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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:
** Lens puts new angle on the Louvre
From a 16th century Parisian palace to the deserted slag heaps of northern
industrial France ... the decision to build an annexe of the Louvre in the
depressed former mining town of Lens has taken France by surprise
** Man tries to spray Jacko sculpture with blood
A man sprayed his own blood at a sculpture of pop star Michael Jackson that
is part of a Berlin exhibit of artworks belonging to the heir of a Nazi-era
arms supplier
** Doing the Hermitage hustle at museum
''No time, no time. Follow,'' said the buzz-cut, imperious Boris, as he
marched us through the vast museum in the Russian city of St. Petersburg,
through rooms lined with paintings by Monet and Matisse, Picasso and van
Gogh.
** Michelangelo's final chapel is a revelation
The documents found in the archives - including the contract for the chapel,
dated August 1562 - proved not only that the design of was Michelangelo's
own but the great artist had personally supervised "every detail, day by
day" until his death
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** Damage from burst water pipe forces museum to close
It appears a pipe joint connecting a section of the museum's fire
suppression system was not properly crimped when it was installed more than
25 years ago
** Museum move puts butterfly world in a flutter
Dissent has broken out at the Natural History Museum over plans to move the
world's greatest butterfly and moth collection while a £65 million glass and
steel display centre is built
** Viking map may rewrite US history
Danish experts will travel to the U.S. to study evidence that the Vikings
landed in the New World five centuries before Columbus
** Another crack at the code
A mysterious carved code at a British country house is not, as it turns out,
an 18th century signpost to the location of the Holy Grail
** Just call me Jin, says the man who would be emperor
The heir to the imperial throne of China, were the Qing dynasty to be
somehow restored after a 93-year absence, is quite happy with his job in a
Beijing council office, a few blocks away from the Forbidden City where his
uncle once sat as the last emperor
** Gold coin earns brass for Kiwi copper
The coin - which was minted during the reign of Emperor Jovinus, who briefly
ruled the Western Roman Empire between 411 and 413 - had a reserve price of
4500 but bids reached a staggering 16,500
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** Singapore History Museum to be renamed when it reopens
This is because most people, including taxi drivers, still remember the
119-year-old landmark by this name
** Aborigines threaten to pull artefacts from museum
The clash is one of many this year between the museum and the Dja Dja
Wurrung people of north-western Victoria, who are embroiled in a legal
battle to block the return of Aboriginal bark etchings on loan to Museum
Victoria from the British Museum
** Painting in San Diego Museum of Art may be stolen goods from Mexico
Four years ago, thieves broke into a Mexican church in the tiny community of
San Juan Tepemazalco and stole an 18th-century painting of the expulsion of
Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden
** Scientific treasure hunters
Few tombs would be juicier than that of Lars Porsena, an Etruscan king who
ruled in central Italy around 500BC
** India's first and only tea museum
A tea museum situated at Nullatanni estate of Munnar is the right choice for
tea lovers
** Learning to love - and to live with - flies
Six years after an exhibition during which it was "infested" with rats, a
Neuchâtel museum is now "swarming" with flies - and nobody minds in the
least
** Second ceramics theft at museum
Thousands of pounds worth of ceramics have been stolen from the Victoria and
Albert Museum, just one month after another raid
** Doubts cast on Hobbit discovery
According to a report in the reputable Science magazine, a small but vocal
group of scientists argues the skeleton dubbed homo floresiensis is a modern
human with the disease microcephaly - a deformity characterised by a small
brain and head
** Fugitive's last years spent in destitution
The documents will be moved from Sao Paulo to the National Police Academy's
museum in Brasilia and opened to the public
** Horse heads back to its former glory
A wooden horse's head found in the boot of a car at the Birdwood Motor
Museum is one of the state's treasures being painstakingly restored by art
conservationists
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** Maori Showbands, Te Papa's first on-line exhibition launched
** Managing Copyright Issues
** Bill Henson is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists.
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