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: ** Identity theft hits Science Museum The Science Museum is about to host an exhibition examining how a new wave of 'identity burglars' can steal our lives through technology ** Munch Museum defends sale of 'The Scream' board game The game targets children over the age of six, and participants play the roles of either detectives or robbers ** Greece demands 'looted' art treasures from besieged Getty museum The Los Angeles Times said that Greek authorities had demanded that four items they claim were illegally moved from Greece before being purchased by the famed J. Paul Getty Museum be handed over ** Lawrence's Lessons A London exhibit on the 70th anniversary of Arabist T. E. Lawrence's death leaves a curious aftertaste ** Tate acquires £20,000 performance The Tate has acquired a £20,000 performance piece which involves members of the public standing in a line and asking each other the time ________________________________________________________________ **** 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. 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** Crematorium to become museum A factory in Germany, where the crematoriums for Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps were built, is to be turned into a Holocaust museum ** Henry Ford Museum Pays Tribute to Rosa Parks All morning, groups of people boarded the bus that Rosa Parks made famous and learned why she refused to give up her seat in December 1955 ** Dali treasures in danger at museum in Florida In a converted marine storage warehouse on Bayboro Harbour, the museum holds the largest collection of artwork from the 20th Century surrealist painter outside his native Spain ** Museum gets felon's mummified arm The mummified arm of a criminal hanged in the 19th Century has been handed to the National Funeral Museum ** Iran's National Museum welcomes Burnt City Burnt City is one of the key historical sites of Iran, located in the south eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan; the city has had booming times in trade and culture about 5000 years ago, and is considered one of the important civilizations of the world ** Salvagers, Michigan probing what may be 17th-century shipwreck For over a year, a court battle has waged over a find that may be the remains of the 17th-century sailing vessel Le Griffon ________________________________________________________________________ GLOBAL PANDEMIC NEWS - live news feeds & information on the spread of Bird Flu" http://www.pandemic-news.info ________________________________________________________________________ ** Feature Site: The Gunpowder Plot Before Guy Fawkes was caught red-handed, a chain of events and influences all over Europe led to the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 ** Museum Preserves WWII Bomber From Crash What remained of Hank Mascall's Army Air Corps cap was right where he said he left it - in the nose of a World War II bomber that crash-landed and sank in a South Carolina lake 62 years ago ** The Aliens have landed! Real aliens could look like flying whales, plants that float like balloons and killer swarms of tiny water creatures, a new science exhibition reveals ** New York exhibition digs into the roots of van Gogh's genius This great exhibition, the largest of its kind ever presented in the United States, reveals drawing as the core of van Gogh's art ** Protest arrests outside Te Papa Police tackled a handful who made a dash for the museum door and then stood guard as 40 demonstrators sat down and began chanting slogans including "No arms race in our place" ** Scientists Study Gorilla who uses Lathe, Milling Machine A male gorilla in a Congo zoo has become adept with a Bridgeport milling machine and Newhall lathe, according to his keepers ** Russia's Hermitage museum to open branch in Portugal The branch will display different exhibitions from the Hermitage's vast collection every six months instead of housing a permanent collection ** Museum officials unaware of Ary's personal collection Several Kansas Cosmosphere officials from the past and present testified Friday that they never saw nor knew that former museum director Max Ary possessed a personal space artefact collection he now claims to have confused with the museum's own artefacts ** Museum deciphers China's shoe-making history Covering 1,500 square meters, the museum consists of two parts respectively dedicated to traditional shoes and modern brand name shoes ** This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST ** International Conference - New Constellations: Art, Science and Society ** What You See Is What You Get: the Visibility of Learning and the Possibility of Learning in Museums ** New Exhibition at the Elgiz Museum- Istanbul ** Wider perspective - broader base - CIDOC annual meeting 2006 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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