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: ** Hanging Hood Unveiled Also on display was a beaded moccasin worn by Riel at his execution and grabbed from his body by souvenir seekers ** Police Probe Fatal Museum Visit Coach Crash The coach left Largs, a picturesque town of 11,000 people on the west coast of Scotland on Wednesday morning for an annual week-long museum visit to Barcelona, Spain ** A racket press adds to the treasure-trove Wimbledon being Wimbledon, his words are preserved alongside a treasure-trove of artefacts from the game's history at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum ** Condemned: Bid to sell relics taken from Afghanistan The ancient Buddhist manuscripts were smuggled to London and are being offered for sale by a Norwegian businessman ** Missing half of stolen painting found The lost half of a stolen German expressionist painting has been found in a sack by the side of a road near Berlin ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________ Global Museum Travel - For Business or Pleasure: Hotel reservations, airline discounts, weather forecasts, car rentals. 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CLICK http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/travel1.htm to view and use the Travel Service- Safe & Secure transactions and destinations. ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________ ** Ned's heavy metal gets it together As Kelly's stature as a historical figure grew, so did interest in correctly piecing together the gang's armour ** Famed NY Art Museum Opens Doors to New Neighbours At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, MOMA director Glenn Lowry called the opening "a new cultural landmark for the state, the city and the borough of Queens, where the arts are thriving" ** Spaghetti question Can an exhibition on the significance of pasta in Italian life really be worthy of a serious art gallery? ** The Tibetan treasure that's gathering dust It has emerged that vast amounts of the Tibetan treasures are lying gathering dust in the museum, having never been on public display ** 'Nessie spotted' in Cornwall A distant relative of Scotland's famous Loch Ness Monster could be lurking in the waters off the coast of Cornwall, it has been revealed ** Priceless Art Collection Donated to Shanghai Museum Shanghai Museum is displaying 233 ancient paintings and calligraphic works donated by the family of the late Chinese Philippine tycoon Ching Banlee ** Exhibition shows map makers' key role The map maker who scrupulously included every other detail he knew about the world in 1529, could not bear to mark the spot where the captain of the Dauphin met his horrible death ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ Advertisement: THE DR. 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However, since it's one of several thousand worst days of your life, it's not all that significant ** Museum Suit Dismissed A State Supreme Court justice has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Nassau County's hiring of a nonprofit group to run four of its museums ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ Advertisement: Public Relations for Non-Profit Organizations . Learn innovative public relation techniques to use in your community and on the Internet. Author Michelle Bacharka shows you how in her book and workshops. Visit www.prblackbooks.com for more info . ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________ ** SAM acquires four rare 18th-century Flemish tapestries Now known as Chinoiserie, the style presented the Chinese as angels, capable of floating on clouds and drinking tea in heaven ** British Museum 'needs £10m boost' The government must give the beleaguered British Museum an extra £10m a year if it is to beat its financial problems, its director has said ** Catalogue of homes lost or decaying With ever tighter health and safety regulations, many houses converted as nursing homes, boarding schools and religious institutions are closing down ** Indian archaeologists find British shipwreck The Princess Royal is thought to have disappeared without trace in the 18th century while on its way to England from the Orient ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the Stars ** Southern Land, Southern People ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________ Advertisement: "A Right-Brained Guide to a Left-Brained Industry: Marketing and Buying Fine Art Online" by California artist Marques Vickers is the most comprehensive guidebook for entrepreneurial artists and Internet savvy buyers and collectors. 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