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week's edition include:
** Charlotte Bronte's first story sell for £700,000... to a French museum
A miniscule manuscript of an unpublished story by Charlotte Bronte has
fetched almost £700,000 at auction - and has been sold to a museum in France
** South Africa gallows site becomes museum, memorial
A prison employee who said he had been a death row guard helped ensure the
new museum's details are correct, down to the thickness of the ropes
** Elephant disappearance caused the rise of modern man
The elephant, a huge package of food that is easy to hunt, disappeared from
the Middle East 400,000 years ago - an event that must have imposed
considerable nutritional stress on Homo erectus
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** As Earth warms, plants and bees keep pace
The researchers compared flowering data from 106 native, bee-pollinated
plant species over the last 130 years with collection data obtained for bees
over the same time period; data on bee activity was obtained from museum
specimens from 10 major U.S. bee collections
** The girl with the pearl necklace
It is not every day that a piece of jewellery comes on to the market with a
provenance that boasts eight kings of Spain and members of the Bonaparte
family
** Rare Jolly Roger goes on display at Portsmouth's navy museum
The red background - rather than black - signified the pirates intended to
spare no life if a battle broke out during a ship's capture and when it was
restored at the Winchester School of Art's Textile Conservation Centre in
2007, gunpowder and small holes with charred edges were found on the flag
** Saddam Hussein's looted dinner plates used in Art Project returned to
Iraq
Over the last several years, as cultural patrimony cases have roiled the art
world, federal marshals have made surprise visits to a number of American
museums and galleries, arriving to cart away artifacts claimed by foreign
governments and believed to have been looted
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** Evidence for unknown Viking king Airdeconut found in Lancashire
The Airdeconut coin also reveals that within a generation of the Vikings
starting to colonise permanent settlements in Britain in the 870s - instead
of coming as summer raiders - their kings had allied themselves to the
Christian god
** Monet, Meet Mario Bros.
It's a significant event for an industry that has long been considered an
ugly duckling by not only the cultural elite, but the public at large
** Treasury rules stop museums spending donors' cash
Britain's national museums are reluctantly setting up charitable trusts to
bypass Treasury restrictions on spending future financial reserves
** Iraq museum pays smugglers for looted treasures
Located in the semi-autonomous northern region of Kurdistan, the Slemani
Museum has taken drastic measures to refill display cabinets following
looting
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** National Museum acquires Holey Dollar
In 1812, Governor Lachlan Macquarie imported 40,000 Spanish dollars; in
order to ensure that these didn't disappear he ordered that the centre of
each coin be punched out to make a Holey Dollar
** Did a good sense of smell give us an evolutionary advantage?
Our sense of smell may have been as important as language in helping to give
us, modern humans, an evolutionary advantage over other human relatives such
as the Neanderthals, scientists have reported in the journal Nature
Communications
** Monet pastel returns to the Savoy Hotel
Monet's Waterloo Bridge, created during one of his stays at The Savoy, is
returning to the London hotel over 100 years after it was drawn
** Maritime Museum investigates case of missing artifact
They may seem like small, souvenirs lying on the bottom of Lake Michigan,
but some are actually artifacts from historic shipwrecks, and taking one
could get you in some deep water with the state
_________________________________________________________________________________________Become a FAN - Join 1.550 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574?_________________________________________________________________________________________** 50 Years of American Fashion CouncilFor the 50th anniversary of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, theMuseum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York is hosting anexclusive exhibition to display iconic creations** Museum's moral tragedyIt's also a moral tragedy, very much like the corporation that providedWalton with the money to build a billion-dollar art museum during aterrifying recession** Museum searches for missing weaponThe museum, which has been struggling financially for several years now, hasbeen operating solely on a volunteer basis** Janitor finds 'unassuming' wooden box and discovers treasure hoardCustodian Tanja Hols discovered the unopened wooden box in an archive of thehistoric state library in Passau, southeast Germany, but thought it looked'fairly unspectacular' in first glance______________________________________________________________________________@@@@ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. Global Museum's DAILY NEWSPAPER poweredby your museum tweets - Enjoy! http://paper.li/globalmuseum/1288898965______________________________________________________________________________** The Dramatic Stories of New Brunswickers in WartimeShare the experiences of New Brunswickers such as the five Carty brothers,who all served in the air force; Medric Leblanc of Rogersville, a member ofthe First Special Service Force; Margaret Pictou Labillois from Eel RiverBar First Nation; and Alice Murdoch, who entertained troops during theSecond World War** Plastic fantastic squid goes on display for first timeAUT University's Earth and Oceanic Sciences Research Institute donated twosquids to Dr. von Hagens and they were the first giant squid specimens to beplastinated** Dragons, Nagas, and Creatures of the DeepFebruary 3, 2012 through January 6, 2013 - The Textile Museum, 2320 SStreet, NW, Washington, DC** Fundraising for Arts and Cultural Organizations: Strategies in theChanging WorldDecember 17 - 21, 2012 at Retzhof Castle - Retzhof Educational Institute inLeitring bei Leibnitz, AustriaEmpowering the visitor: process, progress and protest35th Annual ICOFOM Symposium - Tunis, November 2012All this and more for you at Global Museum - See the latest museum JOBS,BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, PODCASTS, HOT JOB TIPS, great people posting theirRESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable WORLD TRAVEL, the GM Social Network,Museum Online Document Store, Podcasts, Museum Accredited Courses, Products& Services.http://www.globalmuseum.org First published on the Web in 1998 and goingstrong!BLOG READERS & MUSEUM WEB SITES - Use our RSS news feed on your site, fromthis address: http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/GM2/gm.xml >
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