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FREE online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the webzine) edition include: ** Smithsonian Chief Scraps Plan Small's plan to shut it drew fire from scientists within and outside the Smithsonian and from members of Congress ** Buddha's ashes to be displayed in Patna museum Buddhists from all over the world had been demanding to see the urn containing the ashes of the Lord Buddha ** Charlie Chaplin's house to become a museum A new foundation has come up with the idea, which is backed by three of his children ** History museum building is the biggest fossil of all Lack of investment has preserved the Natural History Museum as a Victorian curiosity ** Battle to save Crimea's treasures It is estimated that at least $2m worth of antiquities are smuggled out of the Crimea every year for buyers in the West ** Sacking 'threatens museum's currency' Job losses and restructuring at the new Melbourne Museum are undermining its international reputation, compromising security and damaging its ability to care for artefacts worth millions of dollars, ICOM has claimed. ** Smithsonian's $35m present A Washington businesswoman plans to give the Smithsonian Institution $US35 million to establish a "hall of achievement." ____________________________________________________________________________ _____ Global Museum Travel: Hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals .. 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Step right into the house of pain The Criminal Museum of Meiji University in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward is probably one of the most painful museums to wander around ** Paris Court Upholds Van Gogh Sale A French appeals court ruled Monday that the sale of a contested Van Gogh landscape was valid and dismissed a case brought by the painting's current owners ** Boca cartoon museum to sell some of its treasures The first Mickey Mouse drawings will be one of the highlights of the May 19 auction ** Open City: Street Photographs Open City takes as its starting point the raw and edgy photographs produced by a generation of photographers in the 1950s and 60s ** This week's horoscopes Scorpio: (Oct. 24--Nov. 21) You're more than just a collection of annoying, loosely bundled neuroses ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Advert: AMERICA'S #1 TOURING SCIENCE MAGIC STAGE SHOW THE DR. WILDERNESS SHOW is booking our "performance exhibit" WORLDWIDE . 3 actors. Incredible stage illusions. Digital surround sound. Music! Magic! Dance! Contact us for availability, and a video CD. An EMMY AWARD WINNING Production. www.drwilderness.com ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Machu Picchu's slide Is Machu Picchu falling? A team of Japanese geologists has concluded that it is ** The slave garret of Brooklyn 200 years ago, in this tiny space, 12 slaves were held in old New York ** Number of visitors to Hiroshima museum declines Museum director Minoru Hataguchi attributed this to the recent trend of schools taking students on excursions to remote places ** Heritage strikes £3M deal for art, science and photography archive An online picture library providing access to a range of Britain's historical art hopes to expand into continental Europe ** Mammal find marks important evolutionary split Zhailimeryx lived only in Asia and co-existed with early rhinos, primates, dog-like carnivores, rodents and lizards ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** UCLA/Getty Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing ____________________________________________________________________________ __ COMPLETE BARCELONA TRAVEL DESTINATION GUIDE http://content.travelnow.com/city.asp?city=Barcelona&id=44&cid=1527&cont=Eur ope&stateProvince ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** The Barcelona program for the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Ethnography (ICME) ** Fresh Eyes: New Approaches to Museums and Education ** Heritage- It'ss not what it used to be ** Field School Alternatives ____________________________________________________________________________ ____ REMEMBER: INTERNATIONAL MUSEUMS DAY - MAY 18TH. 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