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: ** Museums hit hard by flooding Damage reports from the 88 counties declared state disaster areas indicate that both buildings and museum collections have suffered extensive water and mud damage ** Sensitive China quake photo removed from exhibit We don't know if we were told to remove the photo," said Wu Zhiwei, assistant to the general manager of Museum Cluster Jianchuan, the organizer of the exhibit and the largest privately run museum in China."And if we were told to remove the photo, we're not sure we could tell you." ** High-tech mummycam unwrapped Before obtaining the equipment, Field scientists had used mid-1960s-era X-ray equipment to peek at mummys - a slow and limiting process that required film development and often, said Brown, "a lot of cursing and swearing" from frustrated Field technicians. ** Join the dots: on the trail of that missing Hirst When Chris Evans announced he had sent a work by BritArt's best-known living artist to a charity shop by mistake, it sparked a frenzy in Surrey - sort of ** Silent Auctions Make Noise Online This season, several museums are opening up their traditional fund-raising auctions to online bidders in order to coax money from far-flung donors ________________________________________________________________ **** NEW SITE, HAPPY TRAVELLERS - 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** Framing a Century: Photography from 1840-1940 From the daguerreotype to the cellphone snapshot, the history of photography has unfolded as a series of miracles, each of which has profoundly altered our understanding of the time-space continuum ** Duran Duran make Louvre history The gig was organised as part of a fundraising effort for the 18th century Decorative Arts Gallery of the museum, which is due to re-open in 2011 ** Cologne museum to show long Jewish ties to the city A new Cologne museum will show how Jewish life in the city goes back more than 1,700 years and, civic leaders hope, help revive it decades after the Holocaust ** Museum chief shocked over sacking Maimunah who retired as the Museum and Antiquities deputy director of the National Museum, and served as a senior consultant for private museums with several financial institutions, is credited with reviving the Sultan Alam Shah Museum ** Painting that saved a king is back in Coventry George III was quite old and he had suffered severe bouts of madness and though he had come that, during his time on the throne the British lost many of its American colonies so there was a growing disquiet among some people in the country about the monarchy's role ** Robbers pay £1.25 gallery fee - and make off with two Picassos About noon, three armed men paid the entrance fee and immediately went to the second-floor gallery where the works were being exhibited, bypassing more valuable pieces ________________________________________________________________________ Join The Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos & Videos, Blog, Use the Forum, Join A Group. Be one of the museum members - 141 have already met online. Join Today At http://globalmuseum.ning.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ** Aussie rocks may hold keys to life on Earth European and US scientists have proved for the first time two bits of genetic coding, called nucleobases, contained in the meteor fragment, are truly extraterrestrial ** Divers find 1780 British warship The discovery of HMS Ontario, at the bottom of one of the Great Lakes on the US-Canada border, has been hailed an "archaeological miracle" '** Living jewels' out on display Two Madagascan giant day geckos have been released into the Otago Museum's popular tropical forest, joining about 1000 butterflies ** This Week's Horoscopes Sagittarius. November 22 to December 21- When carrying out a book-burning, first stoke the fire with smaller, lighter works from Austen and Waugh, before throwing on the heavier hardbacks of Tolstoy and Joyce ** Dutch govt supports arts, culture conservation in Indonesia The Dutch government had promised to continue its financial support to the conservation of arts and culture in Indonesia, and also hold human resources training, under a cooperation between Amsterdam`s Tropenmuseum and the Jakarta Culture and Arts Agency ** Stelios in bid to reunite Elgin Marbles Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the founder of the budget airline easyJet, is due to launch a one-man campaign to reunite the Elgin Marbles by taking out a series of full-page advertisements in national newspapers across Britain ** Forensics confirm Phar Lap poisoned Phar Lap achieved what many a rock star has promised but not delivered - live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse ** OCLC Western Digital Forum OCLC Western is pleased to present the fourth annual OCLC Western Digital Forum on August 14-15, 2008, in Tacoma, Washington ** Elderhostel Opportunities As you may know, Elderhostel is a not-for-profit and the world's largest educational organization for older adults. ** ICOM Europe Tour 2008 Museum Tour and Conference - Between the Old and the New Europe 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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