GLOBAL MUSEUM http://www.globalmuseum.org Read in 69 countries in the year 2000. In your free international Museum Ezine this week: ** San Francisco museum sets $50,000 Internet art prize ** The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has set up a new, $50,000 annual prize for Internet art, one of the largest single awards for online art and media in the world ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- 54 new reasons to visit the JOBS PAGES of GLOBAL MUSEUM in 2000 - Post your resume ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- ** British Lawnmower Museum Takes to the Internet ** Britain's Lawnmower Museum has taken to the Internet to sing the praises of its cutting edge attraction. ** Picasso - homage to the bullfighter ** Picasso sought the explanation of life and death in Dominguin's art of bullfighting. A huge number of projects emerged from the friendship between the painter and the bullfighter **Australia Fish Fossil May Be Distant Human Relative ** A 400-million-year-old fossilized fish recently discovered near an Australian dam may be one of the human race's earliest relatives, according to researchers at the Australian Museum ** Yellow Submarine Resurfaces -- Virtually ** Visitors to Berlin can take their seats next to John, Paul, George and Ringo on the Yellow Submarine and help the Fab Four in their quest to save the world from the Blue Meanies. At least they can in a museum of music .. ** Biggest Dinosaur Believed Dug Up in Argentina ** The bones of what may be the largest dinosaur species yet discovered were found by a villager in a vulture-ridden series of canyons in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, local paleontologists said on Tuesday. ** Internet Auction Flogs T-Rex Bones for $5.8 Million ** In a monster sale on the Internet, online auctioneers on Monday put a fossilized Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton on the block with the opening bid set at $5.8 million ** Baffling Viking Artifacts Found in Cave ** A hoard of Viking artifacts found in a cave in southern Ireland is baffling archaeologists. ADVERTISEMENT: In the Year 2000 Eurorail passes, hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals GLOBAL MUSEUM TRAVEL ** West Virginia Finds Ancient Indian Hunting Ground ** Workers removing a 19th-century graveyard from the planned site of a new state prison have stumbled on an Indian hunting ground used as far back as 8000 B.C. ** Getting Away / Pottering around in kiln country ** The name Arita is synonymous with ceramics. As the birthplace of Japan's porcelain industry, the town in Saga Prefecture boasts a 400-year history of producing Aritayaki pottery . ** Stolen Constable paintings recovered ** Undercover detectives posing as art buyers have recovered two Constable oil sketches, worth £1 million, that vanished from the Victoria and Albert Museum two years ago ** Women have no appetite for canteen nude ** A sculpture depicting the naked and voluptuous body of Buddha's mother is to be removed from the British Library canteen because it puts women staff off their soup and sandwiches ** James Card, 84, a Leader in Film Preservation, Dies ** James Card, one of the world's leading film preservationists, a passionate devotee of silent movies and the founder and first curator of the Department of Film at the George Eastman House of Photography in Rochester, died on Sunday at a hospital in Syracuse ** TAAL - Rich In History & Heritage ** The Taal Heritage Village project in the Philipines, involves the restoration of areas in the town by transforming them into living museums, showcasing crafts, culture, history and tradition and reminders of the town's past as a prosperous center of the sugar and coffee trades ** Holy See dotcon ** The Vatican is finding out the hard way that there are some places where nothing is sacred. It has become the latest big-name victim of conmen operating on the Internet ** Mild-Mannered Partners Embark on Very Sexy Plan ** Dan Gluck and Alison Maddex -- the stylish young entrepreneurs who hope to build the Museum of Sex on Fifth Avenue ** Duke of Wellington's income from battle site under fire ** A Belgian politician wants to stop the present Duke of Wellington from receiving $240,000 (all figures Cdn) a year from a 1,050-hectare estate at the scene of the Battle of Waterloo ** Ancient sculpture goes home ** The sculpted head of an Egyptian queen has been handed back to Egypt at the British Museum. The model of Nefertari, wife of Pharaoh Rameses II, dates back to the 13th Century BC. It was smuggled into the UK 10 years ago disguised as a cheap tourist souvenir ** New archaeological discoveries in Syria date back to 2500 BC ** The Syrian- European expedition team working at Tel Beidar, near al-Hassaka city (northern Syria) found a collection of cuneiform clay tablets that date back to 2500 BC ____________________________________________________________________________ ______ GLOBAL MUSEUM - All the latest NEWS plus the latest Museum careers, resume posting service, the most comprehensive Nonprofit bookshop, Museum online travel service and Mall 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). 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