Welcome back to Global Museum, your free webzine read in more than 91
countries each week. Free Online subscription.
http://www.globalmuseum.org
The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine) in this
week's edition include:
** Hottentot Venus to go home - if French find her
The story of the Hottentot Venus is one of the darkest and most shameful
chapters in European imperialism
** Pompidou celebrates 25th birthday
The role of the Pompidou's National Museum of Modern Art is to display the
best works of art of the 100 years that have just ended
** Plans to rebuild Bamiyan Buddhas
A prominent specialist on Afghanistan's history and culture has been
speaking in London about plans for the possible reconstruction of the
Bamiyan Buddhas
** Tech museum fights slump in attendance
The fortunes of Silicon Valley's proudest showpiece - the Tech Museum of
Innovation - have fallen with the Nasdaq
** New NEA chief Hammond dies after a week on job
President Bush's pick to head the National Endowment for the Arts was found
dead on Tuesday, one week after beginning the job
** Belgian artist creates ultimate eating machine
For the next three months, someone at the museum will feed Cloaca lunch and
dinner
** Backstabbin' at the Betsy
If Betsy Ross were alive today to see what's going on at her old house,
she'd probably foreclose the mortgage and kick out the squatters
____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________
Global Museum Travel: Hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather
forecasts, car rentals. . We provide competitive rates for more than 40,000
hotels in 5,000 cities and 140 countries. Global Museum Travel offers
discounts of up to 65% on over 700 hotels in almost every major city and up
to 40% on over 7,000 hotels around the world. CLICK
http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/travel1.htm to view and use the Travel
Service- Safe & Secure transactions and destinations. NEW TRAVEL SITE
DESIGN !
____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________
** Herod 'killed by kidney disease and gangrene'
Doctors believe he may have become even more ill-tempered towards the end of
his life because of kidney disease and rotting genitalia.
** Disney loses 1st round in Pooh battle
A small family-owned firm has won an early victory over an entertainment
giant, after a California judge found the Walt Disney Co. guilty of
destroying key evidence
** Building site grave could solve mystery of Richard II
The answer to one of the most intriguing mysteries in British history could
lie under the site of a pedestrian shopping centre in Stirling
** Report Finds Waste at Louvre Museum
The artworks may be beautiful, but what happens behind the scenes at the
Louvre Museum is something of a mess
** Germans honored for saving Jewish history
Five Germans -- a bookstore owner, a banker, a teacher and two historians -
were honored here this week for helping preserve German Jewish history
** The Allure of Cleopatra
"Art, history, archaeology - we don't make a distinction among these
things," says project administrator David Foster of the Field Museum
** Is wanting a relic from Ground Zero morbid?
Museums, scholars and sculptors are clamouring for what the New York Post
has called "sacred relics"
** The Trial of a Dealer Divides the Art World
It is a long way from the ancient tombs of Egypt to a federal courtroom in
Lower Manhattan
____________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________
Advertisement: THE DR. WILDERNESS SHOW, INC. PRESENTS: "THE MAGIC OF
SCIENCE - REDISCOVERING OUR SENSE OF WONDER"
A BRAND NEW LECTURE FOR 2002. NOW TOURING PLANET EARTH
Featuring the award-winning presentations of Kevin Barnes (a.k.a. Dr.
Wilderness) in a lecture experience unlike anything you've seen. Combining
stage magic, music, interactive robotics, special effects and astonishing
science education
Available for Science Centers, Corporate Events, Museums, Fund Raisers. For
schedules and rates (50% discount to nonprofits) click this link :
www.drwilderness.com
____________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________
** Just a notional national gallery?
He describes the name as "a blast from the past", and he set about giving
Australia's oldest gallery a different sort of blast. See the video
** Fort Gordon museum honors black pioneer
The fruits of Mr. Ricks' courage stood in line Friday to greet him - dozens
of soldiers and officers of all ranks, black and white
** China Races to Save History
The plan is part of a $125 million push to save thousands of relics
threatened by the world's largest hydroelectric project
** Museum loses longtime curator
Inez Thompson fluffed the faded chintz pillow before moving it from a corner
chair to an antique horsehair couch in the parlor
** Jurassic sprinter that swaggered like John Wayne
The tracks of a predatory dinosaur that walked like John Wayne but ran like
Linford Christie have been discovered at a quarry in Oxfordshire
** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST
** "Getting Away: Country Houses, Resorts, Travel, and Leisure Culture in
Nineteenth-Century America"
** American Association for History and Computing's Graduate Student Caucus
** DOCUMENTA Trip
** Beyond Copyright: Do Artists Have Rights?
** Society of American Archivists 2002 Annual Meeting
** New Research Highlights Startling Threat to Wetland Archaeological
Heritage
** Romantic Orientalism
+++++ PLUS +++++
The latest museum JOBS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, Hot JOB TIPS, great people
posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable world TRAVEL, MALL, Museum
Accredited Courses, a Health Store, Traditional Toy Store, Products &
Services, Classical Music store, and a Jazz Emporium.
http://www.globalmuseum.org
=========================================================
Important Subscriber Information:
The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes).
If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).
|
