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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:
** Mona Lisa identified
Italian scholar Giuseppe Pallanti claims in a new book to have identified
Mona Lisa, the woman whose mysterious smile has intrigued art lovers ever
since Leonardo da Vinci painted her portrait 500 years ago
** Pipeline Unearths Ancient Peru Relics
The construction of the 454-mile pipeline through the jungle and over the
Andes to the coast has unearthed some 1,000 archaeological sites from a
range of civilizations across Peru that trace 9,000 years of history
** Smithsonian Museum To Get $60 Million Oceans Exhibit
A panel studied science throughout the museum and recommended more financial
and moral support of scientific work, which includes saving endangered
species and studying ice formations
** Museum curator: Cannibal killed in self-defence
More than 130 years after Alfred Packer ate his five companions to survive a
Colorado winter, a museum curator is making a case that the notorious
cannibal was innocent of murder
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** Bomber takes pride of place at air museum
The multi-million pound AirSpace exhibition is set to open in 2006, telling
the story of Britain's aviation industry from its earliest days to the
present
** Even Paris can't resist 'The Da Vinci Code'
"Da Vinci" is such a crowd-pleaser that even the Louvre, the most staid of
French cultural institutions, has embraced the pop-hype and begun to use the
book as a marketing tool
** Collector's Nazi family past dogs art show
A show in Berlin of modern art collected by the millionaire grandson of a
convicted Nazi industrialist has angered Jewish groups and sparked a bitter
row over how younger generations should deal with ancestors' guilt
** Scottish jewels adorning Elmhurst museum again
"Scottish Jewellery" features more than 30 pieces of Highland craft from the
mid-1800s to the early 20th century -- everything from jewellery to wax
stamp seals
** The history woman
Most aspiring curators are graduates who get a specialist postgraduate
degree and spend hours volunteering in museums and galleries to make
contacts and learn the trade, but Carol's route was less orthodox
** Food, fashion part of living heritage exhibit
It would be the museum's first permanent display of items in four areas
close to Singaporeans' hearts - food, fashion, photography and public
entertainment
** Mummy dearest: Egypt's cats got the pharaoh treatment
The ancient Egyptians put as much care into mummifying their animals as they
did to their kings and relatives
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** Rome museum ceiling collapses
Seven people were injured when a large section of ceiling collapsed during
renovation work on Rome's Exhibition Palace for Modern and Contemporary Art
** Picasso's teenage talents
A "secret" painting by the young Pablo Picasso has been unveiled at the
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, northern Spain, after experts found it hidden
beneath layers of paint on another of his canvasses
** Metropolitan Museum Names Female President
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has named its first woman president,
promoting Emily Kernan Rafferty from her post as senior vice president for
external affairs
** Scientist says Big BOING will collapse the Universe
Hawking, in his latest book, "We're all gonna die, just not today" says the
universe will end 11.5 billion years from now, not Christmas Eve 2004
** Oasis of the avant-garde
The lack of visitors is hardly surprising: the museum is located in a former
chemical weapons base in southwest Uzbekistan, an arid region that bore the
brunt of the ecological disaster when Soviet irrigation projects drained the
Aral Sea
** Exhibit traces history of Duck Hunting
Tom Fitzpatrick was a local legend during the heyday of Delaware River duck
hunting, when birds were plentiful and fetched excellent prices at local
hotels and restaurants
** Bad art stolen, returned to museum
The group, which called itself Babes Against Bad Art on its ransom note, had
swiped "Self Portrait as Owl," one of hundreds of pieces at the Museum of
Bad Art
** Hugh Hefner's libido in a museum
The Playboy lothario was honoured as the first inductee into the Erotic
Museum of Hollywood's hall of fame for being "one of the most democratizing
forces in sexuality in the last century," according to the museum
** Repair bill forces museum to be sold
The Scottish home of a Victorian woman of letters has been put up for sale
after serving for just 20 years as a museum to her life
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** Matapihi - opening the window onto New Zealand's heritage
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