GLOBAL MUSEUM - the international Museum Ezine now enthusiastically 'devoured' in over 70 countries http://www.globalmuseum.org This week's headlines news items in your FREE ezine include: ** Austria has 186,000 books looted by Nazis--WJC ** Demonstrating the wide reach of Holocaust restitution efforts, the World Jewish Congress said Wednesday that Austria's libraries had 186,000 books that the Nazis had stolen from Holocaust victims ** French Team Discovers Queen Pyramid in Sakkara ** A team of French archeologists has discovered a pyramid at Sakkara near Cairo belonging to an ancient Egyptian queen from the Sixth Pharaonic Dynasty ** TV, Radio Museum bows documentary fest ** The Museum of Television & Radio has unveiled plans to launch an annual Television Documentary Festival, the first edition of which will roll out May 3-21 in New York. ** Stolen czarist treasure recovered on Hollywood street corner ** A jewel-encrusted dagger given to Russian Czar Alexander III was found Tuesday on a Hollywood street corner, two days after it disappeared from an exhibit at the Queen Mary ocean liner turned hotel ** Smith reneges on pledge for free museums ** Chris Smith, the Culture Secretary, has abandoned plans to abolish admission charges to national museums and galleries after failing to win extra money from the Treasury ** Penny snapped up for $AUS 245,000 ** Australia's rarest coin, a mint-proof 1930 George V penny bought by the nursing home entrepreneur Mr Doug Moran 18 years ago, was sold for $245,000 at auction in Sydney ** School row over Mallory picture ** A school has become embroiled in a row with its old boys' association over who owns the rights to a pictorial record of George Mallory's attempt to scale Everest ** Face to Face With Fame ** There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. --Dominic Behan ALFRIED KRUPP found that out the hard way when he consented to having his picture taken by photographer Arnold Newman in 1963 ** Republic falls short on arts funding ** A comparative study of arts expenditure in a range of developed countries shows Ireland near the bottom of the league table, and says that increases have "not matched the economic growth of the Celtic Tiger ** Collecting - Pieces of Political History ** At first glance, the black-and-white button promising "Honest Government" from John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan seems hardly worth a second glance. But to political collectors Steven and Gary Cohen, it's worth a cool $150,000. ** Naples Museum Plans To Expose Ancient Erotica ** A collection of ancient Roman erotica, thought too scandalous for mere mortals to view and stashed in a Naples museum for the better part of 200 years, is to go on public view next month.. ** The Glory That Was Chrome ** Nowhere in the world does Detroit's heyday live on in such glorious decay as in Cuba, where auto maintenance is art, religion and necessity REMEMBER: Theme of International Museum Day, 18 May 2000. "Museums for peace and harmony in Society" ** Neanderthal, Modern Man DNA Differ ** Researchers say DNA extracted from a 29,000-year-old bone has cast doubt on the theory that modern humans evolved in part from squat, heavy-browed Neanderthals ** Brigitte Bardot criticizes Va. museum for planned dolphin exhibit ** Brigitte Bardot is condemning the Virginia Marine Science Museum for a plan to keep dolphins in a tank. ** Controversy over elusive document revives interest in 1965 coup ** Leaning forward in his armchair, Indonesia's founding father, President Sukarno, hands a sheaf of papers to a general seated on his right. Other generals, presidential aides and the first lady watch impassively All these international news items + the latest Museum JOBS and RESUME POSTING service + a nonprofit / museum BOOKSHOP with over 1,000 titles: Books, CD,s DVD's, Videos + MALL + FORUM + a TRAVEL service offering safe and discounted airfares, passes and hotel reservations + subscribe online Each week in the award-winning GLOBAL MUSEUM http://www.gobalmuseum.org ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ Have you got quality Museum merchandise or services that you wish to sell online to a international market? Want to know more? Contact [log in to unmask] with your expression of interest and all will be revealed ____________________________________________________________________________ _____ ========================================================= 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).