Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online compendium, read weekly since 1998 by 8,000+ readers in more than 201 countries. <http://www.globalmuseum.org/> http://www.globalmuseum.org ** British Museum realises 'vase' is in fact an ancient mace-head displayed upside down In a bit of serendipity, the curators realised during research for the show that an object they had long assumed was a vase had actually been displayed upside down. ** Leonardo's 'Salvator Mundi' Is Missing - And It's Mixed Up With The Saudi Crown Prince And The Mueller Investigation At first, laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in full view of a global audience, may not seem like the smartest move, but the facts support this may have been what the two crown princes and Dmitry Rybolovlev tried to do. ** Sorry, the Mona Lisa Is Not Looking at You A new study suggests the famous painting's eyes don't follow viewers around the room but are looking off to their right instead. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 4,436? 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There is little doubt that espionage in its many forms has contributed mightily to winning wars, cold as well as hot; but what goes under the general rubric of "intelligence" can also be a dirty business, far less glamorous than James Bond movies would have us believe. ** 'Lost Michelangelo' goes missing from Belgian church After confiding in just 20 trusted people of his suspicion that a painting in his church was a lost masterpiece, a priest in the small Flemish town of Zele, 45 miles north of Brussels, has had to call in the local police over its sudden disappearance. ** The Warhol Foundation Ends Its Smithsonian Ban The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced that it will award $100,000 to the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian - ending an eight-year-old ban on providing money to the Smithsonian Institution. ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,416 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574?> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Is A Mysterious Shark Species Discovered In A Museum Actually Long Extinct? Since the species apparently hasn't turned up anywhere since the 1930s, Kyne and his colleagues offer the grave possibility that the shark went extinct sometime in the past several decades. ** Czech capital paved with Jewish gravestones, reveals museum director Thefts from nearly 600 Jewish cemeteries were paved over by communist officials until being unearthed by the Czech director of the Prague Jewish Museum. ** Moscow museum to exhibit jewellery from BBC's 'War and Peace' series, Faberge's rare works The Russian State Historical Museum will hold an exhibition in 2019, which will display jewellery designed specifically for the filming of the BBC TV series "War and Peace". ** Unusual Museums | The Dog Collar Museum Serving many purposes, from identification to functioning as a leash anchor to showcasing the latest in canine decor, dog collars are the tiny piece of clothing that transform dogs from wild animals to man's best friend. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 2K Pins, 555 Followers <http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/> http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Four men go on trial for giant gold coin heist from Berlin museum The men stand accused of stealing the 100kg "Big Maple Leaf" from the Bode Museum by breaking in through a second-floor window, smashing through a bulletproof cabinet, wheeling the coin through the museum on a roller board, then using a rope and wheelbarrow to transport it across rail tracks and through a park to a getaway car. ** Pyramid stone row: Egypt asks Museum of Scotland for papers The Egyptian government is calling for access to the certification documents for all Egyptian antiquities displayed at the National Museum of Scotland, following a row over plans by the museum to display a casing stone from the Great Pyramid of Giza next month. ** Easter Island statues: mystery behind their location revealed The huge stone figures of Easter Island have beguiled explorers, researchers and the wider world for centuries, but now experts say they have cracked one of the biggest mysteries: why the statues are where they are. ** How lidar is upending archaeology We're in this awkward phase where a lot of us now do have access to lidar, but there's still more than 90 percent of the Maya area that hasn't been covered with this stuff. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles - 190,026 in Circles. 14,402 in Community so far - <https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466> https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** New Museum Staff Launches Campaign to Unionize, Urging "Critical Changes" The organizers say their goal is a return to the aims of the New Museum's late founder Marcia Tucker, who hoped to work toward "a collaborative, self-critical, and 'transparent' organizational model." ** Beautiful But Deadly: The Creepiest Devices From Medicine's Grisly, Leech-Filled Past Like many pieces of 19th-century medical equipment, Blaufox's Auzoux manikin was a finely wrought piece of art that we might find hard to square with today's sterile hospital environment. ** 3D scans help natural history museums open up dark corners of their collections A project to digitally scan hundreds of bat skulls was one way to bring specimens that would look at home in an antique Victorian collection straight to the forefront of 21st-century museum practices. ** Turkish museum director fined for letting tea maker paint artifacts The court's ruling concerns Gundogdu's judgement that tasked Erol Ozturk, who makes tea at the museum, to restore the frames of 25 artifacts in the museum in 2014. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - <http://twitter.com/globalmuseum> http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 197K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,745 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Mile-High Tsunami That Spread Through Earth's Oceans Within the first 24 hours, the effects of the tsunami's impact spread out of the Gulf of Mexico and into the Atlantic, as well as through the Central American seaway (which doesn't exist anymore, but used to connect the Gulf to the Pacific). ** Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 2019 NYCMER Conference - Call for Proposals ** Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Research Grant Opportunities Looking for an award that will help you produce your dream exhibition? ** ICOM Kyoto 2019 Early Registration Launched The early bird registration for UMAC 2019 in Kyoto, Japan, is now open! ** This Week's Horoscopes Aries - Your friends will soon hold an intervention to take away your barge pole, wide-brimmed white straw hat, and Chianti bottle in an effort to stop your wanton and dangerous gondoliering All the latest Museum News, Views & Vacancies plus Bookshop, Museum Store, Resume Postings, Museum Studies Listing & More. 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