GLOBAL MUSEUM http://www.globalmuseum.org In your FREE international Museum webzine this week: In the FORUM section - Are there simply too many Museums? Enjoy this week's international Museum news and associated topics: ** France's Chirac Inaugurates De Gaulle Museum Wing French President Jacques Chirac Sunday inaugurated a wing devoted to the Second World War and especially to resistance and post war leader General Charles de Gaulle in the cavernous Les Invalides military museum ** Substance Abuse exhibition in Norway "Intoxicants of the Golden Triangle: Aesthetics, addiction and poverty" An exhibition on production processes, people and societies based on the manufacture of opium products, betel nut and tobacco ** BOOK REVIEW Tourism & Hospitality Marketing . by Sharron Dickman. From a "Sounds of Silence" Dinner in the desert to a watch with a built in compass that "avoids the embarrassment of having to eat your friends", this excellent visitor industry resource is a "must read" for any Museum,nonprofit or tourism operator interested in attracting and retaining tourists. ** Summer sights: a Korean house of treasure No one realized that they had just accidentally stumbled upon what is said to be the world's richest undersea archaeological find ever, in terms of its historical and artistic value ** Baby boomer's new rock museum opening in Seattle A rock 'n' roll museum whose bold design suggests a colorful smashed guitar opens in Seattle on Friday, a $240 million monument built by a baby boomer ** First 'space tourist' announced The next crew to visit the Mir space station will include a paying passenger - a businessman from Los Angeles, US. ** Man-Eating Lions Needed Dentists Two lions that killed and ate 135 railway workers in Kenya in 1898 may have suffered from extremely painful toothaches that prevented them from attacking their normal prey ** World-Class Aviation Art Exhibition Opens June 27 An exhibition of more than 85 pieces of world- class aviation art will open to the public on June 27 at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum ** Museum opens in Oregon Coast Guard station The boathouse burned down and the steps are in disrepair and somewhat grown over, but the memory of the agonizing trips up and down them, as well as the station itself, will live on, thanks to the Point Orford Heritage Society ____________________________________________________________________________ _____ Advertisement Direct URL http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/travel.html " I DISCOVERED THE TRAVEL SERVICE BY ACCIDENT. I USED IT TO FIND A HOTEL ROOM IN LOS ANGELES, AND BOOKED ONE, AT A GOOD PRICE TOO! THANKS." D.S. Montreat Rail passes, 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. In addition to hotel reservations, car, air, and cruise reservations can also be arranged Direct URL http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/travel.html ____________________________________________________________________________ _____ ** The mothership has landed In Paris they have the Louvre Pyramid. In London over the last weekend something equally novel but a little more amorphous disrupted the Georgian sobriety of Somerset House ** Australia demands return of Aboriginal bodies from British museums Australia's minister for the arts, Peter McGauran, will raise the issue of repatriation in a move that could prove as controversial as the demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece ** Artist Drew Atrocities, Landscapes What is striking is that the 144 pieces were done by one artist - 90-year-old Liu Kang, a man considered Singapore's national treasure. It is his first exhibition in the United States. ** Tombs Found at 10th-Century Church Archaeologists excavating ruins of a 10th-century church in northeast Spain have found 18 tombs, many containing well-preserved human remains ** History buff is chasing fabled Khan to his grave Maury Kravitz is launching an expedition he hopes will solve one of the great archaeological mysteries of all time: the location of Genghis Khan's tomb ** Museum Sues Owner of Titanic The Maryland Academy of Sciences has sued the company that owns the Titanic, alleging that it is refusing to cooperate in an exhibit scheduled to open at the Maryland Science Center in November. ** Italian museums see another Renaissance Visitors to Italy hoping to see the works of Michelangelo, Caravaggio and Bernini used to be confronted with closed museums and neglected monuments ** Firm offers free search for looted art A prominent Jewish family from Vienna made it to safety in the US, with their lift containing the families' treasured art work supposedly following right behind them. . ** A Contribution to the Mathematical and Physical Theory of Big Game Hunting Problem: To Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert. 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Its focus is on the anthropology,archaeology, and history of Niigata Prefecture with over half of its exhibit space is devoted to exhibits on the archaeology of the Jomon era ** Riversleigh museum to put Isa at forefront of research The opening of the latest addition to Mount Isa's Riversleigh Fossil Museum is hoped to attract unprecedented numbers of tourists and researchers alike ** Visitor Studies Association Conference ** American Association of Museums 96th Annual Meeting ** C.A.R.E. 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