayed only once, briefly, in the last
3,000 years
** Trafalgar battle over Spanish wind farm plan
In the same spot in 1805, winds helped a British force under Admiral Horatio
Nelson defeat a larger combined Franco-Spanish fleet - giving Britain
dominance of the waves for over a century
** First natural museum under construction in Tibet
Affected by warm and wet airflow from the Indian Ocean, Linzhi is covered by
forest and inhabited by wild animals such as Bengali Tigers, leopards and
bears
** Nefertiti Found?
New evidence suggests that a battered and long-forgotten mummy may be
Egypt's mysterious lost queen
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** His place in history
The British Library and the British Museum had been joined for 248 years,
and it was like splitting Siamese twins to move the books to St Pancras.
** Ocean life goes interactive
A year or two ago, when you entered the old Hall of Ocean Life at the
American Museum of Natural History, it was like walking into a huge black
box
** Van Gogh's ear to be sold at auction
In the journal the farmer relates how he found the bloodied ear lying in the
grass near an abandoned half-eaten baguette and an empty bottle of absinthe
** Woolly mammoths dined on prairie sage
The animals inhabited a landmass called Beringia that connected present-day
Siberia and Alaska and is now submerged under the Bering Sea
** Giving a tinker's cuss
The life of the tinker is, sadly, a tale lost in time, along with other rare
trades that have disappeared in modern Australia
** Which Billy did Pat Garrett get?
Modern science is about to touch Garrett's fame in a way that some say could
expose him as a liar who covered up a murder to save his reputation
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and Designing Experience-Based Exhibits
** Computing and Multilingual, Multicultural Heritage
** Exhibition Planning and Management: Transforming Concept into Reality
** Museums and Digital Photography: A Dialogue with a Manufacturer
** The 2003 Otago Museum/NHNZ Otago Wildlife Photography Competition
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