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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** In the Footsteps of the Museum's Gorillas It was here, on a 12,000-foot saddle between the Virunga's Mount Mikeno and Mount Karisimbi, that a Natural History Museum expedition first led in 1921 by the renowned naturalist and taxidermist, Carl Akeley, captured the scene for one of the museum's most well-known dioramas - an open meadow filled with lush Hagenia trees and wild celery, sweeping views of distant volcanoes and a group of five mountain gorillas ** Ancient Tobacco Unearthed In Peruvian Amazon Peruvian paleontologists say they have discovered fossilized tobacco in the northern Amazon that dates back 2.5 million years to the Pleistocene Era ** Museum on Nuremberg Trials opens doors in Germany The museum is organized in the Nuremberg courtroom in which a dozen senior Nazis were sentenced to death in 1946 ** Museum moments are worth preserving Remember your first visit to a museum? 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Join Today At http://globalmuseum.ning.com ________________________________________________________________________ ** Stoney Jack and the Cheapside Hoard A vast collection of Tudor jewellery, it was found by two workmen in the cellar of a house on Cheapside in 1912 and eventually made its way into the museum's collection ** Museum highlights Filipino-Chinese heritage The "Bahay Tsinoy" museum aims to preserve the long and colorful history of Filipinos and Chinese, as well as highlight the influences of the two cultures on each other ** Acoustic Archaeology Yielding Mind-Tripping Tricks Researchers are uncovering the secrets of ancient civilizations who built fun house-like temples that may have scared the pants off worshipers with scary sound effects, light shows and perhaps drug-induced psychedelic trips ** Gehry-designed Miss. museum highlights sculptors He was known as Biloxi's "Mad Potter," a wild-haired man who spun curious creations on his pottery wheel at the turn of the 20th century _________________________________________________________________________________ TWEET TWEET - Follow Us On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum 21,652 News Tweets, 1,137 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Hope Diamond marks 50 years The giant blue diamond has been unveiled in a modernized necklace, a setting designed by Harry Winston, in New York, to commemorate the gem's half-century on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History ** Stolen art's return ends long drama Yesterday, after a saga that spanned two continents, featured characters ranging from a Pittsfield thief to a British sleuth of stolen art, and culminated in the 2008 conviction of a Watertown lawyer-turned-artist, the last two of the missing paintings were returned to Bakwin ** Tommy Guns and Other Crime World Curiosities The museum displays beguiling curiosities from the annals of crime: seven .45-caliber bullets from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the bullet that killed Pretty Boy Floyd, a shell recovered from the car in which Clyde Barrow (of "Bonnie and Clyde" fame) was gunned down, and two death masks of John Dillinger ** Modern Humans Mature More Slowly Than Neanderthals Did, Analysis of Teeth Suggests A sophisticated new examination of teeth from 11 Neanderthal and early human fossils shows that modern humans are slower than our ancestors to reach full maturity _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a FAN - Join 603 of us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Louvre seeks donations France's Louvre museum is making an unprecedented appeal to the general public to help it raise the cash to buy a 16th century painting deemed a national treasure by art experts ** Detroit Museum Exhibit to Examine Fakes, Forgeries In the gallery on forgeries, a painting titled "A Female Saint" that once was attributed to Italian artist Sandro Botticelli is exhibited alongside "The Resurrected Christ," a Botticelli painting from around 1480 ** Kate's excellent adventure: a month at the museum She grabs her pillow and the quilt her mom made her and heads into the depths of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry in search of an unusual place to lay her head for the night ** Italian PM 'enhances' ancient Roman statues Italy's prime minister is under attack for authorising what amounts to plastic surgery on two Roman marble statues ** British Museum takeover safeguards buried treasure agencies as quango goes The fate of the treasure and portable antiquities schemes was disclosed as they reported their annual audit of finds, another rich haul of gold coins, silver goblets, a 3,000-year-old bracelet found by a man clearing stones in a field in northern Ireland and a 400-year-old toy coach which came out of the mud of the Thames foreshore ** Five Museums and Five Libraries to Receive Nation's Highest Honor The Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) has selected five museums and five libraries to receive the 2010 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The National Medal is the nation's highest honor for museums and libraries that make extraordinary civic, educational, economic, environmental, and social contributions. ** Brain: The Inside Story Step into the amazing, changing brain! The American Museum of Natural History's new exhibition Brain: The Inside Story, which opens this Saturday, November 20, will give you a new perspective and insight into the human brain using imaginative art, vivid brain scan imaging, and thrilling interactive exhibits that will engage the whole family. ** The Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2010 "Act Live - the Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2010" exhibition, will open at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, 1 Man Lam Road, Sha Tin, Saturday (November 27). 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