In the Chinese New Year edition of your international museum ezine
GLOBAL MUSEUM

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We welcome the YEAR OF THE DRAGON - and a Golden Dragon at that!  PLUS the
latest international Museum News:


**  1873 Time Capsule Holds Prank  **
A prankster pulled a fast one back in 1873 when the city buried a time
capsule filled with seed catalogs, maps and coins: a century-old condom was
found among the items during an inventory last week

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**  Dead hand of Dome stirs millennium lottery crisis  **
Figures out today will confirm that the Millennium Dome's eager employees
spent a dull and drafty January. Visitor numbers have been disappointing,
whatever the Dome's spin machine has to say about numbers picking up in the
summer.


**  The world's oldest bike rack  **
It is the kind of archaeological find that might delight Indiana Jones - a
long-lost statue of an Ancient Egyptian king who is mentioned in the Bible


**  U.S., Indians at odds over skeletal remains  **
Federal officials in charge of the bones of Kennewick Man want to perform
DNA tests to determine his cultural affiliation


**  Visions of a bygone era  **
In 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in what is now Tokyo Bay demanding
the Tokugawa shogunate open the country to trade.


**  Des paléontologues « pêchent » en Chine les plus vieux vertébrés connus
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Découverts dans des sédiments datant du précambrien, les fossiles de deux
petits « poissons » fournissent quelques éléments pour étayer les théories
sur l'apparition des premiers vertébrés, l'une des questions les plus ardues
et les plus anciennes posées à la biologie


**  The grand old lady of royal art  **
She has the distinction of being the first lady graduate of the J J School
of Arts and has also earned the rare prestige of being commissioned to paint
for Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad of the erstwhile Baroda State and the
Maharaja of Chhota Udepur


**  Expressions of an ancient art in the flesh  **
Piercing our skins. Deforming our bodies. Painting parts (every part) of our
anatomy. Why on earth do we do it?

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**  Art World Nightmare: Made-to-Order Theft  **
The intruder smashed a skylight and lowered himself down a rope, the police
say, before tossing a smoke canister onto the floor of the Hindley Smith
Gallery. In an instant the room filled with smoke, obscuring the view from
the security cameras


**  Theme of International Museum Day, 18 May 2000.  "Museums for peace and
harmony in Society" **


**  Hitler's limousine may finance new Canadian museum  **
A Mercedes-Benz that once belonged to Adolph Hitler could help finance
construction of a new war museum in Canada's capital city, according to the
existing museum's director


**  Globe Stages World's Largest Shakespeare Exhibit  **
Britain's Globe Theater is to stage what is billed as the world's largest
exhibition dedicated to William Shakespeare


**  Saddam presents his cigar-holders to museum   **
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, a long-time aficionado of Cuban cigars, has
donated seven of his cigar holders to a Baghdad museum


**  Science Week **

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