Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free webzine compendium, read weekly by 7,400 readers in more than 197 countries. *** "As far as I am concerned it is the best source for museum professionals in search of employment " - User Feedback*** 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: ** Family Feud Imperils a Prized Spanish Art Collection Standing in the serene, sunlit galleries of Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum, the average art lover would never suspect that behind the sublime beauty of, say, Fra Angelico's Annunciation, roils a family dispute of such sordidness that it would make Jon and Kate look like the Waltons ** The worlds of David Hockney He's gone back and forth between his two countries for years, referring to himself as an "English Los Angeleno" ** Engine dramas stall outback-bound flight The Qantas Founders Museum in Longreach says it has already spent about $500,000 buying the plane and preparing it for a 30-day flight to the museum ** Egypt to demand the Rosetta Stone from British Museum The security standards of our new museums in Egypt are better than the standards of security at the British Museum and therefore I decided that we are not going to ask for a loan; we are going to bring it back for good ________________________________________________________________ **** HAPPY TRAVELLERS - BEST FARES & DEALS FOR 2010! **** 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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Not Varnish In a finding that is sure to add to one of the longest-running debates in music, a detailed analysis of the varnish on five instruments made by Antonio Stradivari reveals that he coated the wood with a rather humdrum mix of oil and resin ** Tips for making your next museum visit rewarding and enjoyable Whether you are considering a visit to a superb local collection or if you are going to go to a grand museum in a major international city, here are few tips to make your museum visit efficient, exciting and enjoyable ** Quickie tour of Philippines National Museum for 'balikbayan' The 16th-century galleon San Diego, recovered off Manila Bay in the '90s, is a wondrous return to the history of adventure and daring by intrepid Spanish and Filipino crew who crossed the Pacific Ocean, taking up to five months to get to the Americas ** Italian police seize £90m art stash from Parmalat founder Among the 19 masterpieces were paintings by some of the world's most famous artists, including Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Cezanne, Modigliani, Manet and Degas ________________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 420? 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Peyton interviews some of the world's greatest chefs - including Michelin-starred chefs Yannick Alléno and Christopher Kostow - to explore everything from the significance of beef in the work of Hogarth to Paul Klee's use of seafood ** From coal to culture The euro150 million ($226 million) Louvre-Lens museum, to open in 2012, is part of a strategy to spread art beyond the traditional bastions of culture in Paris to new audiences in the provinces ** Student finds letter 'a link to Jefferson' In a nondescript conference room tucked inside the library at the University of Delaware, a graduate student found a historian's equivalent to a needle in a haystack ** Showdown at city's museum Auckland Museum director Vanda Vitali, and the museum trust board are embroiled in a performance dispute, and both sides have hired top lawyers ** Prince of Liechtenstein threatens major Royal Academy show The Royal Academy's 2010 exhibition of treasures from the Liechtenstein Collection faces cancellation because one of Prince Hans-Adam II's paintings has been impounded in London ____________________________________________________________________________________________ TWEET TWEET - Follow Us On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum. 4,556 News tweets, 550 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Te Papa gets new head from Wales Before his 2003 appointment as director general of the National Museum Wales Amgueddfa Cymru, a group of seven museums, Mr Houlihan spent five years as the first chief executive of the National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland ** Christmas film footage from the past Why not take a cinematic journey into Christmases past this winter with some of the free Yuletide footage on British Pathé and other online film archives? ** Robots enlisted by British Library to help preserve nation's memory Much of the sorting and carrying at the futuristic building in West Yorkshire is done by robots, which operate along 131 miles of environmentally controlled storage ** Museum closings loom over weekend as labour strike continues According to the Paris Tourism Office, workers are voting day by day on whether to continue the action, which makes it difficult to predict which facilities will be affected on any given day. 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