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: ** Arsenic killed Chinese emperor Guangxu ascended to the Chinese throne in 1875, around age 4, and he ruled in the shadow of his biological aunt, the Empress Dowager Cixi, who adopted the boy just before he became the emperor ** Museum stung by temporary closure A Glasgow museum was forced to close its top floor to visitors for almost a fortnight because of a wasp invasion ** Turn of the screw It must have taken the collective imagination of some very twisted individuals to invent some of the gruesome instruments on display in one of Europe's largest torture museums ** Dig finds camp of 'real Crusoe' The evidence uncovered at Aguas Buenas corroborates the stories of Alexander Selkirk's stay on the island and provides a fascinating insight into his existence there ** Vatican returns Parthenon fragment to Greece The ancient marble head of a youth was fitted into place Wednesday at a museum in Athens in a deal that Greek officials hope will serve as a model for returning other treasures ** National Taiwan Museum celebrates 100-year history The National Taiwan Museum's centennial milestone invites a flipping through the pages of its history; the oldest museum on the island is actually retelling its fascinating story through three ongoing exhibitions ________________________________________________________________ **** HAPPY TRAVELLERS - BEST FARES & DEALS FOR 2008 & 2009! **** 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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If somebody can prove that the sculpture of Ganesha, a revered deity in South and Southeast Asia, was stolen from them or illegally exported out of their country, the Portland museum will return it ** Museum gives brush-off to old art storage methods The museum's deputy director has been charged with the task of developing the digital media strategy with the aim of showcasing collections and exhibitions on the internet ** Palestinians protest at Israeli plan to build museum on Muslim graveyard The Museum of Tolerance is intended to promote understanding in a city divided by ethnic and religious rivalries, but protesters say building it over gravesites does anything but ** Recovered clocks to go on display at Islamic art museum Many of the stolen items have come home after one of the greatest unsolved robberies in the capital was finally cracked - the great clock heist, which took place on a Friday night in mid-April 25 years ago ________________________________________________________________________ GROWING FAST! 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Join Today At http://globalmuseum.ning.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ** Berlin tribute to the Germans who saved Jews The Silent Heroes Memorial Centre is the first of its kind dedicated to individuals who helped to hide, feed and care for people who otherwise would have gone to the gas chambers ** Archaeologist says he found oldest Hebrew writing An Israeli archaeologist has discovered what he believes is the oldest known Hebrew inscription on a 3,000-year-old pottery shard - a find that suggests Biblical accounts of the ancient Israelite kingdom of David could have been based on written texts ** Unveiling a Museum, a Pennsylvania Town Remembers the Smog That Killed 20 By the time a rain cleared the air, 20 people in Donora had died, and nearly half the town became ill in one of the worst air pollution disasters in the nation's history ** The Weeks Horoscopes Taurus. April 20 to May 20 - Strange impulses you can neither describe nor explain impel you to take your life savings, drive to Vegas, and put it all on red ** Dutch museum confirms authenticity of 2 Van Goghs A review of physical and historical evidence showed Van Gogh painted them, probably in the spring of 1886 while he was studying under the painter Fernand Cormon in Paris ** War Museum recreates life in the trenches Two periscopes offer views above the trench line, vintage black-and-white movie footage that shows battle scenes Canadian troops would have witnessed during the 1914-18 carnage that swept Western Europe ** Museums in Conversation: Fresh Perspectives for New York State Museums March 29-31, 2009 at the Doubletree Hotel in Tarrytown, NY ** Getting Up and Running After a Disaster Announcing Fall 2008 NEA Educational Workshops ** Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield Founding Conference of the Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield (ANCBS) will be held in The Hague on the 7th, 8th and 9th of December 2008. 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