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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 workers did jobs for bosses
Officials at the U.S. Air and Space Museum had employees do private repair
jobs for themselves and their friends
** Museum puts weapons on display
The museum has created the first public access weapons armoury in Britain,
featuring its entire collection of firearms and edged weapons
** USA's largest Latino arts, culture museum debuts
A hot-pink building with colored lights in this city of Latino immigrants
will house the nation's largest museum devoted to Latino culture and arts,
from Aztec artefacts to a digital mural
** Museum mulls using eye surgeon to help restore theft-damaged Munch
paintings
The theft-damaged Edvard Munch masterpieces "The Scream" and "Madonna" may
require treatment by an eye surgeon to remove tiny splinters of glass during
their restoration
** Eye Diseases Gave Great Painters Different Vision of Their Work
After writing two books on the topic of artists and eye disease, the
Stanford University School of Medicine ophthalmologist decided to go one
step further and create images that would show how artists with eye disease
actually saw their world and their canvases
** Falling in Love With France and Its Troves of Ancient History
The fish is framed by a rectangular pattern of deep, closely spaced holes,
which, according to Périgord lore and guidebooks on sale at the National
Museum of Prehistory in Les Eyzies, are the remnants of an abortive attempt
by a Swiss archaeologist to remove this precious artwork and sell it to
Berlin's prehistory museum
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** Art museum cuts staff
The Denver Art Museum on Monday announced belt-tightening measures as part
of a midyear evaluation following the debut of the Frederic C. Hamilton
building
** Museum tackles 'moon hoax' believers
A museum honouring the first man to walk on the moon is not afraid to
confront conspiracy theorists who argue his 1969 lunar landing was a hoax
** How St. Joan Was Sniffed Out
The predominant scent, vanilla, indicated that the relics came from a body
that had decomposed naturally; the organic compound vanillin is produced
during this process
** Getty scientist scrambles to preserve memories of photography techniques
If you are even a casual visitor to the pawnshops and junk emporiums that
make this city a scavenger's paradise, you might have run into him: a burly,
dark-bearded man with a thick Czech accent and a certain glow in his eye as
he riffles through the boxes of cast-off photographs
** Effort to catalogue living species tops 1m
A biologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, said
the finished catalogue will include all known living organisms, from plants
and animals to fungi and micro-organisms such as bacteria, protozoa and
viruses
** Unknown Van Gogh found in museum cellar
An uncatalogued collection stored in the basement of a Croatian museum may
have yielded a previously unknown work by Vincent Van Gogh
** Heavy rain damages rare paintings at Sri Lanka museum
Contractors fixing the 130-year-old museum building had left historical
paintings housed in the upper floor of the building exposed to the rains
earlier this week
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** French billionaire beats out Guggenheim for Venice museum
A French billionaire well-known to the art world has beaten out the
Guggenheim Foundation in a bid to transform a disused customs building in
Venice into a new museum
** British Museum says it is unlikely to give Oxus Treasure to Tajikistan
Much of the collection was bequeathed to the British Museum by a wealthy
British benefactor, Sir August Wollaston Franks, who bought the artefacts
from merchants and a British archaeologist, according to the museum
** Stench Collection Makes Record Price at Auction
The simple fact is that I have recently lost my sense of smell due to an
unfortunate pancake tossing accident and am no longer able to enjoy my
collection, so it had to go
** Mystery of Greek Amphitheatre's Amazing Sound Finally Solved
Audiences of up to an estimated 14,000 have long been able to hear actors
and musicians - unamplified - from even the back row of the architectural
masterpiece
** Museum gives a glimpse of Tudor times
The Tudor Lives exhibition, which opened in Hartlepool, features a replica
parlour and kitchen from the house of a Tudor nobleman, Henry Madison, who
lived in the North-East in the 16th Century
** A persistent heir gets back a looted masterpiece
Such a high proportion of looted works in a single auction might lead one to
conclude that restitution claims by the heirs of wartime owners are reaching
flood-like proportions, and that these claims are always or mostly
successful
** Managing and Preserving Archival Collections
** The New England Museum Association's Spring Workshop series
** Researching Destination Management, Policy and Planning: Linking
culture, heritage and tourism
Riga, Latvia: 24-25 September 2007
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