Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your free webzine and museum compendium read weekly by 6,000+ readers in more than 106 countries . *** Judged Internationally - Best Museum Professionals Site, Museums & the Web 2004 *** 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: ** Tracking 7-inch barbarian proves to be an epic quest Its presence at the museum helped Cohon decide to take a job as the Nelson's curator of antiquities. ** A Gold Mine of Information To most folks in Texas, dried insects are something to be swept out of corners ** Take a walk on the arty side The model had paid off handsomely, pulling big curators from the likes of the British Museum, the Getty and even the DC-based National Gallery of Art along with thousands of visitors ** Monitor relics to be shown in museum near ship's watery grave As innovative as it was, the Monitor was no match for the wild weather off dreaded Diamond Shoals ** Exhibit of racist artefacts tries to promote understanding Pilgrim doesn't remember his exact frame of mind when he impulsively bought the salt shaker ** Einstein spent last years telling bad jokes to depressed parrot In the last years of Albert Einstein's life, he tried to cheer up his depressed parrot by telling it bad jokes and avoided visitors by feigning illness, said a newly discovered diary written by the woman known around Princeton as his last girlfriend ** Snap unhappy - digital photography's dirty little secret The fear is that as technology evolves, any storage medium in use today will eventually become obsolete and the material it holds lost to future generations ** Prince Gets Private Tour of Tank Museum The director of The Tank Museum in Bovrington, Dorset, showed Charles selections of tanks and Armoured Fighting Vehicles from its 300-strong collection, and answered his questions ____________________________________________________________ Planning on Travelling? 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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ____________________________________________________________ ** Captain Cook arrow legend shot down It was a great legend while it lasted, but DNA testing has finally ended a century-old story of the Hawaiian arrow carved from the bone of British explorer Captain James Cook ** Museums month focuses on travel Seaside postcards, souvenirs and modes of transport are featured in new exhibitions to mark the annual Museum and Galleries Month ** National Sports Museum to Open Near World Trade Centre Site The museum, created in partnership with 30 of North America's major sports halls of fame, museums and organizations, will be the first comprehensive museum of sports in the country ** Museum Bahari a hidden gem in North Jakarta The gloomy aspect of the museum building, which was constructed in 1652, was partly to blame for people's lack of enthusiasm in visiting ** National Museum of Korea Moves More than 7,000 experts, 490 five-ton shockproof trucks and eight months will be needed to move Korea's most precious historical relics ** Treasure house on the Vltava Inexplicably overlooked by almost every guidebook, Nelahozeves belongs to William Lobkowicz, a preppy former real estate agent from Boston and descendant of a family of Czech princes _____________________________________________________________ Visiting NEW ORLEANS this Month? 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CHEAP HOTEL OPTIONS http://dg.travelnow.com/index.jsp?cid=1527&action=viewLocation&locationId=42942 _____________________________________________________________ ** Cosmic drama has astronomers excited - and baffled Researchers at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) unveiled it at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester ** Whining Female Dinosaurs Killed The Entire Species Researchers proved that dinosaurs where not killed by a big asteroid colliding with earth, as previously thought, but by nagging and whining female partners ** This Weeks' Feature Site: The Ushuaia Maritime Museum The Maritime Museum is on the premises of the Ex Presidio de Ushuaia (or Cárcel de Reincidentes de Tierra del Fuego) This is where the most dangerous criminals were kept ** Friendship in photos: Evans and Hemmingway For decades, the tale of their friendship and influence on one another's work remained hidden away in boxes and crates in the storage room of a Key West bar ** Submerged artefacts bill stalls A great deal of Alabama's history from prehistoric times, the Civil War and even modern days remains in murky river bottoms, bays and the Gulf of Mexico ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** At Work: An Exploration of Occupational Clothing ** New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Annual Conference: Innovative Approaches to Learning Across the Lifespan ** Museum Without Walls: The image of the museum in the movies ** Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them: Innovative Approaches to Student and Faculty Exhibitions All this and more for you at Global Museum - See the latest museum JOBS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, HOT JOB TIPS, great people posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable world TRAVEL, Museum Accredited Courses, a Health Store, Traditional Toy Store, Products & Services, Classical Music store, and a Jazz Emporium. http://www.globalmuseum.org First published on the Web in 1998 and going strong! ______________________________________________________________ What our readers say: ** Thanks for all the good work! 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