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week's edition include:
** Vandals bedevil Cocoa museum
Museum officials have notified the Cocoa Police Department every time an
incident occurs, often every weekend and always after dark, but so far, the
police have no suspects
** Unlocking secrets of the moa
Little did a moa know when it defecated under a dry rock shelter one or two
thousand years ago just how much joy it would bring to an Otago Museum
scientific expedition
** Museum archives shipwrecks
With this year marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, the
War Memorial Maritime Museum in Kobe has decided to display more information
about the number of ships that were sunk during the war on its Web site from
next month
** Pitt and Aniston split gives museum big bill
Staff at the attraction are having to remould the Hollywood couple, who
announced their split last month, as they were the first joined waxworks
figures at the London venue
** History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud
"Anthropology is going to have to completely revise its picture of modern
man between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago," said Thomas Terberger, the
archaeologist who discovered the hoax
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** The Da Vinci Code put 'on trial'
The "trial" is being held in Vinci, Italy, and an opening statement was made
by Alessandro Vezzosi, director of a Leonardo Da Vinci museum
** Tutankhamun Murder Mystery Hangs on March Report
A team of experts expects to announce in March whether the latest test
results on the mummified body of Tutankhamun will provide evidence for the
theory that the boy pharaoh was murdered
** Museum's 2300 degrees sees biggest crowd yet
The gigantic, lighted sculpture made of more than a ton of ice provided an
interesting metaphor for glass
** E-mail puts Boca museum's nonprofit status at risk
The museum sent an e-mail message to its membership distancing itself from
the political invitation and apologizing for the unauthorized use of its
e-mail list
** National Gallery is in the pink
The National Gallery, home to some of the UK's greatest artworks, has seen a
big jump in visitor numbers
This Week's Horoscopes
Pisces: (Feb. 19 - March 20) Religious and scientific leaders will argue for
weeks about whether what happened to you was the result of divine
retribution or messy, high-energy physics
** Montana museum employee helps stop 35-year crime spree
Stevens would walk into regional museums during regular business hours, sign
the guest register with an alias, chat with employees, then help himself to
items on display - stuffing them in his pants or coat
** Digital gallery recreates WW2
An online digital gallery of more than 30,000 items from the second world
war, including details of maps, weapons and uniforms, is being created to
mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the conflict
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** Alpine iceman reveals Stone Age secrets
He used medicinal mushrooms, and his tattoos - a series of short, dark,
parallel lines - had been placed to treat his arthritis as an early form of
acupuncture
** Museums to show 'British' flavours have roots in Asia
If the organisers of a five-year project are successful, the two spices and
23 other plants from south Asia will be newly recognised for their role in
transforming British society
** Museum closed by pay strike
The Science Museum would have attracted about 10,000 visitors, but the doors
were closed and staff mounted a picket line outside
** World's most scary spider taken down a size
The size of a small dog, Megarachne servinei was widely regarded as the
biggest and most terrifying spider ever, measuring more than a metre in
length with legs 50 centimetres long
** Artist's 'fantasy passports' confiscated at airport
Fake passports created by an Austrian artist for a contemporary museum
exhibit were confiscated at an airport after a customs agent thought they
might be harmful if imported
** Human Fossils Dated to 195,000 Years
A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed
the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago _
perhaps close to the dawn of the species
** Teen thugs banned after two years of museum attacks
Yobs that have been terrorising Bruce Castle Museum for over two years have
been forced to sign good behaviour contracts
** Dallas Museum of Art Receiving Collections
Three extensive art collections, a house designed by award-winning architect
Richard Meier and a painting by Monet valued at $25 million are being
donated to the Dallas Museum of Art
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** Drink Up! Liquid Refreshments in Early America, 1750-1850
** XVIth International Conference of the Association for History and
Computing
** Academy Awards fever at Queensland Museum South Bank
** Small Museum Association 21st Annual Winter Conference
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