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      <title>Museum must rediscover its mojo</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:32:58 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The presentation and discussion left me with the impression the museum has been infected by a disease that is debilitating some other creative sectors]]></description>
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      <title>Titian painting damaged by water in Venice fire</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:32:31 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Renaissance painting by Italian master Titian and other rare canvases have suffered water damage after a fire at the building next to the Venice basilica where the artworks reside]]></description>
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      <title>Wonderful Weevils</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:32:03 +1200</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.glpobalmuseum.org</link>
      <description><![CDATA[With 4,500 different weevil species, the Voríšek collection is the largest of its kind and almost half of the species are new to the Museum’s collections]]></description>
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      <title>Support The Site - Global Museum Merchandise - Unique Gifts</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:04:49 +0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Goober's suit enshrined</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:04:48 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Actor George Lindsey's costume attracted overflow crowds at the Andy Griffith Museum, which functions as both a shrine to the namesake favorite son and part of a Mayberry renaissance powering the economy in Mount Airy]]></description>
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      <title>Most Fragile Eggs Belonged to Huge Flightless Birds</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:01:54 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[To discover which species that other moa eggs might belong to, researchers first analyzed DNA from remains of different species of moa left all over New Zealand]]></description>
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      <title>Art Theft Underworld Frustrates France</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:01:28 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/modigliani.jpg"><br/>The vulnerability of museums and high-end art owners to costly thefts has been a whispered concern in France for years, but two events here are forcing the issue into the open]]></description>
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      <title>Chinese-American Museum reborn after fire</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:01:03 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Five tiny, charred doll heads and a two worn silk panels from a 20th century wooden pagoda-shaped lantern lay in a display case, each next to a photo of what the historic artifacts at the Chinese-American Museum of Chicago looked like before they were severely damaged in a fire]]></description>
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      <title>Follow Us OnTwitter</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:01:02 +0800</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tweet, Tweet - 17,720 realtime news tweets and 998 Followers]]></description>
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      <title>Paranormal investigators visit old Texas museum</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:00:39 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Museum director Rick Villarreal said some visitors have said they sensed a presence at the historic site in the past, but there is little proof that ghosts do inhabit the halls ]]></description>
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      <title>British Museum alert will remain mystery</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:59:29 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The British Museum has reopened after a suspected noxious substance left visitors with irritated eyes and throats, as managers admitted the cause of the scare will remain a mystery]]></description>
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      <title>Museum and its many bugs under auditors' microscope</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:59:04 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The figures are staggering: the Australian Museum in Sydney is home to 300,000 insects, 140,000 of which do not even have names; there are 60,000 items in the Pacific collections and a further 70,000 ornithological specimens ]]></description>
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      <title>Join Us On Facebook</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:58:39 +0800</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574</link>
      <description><![CDATA[523 of us have become Global Museum Friends on Facebook. Why not join us!]]></description>
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      <title>What have the Romans ever done for us (socks and sandals excepted)?</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:58:38 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[They gave the world decent roads, indoor plumbing and some of the goriest spectator sports known to man, but now it appears that the Romans made a hitherto secret contribution to global civilisation by pioneering the wearing of socks with sandals ]]></description>
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      <title>Drunk US man 'lost' $1.9m artwork</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:58:08 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The museum agreed to return "Portrait of a Girl" and dozens of other paintings to a Hammer-related foundation, and the foundation was allowed to sell the Corot canvas and a few others]]></description>
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      <title>Vietnamese culture to be part of South Korea museum</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:57:41 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The National Children’s Museum of South Korea will add a section of Vietnamese culture later this month to make Korean children more aware of the 90,000-strong Vietnamese community in the country]]></description>
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      <title>The Punch and Judy archive </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:57:20 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/Punch.jpg"><br/>The archive traces the development of the format from the earliest restoration-era performances of the marionette puppet Mr Punch, who was controlled using wires and strings]]></description>
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      <title>Join the Global Museum Social Network Now</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:57:19 +0800</pubDate>
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      <author>director@globalmuseum.org</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Join the Global Museum Social Network and blog, share files, contribute to the Wiki and more.
More than 569 people have joined and we would like to welcome you.]]></description>
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      <title>Broad Collection building design is upside-down</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:57:18 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, it appears that architects, who designed the ICA, are about to repeat the error in the museum building they're now designing for the Broad Collection ]]></description>
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      <title>Reward Offered in Case of Missing van Gogh Painting</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:56:54 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Egyptian telecommunications magnate has announced he is offering a reward for information leading to the recovery of a van Gogh painting that was stolen from a museum in Giza, while Egyptian authorities said they would improve security measures at all of their museums]]></description>
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      <title>This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:56:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>director@globalmuseum.org</author>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/weird_portrait.jpg"><br/>Who's the winner?]]></description>
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      <title>Cavemen Accused of Wiping Out Cave Bears</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:56:04 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Giant cave bears thought to have once dined on each other might have been driven to extinction by the advance of humanity, scientists now suggest]]></description>
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      <title>Iraq 'bleeding antiquities' as instability continues</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:55:41 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[As the US prepares to withdraw its last combat troops from Iraq, international cultural experts are warning that the country is "bleeding antiquities" and that artefacts representing the world's cradle of civilisation are still in peril]]></description>
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      <title>£1m for upgrades at Wales' most popular museum</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:55:08 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[St Fagans opened in 1948 as the first open-air museum in the UK, with the aim of portraying how the people of Wales lived, worked and spent their leisure time over the last 500 years]]></description>
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      <title>M&amp;T MUSE Awards are Calling All Developers</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:54:20 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[As the MUSE Awards enter into their 22nd year, the American Association of Museum Media & Technology Standing Professional Committee renews its long-standing commitment to these awards by developing the next generation of online MUSE submission entry system]]></description>
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      <title>American Painting 1959-2009</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:53:51 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Now on view in the East Building's Upper Level northeast galleries, American Painting 1959–2009 includes a broad array of work from the past 50 years]]></description>
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      <title>THATCamp Chicago</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:53:23 +1200</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Northwestern University Libraries and Departments of Gender Studies and English in partnership with The University of Chicago Division of the Humanities and The Newberry Library are pleased to announce the first THATCamp Chicago]]></description>
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      <title>And More..........</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:25:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <author>director@globalmuseum.org</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Discover the Globe's freshest Museum stories at Global Museum!]]></description>
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