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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:
** China museum prepares for expansion
Workers have begun moving 620,000 cultural artefacts and other items out of
the National Museum of China in preparation for an expansion project
** Getty Museum to return two Greek treasures
The J. Paul Getty Museum has settled a decade-old cultural heritage dispute
with Greece, agreeing to hand over two ancient treasures that Athens claims
were illegally spirited out of the country
** American female spy honoured
The Gestapo were circulating posters offering a reward for the capture of
the "woman with a limp", the most dangerous Allied agent in France said an
historian at the International Spy Museum in Washington, which has an
exhibit devoted to Hall
** E-Advent Calendar
Is there a work in the Collection which is particularly important for you -
maybe the first one you saw when you visited Tate, a work that particularly
resonates with you right now or an all time favourite?
** Wanli yields treasure trove
The ill-fated voyage of Wanli remained a mystery until almost four centuries
later when her wreckage was discovered buried deep in the ocean off the
coast of Terengganu together with her precious cargo
** This Museum's No Lemon
When the museum opens in January, Guedry will offer a 90-minute tour through
the business centre where people can view fruit trees and citrus warehouses
** The Getty Gets New Blood
The new head of one of America's richest-and most troubled-arts
organizations shares his vision for the museum
** Tom Thumb's boots are headed to circus museum
In addition to the hair and footwear, Harck has a chair he says was Tom
Thumb's, a tea set Barnum used, and vases given to Barnum by a Russian czar
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** World's Largest Coffee Museum To Be Built In Taiwan
In addition to a detailed introduction to the history of drinking coffee,
several world-renowned coffee brands in cooperation with the company will
also provide coffee-producing equipment and coffee sets, they said, adding
that some of the equipment is dated to four or five hundred years ago
** Genghis Khan conquers Istanbul
Ever since the 13th century the name of Genghis Khan has been used - as much
if not more so, than that of the Ottoman Turks - to strike fear into Western
hearts
** Feature Activity - The Dragon and the Pearl
Dragon & The Pearl is a public programme at the Powerhouse Museum,
accompanying the exhibition Great Wall of China: dynasties, dragons and
warriors
** Light bulb inventors' kit up for auction
They are a collection of old light bulbs in an unprepossessing wooden box
but without them, Thomas Alva Edison might never have claimed his proper
place in the history books
** Egyptian Conservationists Fight To Protect Dwindling Mummy Population
If nothing is done, experts say, the Egyptian mummy will soon go the way of
the Bavarian lycanthrope or the Transylvanian vampire, and vanish forever
** Paintings from Goebbels' ministry handed to German museum
The last two of 17 artworks from the ministry of Nazi propaganda chief
Joseph Goebbels were handed over to the German Historical Museum after
languishing in vaults for almost 60 years
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** New security breach at theft-hit Russia museum
A man smashed a glass display case and tried to steal an antique silver
ladle from Russia's Hermitage Museum, scene of a mass theft of artworks
uncovered this year
** Director to retire, reportedly faced firing
The NC Museum of History might have a new chapter to add to its tumultuous
history of departing directors
** Pearl Harbour museum sinking
As the nation observes the 65th anniversary of the attack this week, the USS
Arizona Memorial Museum and visitors' centre is deteriorating so fast that
it could have as few as two years of life left
** Museum attendance beats football
The 42 million museum visits is more than the number of people who attended
league football matches in 2004-5
** Gold - The Rush Is On
Since the beginning of recorded history, the rise of influential societies
has coincided with their ownership of this precious substance
** Questions of Access: Research and Practice
** ASPAC General Conference - Collaboration methods between ASPAC members
** Museum Education Matters: Current Trends in Museum Education
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