Welcome back to Global Museum, your free webzine read in more than 89 countries each week. http://www.globalmuseum.org Free Online subscription. The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the webzine) edition include: ** Peking Man cave near collapse UNESCO has threatened to shame Beijing into action after the Peking Man cave, a World Heritage Site, fell into disrepair ** Museum breathes life into sumo heritage Sumo usually brings to mind images of gigantic men grappling amid cameras flashing and the cheers of spectators ** Director rejects museum criticism Dawn Casey, came out yesterday fighting accusations of fabricated exhibitions, too much razzle-dazzle, and excessive use of oral history and audio-visuals. ** Museum ship sparks emergency scare A 100-year-old museum ship sparked an emergency scare after being lashed by near gale force winds and heavy swells ** All in favor of an air museum stand and holler, 'That's embarrassing!' If most people who live in Wichita don't know where the museum is, I thought, how can it ever be expected to survive? ** German Laurel and Hardy museum to close Germany's only museum dedicated to Laurel and Hardy is closing down after more than a decade ** Crevice holds treasure trove of bones A chalky crevice containing the remains of numerous prehistoric animals, including mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and giant deer has been discovered ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ Advertisement: Global Museum Travel 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. CLICK http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/travel1.html to view and use the TRAVEL SERVICE - GROUP DISCOUNTS ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ ** Bottles, nails and a lot of laughs What is probably the largest collection of Canadian humour in the country is stored between the chest freezer and the laundry tub ** Shoe firm heiress leaves £1m statue to Scotland Her family faced owing around £2 million from her £4.7 million estate to the tax man under inheritance rules ** The grave of Chinggis Khan? Of no doubt, it was a sacred place of great khans of Emperor Chinghis and of his golden ancestors ** King Arthur exhibition sets out to prove he lived in Scotland An exhibition to prove King Arthur was real and lived in southern Scotland will be staged in Glasgow this Autumn ** Come look in the cupboard She is one of the few who in the past decade has been able to pry open the cupboards of Britain's museums to find the Australian skeletons lying there ** Dublin plans new lifestyle museum A new museum to showcase Dublin's historical treasures is to be built in the capital ** Cannibalism widespread in Stone Age Cannibalism was widespread among our Stone Age ancestors, who butchered humans like animals and cooked their flesh in ceramic pots ** Playscape opens at Children's Museum Turning household discards into creative designs has become child's play at the Assembly Plant ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Advertisement: The Dr. Wilderness Show, Inc. America's #1 Touring Science Magic Show A 501 (c) 3 nonprofit company dedicated to planet Earth and every kid on it. Visit us online: www.drwilderness.com ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Is Noah's Ark under the Black Sea? A joint US-Bulgarian venture hopes to unearth the remains of a lost civilisation, which could clarify the timing and site of the legendary biblical flood ** Vatican goes commercial From Vatican-themed chocolates to copies of priceless artifacts available over the Internet, the Vatican Library is opening the door to commercial exploitation ** Venture through the body in museum's fantastic voyage Patrons at one of the world's most visited museums can take a shot at saving the life of an astronaut infected with deadly Martian microbes ** African American Museum Seeks Advice The new African American Museum of San Francisco will seek advice from the public to determine what it will showcase ** Love story station's romantic revival Restoration work has begun to take Carnforth station in Lancashire back to its good old days when it formed the backdrop to the classic film Brief Encounter ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** The Changing International Landscape Of Cultural Policies ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Advertisement: Art & Artifacts - The Kensington House Collections. 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