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: ** Stone Age mini-skirts and prehistoric women with a passion for fashion A series of stone figurines wearing the prehistoric fashions were unearthed at one of Europe's oldest known villages - a community that nestled between rivers, mountains and forests in what is now southern Siberia ** Israeli museum recovers rare clock collection A museum in Jerusalem has recovered a priceless collection of rare timepieces stolen nearly 25 years ago, including one that belonged to Marie-Antoinette ** Prints replace originals at Jakarta art exhibition Much to the disappointment of visitors, the Jakarta Historical Museum is keeping several original paintings in storage and displaying prints instead ** Digital technology brings 2,400-year-old Chinese bells to life Using high-definition microphones, the Hubei Provincial Museum recorded the sounds of the ancient set of bells from the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.) ** Smashed vases go back on display The restoration work has involved taping all the pieces together and then binding them with a special adhesive before a final polish and coating of enamel ** Church row evolves over fossil boy Turkana Boy, considered the most complete early human fossil, is being removed from his bomb-proof vault to take centre stage at an exhibition that curators say will provide the most complete record of the evolution of Man ________________________________________________________________ **** 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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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** Winterthur exhibit looks at Americans' love affair with pets In what may be a first for Winterthur, the du Pont family country home, visitors can bring their own pet photos or portraits, which will be displayed and archived as part of the museum's record of the exhibit ** Archaeologists excavate ancient temple, mural in Peru Unearthed in Peru's archeologically rich northern coastal desert, the temple has a staircase leading to an altar that was used for worshipping fire and making offerings to deities ** Forgotten WWII 'Lightning' fighter found on beach in Wales Sixty-five years after it ran out of gas and crash-landed on a beach in Wales, an American P-38 fighter plane has emerged from the surf and sand where it lay buried - a World War II relic long forgotten by the U.S. government and unknown to the British public ** Surge took sea to lifeboat museum Since then, volunteers have been working to secure the Henry Blogg Museum, nestled next to the beach at the end of the town's promenade, ahead of the next high tide ** Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vinci's 'Last Supper' An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a sombre composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting ** Blaze of splendour and museum spat over Tutankhamen Dr John Taylor, assistant keeper at the British Museum, said that in 1972 the proceeds raised from the exhibition went on the conservation of the Philae temple complex, adding that he was "a little surprised" by Hawass's claim ________________________________________________________________________ NEW! - Join The New Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos & Videos, Blog, Use the Forum, Join A Group. Be one of the first 100 founding members Join Today At http://globalmuseum.ning.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ** A Fake Museum A 1970s biography of Zhou Enlai, China's prime minister under Mao Zedong, that was printed in Beijing at the height of the Cultural Revolution might seem an unlikely victim of intellectual property rights infringement ** Mayor of bankrupt US city spends millions on Wild West museum The mayor of one of Pennsylvania's most debt-laden cities spent millions of dollars in public money on everything from covered wagons to copper marshal's badges for a museum about cowboys, Indians and the Wild West ** Weapon museum in 'no knives' push The weaponry museum says its NTK - No To Knives campaign aims to cut the number of knives on the streets ** Oscars to get their own museum in Hollywood French architect Christian de Portzamparc has been named to design the world's largest and most ambitious museum dedicated to the history of film and the Oscars ** This Week's Horoscopes Leo, July 23 to August 22 - All of your questions concerning spontaneous combustion will suddenly be answered this Friday ** Colossus does battle anew with German cipher War-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill credited those who built and operated Colossus at the Bletchley Park estate, including famed code-breaker Alan Turing, with helping to shorten World War Two by up to 18 months ** Reagan library can't find items The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum can't locate or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan's White House years ** The Relevancy-Driven Museum - Call For Proposals ** Graduate Student Conference in Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections ** Riding a Melodic Tide: The Development of Cantopop in Hong Kong 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, Social Networking, Museum Online Document Store, Podcasts, Museum Accredited Courses, Products & Services. http://www.globalmuseum.org First published on the Web in 1998 and going strong! 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