Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free webzine compendium, read weekly by 7,400 readers in more than 156 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: ** Futuristic extension to London's Tate Modern approved The 215-million-pound project, a complex arrangement of glass boxes stacked in a pyramid shape, will extend the gallery's space by 60 percent ** Mystery spinster leaves art worth £5m to stunned gallery The 51 canvasses - worth an estimated £5 million - include works by Turner, Constable and Gainsborough ** Historic watercolour by Mrs. Robert E. Lee goes to Williamsburg A haunting portrait of a slave girl painted by the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee at her family's Virginia plantation in 1830 is being sold to Colonial Williamsburg for its museum collection ** Museum director says gay co-workers created hostile workplace The director of a museum where "The Stepford Wives" was filmed is alleging that her gay colleagues created a hostile work environment, including one who poked her in the eye and another who showed her graphic pictures from a gay Web site ** Diverse lifestyles of Islamic communities on display at National Museum The lifestyles of the Arab world and Turkey are on display at the National Museum of Singapore ** Revamp of oldest museum begins Work to create a new £49m exhibition centre at the oldest public museum in the UK - Oxford University's Ashmolean - has begun ________________________________________________________________ **** GREAT FARES & DEALS FOR 2007! **** MUSEUM-TRAVELLER.COM - Global Museum's Travel Service For Business and Pleasure - the leading provider of online museum travel, established in1998. 40,000 in over 8,000 cities worldwide. 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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** World's oldest camera to go on auction in Vienna Up to now, experts said that apart from some documents there was no proof that the so-called "Daguerreotype", a wooden sliding box camera produced by the Paris company Susse Freres in 1839, really existed ** Smithsonian's Top Official Resigns An internal audit in January found that Small had made $90,000 in unauthorized expenses, including private jet travel and expensive gifts ** Toronto museum exhibits Peru's golden age Contrary to popular belief, much of the gold plundered from Peru by the Conquistadors was not produced by the ancient Incas ** Anger as air museum shot down In the eyes of its champions, the Ohakea Air Force Museum's impending demise is the penultimate act in a saga of bungling, short- sightedness and betrayal ** This Week's Horoscopes Scorpio October 24 - November 21. You'll ignore the voice of reason once again this week, but that's largely due to it having grown hoarse and nearly inaudible over the years ** Strange Story of the Week - Collection's fun as a barrel of monkeys While the tea brews, Resleure opens her refrigerator and removes the Cyclops piglet from its temporary home in the crisper drawer - just below the packaged hot dogs, Diet Coke and Moët & Chandon ________________________________________________________________________ GLOBAL PANDEMIC NEWS - New Blog Format, Live News Feeds & Information on the spread of Bird Flu' http://www.pandemic-news.info ________________________________________________________________________ ** Museum visitors inflated by parking deal How many people are being put down in the books as museum visitors when in fact they have been shopping in Marks and Spencer? ** The Museum of Garden History He was a Renaissance man whose services to botany and monarchy involved perilous voyages to Russia's Archangel, the Barbary Coast of North Africa (where he plucked the Algiers apricot from pirate lairs) and the battlefields of France ** Iran loses fight over Lost Paradise relics Iran lost a legal fight on Thursday to recover 5,000-year-old treasures it says were looted from one of its most important archaeological sites ** Bankruptcy is 'last resort' for Milwaukee Public Museum As executives of the financially troubled Milwaukee Public Museum are exploring their legal options, Milwaukee County Executive and the issued a joint statement, saying that bankruptcy would be a "last resort" for the county-supported facility ** Fort Vancouver curators ponder medieval-looking WWI Army helmet Curators are trying to determine how a medieval-looking helmet with a steel visor that was made for the Army as an experiment during World War I wound up at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site ** Museum to give back 14 heads Fourteen Maori heads will return to New Zealand after a Chicago museum agreed to release them but controversy remains over other Maori artefacts at the museum, including a large marae ** Don't sink the boat Eyebrows were raised when Hanna told his audience at the international conference that extensive damage had also resulted from defective former restorations, and the metamorphosis of consolidation, coating and restoration materials ** INTERCOM 2007 - Leadership Challenges in the 21st Century ** An Invitation - The Association of Midwest Museums (AMM) will host a cocktail and hors d'oeuvres reception at the beautiful Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery All this and more for you at Global Museum - See the latest museum JOBS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, PODCASTS, HOT JOB TIPS, great people posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable WORLD TRAVEL, Podcasts, Museum Accredited Courses, Products & Services. http://www.globalmuseum.org First published on the Web in 1998 and going strong! 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