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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Museum horror as man dies in 40ft plunge
Museum visitors were offered counselling today after a man plunged 40ft to
his death from a walkway
** May 18th is International Museum Day
This year's theme was selected to raise awareness on how young people
participate in redefining the mission and practices of heritage institutions
in the 21st century, and how museums can contribute to shaping tomorrow's
society by interacting with young people
** Lost treasures brought from the seabed to Europe
Some 500 treasures retrieved by divers from ancient Egyptian cities that
disappeared under the Mediterranean Sea centuries ago are on display in
Berlin
** X-rays find older work under painting
X-ray technicians performing a check-up on a 16th-century Italian painting
depicting the preparation of Jesus' body following crucifixion got a bonus -
they discovered the image of a Renaissance man hidden underneath
** Peruvian city unveils restored architectural gem
The cross contains 1,518 precious stones including rubies, emeralds and
topaz, as well as 615 pearls, one of them in the form of a mermaid and
considered the second-largest in the world
** The Cocktail Turns 200
Spearheaded by the Museum of the American Cocktail, parties across the
United States, as well as in Europe and Australia, will honour the various
delicious, and often intoxicating, cocktails of the past and present.
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** Museum art theft took some weird turns
They did not realize that one of the most significant - and strangest - art
thefts in the museum's history was under way
** Former space museum head gets three years for artefact theft
The founder of a space museum was sentenced Monday to three years in federal
prison for stealing and selling spacesuit components and other artefacts
that belonged to the institution and NASA
** Earl's rich tribal auction likened to Holocaust sale
For almost 150 years the contents of a trunk brought back by the ninth Earl
of Southesk from his trek across the Rocky Mountains - where he described
some of the people he met as "bloated, disgusting savages" - lay gathering
dust in the attic of Kinnaird Castle, his ancestral home in Angus
** Blogging comes to the South Pole
The Natural History Museum has launched an Antarctic Heritage and
Conservation website, which features a blog from conservators working on
preservation projects near the South Pole
** Smithsonian Opens Lewis and Clark Exhibit
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were dispatched by President Thomas
Jefferson in 1804 to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory, an
effort that brought them to the Pacific Coast
** Top European museum prize goes to Spain
A science museum in Barcelona, Spain, which includes a simulation of a
section of Amazonian rainforest, has been awarded the 2006 European Museum
of the Year Award at a ceremony in Lisbon
** Spoon-bending psychic buys Elvis' house on eBay
Psychic Uri Geller and two partners have bought the Tennessee house Elvis
Presley lived in before moving to Graceland
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** U.S. museum rejects deadline for returning mummy mask to Egypt
Museum director Brent Benjamin called upon Zahi Hawass to provide
documentation substantiating his claim that the mask was stolen - or to
cease his attacks on the St. Louis Art Museum.
** Canada's most visited museum celebrates 150th anniversary
The Canadian Museum of Civilization is celebrating its 150th anniversary
with a new exhibition chronicling the organization's long and rich history
** This Week's Horoscopes
Gemini May 21 - June 21. What at first appears to be a curse will turn out
to be a blessing in disguise, or so you'll believe before discovering that
the blessing is actually an even bigger, more physically perilous curse in
an even more convincing disguise
** Getty Museum agrees to return 'stolen' antiquities
Greece has won round one in its battle with one of the world's richest
museums over the return of priceless antiquities it says were taken out of
the country illegally
** What does 225-year-old chocolate taste like?
The concoction is on the menu at New York's Fort Ticonderoga, where people
dressed in colonial-era costumes demonstrate how it was made in the 18th
century
** Seven-decade mistake?
Long known as the work of the great Italian Renaissance painter Titian, this
sombre, unsigned oil portrait of a middle-aged, 16th-century Italian duke
was consigned to obscurity when an art critic questioned its authenticity
nearly 70 years ago
** Puzzle of Fish With a Message
A tuna caught in the Indian Ocean off Mombasa with a Koranic message on its
scales has left residents baffled
** Small Museums Association 2007 Annual Conference -Call for Papers
** Heritage Education - Capacity Building in Heritage Management
** The Archaeology of Destruction
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