Welcome back to Global Museum, your free webzine read in more than 91 countries each week. Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine) in this week's edition include: ** Madonna presents top art prize to bare room To win the 20,000 pound Turner Prize, Creed fought off competition from a video about two gay cowboys, a dusty storeroom piled high with junk and a film of a disheveled alcoholic being brought a cup of tea by his wife ** Lost Office Space brings Director's Resignation The director of the Prado, Spain's most popular art museum, has resigned over a management dispute ** Sotheby's ex-chairman found guilty of price fixing The case rocked the rarefied world of art auctions with accusations of deceit, backstabbing and shady dealmaking between the two houses ** Possible Smithsonian Budget Cuts Called 'Devastating' The Bush administration has proposed a series of cuts in the Smithsonian Institution's budget, trims that lawmakers say would "cause serious and irreparable harm" to the museum complex ** Children, birds, churches (and the odd flea) After lunch we descend into King Ramhai's tomb, which has two stone coffins ** Museum-Hopping In Your Living Room With school officials and vacationers calling off trips out of concern over terrorism and with committed tourists and locals avoiding landmark buildings, books become a more important vehicle for art to reach its audience ** Newseum to Close Until 2005 The Newseum, an interactive museum that is devoted to journalism, will close in March and not reopen until its new home near the Capitol is ready in 2005 ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Global Museum Travel: Hotel reservations, airline discounts, Condos, weather forecasts, car rentals. 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NEW TRAVEL SITE DESIGN ! ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ ** Excavation of Submarine Complete The mystery could take some time to solve as scientists sift through blocks of sediment removed from inside ** Lone Smart Aleck Ruins RV Hall Of Fame For Serious Visitors A lone smart aleck spoiled the RV Hall Of Fame for serious visitors Monday, making sarcastic wisecracks about the various exhibits ** Our cheap but not cheerful museums As you read this, I will be off to perform my duty by cavorting round the Passengers gallery at the National Maritime Museum, enthusing about liners and emigrant ships and great seaborne migrations ** Museum at Soviet internment camp opens in Germany A new museum opened at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp today, recalling the internment of 60,000 people there under Soviet occupation ** Bronze Age village unearthed near Naples A cluster of huts that once formed part of a Bronze Age village have been unearthed some 3,500 years after they were buried in a volcanic eruption ** Armed Forces Museum offers realistic reminders of battle The curator of the new Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby gets as big a kick out of the immersive World War I trench as the visitors ** Ark relic found in cupboard In Hollywood movies, the ark of the covenant is usually uncovered by a whip-wielding hero abseiling into a cave, but in Edinburgh they do things rather differently ** Mystery man is Gauguin, by Van Gogh Researchers have discovered that a previously little-known painting that had languished in the vault of the Van Gogh Museum is the work of the Dutch Master ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ Advertisement: THE DR. 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