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**  Thousands flock to Berlin's empty Jewish museum
There is nothing to see in Berlin's new Jewish museum. But some 200,000
visitors have passed through its bare, echoing chambers in the last year

**  This Week's Horoscopes  Taurus: (April. 20--May 20)
Mercury ascends briefly in Taurus this week but then suddenly disappears
when the sun explodes

**  Digging For Vikings
Last year the Digging for Vikings project revealed the outer wall of a
massive Viking period enclosure, as well as the remains of five people
murdered outside its defences

**  Garth Brooks may convert home into museum
Garth Brooks is considering turning his former Tennessee home into a museum,
much like Elvis Presley's Graceland in Memphis

**  Zeum display turns art into a miniature golf course, and vice versa
At the Zeum museum at Yerba Buena Gardens, players putt through a wondrously
disheveled teen-bedroom green strewn with clothes, soda cans and cassettes

**  China Wants WWII Germ Warfare Test Base to be on World Heritage List
Chinese researchers hope to find out more evidence from the scraps of the
slaughterhouse which will be preserved permanently as a special reminder of
the World War II

**  New Guardhouse Decks Berlin Wall
In addition to the new white, wooden guardhouse that stands in an island in
the road at Checkpoint Charlie, the museum hopes to restore elements of the
entire barrier system

**  Achieving Excellence:  Museum Leadership In the 21st century
September 6-9, 2000  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada .  A collaborative conference
presented by Intercom, ICOM and CMA

**  Federal Agency Says Mummy Is Not Tribal Ancestor
An ancient mummy at the heart of a dispute between modern science and Native
American culture is not affiliated with any contemporary tribe or group

**  Ice Age star map discovered
A prehistoric map of the night sky has been discovered on the walls of the
famous painted caves at Lascaux in central France.

**  MUSEE Expo 2000 To Feature Sue
The program provides an important opportunity for K-12 educators to
experience wonderful new possibilities for bringing the resources of
museums, historic sites, aquariums, zoos, national parks and more, into
their classrooms

**  The Party's Not Over: Australia 2000
With the Australian Federation celebrating its centenary, and Sydney hosting
the Olympic Games, what better place to hold the festivities than Down
Under? Sotheby's makes its contribution to the season's convivial mood with
its "Australia 2000" sale.

**  400 years of fancy clothes on display
the show offers greatest hits such as a silk doublet from the 1620s, when
men's clothes were as ornate as women's, and a pink Liberty and Co. dress
bought by Andrew Carnegie for his wife
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2001 Conference: Local History, Travel Reports, Accommodation Options,
Airfares, Climate, Newspapers, Radio & Television, Car Rental, Online Maps
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**  China Aims To Rescue Gorge Relics
China is accelerating efforts to rescue cultural relics from the giant Three
Gorges Dam area, with plans to spend $12 million over the next year

**  Left without a leg to stand on
Question: what is the most common item left behind at airport hotels?
Answer: false teeth

**  Museum Computer Network Conference
Don't miss the Museum Computer Network conference at the Four Seasons Hotel
in Las Vegas, NV, September 6-9.

**  ICR Annual Conference 2000: Museum Quality and Standards

**  Museums at the Crossroads
September 18-23 with Stephen Weil
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NEW MUSEUM BOOKS - see International news section

American Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 3: John Singer
Sargent
by Stephanie L. Herdrich, H. Barbara Weinberg

Introducing Museum Studies  by Flora E. S. Kaplan

Annual Bibliography of Modern Art : 1999 (Annual Bibliography of Modern Art,
1999)
by Museum of Modern Art

The Gubbio Studiolo in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Two Volumes
by Olga Raggio, Antoine M. Wilmering

Nuovo Alfabeto Address Book   by National Design Museum Cooper-Hewitt

Centre Georges Pompidou - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art  by Jacinto
Lageira

The Native American Look Book: Art and Activities for Kids   by Brooklyn
Museum(Editor), Brooklyn Museum

Creating the New Museum of Scotland   by Charles McKaean
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**  MUSEUMS AUSTRALIA (VIC.) LAB. TOUR

**  Exhibition of Children's Art Works


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