Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free web compendium, read weekly by 8,000 readers in more than 201 countries. *** "I love reading Global Museum. I look forward to the articles every week. The information keeps me informed about what is going on in the museum community and urges me to explore museums and exhibits online that I may have never known about. Thanks!" - User Feedback *** Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org [1] The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this address http://www.globalmuseum.org [2] and click on the news links) in this week's edition include: ** After Gauguin, can galleries cope with crowds? Tourists flocking from around the world to London's art exhibitions are fuelling a surge in "gallery rage" as the art world's connoisseurs bemoan overcrowding at an elite list of blockbuster shows ** Old dog, new tricks: 9,400-year-old mutt Nearly 10,000 years ago, man's best friend provided protection and companionship and an occasional meal ** Fishing Museum Is Symbol of Waste in Georgia For now, local school groups come by the busload for tours of aquariums displaying fish from Georgia's various regions - from mountain streams to the Piedmont lakes to the coastal swamps _________________________________________________________________ **** HAPPY TRAVELLERS - BEST FARES & DEALS FOR 2011! **** 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. Group Reservations. Interactive Map with the world's top festivals and events. 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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** Reviving the taste of an Iron Age beer The business side of Celtic ruler revelries was located in a nearby brewery capable of turning out large quantities of a beer with a dark, smoky, slightly sour taste, new evidence suggests ** The Museum of the Moving Image Is Bigger, Better, Shinier, and Finally Reopened After two years of scaffolding and shut doors, Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image reopens to the public this weekend, in its all its newly renovated, vastly expanded, quite improved glory ** Caligula's tomb found after police arrest The lost tomb of Caligula has been found, according to Italian police, after the arrest of a man trying to smuggle abroad a statue of the notorious Roman emperor recovered from the site ** Fur caution at the V&A In this politically correct day and age, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London has kindly notified visitors to its exhibition "Imperial Chinese Robes from the Forbidden City" that several exhibits incorporate...fur _____________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 636? Join the Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos they are generally employed in museums, colleges, galleries and other organizations or businesses that deal with or teach about history and art ** Whisky Galore as bottles from SS Politician are lined up As news of the incident spread, thirsty islanders in small boats began descending on the stricken vessel to help themselves to the precious tipple, which was under strict wartime ration ** Alexander the Great at the Louvre for a unique exhibition The curator of the department of Greek and Roman antiquities of the Louvre Mrs Sophie Deschamp has travelled to all Macedonian cities in Northern Greece in order to select the 668 objects which are going to travel to Paris ** Flickr Photos Gets Man Sued by Erotic Art Museum for $2 Million The museum is concerned that visitors to Hawk's Flickr account will somehow assume that he and his page are officially affiliated with the museum ______________________________________________________________________________ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. Global Museum's new daily newspaper powered by your museum tweets - Enjoy! http://paper.li/globalmuseum/1288898965 [7] ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Lizzie Borden museum gets 40 whacks The attraction's opening spurred criticism among some Salem residents who believed it ill-suited for the city, home of the infamous witchcraft trials some 200 years before Borden was accused and then acquitted of the ax murders ** The Institute for Cultural Entrepreneurship May 1 - 4, 2011, Cooperstown, New York ** Stuff, the meanings of materials The Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts and Design April 28 and 29, 2011, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York ** Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria Saturday, Feb. 12. 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