Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free webzine compendium, read weekly by 7,400 readers in more than 193 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: ** Plans for Jackson museum, project expand Joe Jackson, the Jackson Five manager and an aggressive entrepreneur who led the family to fame, recently told an "Access Hollywood" television reporter he is helping with museum plans ** Field Museum Scientist Describes First Vertebrate To Live In Trees In the Late Paleozoic (260 million years ago), long before dinosaurs dominated the Earth, ancient precursors to mammals took to the trees to feed on leaves and live high above predators that prowled the land a Field Museum palaeontologist has concluded ** Saving the gems of the Stone Age Experts warn as many as 10,000 historic sites around Scotland are at risk of being swept away, many of them unexcavated and unprotected ** UNESCO recognises Magna Carta with Memory of the World award The four surviving copies of Magna Carta, one of the most famous and significant documents in the history of constitutional law, have been awarded Memory of the World status by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ________________________________________________________________ **** 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** A Museum That Puts Fashion First The real draws are in the galleries, starting with a permanent collection that takes in the sweep of fashion history from early tunics, doublets, and delicately embroidered accessories of the 16th century through the French influence of the Bourbon and Napoleonic eras of the 18th and 19th centuries, up to great 20th-century couturiers like Fortuny, Balenciaga, and Dior, and finally contemporary designers like Montana and Miyake ** Rodin's 'Thinker' contemplating indoors for a bit For the next few months, The Thinker will ponder whatever a half-ton of bronze ponders when whisked from its usual home amid the hurly-burly of the Parkway, in front of the Rodin Museum ** New life for ancient Syrian sculptures A group of 30 monumental sculptures from Tell Halaf, in Syria, have been reconstructed after being pulverised into 25,000 fragments in a bombing raid in World War ** From The Blogs - The Museum of Asian Puppetry Readying this set for the museum collection will involve researching each puppet individually in order to identify the character and the story that they belong to, to determine when and how each puppet was made, and to ascertain the physical condition of each puppet ** Museum makeover marks motor links An East Sussex museum has reopened following a £2m makeover to celebrate the town's links with the birth of British motor racing ** Major image archives at London's Courtauld Institute under threat From September, they would only open one day a week and effectively cease to collect: this proposal is causing great concern amongst art historians, as well as the art trade, since it is a major resource ________________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 345? 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Join Today At http://globalmuseum.ning.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ** Pigs, Worms and Pink in the Atrium at MoMA High-definition projections will spew out a panoply of slow-motion, larger-than-life images: There are a lush bed of tulips and a sea of abstract, fire-colored branches that evoke the bronchial system ** Museum employees flunk professionalism test Nearly 90 percent of museum employees in China had not received a university education, and still fewer have majored in museum studies, experts said at the ongoing 16th congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences ** Museum believes it has found the worst album covers ever The display demonstrates that even some of the world's most respected musicians and entertainers weren't immune from the curse of the bad art director ** Criminal trials from 18th and 19th centuries go online for first time A murderous doctor who claimed to be Jack the Ripper, the crook thought to have inspired Fagin, and a notoriously inept highwayman are all listed in the carefully handwritten ledgers that can be browsed on the ancestry.co.uk website ** In Wolfe's clothing This is what I discovered about putting on a historically accurate, 18th-century British officer's uniform and standing on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City pretending I was General James Wolfe: I might have looked like an overgrown lunatic playing dress-up, but when I actually slipped the coat and hat on, it felt surprisingly grave ** More 'Oldest Things' Discovered? St. Petersburg, Russia (2,500 years old): First mini golf course, in which one had to hit the ball through the carcasses of a boar, duck, and dog, and then over a little bridge ____________________________________________________________________________________ TWEET TWEET - Follow Us On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum ____________________________________________________________________________________ ** Discoveries in ancient sinkhole:'bombshells' From the bones of extinct mammals to artefacts like a 9,000-year-old wooden stake, the discoveries paint a picture of a state that looked more like East Africa than South Florida, and they're finding more with every dive What are these people drinking? You'll excuse me, but the logic of needing to stop the program in order to rethink it sounds suspiciously like the apocryphal Vietnam War rationale that "we had to burn the village to save it." ** Amassing Treasures in Southeast Asia Collecting in Southeast Asia in the late 19th century and early 20th century was often driven by scientific objectives, like the desire to learn about the area's unique flora and fauna, or to better understand the indigenous tribes living on the region's many islands ** The mystery of MoCA China's fleeing founder The founder of the short-lived Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) China in Hong Kong left the country soon after the museum opened last autumn, leaving behind massive debts, several sources confirm ** A Fine Yarn About Wool For more than 200 years, wool has been part of Australia's social and economic history. ** Finding Hard Cash in Hard Time Call For Papers 2010 ACUMG Annual Conference ** Making History A 21st Century Enterprise To address the need of tighter budgets and limited travel, you're invited to participate in the first-ever Online AASLH Conference! 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