Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free webzine compendium, read weekly by 7,400 readers in more than 176 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: ** Chainsaw-wielding mayor enrages museum board At a council meeting yesterday afternoon, a contrite Mr. Young apologized to outraged members of the museum's board, including former Toronto mayor John Sewell, before they had a chance to unleash their ire ** Shipwreck Display Floated at Museum The Museum said the exhibition offered a rare insight into why fear of shipwreck loomed so large and the devastation these wrecks caused ** Paris smoking museum honours what city will ban Thus left to meander, the drop-in visitor may well overlook the more earnest exhibits here - Egyptian sheeshas, Chinese opium pipes - and note the small, red-circle-and-slash signs reminding guests that, in no uncertain terms, smoking is strictly forbidden in the Museum of Smoking ** Romance of the Skies plane crash haunts pair 50 years later The airliner mystery is partly what pushed him to become a historian, and years later when he was hired as a director at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, the first thing he did was dig for clues to the Romance crash - to no avail ** King Tut makes an appearance The mummy of King Tut has been put on public display for the first time since the boy pharaoh's tomb was discovered in Egypt 85 years ago ** Head of US National Children's Museum arrested on child porn charges The Washington museum posted a message on its Web site saying officials there are "horrified" by news of Singer's arrest ** Orkney beast 'similar to Nessie' Most of the original remains have been lost, the skull and 'paw' had been sent down to London in the 19th Century and were destroyed in the Blitz, so the only surviving parts that she could locate were in a storage at Edinburgh's Royal Museum ** A vessel that took people to life A fishing boat that may have helped in an effort that saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis now rests beside a German rail car that may have carried Jews and other Holocaust victims to their deaths ________________________________________________________________ **** 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 in 1998. 40,000 in over 8,000 cities worldwide. 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Now you can include Global Museum headlines directly into your site using the Global Museum Widget. ** Unlocking the secrets of colour daguerreotypes In 1850, an improbable mix of ingenuity, ambition, and kitchen chemistry propelled Hill to make a shocking announcement: he had produced the first colour daguerreotypes, later known as Hillotypes ** Headless skeletons hold Pacific colonization key A 3,000-year-old burial site in Vanuatu containing 60 headless skeletons and skulls in pots is helping end the mystery over colonization of the Pacific and the first Polynesians ** The Walters opening With these records, O'Loughlin believes the museum will be able to re-create how the reclusive millionaire chose to display his art ** Smithsonian balks at donation The Smithsonian Institution has taken the rare step of putting on hold a $5 million donation from the American Petroleum Institute after two members of the museum complex's board of regents, including a U.S. senator, balked at accepting oil-industry money for a major initiative on the world's oceans ** Beauty in the basement The Picasso masterpiece is worth an estimated $55-$65 million on the international art market, but its only regular contact with the human eye is the fiercely critical gaze of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ________________________________________________________________________ NEW! - Join The New Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos & Videos, Blog, Use the Forum, Join A Group Join Today At http://globalmuseum.ning.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ** Kremlin wives brought to life in new Moscow exhibition From a sumptuous gown of the last Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna to a peasant-style smock worn by Lenin's wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, a new exhibition on the wives of Kremlin leaders illuminates a turbulent century ** Ice age comet theory causes big bang The researchers say the impact also may have wiped out or fragmented the prehistoric Clovis people who flourished in North America at the time ** Former Seaport Museum leader gets 15 years in prison The 15 year sentence followed more than six hours of testimony regarding the depth of the loss at the Philadelphia maritime museum ** Nazi Secret Police Museum Finally Gets Off the Ground Since 1987, black-and-white photo reproductions documenting the Nazi terror have been posted in a temporary outdoor exhibit near the ruins of the former Gestapo and Reich Security Offices, which were destroyed during the war by allied bombs ** City and Country - Ninth Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium ** Flood Warning? 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