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: ** Louvre gets diamond brooch; once part of crown jewels The Louvre Museum has acquired a diamond-encrusted brooch that is among the few intact pieces of the crown jewels once worn by French royals ** Groundbreaking study deconstructs Mona Lisa's smile The analysis of the layers was done using a multi-spectral camera that can measure 100 million luminous spectrums in as many points on the painting ** New Year's card sent by Anne Frank found A Dutch school director preparing an exhibition on Anne Frank has found a holiday postcard signed by the Jewish teenage diarist ** Arts institutions feeling impact of ailing economy Museums and symphony halls that financed renovations with seemingly safe municipal bonds saw interest rates spike in recent weeks; other arts institutions are suffering from low returns on investments; and some arts executives are worried that recession fears could take a bite out of donations and ticket sales ** U.S. gives Cambodia $2 mln for genocide museum Cambodia is to build a Khmer Rouge genocide museum and library, funded by the United States, as a permanent reminder of the "Killing Fields" atrocities of Pol Pot's guerrilla movement ** Infantile capitalism At the centre of Takashi Murakami's new exhibition is a shop - even Andy Warhol never went that far ________________________________________________________________ **** GREAT FARES & DEALS FOR 2008! **** 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** Gangster Museum Opens in Hot Springs Hot Springs' gangster heyday has been traced by many to Owney "The Killer" Madden, who moved to Hot Springs in the 1930s after spending time in New York's Sing Sing prison for manslaughter and parole violations ** Sultan of Sulu brought pygmy elephants to Borneo New research supports a long-held local belief that Borneo's pygmy elephants may be descendants of Javan elephants unintentionally saved from extinction by the sultan of Sulu several centuries ago ** Peru Asks Yale To Return Artefacts The government of Peru is asking Yale University to return all - not just some - of the pottery, human bones and other artefacts that one of its professors took from the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu nearly a century ago ** Rare Gallipoli film to screen on museum wall Jackson, the Oscar-winning director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and a World War I buff, approached the Australian War Memorial several years ago about restoring the film ** Quake may have felled Saginaw Art Museum sculpture A professor of physics at Saginaw Valley State University who also teaches geology courses, said the magnitude-5.2 quake that struck could have caused the sculpture to fall only if it already was unstable ** NZ Museum numbers as dynamic as their displays New Zealand's museum industry has shaken off its ageing dinosaur image and is undergoing a growth spurt ** Compromise averts dustup over Native American relics Archaeologists who want to study the artefacts, tribe members who want to see the bones laid to rest, and a developer who wants to see construction completed ** Indiana Jones and the Heap of Old Junk The 12 surviving Aztec crystal skulls are cherished by museums, revered by New-Age writers, and have a starring role in Harrison Ford's new movie ________________________________________________________________________ Join The Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos & Videos, Blog, Use the Forum, Join A Group. 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Join Today At http://globalmuseum.ning.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ** Basement treasures It is very easy to attack our museums and galleries for having more works of art than they display, and it is a destructive and unpleasant game, often played in a spirit of either populism or good economic housekeeping ** Highland bagpipe is a recent invention for nostalgic Scottish émigrés In a new book, to be published by the National Museums of Scotland, Mr Cheape claims the Highland bagpipe was never used to lead the Scots clans into battle against the English, nor was it used to play laments to fallen chieftains ** New Orleans Museum to Reclaim Artefacts After Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans' French Quarter evacuated 200,000 artefacts to Baton Rouge, where they've sat in storage ever since. ** Dry spell almost killed off race An international genetics project has found that modern humans almost became extinct 70,000 years ago ** Call For Papers MESDA Conference on American Material Culture ** Art in the Age of Steam - major new exhibition Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool ** Melbourne Cup to join heart that stops the nation Phar Lap's heart will soon be joined by an exciting new acquisition at the National Museum of Australia 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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