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MoMA and Tate joint Internet venture, little hotel soaps, Europe's seven female founders, £4,935 takes the Shackleton polar biscuit



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**  MoMA and Tate announce joint Internet venture
In the first venture by art museums to start a profit-making company, the
Museum of Modern Art in New York and London's Tate Gallery said Monday they
had joined forces to develop Internet services for art, culture and design


**  Those little hotel soaps!
Global Museum  details some correspondence which actually occurred between a
London hotel's staff and one of its guests. The London hotel involved
submitted this to the Sunday Times. No name was mentioned.

**  Museum Unseals Garbo Letters
On the 10th anniversary of the Swedish-born actress' death, a group of Garbo
heirs, museum curators, trustees and researchers huddled together in a
book-lined study of the Rosenbach Museum & Library and slipped open the
red-ribbon seal on an archival box that had protected the letters from
public view for 40 years


**  Europe's seven female founders
Everyone in Europe is descended from just seven women


**  Ancient Humans Valued Clean Teeth
Microscopic scratches in the tooth of an ancient human suggest that we're
not the first to use toothpicks to pry pesky scraps of food from between our
teeth


**  Darwin Center Evolves
Stones from the country estate where Charles Darwin developed his theories
on evolution were placed Tuesday on the roof of a new building


**  New Music Museum Houses History Of Memphis Sound
The new Memphis Rock 'N' Soul Museum, which opens April 29, honors the
pioneers of country, rockabilly, blues, gospel and rock who shaped the
ground-breaking Memphis Sound


**  Stately midlands home to open after £6m restoration
A stately home in the midlands designed by the architect credited with
drawing up plans for Leinster House, Dublin's Rotunda Hospital, Powerscourt
Estate and Russborough House, Co Wicklow, will open to the public next week

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**  Wanted: obsolete, 1970s computer for $30,000...
For antique chic, there's nothing to beat a vintage computer - and little to
match the price


**  Dragon art of Three Kingdoms
A rare exhibition of art works featuring dragons, which goes back to the
Three Kingdoms' Period and spans 1500 years, is now open at the Ho-Am Art
Museum in Yong-in, on the outskirts of Seoul


**  When the Tate says hang it all
Installations, mobiles, oils - preparing for Britain's biggest gallery
opening in years is no easy task



**  £4,935 takes the Shackleton polar biscuit
A small brown biscuit from the rations of men on Sir Ernest Shackleton's
expedition in search of the South Pole in 1907-9 was sold for £4,935 at
Christie's in London



**  Squabble over Aboriginal chief's head
The head of an Aboriginal chief was believed to be still in an Australian
bank vault yesterday, almost three years after being exhumed from an English
cemetery



**  ''Fifth Beatle'' Sutcliffe's letters return home
The letters and art of ``Fifth Beatle'' Stuart Sutcliffe came back to
Liverpool, birthplace of the world's most famous pop group, Wednesday after
an absence of almost 40 years.


**  Resurrection on Easter Island
For most people, the words "Easter Island" trigger an instant association
with some of the most famous sculptures in the world: more than 900 massive,
mysterious megaliths scattered over a speck of land that would fit easily
into the Isle of Wight


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**  Ever thought of visiting Pasternak Country? Experiencing land of Dark
Secrets and White Snow? Want to discover the life and culture of the ethnic
groups of Central Asia? One of our regular GLOBAL MUSEUM correspondents is
returning to these parts and looking for a travelling companion.  If this
sounds like you, our reader would like you to send him an email.


**  ICTOP/ICOM 2000 Meeting & Symposium: "Focusing on the Learner"
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