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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:
** Former Museum Director Sentenced For Credit Card Fraud
Mullins admitted to using the museum's credit card to buy nine thousand
dollars worth of furniture, groceries and airline tickets.
** Fame at last for duck that met an ignoble end
The first museum scientist to record homosexual necrophilia in the mallard
duck, the inventors of Murphy's law and a group of Swedes who trained
chickens to distinguish men from women were among the winners of the "Ig
Nobel" prizes announced yesterday
** Hope Diamond Goes on Display in D.C.
It's like holding a bit of ancient India, the French Revolution, Georgian
England and Gilded Age America in one magnificent moment
** 'Priceless artifacts' lost in Trolley Museum blaze
When firefighters arrived, raging flames had ripped through the roof of the
car house that stored the eight vintage streetcars
** Museum keepers doing venomous-reptile presentations
Response to the daily hour-long presentations, which began this month, has
"taken off like crazy," said Bill Altimari, an animal keeper at the museum
** Museum offers rare display of nature drawings
A rare opportunity to view drawings and prints from Europe's oldest public
art collection is being offered by the Kunstmuseum in Basel
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** Older Layers Of Pompeii Unearthed
In the future, the archaeologists hope to fully recover the third century
rooms and make them accessible to the visitors.
** A museum's ship comes in
The $13 million project to convert a more than century-old coffee warehouse
into the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park should be complete by
the end of next year
** Heritage museum on Harlem's mind
Roberts unveiled an artist's rendering of the museum - which would include
art galleries, interactive learning centers, gift shops, banquet halls and
an upscale restaurant
** The Scots - Dyed-in-the- Wool Montrealers
Visitors will be initiated into the intricacies of this cultural community's
unique religious traditions and ethnic associations, their military service
and business acumen
** Rolf Harris painted Monet's Waterlilies and other masterpieces, say
scholars
Some of the most famous paintings in western museums were not painted by
Monet, Van Gogh, Munch, Jackson Pollock et al, as originally believed, but
by Australian entertainer Rolf Harris, according to shocking new research
likely to embarrass art historians and academics
** Campaign Launched to Save Historic Mill Made from Warship
Maritime historians from both sides of the Atlantic today launched a
campaign to save a mill made from the timbers of a United States ship
captured by the Royal Navy 200 years ago
** Cuts Hit Staff Hard at Denver Nature & Science Museum
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science appears to be making the toughest
staff adjustments of any major Denver cultural institution in the wake of
declining sales- tax funding
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** Roman souvenir of wall found
The bronze pan, dating from the second century AD, when the Romans built the
dividing wall across the north of England, was found in the Staffordshire
moorlands
** Museum honours Diego Maradona
The boots worn by Diego Maradona during the controversial 1986 World Cup
game against England and the telegraph announcing his first national call up
are mong 400 items on show in a travelling Museum launched in honour of the
Argentine idol in Buenos Aires
** Gallery approved for Christchurch museum
Museum director Anthony Wright said the inclusion of the McDougall into the
museum complex was critical to the museum's planned $34.1 million expansion
** Arson blamed for fire at Eureka's Reagan museum
A sprinkler system helped quell flames but the fire left smoke and water
damage in the storeroom, destroying some plaques, trophies, books, papers
and a large portrait of the actor-turned-president.
** Head lice key to clothing history
A team based in Germany has worked out that humans probably first began
wearing clothes 72,000 years ago - give or take 40,000 years
** Shock of the New
But at times the whole museum scene feels like a seminar room, with the art
itself only an illustration of the words surrounding it
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** Family Archives Preservation Day
** Traveling Exhibition Workshop
** Exhibitions as Contested Sites website, industry symposium and online
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** Ocean Oasis, a giant-screen film about the Baja California peninsula and
the Sea of Cortés
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