Welcome back to Global Museum, your free webzine read in more than 91countries 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: ** Master of his universe From jets to dish racks and concept cars to, ahem, vibrators - Marc Newson has transformed them all ** Swiss plan to rebuild Buddhas destroyed by Taliban Two Buddhas blown up by the Taliban in one of their most extreme acts of vandalism are going to be rebuilt ** The Mummy returns A painstaking facelift for Auckland Museum's favourite mummy should see it back on public display in time for the museum's 150th birthday next year ** 'I am the king of painters' Iranian mullahs were so furious about his Gulf war paintings that they wanted to pay Vicari £5m to destroy them ** Chinese American National Museum and Learning Center Opens Sometimes it takes succeeding generations to build what the first could only begin to dream of ** Tasty Harvard exhibit nibbles away at barriers The piece's museum label, which was made out of chocolate, has already been devoured ** Sheriffs' artifacts in custody of museum The museum features artifacts such as rusty ball-and-chain restraining devices that prisoners once wore ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________ Global Museum Travel: Hotel reservations, airline discounts, Condos, weather forecasts, car rentals. . 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NEW TRAVEL SITE DESIGN ! ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ** Arts Panel Backs Planters to Guard Smithsonian Museums Smithsonian architect Harry Romback said the purpose of the barriers is to keep vehicles from striking the buildings ** Scientists Unveil Pompeii Bathhouse Archaeologists have unveiled another steamy corner of ancient Pompeii, and this time it is an eyeful: a bathhouse with a unisex dressing room whose lockers sport erotic sex scenes ** Lawrence of Arabia wrote letter considering suicide The previously unseen correspondence will be seized on by those not convinced that his death in a motorcycle crash three months later was an accident ** Firm To Renovate Three Major Landmarks All three were included in a special program developed by the St. Petersburg Sculpture Museum that was intended to stimulate and inspire potential sponsors ** Archive Treasures on U.S. Tour George Washington's inaugural address and the deed of gift from France for the Statue of Liberty are back in New York ** Destruction of Pompeii See this video presentation from the Archaeology Channel. Realmedia required to view this ** Ramadan events in Sharjah The festival will be organised at the Heritage Museum and the Islamic Museum and will continue until December 5. ** Epitaph for a horse It wasn't quite the Roman Empire, when a horse might reasonably aspire to a position in the Senate ** An ace chap with a sharp new museum attached For far too long the V&A was a fusty, dusty maze of a place, with a jumble of artefacts drawn from every culture and age, poorly lit and amateurishly labelled ** Publication of Dead Sea Scrolls Completed The modern technology of e-mail and laser printing speeded up the publication of complete volumes of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls ** N.Y. museums, galleries cancel shows, lay off staff At the same time as they are struggling with lower revenue, museums have been forced to increase security measures to guard against attacks ** Welsh arts centre 'a tacky design hell' The Centre for the Visual Arts in Cardiff, arguably the most ill-conceived millennium project to make it off the drawing board ** This Week's Horoscopes Leo: (July 23-Aug. 22) You will be kept in the supermarket after it closes and forced to retake all the taste tests until you pass ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** Sequined Surfaces: Haitian Vodoun Flags ** Marketing Workshop Sydney Chapter of Museums Australia NSW ** Frontier Conflict: the Australian Experience A forum at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Advertisement: Schedule the timely and unique workshop/program "Selling Art On The Internet" conducted by California Figurative Artist Marques Vickers. 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