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: ** British Museum caught up in human rights row Human Rights Watch has been in talks with the museum to ask it to protect conditions for migrant workers by refusing to work with agencies which charge fees for finding work, confiscate passports or pay unfair wages ** Art treasures may be sold to fund 'Titanic' museum Critics fear that if the MLA, which polices Britain's public galleries, allows the sale it will set a precedent for local authorities up and down the country to ransack their collections ** Ancient horse roamed Canada's North with mammoths, camels The long-frozen remains of an extinct ice age horse, dug up in 1993 by gold miners in the Klondike, have finally been put on public display at a Yukon museum after giving scientists a new picture of what the long-gone species looked like when it roamed the Canadian North with woolly mammoths 26,000 years ago ** The Young Controller: six-year-old boy lands dream rail job at museum A six-year-old boy has landed a dream job at the National Railway Museum after applying for a post he saw advertised in a newspaper ** Museum spins textile history into great yarns The tales are engrossing, but the reality of the mills becomes thunderously immediate in the Techniques Gallery, which displays 15 historic machines that perform essential tasks in the manufacturing processes, from spinning and twisting yarn to weaving fabric ________________________________________________________________ **** 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** Nazis, nannies and hair omelettes Despite possessing one of the world's most potent imaginations, being an inspiration to generations of artists and treasured as the last link to the Surrealist movement, she remains unselfconsciously humble ** And Now, an Exhibition From Our Sponsor Traditionally museums have been loath to allow the sponsors of an exhibition a significant role in curatorial decision making - particularly when the sponsor is a corporation, given the potential taint of commercialization and artistic compromise ** Annie Leibovitz debts not a pretty picture Annie Leibovitz is as famous as the people she photographs but the genius behind the lens is close to financial ruin - a victim, some say, of her artistic ambition ** Rare tiles unearthed at palace Rare Valencian tiles have been uncovered by archaeologists during excavations at the ruins of a Surrey palace, once owned by Henry VIII ** Crossing the Sea with Fortuna Should there be any doubt about the positive effects of diplomatic unions, this exhibition of 260 objects and works of art from eight of the Dresden State Museums and another 100 loaned by the Royal Danish Collections at Rosenborg Castle, Fredericksborg Castle, the National Museum of Denmark, the Royal Library and the Statens Museum for Kunst, will convince the severest cultural critic ** Credit Crisis Is a Big Draw for Finance Museum The Museum of American Finance was faced with an awkward situation recently: some of the corporate sponsors of the museum - dedicated to glories of free markets - had, well, failed ________________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 369? 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 - 369 have already met online. Join Today At http://globalmuseum.ning.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ** Gowns too fragile to exhibit The various clothing artefacts in the Bertha Honoré Palmer exhibition range from winter coats to nightgowns and day suits to opulent evening wear and court presentation gowns ** Nude model briefly adds self to permanent collection at The Met museum Police say they arrested a 26-year-old woman who was posing naked for a photographer, and in full view of visitors, in the museum's arms and armour department on Wednesday ** Ancient dial solves time riddle A new discovery at an island abbey in the Firth of Forth has revealed the Augustinian canons who once lived there measured time using a mass dial ** Warhol's junk just as intriguing as his art? When he died in 1987 at 58, his four-story Manhattan townhouse was packed with stuff: shopping bags filled with antiques, clothes, books and other artefacts from his daily expeditions, boxes, piles of furniture and even a drawer of gems worth $1 million ** Toothpaste to toilet cleaners crammed into London 'Brands' museum Ramsay's Medicated Spice Nuts, from an earlier era, are advertised as "the most pleasant, safe and certain remedy for eradicating every species of worms, cleansing the stomach and bowels of everything offensive, and for purifying the blood and correcting the habit ** $3 Million Brice Marden Painting Destroyed In Transit: Lawsuit A $3 million painting by U.S. artist Brice Marden was destroyed while being moved from Moscow to New York due to the negligence of Lufthansa Cargo and others involved in its transport, a has lawyer said ** Gold and booty: Goa opens smuggling museum The long beaches and rocky inlets of western India have been a haven for contraband for centuries, with smugglers sneaking their goods into the country via the Arabian Sea ____________________________________________________________________________________ TWEET TWEET - Follow Us On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum ____________________________________________________________________________________ ** Ancient Man Hurt Coasts The idea that primitive hunter-gatherers lived in harmony with the landscape has long been challenged by researchers, who say Stone Age humans in fact wiped out many animal species in places as varied as the mountains of New Zealand and the plains of North America ** 'Moon rock' in Dutch museum is just petrified wood The Dutch national museum said Thursday that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by U.S. astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood ** Learning Through Objects: Museums and Young Children The Smithsonian Early Enrichment Centre is offering an innovative seminar ** CAM and the Museum Computer Network Regional Meeting ** How to Protect Your Museum, Staff and Visitors Are you prepared to react to a crisis, theft or other threats? 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