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week's edition include:
** Museum caboose trashed - suspect found in bathroom
A teen-ager went on a rampage early this morning in causing thousands of
dollars in damage to the caboose at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley
** Green museum being built in San Francisco
A so-called "green" museum that features a live Amazonian rain forest and
more than ten-thousand animals is planned in San Francisco
** Museum's meteorites 41/2 billion years old
Opening at the University of Alberta is a permanent display of meteorites,
some dating back 4.57 billion years - as old as the solar system itself
** Shark shrine in Jaws fan's home is really some fin else
A Jaws fan has spent thousands of pounds turning his Edinburgh home into a
shark museum
** Art spared, but Katrina took toll on museum
The New Orleans Museum of Art has been forced to lay off most of its 86
workers, it must raise millions of dollars to survive the next few years,
and it will not reopen its doors for months
** Pollock, Warhol pieces stolen from museum
Museum officials said they didn't know the exact value of the pieces but art
experts have pegged the Pollock at about $11.6 million US and Warhol's
silkscreen at $15,000 US
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** FBI names most-wanted list of stolen art works
The FBI issued its list in the hope of enlisting public help in solving some
of the world's most notorious art thefts, and curtailing a black market
trade worth an estimated US$6 billion a year
** Swedish museum returns totem pole to Canada
The nine-metre (30-foot), red cedar wood pole was donated to the Museum of
Ethnography in 1929 by Sweden's then vice consul to British Columbia, Olof
Hansson, who had it chopped down and shipped to Sweden
** Louvre's Art Heads to High Museum
It will mark the first time in the Louvre's 212-year history that the museum
has agreed to share entire collections with another museum for an extended
period
** African Masks on Display at Smithsonian
The frequency of auto accidents in his town has led him to mold
fierce-looking masks from wrecked cars, with eyebrows of tire scraps and
teeth made of spark plugs or small padlocks
** Online science museum wins world award
An online science museum was honoured the United Nations' World Summit Award
(WSA) at an ongoing world summit for information society
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** Sunken Swedish warship rises to top of world's relics
On its maiden voyage in 1628, the entire ship -with its flags and rigging,
its elaborate sculptures and wooden bas-reliefs, its dozens of cannons, its
equipment and furnishings - keeled over and sank to the bottom of Stockholm
harbour
** Princess Di's dress in sale row
A plan by Madame Tussaud's waxworks to sell Princess Diana's spare wedding
dress has sparked a row
** Former Getty curator got second controversial loan
The J. Paul Getty Museum's former antiquities curator borrowed $400,000 from
a pair of art collectors days after the museum finalized a deal to acquire
their collection, according to a published report
** Jews' Belongings Unearthed at Polish Camp
Israeli archaeologists helped by survivors are writing a new chapter in the
terrible history of the German death camp at Majdanek, Poland, by excavating
grounds long thought to be empty
** NYC's FIT Opens Fashion and Textile History Museum
The exhibits themselves will be culled from FIT's collection of 80,000
fashion-related items - 50,000 garments and accessories dating from the 18th
century to the present and 30,000 textiles from the sixth century to the
present, in addition to 300,000-plus textile swatches and 1,500 sample
books - meaning there is an enormous wealth of objects from which to draw.
** Sigourney Weaver Considers Early Man
Early humans living alongside great apes may have gained a competitive
evolutionary advantage by embracing a primitive form of the Atkins diet,
according to new research published this week by the University of Southern
California
** Racism charge prompts museum to move statue
A black lawn jockey statue on display outside the Galena Mining & Historical
Museum for more than 20 years will be moved inside the building after a
complaint from a biracial couple
** Russian museum art seized in Switzerland part of larger dispute
A $1-billion artwork collection belonging to a major Russian museum was
seized in Switzerland Wednesday at the request of Swiss trading company Noga
as part of a long-standing legal dispute with the Russian government over
contractual obligation. More
** A Fabled Museum 2005
The sumptuous Grand Salon of the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum furnishes an
evocative ambiance for the fantasy-filled tales
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** Call for Papers Tourism& Postmodernity
** AASLH's first Performance Management group of 2006
** Mapping California Communities: An Introduction to GIS and Community
Demographic Analysis Workshop
** The Lomax Legacy: Folklore in a Globalizing Century
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