Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free webzine compendium, read weekly by 7,400 readers in more than 109 countries . *** "As far as I am concerned it is the best source for museum professionals in search of employment " *** 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: ** Museum of Art lays off three With a new museum on hold indefinitely, Tampa Museum of Art officials plan to lay off three employees to balance their budget ** Bomb museum's bilingual displays give differing historical spins At Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, photographs of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing and display cases of personal items found near ground zero are instantly understandable to people from around the world regardless of language and nationality, and send a clear message about the horrors of nuclear weapons ** Honoring Orwell in India with a Museum The state of Bihara in eastern India is erecting a museum for the late British writer ** Scientists in Silicon Valley Reach Back 2,000 Years to Bring Egyptian Child Mummy Back to Life Examining a two-thousand- year-old child mummy from San Jose's Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and Planetarium, scientists were able to generate 35 times more information than the recent King Tut mummy scans ** Norwegian Thieves Make Off With Dud Paintings Masked thieves stole three worthless Munch copies in a bungled raid ** Anguished messages from witches of Steri A Sicilian palazzo once used as a headquarters for the Spanish Inquisition has been discovered to contain dozens of examples of graffiti by "witches" condemned to burn at the stake ** Thief takes century-old seal teeth The choppers were on loan from the Smithsonian Institution for his research on the historic ecology of marine mammals ** New Museum Complements Lobster Festival The Maine Lighthouse Museum, which opened in late June in the new Gateway Visitor Center, is drawing tourists and lighthouse aficionados alike ________________________________________________________________ **** GREAT FARES & DEALS FOR 2005 ! **** 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. 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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** Stolen items may surface on the Internet Priceless national treasures stolen from the Bermuda Maritime Museum in Dockyard may surface on the Internet says Museum Executive Director Edward Harris ** Rodin gift to N.C. museum likely contingent on Legislature The North Carolina Museum of Art probably won't get a private gift of Auguste Rodin sculptures valued at $25 million unless the state comes up with enough money to build a proper space to show off the works, officials say ** Getty Museum boss 'enjoyed first class flights and a Porsche' The Getty Museum, the world's richest art museum, is under investigation after revelations about the lavish lifestyle of its chief executive ** New York City's Police Museum is in the Red Running up hundreds of thousands of dollars in red ink, the museum has stopped paying its bills, despite getting nearly $1 million a year in taxpayer funds ** Earthquake science museum to set up in Beijing To mark the 29th anniversary of the catastrophic Tangshan earthquake, the China Seismological Bureau has opened an earthquake educational center in Beijing, the national capital ** Feature Site: The Museum of Garden History Enjoying a prominent location on the Thames next to Lambeth Palace and overlooking Westminster, the Museum of Garden History feels like an oasis of calm deep within the bustle of the city ** Saudi billionaire finances Islamic art wing at Paris' Louvre museum Saudi tycoon Prince Al Walid Bin Talal has donated $20.4 million to finance a new wing dedicated to Islamic art at the Louvre museum in Paris, the museum announced on Tuesday ** Celebs Join B.B. King for Museum Benefit Bruce Willis, Dr. John and Kenny Wayne Shepherd were among the artists on stage with blues legend B.B. King during a special birthday benefit to raise money for a museum bearing the musician's name ** Cocoa museum to be developed in Ghana A cocoa museum that would educate people about cocoa as a plant, its various uses and its processing is to be developed at the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Farm at Mampong Akwapim in the Eastern Region to serve as a tourist attraction ** Dentist commercialized the wooden golf tee The roots of the modern-day tee trace to New Jersey, where a dentist who didn't like using a mound of dirt as a tee tinkered in his garage until he found a better way to elevate a golf ball ** Truth Revealed: Scientists Say 'It Ain't So!' Culminating centuries of exhaustive, painstaking research, multidisciplinary researchers have taken on some of the toughest adages in historical culture and proven them wrong!! ** Picking up the pieces in Soi Aree The broadcast museum is the latest addition to the growing number of museums that have sprouted around Bangkok following the city government's decision last year to open one in every district to preserve the roots and history of local people and promote cultural tourism ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** People and Plant Interaction in the Middle Atlantic and Beyond ** Summer Research Workshop on Intelligence and the Holocaust - International Call for Applications ** Theoretical Approaches to the Interpretation of Flaked Stone Assemblages 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. http://www.globalmuseum.org First published on the Web in 1998 and going strong! 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