Welcome back to Global Museum, your free webzine read in more than 90 countries each week. Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the webzine) edition include: ** Te Papa suit cites 'climate of fear' A former top art curator is taking a half-million dollar employment suit against Te Papa, claiming its CEO, Dame Cheryll Sotheran, has created a climate of fear for staff at the national museum ** Museum buys Rosa Parks bus The documentation that accompanies the bus shows it was driven by James Blake, the driver who had Parks arrested Dec. 1, 1955 ** Museum staff used priceless Egyptian statue as bike stand The workers at Southampton Archaeological Museum didn't realise what it was, and parked their bikes against it in a basement ** Giant Uncle Sam sculpture carved in soap A 6ft head of Uncle Sam has been carved in soap at the National Museum of American History ** Artifact Theft and Reward 21 prehistoric Native American pottery vessels, stone spear points, and replicas of painted pebbles have been stolen from the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory ** Museum's cat faces eviction if he doesn't stop spraying A Cape Town museum's black cat faces eviction unless his behaviour improves ** Another fine Glasgow mess They had come prepared to give the newcomers a traditional Glasgow reception, the shipyard workers with rivets and the children with manure ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Global Museum Travel: Hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals. . 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Hunley found an open bulkhead at the rear of the sub ** Christie was film pioneer A British Museum curator has discovered a reel of film shot by Agatha Christie that inspired the author to write some of her most famous detective novels ** Use museums to bridge gulf of understanding: academic He thinks they should be asking themselves how they might help the world's people better understand one another ** Canadian researchers name new dinosaur Paleontologists at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa say it's around 72 million years old ** Abolitionist history is unearthed She wrote of slaves hidden in her father's house, at a neighbor's across the street, at a family friend's home. ** Outsiders come in from the cold Outsider and folk art are under-appreciated in Ireland, and a lifetime's work in the form of a sculpture garden or decorated cottage is often destroyed once the artist dies ____________________________________________________________________________ __________ Advertisment: ADD SOME MAGIC TO YOUR MUSEUM ! 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