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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:
** Spanish king unveils new wing at Prado museum
Spain's King Juan Carlos has unveiled a new ultra-modern wing at the Prado
museum in Madrid, the biggest expansion and renovation project in its
200-year history
** Historian finds oldest recipe for German bratwurst
A hobby historian has discovered the oldest known recipe for German sausage,
a list of ingredients for Thuringian bratwurst nearly 600 years old
** Quest to Bring Van Gogh Painting Home
As Vincent van Gogh lay dying in a dingy room at a French inn, the painting
above his cast-iron bed was "The Fields," a scene of the undulating wheat
plains where the artist had contemplated life and death
** Bucks for mule museum cause brays
In tiny Bishop, California, five hours north of Los Angeles, Rep. Buck
McKeon, R-California, wants to build a museum honouring the mule
** Museum shows 116-year-old orange
A dried-up orange from the lunchbox of a miner fatally injured on the day he
was due to eat it has gone on display in a Staffordshire museum
** 400-Year-Old Clam Found in Iceland's Waters
The finding eclipses the record of a 374-year-old Icelandic clam discovered
in a museum and a 220-year-old Arctic specimen collected in U.S. waters in
1982
** Sainsbury gives 18 paintings to London's Tate Britain and National
Gallery
The late supermarket tycoon Simon Sainsbury left 18 paintings worth as much
as 100 million pounds (US$200 million) to the Tate Britain and the National
Gallery in a bequest that the two galleries described as the most
significant in memory
** Possum trashes priceless museum relics
A "dirty great possum" ran amok inside a museum over several nights,
destroying priceless relics and creating fears a gang of vandals had trashed
the historic pieces
** Holocaust museum opens at Belsen
The new museum at Bergen-Belsen, in the north of Germany, highlights the
fates of those who died at the camp during World War II
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** The treasure of the oceans - rise of the salvagers
But if 17th-century mercantilism was a mucky business, an unexpected legacy
bequeathed by ill-starred ships such as the Merchant Royal is proving
equally contentious and conjuring the kind of drama and romance that only
sunken galleons, treasure seekers and lost booty can
** The Elvis Is Alive museum is dying
Beeny, a self-described "western Kentucky hillbilly" Baptist minister who
wound up in Missouri 50 years ago, is selling the contents of his roadside
attraction
** Radio relics preserved, then tainted
The carefully preserved original scripts, fragile transcriptions of radio
shows and news broadcasts, antique microphones and rare equipment from
Southern California's first stations have been contaminated by toxic PCBs
** Lincoln papers found hanging on office walls
Cornelius first heard of the documents about a month ago from a museum
volunteer doing research in the recorder's office
** A bug's life, seen through three lives
Despite its venerable history, few people outside the University of Sydney
realise the Noah's Ark of life forms housed within the anonymous,
mud-coloured brick building that is the Macleay Museum
** Canterbury Research Uncovers New Form of Internet Related Disease
Students and lecturers at the University of Kent have finally fully
classified the symptoms and causes of the so called 'network paralysis', but
not yet the cure, of this curious mind-state disease
** Fashion's "Golden Age" on show at V&A
Put together your own couture-inspired 1950s dress and get Jimmy Choo to
judge your shoe design as part of a new exhibition celebrating the birth of
modern fashion at London's Victoria and Albert Museum
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** Exhibition of Bob Dylan's paintings to open in Germany
He completed 320 portraits, landscapes, still lives and nudes over the
course of just eight months and allowed the museum to choose from the
collection
** Discovery of 'Hitler Albums' Documenting Looted Art
The Archivist hailed this discovery as "one of the most significant finds
related to Hitler's premeditated theft of art and other cultural treasures
to be found since the Nuremberg trials
** Neanderthals 'were flame-haired'
They found a variant of MC1R in Neanderthals which is not present in modern
humans, but which causes an effect on the hair similar to that seen in
modern redheads
** Industrial Heritage 2007 - this will take place on November 16th-18th
and will be a meeting place for industrial heritage associations and
volunteers
** Musical Machines & Living Dolls - world-class collection of mechanical
musical instruments and automata opens November 6.
** Persistence of Memory - A Two-day Conference on Digital Preservation
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