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address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:
** Tree of guns takes root at the British Museum
A half-tonne sculpture made out of chopped up guns and other decommissioned
weapons will be unveiled at the British Museum on 2nd February
** Cutty Sark, Britain's famed clipper, rescued from slow rot
The Cutty Sark, the historic 19th-century clipper that braved rough seas to
bring tea to Britain, has been saved from a slow death of rotting and
rusting thanks to a public grant
** Cheese triangles shed light on hobbits
Cheese triangles are helping an Australian researcher to explain how hobbits
on Flores could make the stone tools found with their bones
** Iran says seized boats belong in museum
Three British naval boats confiscated by Iran's military last June must go
to Iran's war museum, rather than be returned as London has demanded, a
senior military official has said
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** Museums urged to share more
Too many works of art were hidden away from the public because museums and
galleries, particularly in London, were not sharing items of cultural and
national heritage
** Van Gogh Museum acquires rare drawing from Vincent van Gogh's early
period
The work, in pencil and watercolour, was acquired from a private collector
for an undisclosed sum
** Theft attempt at British Museum
The museum said an attendant spotted the man using a pair of pliers and wire
in the Greek and Roman gallery near closing time
** Spanish royal family lends keepsakes to museum in West Palm Beach
The prestigious exhibit features never-before-seen keepsakes from the
Spanish royal family, such as paintings by Goya, Velázquez, Bosch and a
Bernini sculpture, as well as extravagant royal armor, rare early maps and a
letter from Queen Isabel to Christopher Columbus sanctioning his second
voyage to the New World
** Museum Video Shows Kachina Theft Suspects
State Police released surveillance video images on Friday that show two men
suspected of swiping an 1880s Zuni kachina from a Taos museum last month
** This Week's Horoscopes
Aries: (March 21-April 19) This Thursday, you'll find out that being nibbled
to death by ducks is not merely an elaborate figure of speech
** Tsunami museum to be set up
The display will cover changes in the natural environment, the ecology of
the Andaman Sea and the daily life of people living in Thailand's six
southern provinces devastated by the tsunamis on 26 December, including
Phuket, Phang-nga, Krabi, Trang, Ranong and Satun
** Paleontologist's worth not fixed in artifacts
If the thieves who strangled the scientist to death in his bedroom believed
they would find treasure, they must have been sorely disappointed, said Dr.
Lou Taylor, a research associate at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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** After 200 years, Japan's exiled erotica finds a home in Rotterdam museum
The prints sound as harmless as Horlicks but Shunga, meaning "spring
pictures" were the Japanese pornography of the 18th and 19th centuries
** Special mouse that blocked projects special no more
The Preble's meadow jumping mouse, once seen as a costly impediment to
development, is now viewed by the government as a critter that never really
existed
** Giant Pearl Tied to Family Squabbles
It is purportedly a former amulet of Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu, who is
said to have carved his face and those of Confucius and Buddha into its
surface
** George Washington's teeth get laser treatment
Researchers hoping to dispel George Washington's image as a stiff-jawed,
boring old man are taking a bite out of history through a high-tech study of
his famous false teeth
** Booming Tate Modern reveals expansion plan - but will it be able to fill
all that space?
It may be a gargantuan presence on the south bank of the Thames, and the
most popular art museum in the world, with a turbine hall that struggles to
look anything other than cavernous, whatever vast sculpture is put there
** Smithsonian Gets $10M for Ocean Studies
The museum said the new center will provide a forum for the advancement of
scientific knowledge about oceans and will sponsor research fellowships,
international symposia and collaborations among Smithsonian scientists and
their those at other institutions around the world
** Guns Stolen from DEA Museum
Three large "inoperable" handguns were stolen from the Drug Enforcement
Administration Museum in Times Square, where they had been used as exhibits
depicting shadowy narcotics labs
** The bullion-dollar question
The wax-sealed sheet of vellum sent to Louis XIV of France early in 1694
from one of his spies in Italy would have been received with undisguised
glee
** Winston Churchill museum opens
Wartime leader Winston Churchill, who once said history would be kind to
him - because he would write it - has become the first Briton to have a
museum dedicated entirely to his life
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