Welcome back to Global Museum, your free webzine and museum compendium read weekly in more than 94 countries . Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org The international headlines (for the full story visit the webzine at this address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this week's edition include: ** Jet set magnate Baron Thyssen dies A black sash was hung Saturday over the entrance of the Thyssen Museum in Madrid, which houses hundreds of works that the Spanish state bought from Thyssen in 1993 for $338m. ** Beauty Who Lived 2,200 Years Ago Comes to Life in Pictures A Chinese professor has made four portraits of a beautiful woman who lived about 2,200 years ago ** Art 'stolen to order' in Russia Russian police are currently looking for 40,000 stolen works of art and among the missing works are two sculptures by 19th-Century French artist Auguste Rodin ** First auction of an emperor's seals Seals used by a Chinese emperor more than three centuries ago were auctioned in China in the first such sale of an emperor's seal ** New Egyptian King Discovered A new Egyptian king has been discovered, according to Italian archaeologists digging at Luxor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- Global Museum Travel: Hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals. 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Visit www.prblackbooks.com for more info ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- ** Widow quashed bid to rebury Lincoln A trove of newly donated Lincoln-era letters presented Friday offers an extraordinary glimpse of the passions surrounding the search for a final resting place for the Great Emancipator ** Feature Site: The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art Contains more than 500 paintings, objects of metal and stone, and large architectural pieces from China, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia ** 'Spectacular' fossil taken in Burke Museum thefts An animal fossil recently housed at Seattle's Burke Museum first existed about 320 million years ago on the sea bottom ** Museum Might Restore Crashed Spitfire At R8 Million The SA Air Force Museum was on Friday contemplating raising about R8 million to repair South Africa's last flying World War Two Spitfire which crashed near Pretoria ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** OZeCulture Conference - Sydney - 28-30 May 2002 ** Announcing Second Annual Midwest Archives Conference ** 2003 Visual Resources Association Annual Conference ** The Upper Midwest Conservation Association presents: Building a Low-Cost Anoxic Pest Eradication System ** "Who's Running the Show: Issues of Governance in College and University Museums and Galleries" ** Theft in Utrecht ** SAA 2002 Birmingham Annual Meeting Program Session Descriptions Now Available Online +++++ PLUS +++++ The latest museum JOBS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, Hot JOB TIPS, great people posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable world TRAVEL, MALL, Museum Accredited Courses, a Health Store, Traditional Toy Store, Products & Services, Classical Music store, and a Jazz Emporium. http://www.globalmuseum.org ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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