Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your free webzine and museum compendium read weekly by 6,000+ readers in more than 107 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: ** Space ride at museum plunges leaving 3 girls injured The children where inside the "space experience capsule" at the Joetsu Science Museum when it suddenly malfunctioned, sending the capsule falling seven or eight meters ** First nation building The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is the last word on how to exhibit Indian artefacts in the 21st century ** Aquarium installer encounters rough waters at City Museum He suffered a broken nose, black eyes and a gash in his forehead when a freight elevator collided with a boat ** Hurricane Preparation List The Pangea Institute has prepared a Hurricane Preparation Checklist (pdf) for the convenience and safety of its members and supporters ** Bow the latest piece of Mary Rose puzzle to emerge from Solent? The latest excavations at the Mary Rose wreck site have added yet further pieces to the puzzle of the Tudor flagship, including what archaeologists believe are sections of its previously lost bowcastle ________________________________________________________________ microEYE DISCOVERY - the magnified world is now at everyone's fingertips! Specifically designed for public interactive use in museums, zoos, science centres and aquariums where it can be used without staff supervision http://www.microimaging.co.nz/PMICROEYEINTERACTIVE/discovery.html ________________________________________________________________ ** Charley Doesn't Chase Everyone From Keys At the city's top tourist attraction, the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, a carpenter fitted plywood to cover stained glass windows ** Sudan treasures at British Museum The British Museum has unveiled plans for a major new programme about Sudan, featuring an exhibition of the country's cultural treasures ** U.S. investigates sale of Hawaiian artefacts The artefacts had been in the possession of the Bishop Museum until the late 1990s when they were repatriated to a Native Hawaiian group - Hui Mälama I Nä Küpuna O Hawai``i Nei. ** Antiquities on display in Athens Antiquities featuring runners, wrestlers and chariot racers from ancient Greece will be on display at the National Archaeological Museum in downtown Athens throughout the Olympics. ** Ex-museum official convicted of selling armoured car The former chief of collections at the U.S. Air Force Museum was convicted Wednesday of selling an armoured car from the museum ** Are we past caring? Ireland is alone among the main European countries in not having a proper national transport museum, yet official indifference and decades of neglect looks likely to continue ** Mystery of Iron Age woman with rings on her toes She was laid to rest in one of the most unusual burial sites known to archaeologists: beneath the floor of a busy Iron Age workshop ______________________________________________________ Planning on Travelling? Business or Pleasure? * GLOBAL MUSEUM TRAVEL - For Business and Pleasure - the leading provider of online museum travel, established in 1998. 40,000 in over 8,000 cities worldwide. Discounts up to 65% off. Rooms for sold-out dates. Group Reservations. CLICK HERE http://www4.wave.co.nz/~jollyroger/trav204/index.htm Airfares, Car Rentals, Accommodation, Destination Guides, Condo's and Cruises! Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ______________________________________________________ ** Museum remembers 'Great Man' Deng Chinese visitors take a look at photos on a exhibition devoted to Deng Xiaoping in commemoration of his 100th birthday at the National Museum of China Tuesday in Beijing ** Ancient Hanoi City May Get Heritage Tag More than 2 million artefacts including terracotta dragons, phoenix statues and ceramic urns have been uncovered in the 57,408 square yards site layered with antiquities from four dynasties ** Hiring fair shows way we worked Wanted: Boys and girls as apprentice blacksmiths, bakers, grooms, shepherds, scullery maids, nursery maids and dairy maids ** Museum brings Anglo-Saxon princess back to life Members of the public will come face to face with Anglo-Saxon royalty when the reconstructed head of a sixth century princess goes on display at Cirencester's Corinium museum ** Boy's Wal-Mart Telescope Shames Hubble A 14 year old amateur astronomer from Dumas, Texas, has captured a stunning image of a four-nebula cluster he nicknamed "Face of God." ** Museum prepares treat for loco fans National Railway Museum, in Shildon, County Durham, are preparing to welcome the engines, which were built during the golden age of steam. ** Voters to decide Dali museum move Museum director Hank Hine says the museum has outgrown its converted warehouse ** Family-proud museum adds shrimp boat The Louisiana-built, wooden boat will become one of the centrepiece exhibits at the Louisiana State Museum-Baton Rouge ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** Bang! 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