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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:
** Big expansion plan for US museum
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is spending almost $180m (£96.2m) on
an expansion to display thousands of the world's finest classical artworks
** Clay's clothes to be display at N.C. museum
The white Italian-made shirt, black pinstriped pants and shoes that singer
Clay Aiken wore in an early round of "American Idol" will be exhibited at
the N.C. Museum of History
** Iranians Flock to See British Sculpture in Tehran
Purple doughnuts, a crucified skeleton and a fish in an electric heater are
luring hundreds of Iranians to the first major exhibition of British art
since the 1979 Islamic revolution
** Curator thinks hoopla says something about Chicago
The Bartman ball will be destroyed tonight. But should it be?
** Ancient Egypt goes online
IBM and the Egyptian Government have launched the results of a $3.5m three
year, online multimedia project
** Skulls replaced by photographs at exhibit
A display of mutilated human skulls from victims of Cambodia's former Khmer
Rouge regime has been removed from a museum
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** Memoirs of the geisha
Their sleekly coiffed black hair and stark white faces, painted red lips and
lush silk kimonos seem to hail from a distant century
** Teen destroys reporter in museum simulator
It wasn't crashing three times that left me a bit ticked off as I walked
away from the newest exhibit at the U.S. Space and Rocket Centre
** Seafaring clue to first Americans
People in North America were voyaging by sea some 8,000 years ago, boosting
a theory that some of the continent's first settlers arrived there by boat
** WTC items taken by FBI agents
State Museum archivists who worked closely with FBI officials in gathering
artefacts for an ongoing 9/11 exhibit at the State Museum defended the
agents they worked with at the site
** Emperor strikes back
A scruffy bronze coin, unveiled at the British Museum proves that the Roman
emperor Domitianus was not a Victorian forgery but a real ruler
** Utah Museum to Return Stolen Art
The researcher told the museum of her finding about a month ago, and the Art
Loss Register, an organization set up to help claimants recover stolen art,
was contacted
** Uffizi to double in size as Italy tries to outdo Louvre
Italy is to try to turn the Uffizi gallery in Florence into Europe's premier
art museum, with an ambitious 56m euro (£38m) scheme to double its
exhibition space
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** This Week's Horoscopes
Pisces: (Feb. 19-March 20): Replacing you with a machine would have been
overkill. Your functions are being handled by a hideous piece of public art
** Specimen Museum boasts of world largest collections
According to introduction, the museum has collected 220, 000 plant specimens
with 50,000 associated, and the animal specimens including birds, beasts,
fish and amphibians, numbering 154,400 in total
** Rare denizen of deep a great catch for museum
Mr Johnson thanked the fisherman, who had previously helped scientists
search for strange creatures which lived around deep sea mounts, or
mountains, on the floor of the Coral Sea
** High-Tech Future for National Museum
A five-year commitment by the Finnish government to restore and modernise
the National Museum of Namibia is on the way to becoming a reality
** Clinton Library Ships $1 Million Contract, and Jobs, Overseas
The last Democrat to hold the office is having a Scottish firm build nearly
$1 million worth of cabinets for his presidential library
** Greek Museum Won't Be Ready for Olympics
The museum at the foot of the Acropolis hill - held up by court actions from
residents - is a key part of Athens' drive to press for the return of the
collection from the British Museum in London
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** Temple of Doom - Ritual Sacrifice in Ancient Peru
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