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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** Jeffrey Deitch says he'll still sell art - but not deal in it - after taking MOCA reins Part of the deal was that Deitch would liquidate his New York-based business, Deitch Projects, before beginning his MOCA job on June 1, thus shedding the potential conflicts of interest and the ethical murk that could arise if a museum director tried to serve both the scholarly, educational and public service mandates of a nonprofit museum and the profit motive of a commercial art dealer ** Vitali's predecessor happy to step in as temporary director The man who turned the Auckland War Memorial Museum from an underfunded and run-down facility into a well-endowed museum of international standing says he would, if asked, return to help it through a "settling down" period ** Bloomsbury Set archive released They were, according to taste, a fascinating circle of hard-working, free-thinking and gifted intellectuals, or a bunch of dissolute subversives "who lived in squares but loved in triangles" ** European-looking mummies found in China, shown in California The mummies from western China's arid Tarim Basin are so well-preserved that the viewer can see their intricate clothing and eyelashes, and also that they are distinctly non-Asian in appearance ________________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 497? 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Join Today At http://globalmuseum.ning.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ** Beyond battlefields: Vicksburg diversifies its tourism offerings Visitation numbers at the Biedenharn Coca-Cola Museum, Old Court House Museum and Vicksburg National Military Park were all up slightly in 2009 over the year previous ** Lawmen recover Uhrichsville artefacts, key to city's past The city's kilns once fired huge pipes, but clay factory workers also crafted items by hand and in molds, including horses, pigs, ashtrays, pots, tree stumps and grave decorations, many examples of which were on display at the museum ** Historical hokum deserves the chop The appalling Delaroche had his heyday in the second quarter of the 19th century, when his ridiculous forays into British history resulted in some of the most tremulous and inaccurate art of his or any other times ** Victoria & Albert Museum Opens First Major Exhibition of Quilts The first exhibition of its kind in the UK, "Quilts 1700-2010" shows an extraordinary variety of quilts from the highly decorative and opulent such as the Bishop's Court Quilt, once believed to have been created by a Duke for a visit from King Charles II in 1670, to modest homemade bed covers, all testifying to the creativity and imagination of the makers ** Rome to display ancient Greek silverware The 16 pieces of silverware with gold detail were returned as part of Italy's aggressive campaign against illegal trafficking in antiquities ____________________________________________________________________________________________ TWEET TWEET - Follow Us On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum. 9,711 News Tweets, 793 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** The Aztecs, through old-world eyes In "Aztec Pantheon," with an eye on its Mexican American audience, the Getty is celebrating the bicentennial of Mexican independence by exploring how Europeans came to understand the Aztecs - in terms of the Roman Empire ** Smithsonian's Natural History Museum opens its Hall of Human Origins Not just in the bones and other artefacts on view - nearly 300 objects in all, including more than 75 skulls - but in a series of lifelike latex heads created for the museum by sculptor John Gurche, using state-of-the-art forensic reconstruction ** Restoring a Museum Piece, a Jungle Gym That Once Flew The plane, or the pieces that used to be the plane, and one day will be again, lives in a white tent just behind the superstructure of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on the West Side of Manhattan ** Yellowstone Park Attempts To Increase Ranger Population With New Mating Program In an effort to revitalize its rapidly dwindling ranger population, officials at Yellowstone National Park unveiled a new mating program this week in hopes of doubling the endangered employees' numbers by 2015 ** Grand jury criticizes Fresno over troubled museum A grand jury report says Fresno city leaders took unnecessary risks with taxpayer money by granting the now-defunct Fresno Metropolitan Museum a $15 million loan ** Back in business: Pompeii snack bar re-opens In AD79 it was Pompeii's most popular hang out, where locals would stop off to meet friends and partake in a snack of baked cheese smothered in honey _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a FAN - Join 322 of us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Prehistoric Shark Attack Reconstructed A shark attack that took place 4 million years ago has just been reconstructed from the extinct hunter's fossilized victim - a dolphin ** The relationship between horses and humans This summer, the Canadian Museum of Civilization is presenting a major exhibition that provides a fascinating, in-depth look at the majestic horse and its remarkably close bond with humans. ** Arts and politics in houses and interiors of the 20th century Brno/Czech Republic, 21-24 April 2010 ** 450-million-year-old armour-plated creature discovered in Canada's capital One of the world's rarest fossils has been discovered in downtown Ottawa, Ontario 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, the GM Social Network, 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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