In your free Museum EZINE, GLOBAL MUSEUM this week

http://www.globalmuseum.org

we introduce a new Museum product dubbed the " smallest, lightest, most
attractive, high-performance playback device in the world....."  and a new
page sponsor PLUS these top stories from around the globe

*Smithsonian Art Museum Going On The Road
One of the Smithsonian Institution's most popular museums is closing its
Washington doors for three years and going on the road

*Britain says Elgin Marbles not returning to Greece
Britain on Tuesday quashed speculation that it was considering returning the
disputed Elgin Marbles to Greece, saying the classical statues would stay
put in the British Museum

*Bones exhibit fires China's imagination
On the top floor of the Shanghai Museum, a hushed reverence pervades the
exhibition hall as throngs of visitors marvel at the hairline carvings on
bone fragments.

*Why aren't sheep green?
the lack of greenness amongst sheep has evolved as a defence mechanism
against ducks

*Finally, a Monument to the City
After almost two centuries as the nation's capital, Washington will at last
have a city museum that celebrates its past and present

*Planting the evidence
Fifty years ago a young Cambridge don went to the remote island of Rum to
expose an eminent botanist as a fraud.

*Increase in fees at museums proposed
A Chinese Museum ups its charges?

PLUS a new selection of Museum Career options in the JOBS pages

GLOBAL MUSEUM now read in 59 countries!  http://www.globalmuseum.org

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