Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your free webzine and museum compendium read weekly by 6,000+ readers in more than 106 countries . *** 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: ** $5M Moon Rock Stolen From Malta Museum A tiny moon rock believed to be worth about $5 million was stolen from a museum in Malta, 30 years after President Richard Nixon donated it to the Mediterranean island nation ** Museum competition in Vienna "has gone crazy" A fierce conflict has broken out among museums in Vienna precipitated by the reopening last year of the renovated Albertina ** Civilisation's earliest relics are on offer in cyberspace More than a year after the looting of the National Museum in Baghdad, thieves are still picking apart archaeological sites across Iraq, stealing antiquities from the dawn of civilisation ** Picasso painting goes missing from Paris museum They have searched high and low and now the Pompidou Centre thinks it must have been stolen ** World Parrot Day Zoos all over the UK are holding events to highlight the parrots, from Edinburgh Zoo to Paradise Park in Cornwall ** Catalans fight for custody of Dalí's Great Mast##bator It may seem an unlikely symbol of national pride, but The Great Mast##bator, a painting by the eccentric Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí, was at the centre of a tug-of-war between Catalan separatists and a Madrid museum yesterday ** Sunken treasure trove fetches twice expected price Rare Ming dynasty Chinese porcelain and gold pieces salvaged from a 16th century Portuguese shipwreck near Mozambique have sold for double the expected amount ________________________________________________________ Planning on Travelling? 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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________ ** Homeric feat: Legend vs. fact The Project Troia team has reported finding heaps of sling bullets, evidence of burning and signs of an earthquake in Hisarlik's sixth settlement ** Faberge eggs home to roost Fifteen Czarist-era Faberge eggs were triumphantly unveiled in a Kremlin museum Tuesday, three months after a Russian billionaire purchased the collection ** Scuba diving fun at Aberdeen Maritime Museum The items for display have been drawn from the collections of 13 museums who are members of the Maritime Curators Group ** Virtual tour of bin Laden's hideout makes Turner Prize shortlist The pair, who visited Afghanistan in 2002, created an interactive digital model of the al Qaeda leader's "last official address" - a bunker visitors could navigate in virtual space ** Whitney Museum Renews Expansion Plans The Whitney Museum of American Art has renewed its plans for a $200 million expansion, interviewing new architects including Italian designer Renzo Piano ** Gold Threads may change fortunes A Chinese exhibition at Corowa comes with Chinese fortune cookies and Chinese tea for some of the visitors ** Judge Rules Christie's Ripped Off Thomson Heir The two vases, said to be 300-year-old French masterpieces, were auctioned from the country estate the British aristocrat Marquess of Cholmondeley ** Maori head returns from Argentina A preserved tattooed Maori head held in Argentina for nearly 100 years will be returned to New Zealand next week ** Feds offer looted artefact deal Looting ancient sites has been illegal since 1990, when a federal law was enacted protecting sacred objects and sacred places on federal and Indian land ** Cicadas Declared Legal Tender to Boost Economy Under the terms announced by Greenspan, each cicada has been accorded a value of one dollar, resulting in billions of dollars literally emerging from the ground to bolster the flagging economy ** Where do you take them: Strake Hall of Malacology Malacology is the study of mollusks -- those tiny creatures that wear nature's best jewellery right on their backs ** Philanthropist unites arms and history in gift to hometown Tucked under the sofa and stored in the basement and bedrooms, Frazier stashed a collection of historic weaponry that, over the years, grew to include Teddy Roosevelt's "Big Stick" ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** Founding Bristol Magpie receives national Museum & Heritage Award ** The Society for Applied Anthropology's 2005 annual meeting is in Santa Fe, April 6-10. ** Learning through Objects: The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Centre is offering an innovative training program for museum professionals and early childhood educators interested in using objects to teach young children. ** The Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute is proud to announce the Sixth Symposium on the Natural Resources of the Chihuahuan Desert Region ** The Coin of Coins: A World Premiere 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, 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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