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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 CCTV focused on German chancellor's sofa moments
Over the past eight years, guards at the museum in Berlin's central Mitte
district had been able to spy into Ms Merkel's living room
** Royal Society moves to block sale of £1m manuscript
Britain's premier scientific academy believes the 520-page document, by the
scientist Robert Hooke, may have been stolen from its archives 300 years ago
** Tate Britain Turns Six, Battles Image as `Opposite of Modern'
On the banks of the river Thames is a museum where romantic watercolour
landscapes are displayed around the corner from monkey images made with
elephant dung
** Farewell, but not goodbye
A Swedish consul based in nearby Prince Rupert came to covet the G'psgolox
pole; somehow, Olof Hansson managed to convince a federal Indian agent to
help him "acquire" it
** British Museum to return remains
The museum said the bundles of cremated remains had been worn as amulets
against sickness
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** Museum sculptures fake, art expert says
Arceneau says the museum is misleading patrons by ascribing the sculptures
to Degas and Giacometti without disclosing they are "reproductions of
reproductions" that might not have been imagined by the artists in their
current form.
** 3 split $25,000 museum reward
The Bata Shoe Museum gave away $25,000 to get back a pair of stolen slippers
** Antique cannon, stolen from museum, returned after 9 years
A small cannon, taken from the back room of a museum here by a compulsive
antiques thief, has been returned nine years later
** Mannheim Exhibits Bronze-Age Sky Disk Recovered From Thieves
With treasure hunters and crooked art dealers, the tale of the discovery of
the Sky Disk of Nebra is like a crime thriller
** Meaty art receives mixed reviews
Fabre said he worked through the night with his assistants to turn 100kg of
steak, 15kg of minced meat and a few kilometres of Parma bacon into art
** Quest to identify skeleton found at early U.S. colony continues
Jamestown officials say that without DNA proof, researchers are doing other
studies to test their theory that the skeleton discovered in 2002 belongs to
Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, a founder of the first permanent English
settlement in North America, established almost 400 years ago
** Mary Rose museum plans unveiled
The new museum, at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, will house the ship as well
as some of the 19,000 artefacts found during other dives on the wreck
** Museum to hit a high note on TV
A piano dating back to the 1700s has been shortlisted as one of 80 gems
hidden in Britain's museums as part of the new BBC People's Museum series
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** Donald Duck at centre of custody battle
A first edition of a Donald Duck comic book from 1948 has been held behind
bars in Sweden for a year-and-a-half amid a divorcing couple's drawn-out
custody battle
** Pottery offers clues to origin of Chinese characters
Chinese archaeologists claim that pottery utensils dating back 7,000 years
ago which bear inscriptions of various symbols are probably one of the
origins of Chinese characters.
** Cold War 'Time Capsule' Found In NYC
The artefacts recalled a fearful period in U.S. history a half-century ago,
when the country and the Soviet Union were sworn enemies and air-raid sirens
and shelters were common
** Storytelling budgie stars on new CD
A Geordie budgie belting out the story of a sparrow trapped in a drainpipe
and a blackbird imitating a computer modem are just some of the sounds that
can be heard on a new CD just released by the British Library
** Dame Judi in bid to save museum
Dame Judi Dench is among a list of actors who have called for the Victoria
and Albert's (V&A) historical Theatre Museum to be saved from closure
** Museum loans Ben Franklin Microscope
Franklin, a scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, used microscopes regularly
to view, as he wrote in his 1751 "Poor Richard's Almanac," "the most
remarkably entertaining Objects."
** The Colours of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases Symposium
** Disaster recovery for a digital age
** 19th Annual VSA Conference
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