Welcome to the International Museum's Day edition of Global Museum, your free webzine and museum compendium. Free Online subscription. Read weekly in more than 94 countries http://www.globalmuseum.org ** Send a special INTERNATIONAL MUSEUMS DAY E-CARD to a friend or colleague http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/musecards/musecards.html 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: ** Berlin Police Recover Stolen Art, Arrest Five Nine Expressionist paintings snatched from a Berlin art museum have been found and five people arrested ** World Museum Day Marked in Macao Macao reports the highest density of museums in the world - with a dozen museums in an area of only 23 square kilometers ** How Ottawa's history took a wrong turn The story of how they were discovered, extracted, transformed, lost, forgotten, remembered and misremembered is equal parts tragedy, farce and epic ** Grave Is One of Europe's Richest A 4,000-year-old grave found near Stonehenge contains the remains of an archer and a trove of artifacts ** Work not an impediment to personal Web surfing at work An overwhelming 86 percent of respondents say doing some work during the surfing day has no negative impact ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________ 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.htm to view and use the Travel Service- Safe & Secure transactions and destinations. Destination Guides and CONDOS ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ ** Golden Bear eager to see museum devoted to his life The $14-million museum is located on the Ohio State campus, a couple of 1-irons away from the university's basketball arena ** Living with the past Unknown to many, there are 22 museums scattered around Singapore, each representing a different chapter of the island's rich heritage ** Art With Whine & Cheese "Completely outrageous," she said. "It's absolutely ridiculous. Every city in the world, at their art openings, serves wine ** China claims world's smallest 1.1 grams Holy Qur'aan The Qur'aan is being kept in Ningxia Museum in China's Ningxia province, where many ethnic Chinese Muslims from the Hui minority live ** Earliest known written documents being assembled in Web library Historians using the modern language of computers are assembling a virtual library of the earliest known written documents: clay tablets inscribed more than 4,000 years ago ** New Bid to Recover Monitor Turret For students of the war, maritime history, marine archaeology and maybe even metallurgy, it can't get much better than that ** Canada's Lords Have New Vision for Museums With museums, size usually counts: whichever one holds the biggest and grandest collection of stuff wins ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________ Advertisement: THE DR. WILDERNESS SHOW, INC. 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Visit www.prblackbooks.com for more info . ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ ** Birthday celebrations for V&A Mr Periton has created 50 intricate cut-outs inspired by the V&A's collections which will be transformed into light, colour and silhouette ** Thief's mother destroys $2.7b art haul More than 60 paintings by major artists, including Brueghel, Boucher and Watteau, have been torn up and thrown out with the rubbish by an art thief's mother ** Falcon chicks' webcam lets surfers see them grow An Ohio museum has installed a webcam so people can follow the fortunes of three peregrine falcon chicks ** A Day in Pieces, America In Grief It has a stain around the waist and is covered with badges and insignia from groups that came to dig, serve meals and sometimes sing at ground zero ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** Researching New York 2002: Perspectives on Empire State History ** How are they Smart? 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