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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:
** New theory airs on Gardner museum theft
As the 14th anniversary of the theft of priceless artwork from the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum approaches, a new account of the daring heist has
emerged, one centring on a Charlestown underworld figure and the Irish
Republican Army
** WWI peas stand test of time
A 90-year-old can of peas from World War I has gone on show at a new
exhibition of battlefield food
** 'Rings' exhibit is coming to Boston
You don't have to travel to New Zealand to get the inside scoop on the movie
that swept the Oscars
** Art dealer who forged ahead with scam
An international art dealer has been charged by the American authorities
with masterminding a multi-million-pound scam in which he conned collectors
and auction houses, including Christie's in London, into buying forgeries
** Museum keeper with a dash of Disney
Chalmers helped this scholarly showbusiness along when he turned off the
lights in a dark and dangerous Victorian horror called the spirit building
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** Japanese Museums bid to widen leisure appeal
Museums want you to drop by, of course, but they also want you to linger, to
explore, take your time - the whole afternoon, if possible
** British man unearths hoard of Roman coins while digging backyard fish
pond
The mint marks - letters or symbols used to indicate the mint which produced
the coin - suggest Trier in Germany, and Constantinople (now Istanbul), in
Turkey, as possible places of origin
** A museum to 'knock your socks off'
With a $15 million boost from Salt Lake County taxpayers, The Children's
Museum of Utah is ready to outfit a new facility called the Discovery Centre
** Exhibition brings African photography to light
While the vibrancy of African dance and music has long been appreciated
outside the continent, one artistic endeavour that has gone more or less
unnoticed until recently is photography
** Gallery faces closure over bronzes
A multimillion-dollar deal to bring hundreds of bronze sculptures attributed
to the French master Auguste Rodin to a small Ontario art gallery has
collapsed
** Archaeologists in Ethiopia Hope for Older 'Lucy'
Archaeologists studying human origins in eastern Ethiopia said a wealth of
new finds meant they could hope to discover even older and more complete
specimens than the famous fossil "Lucy."
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** Lifting the veil
Marital intrigue among the great Italian families has kept a masterpiece by
Botticelli from the public eye for almost 500 years - until today
** Australian Museum Finds More Skeletons In Cupboard
Visitors to the exhibition will see a plaque reading, "None of the items on
show in Uncovered. Treasures from the Australian Museum represent items
stolen from the Museum"
** Gift of country estate turns sour
The estate was opened to the public as the Bentley wildfowl and motor museum
and quickly became a tourist attraction
** Peruvian library to transfer priceless books to museum
A history with notes written in the margin by a half-Spanish son of Inca
royalty and the first book ever printed in Latin America are just two of the
treasures that Peru's National Library plans to transfer
** Daughter of press tycoon claims £1.9m urns are imitations
She is suing Christie's and the Marquess for the return of her £1.9m, plus
10 years' interest.
** Museum Director Wants Back Pay
Sharon Bode-Hempton is requesting back pay for her five-day suspension in
January, as well as removal from her record of the suspension and a written
reprimand
** Silicon Valley history in a virtual museum
Two weeks from today, the museum plans to join with other history
organizations to roll out Silicon Valley's first multi-institutional history
Web site
** Acropolis Museum jinx holds
One day after the Council of State ordered a temporary halt to work on the
new Acropolis Museum, court sources yesterday said that a senior prosecutor
has ordered that criminal charges be brought against senior Culture Ministry
officials who approved the project
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