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Hurricane Katrina & it's aftermath
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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:
** Hurricane Katrina - AAM's feature site
- First reports from the AAM indicating the condition of the various
institutions affected.
- Katrina and Museum news
** Is This The Death Of The Big Easy?
Now those historic wooden homes are rotting under water: a living museum
that may now be destined for the bulldozer
- Katrina Has Devastating Impact on Architecture
** Cultural treasures are feared destroyed
On Monday afternoon, a gust from Hurricane Katrina crept under the copper
roof of the Old Capitol Museum of Mississippi in Jackson and one-third of
the roof "rolled up like a banana peel," museum director Lucy Allen said
** National Gallery of Art puts on first big international show of earliest
European woodcuts
Years before Johann Gutenberg printed his Bible, artists were tossing off
little handbills printed with religious pictures, such as an angel looking
down on Mary and the infant Jesus as she watches Joseph cooking - all in
bright colour
** Damien Hirst Buys U.K. Mansion to Create Art Museum
Artist Damien Hirst, whose pickled shark sold for $8 million this year, has
bought a mansion in the Cotswolds area of western England to create an art
museum
** Hungary For Dolly
The world's first cloned sheep will represent the UK at the Palace of
Miracles - Hungary's first interactive science museum
** Blues are gone as burgeoning museum gets back in the black
Even when an attendant fails to reproach a tourist for touching a fragile
work, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art mutters under her
breath, but she smiles
** Enlightened empire
In a back room of the British Museum that resembles the floor of a furniture
warehouse, large crates are being wheeled in and carefully prised open
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** Museum Offers $1 Million For James Dean's Death Car
An Illinois auto museum is offering $1 million for the car in which actor
James Dean rode to his death in 1955
** Pitcairn museum shows Bounty treasures
Pride of place will be given to a Bible owned by Christian, which to prevent
the pages sticking has been preserved by islanders turning its pages weekly
** Scientists ponder Illinois bison mystery
The discovery of 2,000-year-old bison bones in Illinois has contradicted
theories that bison were more recent arrivals in the state
** Rush to rescue Castel Sant'Angelo
Italy is rushing to the rescue of one of its greatest tourist attractions,
Rome's Castel Sant' Angelo, after an investigation revealed that the ancient
papal fortress was at risk of falling down
** Ordupgaard Art Museum in Denmark Reopens
The museum, which closed shortly before the new annex construction began in
October 2003, reopened with an exhibit of French impressionist Paul Gauguin,
who briefly lived in Denmark
** Fire destroys Mackinaw City museum, restaurant
Fire destroyed a building that doubled as a pizza restaurant and a museum
with artefacts from the nearby Mackinac Bridge
** Schwarzenegger museum to close
An Austrian museum displaying training equipment once used by Arnold
Schwarzenegger was due to close because of financial problems
** Centipede startles museum
When Aaron Balick of Islington heard a rustling behind his television, he
expected to find a mouse but he saw a 23cm Scolopendra gigantea, the world's
biggest, rarest and most venomous centipede crawling up his wall
** Museum spreads geek joy
It doesn't appeal to just the uber-nerds, but to visitors keen on learning
the history of personal computers, and the subsequent, continuing
technological revolution they spawned
** Van Gogh museum director to head Scotland's National Galleries
The director of the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, Irishman John Leighton,
has been named to take over as head of the National Galleries of Scotland in
March 2006
** Civil War Museum Cuts Jobs
The 16-member board of directors decided to downsize because the museum was
struggling financially
** 9000 Years Old Oriental Wine Found
An international team of researchers have discovered after chemical
analyses, that organics absorbed and preserved in pottery jars from the
Neolithic village of Jiahu, in Henan province, Central China contained a
beverage of rice, honey, and fruit made as early as 9,000 years ago
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** A Rose by Any Other Name: Integrity, Mission, Authenticity
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