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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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