Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free webzine compendium, read weekly by 7,400 readers in more than 110 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: ** Mall Site Is Chosen for Black History Museum The location they selected, at the southwest corner of 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, had drawn widespread support ** Museum visitor trips, breaks Chinese vases A museum visitor shattered three Qing dynasty Chinese vases when he tripped on his shoelace, stumbled down a stairway and brought the vases crashing to the floor ** Slumping Museum The Tech Museum of Innovation opened the doors of its $100 million new home in 1998 amid great fanfare, the culmination of a two-decade dream ** A Struggle for Solvency at Milwaukee Museum Now the question is whether guns, God and a gorilla - or at least what is left of him - can restore its fortunes ** Octopus takes liking to sub off coast "Large male octopuses in the last part of their lives become senescent, or senile," said Jim Cosgrove of the Royal B.C. Museum. "They get to be like humans, doddering old fools that have inappropriate behaviours such as being out in the daytime" ** UK Construction firm sued by museum The Royal Armouries Museum, which houses the most treasured British armour, is suing Alfred McAlpine for 1m pounds ** Indonesian police seize multi million-dollar booty from treasure hunters The operation to extract the treasure involved a team of divers from Australia, the UK, France and Belgium, who excavated a vessel laden with rare ceramics which sank more than 1,000 years ago, some 130 nautical miles from Jakarta ** Soviet cold war weapons discovered Shocking new evidence has appeared in the recent "ortherised" American search of old Soviet missile bunkers that the Soviet union was going to unleash a terrifying wave of "Dogkets" on any ground forces that happened to invade Russia ________________________________________________________________ **** GREAT FARES & DEALS FOR 2006! **** MUSEUM-TRAVELLER.COM - Global Museum's Travel Service 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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Paul Getty ** Museum's fossils may be tainted, report says The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle is scrambling to figure out exactly where many of its 45,000 fossils came from and whether they were dug up illegally ________________________________________________________________________ GLOBAL PANDEMIC NEWS - live news feeds & information on the spread of Bird Flu" http://www.pandemic-news.info ________________________________________________________________________ ** Precious cultural items stolen Responding to a request from a museum for their most treasured possessions for an exhibition on migration from Thailand, three Sydney women handed over objects that showed their cultural roots ** Oil producer opens massive Civil War museum Richey calls himself a "C-plus" history student who had little interest in the subject until he and his wife Judy came face to face with history during a trip to Washington, where they visited the Smithsonian ** Neolithic Europeans Made Cheese, Yogurt Dirty cooking pots dating to nearly 8,000 years ago reveal that some of Europe's earliest farming communities produced dairy products, such as cheese and yogurt ** Scientists Discover World's Smallest Fish Scientists have discovered the world's smallest fish on record in an acidic peat swamp in Indonesia, with a see-through body and a head that is unprotected by a skeleton ** Rest in Pieces Booth's backbone has a little glass rod sticking through it at a jaunty angle ** The Greater Boston Museum Educators' Roundtable invites you to join them for their next meeting ** Integrated Pest Management Site 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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