Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free webzine compendium, read weekly by 7,400 readers in more than 187 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 links) in this week's edition include: ** Flying Wing Joins Collection There is a new shape in the skies of the San Diego Air & Space Museum; a dark and ominous reminder of the menacing Nazi Luftwaffe has been raised in the shadows above our WWII P-51 "Mustang" - the last "secret weapon" of Hitler's Germany, the remarkable Horten Ho-229 jet-powered flying wing ** Endangered species' DNA to be stored at NYC museum Underground in the laboratories of the museum, which was featured in the 2006 Ben Stiller movie "Night at the Museum," a half-dozen metal vats cooled with liquid nitrogen can store up to 1 million frozen tissue samples ** LA brush fire closes Getty Museum Ventilation systems were shut down to prevent smoke damage to the museum's priceless art collection ________________________________________________________________ **** HAPPY TRAVELLERS - BEST FARES & DEALS FOR 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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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** Archives' record-keeping lapse Brachfeld has documented thousands of electronic storage devices, including computers and servers, that have gone missing over the past decade from the National Archives and Records Administration ** Istanbul's first-ever 'city museum' to be built on Büyükada The museum that is coming to the island of Büyükada really promises much more than just the preservation of objects and sounds and memories under a roof and between four walls; what it promises, too, is a modern creation that will work not only to give people a perspective on today, but will also help shape the future ** Ancient hunting site may rest under Lake Huron Some 10,000 years or more ago, hunter-gatherers pursued migrating caribou in a corridor between Michigan and Ontario, a ridge that today is submerged in Lake Huron ** Who needs another lurid damsel? A group of pilgrims to the temple of the Roman god of medicine are riveted by what can only be described as absolutely nothing: a faint curl of smoke in the dead centre of the painting; what a trick to pull off ________________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 334? Join the Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos & Videos, Blog, Use the Forum, Join A Group. Become one of our first 400 members - 334 have already met online. Join Today At http://globalmuseum.ning.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ** Southwest Museum pulls itself up by its bootstraps Why did he design a 115-foot-tall, seven-level structure, accessible only by a central, spiral staircase, as a storage facility for what would become one of the world's finest collections of Native American art? ** Learning Singapore's history through its money With the recent opening of the Singapore Coins and Notes Museum, visitors will see why it's a whole lot more than just about dollars and cents ** Italy unveils 14 artefacts returned by Cleveland Museum Italy has unveiled 14 artefacts, including a bronze statue of an archer and a pair of Etruscan silver bracelets, returned by the Cleveland Museum of Art after it was discovered they had once been looted ** Desert castle restorations unearth clues to missing historical link Qasr Al Hallabat, one of the Kingdom's so-called desert castles, a series of fortresses built by the Romans around the 2nd century to cement their presence in the Levant, is much more than the average castle, according to archaeologist and Spanish aid specialist Ignacio Arce ** A Museum in Sleep Mode The Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies issued some stunning news last week: in response to financial difficulties blamed on the economic downturn, the Spertus - which consists of a college, a museum, and a library - is making operational cuts so drastic they'll practically shut down portions of the glossy, Krueck & Sexton-designed building that opened less than two years ago ____________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum ____________________________________________________________________________________ ** 'Michelangelo self-portrait' discovered in restored Vatican fresco Professor De Luca said that a figure on horseback in a blue turban in Michelangelo's The Crucifixion of St Peter was clearly the artist ** Death Doesn't Lie Death doesn't lie, so death masks - a cast of the face in wax or plaster, taken just hours after breath has gone - promise truthful representations of the departed ** Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa ** This Week's Horoscopes Gemini May 21 - Jun 21. You're no art expert, but you know what you like, which explains all the meatball sandwiches hanging on your walls ** Design museum steps out with a shoe show From flip-flops slapping on the sands of Malibu to stilettos clacking on New York pavements, what you wear on your feet says a lot about who you are ** Four It has been 40 years since man first walked on the moon, and technology has moved on, especially in the area of space lavatories. Doug Millard, the Science Museum's Senior Curator of Space Technology gives his guide to some of the more interesting and bizarre gadgets of 60s space travel ** City's jail re-opens to captivate visitors The museum features a huge range of free activities exploring different aspects of Aberdeen's past and heritage: from talks on witch burning in Aberdeen in the 1590s to re-enactments exploring the strange and dark tale of Peter Williamson, also known as Indian Peter ** Only S.F. would snub gift of world-class museum Yes, sir, you have to get up pretty early in the morning to put one over on San Francisco's not-in-my-backyard crowd ** INTERCOM - Museums and Community Annual meeting in Torreon in Mexico which will take place from the 10-13 November 2009. ** 2009 AASLH and AIM Annual Meeting Indianapolis, IN, August 26-29 ** Science of nature - Museum insect detectives join forensic team Insect detectives at the Natural History Museum in London have teamed up with the Forensic Science Service (FSS), to create a new forensic entomology service, launched last month 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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