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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
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week's edition include:
** Futuristic extension to London's Tate Modern approved
The 215-million-pound project, a complex arrangement of glass boxes stacked
in a pyramid shape, will extend the gallery's space by 60 percent
** Mystery spinster leaves art worth £5m to stunned gallery
The 51 canvasses - worth an estimated £5 million - include works by Turner,
Constable and Gainsborough
** Historic watercolour by Mrs. Robert E. Lee goes to Williamsburg
A haunting portrait of a slave girl painted by the wife of Gen. Robert E.
Lee at her family's Virginia plantation in 1830 is being sold to Colonial
Williamsburg for its museum collection
** Museum director says gay co-workers created hostile workplace
The director of a museum where "The Stepford Wives" was filmed is alleging
that her gay colleagues created a hostile work environment, including one
who poked her in the eye and another who showed her graphic pictures from a
gay Web site
** Diverse lifestyles of Islamic communities on display at National Museum
The lifestyles of the Arab world and Turkey are on display at the National
Museum of Singapore
** Revamp of oldest museum begins
Work to create a new £49m exhibition centre at the oldest public museum in
the UK - Oxford University's Ashmolean - has begun
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** World's oldest camera to go on auction in Vienna
Up to now, experts said that apart from some documents there was no proof
that the so-called "Daguerreotype", a wooden sliding box camera produced by
the Paris company Susse Freres in 1839, really existed
** Smithsonian's Top Official Resigns
An internal audit in January found that Small had made $90,000 in
unauthorized expenses, including private jet travel and expensive gifts
** Toronto museum exhibits Peru's golden age
Contrary to popular belief, much of the gold plundered from Peru by the
Conquistadors was not produced by the ancient Incas
** Anger as air museum shot down
In the eyes of its champions, the Ohakea Air Force Museum's impending demise
is the penultimate act in a saga of bungling, short- sightedness and
betrayal
** This Week's Horoscopes
Scorpio October 24 - November 21. You'll ignore the voice of reason once
again this week, but that's largely due to it having grown hoarse and nearly
inaudible over the years
** Strange Story of the Week - Collection's fun as a barrel of monkeys
While the tea brews, Resleure opens her refrigerator and removes the Cyclops
piglet from its temporary home in the crisper drawer - just below the
packaged hot dogs, Diet Coke and Moët & Chandon
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** Museum visitors inflated by parking deal
How many people are being put down in the books as museum visitors when in
fact they have been shopping in Marks and Spencer?
** The Museum of Garden History
He was a Renaissance man whose services to botany and monarchy involved
perilous voyages to Russia's Archangel, the Barbary Coast of North Africa
(where he plucked the Algiers apricot from pirate lairs) and the
battlefields of France
** Iran loses fight over Lost Paradise relics
Iran lost a legal fight on Thursday to recover 5,000-year-old treasures it
says were looted from one of its most important archaeological sites
** Bankruptcy is 'last resort' for Milwaukee Public Museum
As executives of the financially troubled Milwaukee Public Museum are
exploring their legal options, Milwaukee County Executive and the issued a
joint statement, saying that bankruptcy would be a "last resort" for the
county-supported facility
** Fort Vancouver curators ponder medieval-looking WWI Army helmet
Curators are trying to determine how a medieval-looking helmet with a steel
visor that was made for the Army as an experiment during World War I wound
up at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
** Museum to give back 14 heads
Fourteen Maori heads will return to New Zealand after a Chicago museum
agreed to release them but controversy remains over other Maori artefacts at
the museum, including a large marae
** Don't sink the boat
Eyebrows were raised when Hanna told his audience at the international
conference that extensive damage had also resulted from defective former
restorations, and the metamorphosis of consolidation, coating and
restoration materials
** INTERCOM 2007 - Leadership Challenges in the 21st Century
** An Invitation - The Association of Midwest Museums (AMM) will host a
cocktail and hors d'oeuvres reception at the beautiful Illinois State Museum
Chicago Gallery
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