Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning finding none, they shattered statues, including one of the ancient goddess Isis, and smashed some of the museum's royal mummies. See also ICOM Preliminary report on museums in Egypt ** Paleontologist shown eating mammoth on microblog A paleontologist has published a series of posts on his micorblog to record the process of cooking and eating mammoth meat on February 12 ** Sotheby's accused of cover up over damaged Robert Cecil painting Sotheby's, the auction house, has been accused of forging a document to cover up the fact that it damaged a painting of the Jacobean spymaster Robert Cecil, a senior aide to both James I and Elizabeth I ___________________________________________________________________ **** 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** Toronto museum investigating bee deaths A museum in Toronto says it is trying to determine what killed 20,000 honeybees in just two days at its popular hands-on biodiversity gallery ** Discovery Museum has 17th century blood on its hands In 1644 the Earl of Leven led thousands of Scottish troops south of the border, intent on capturing the city to secure lucrative coal and weapon resources arriving from the continent for Parliament ** Foot bone shows man's distant ancestor could walk It shows that Lucy's kin had arches stiffening their feet like humans, as opposed to apes, whose feet are flexible, for grasping tree branches ** The Met's Plans for Virtual Expansion Mr. Campbell viewed the museum's next frontier to be less physical than philosophical and virtual: a change in the Met's tone and public face, making it a more open and understandable museum, largely by thoroughly rethinking the way it uses technology. _____________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 639? 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People may be put off by some of the 15 works, some of which use human tissue as book covers or retinal cells to project film ** No 'Moby-Dick': A Real Captain, Twice Doomed Unlike the tale of Ahab and Ishmael, however, Pollard's story didn't end there: After the Essex sank, Pollard and his crew floated through the Pacific for three months, a journey punctuated by death, starvation, madness and, in the end, cannibalism _________________________________________________________________________________ TWEET TWEET - Follow Us On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum [5] 31,185 News Tweets, 1,428 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Guitar: The Instrument That Rocked The World From the ancient Greek cithara to the Mesopotamian oud to the six-string electric, the guitar has evolved into one of the most popular - and loudest - instruments in the world ** NYC museum giving antiquities to Costa Rica The Brooklyn Museum is preparing to give about 5,000 pre-Columbian artifacts in its collection to Costa Rica as part of a housekeeping move to trim its vast holdings ** Headless Egyptian Mummy Mystery Thickens The mummies, who lost their heads as yet another casualty of Egypt's political chaos, are unknown ancient Egyptians and have become the symbol of the world's concern for ancient Egyptian cultural heritage ** Rossellini films in Natural History Museum sex exhibition A film starring actress and model Isabella Rossellini as a randy duck is part of a London exhibition explaining the science behind sex _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a FAN - Join 683 of us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574 [6]? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** In Casablanca, only Jewish museum in Arab world A white building tucked into a residential neighbourhood of this cosmopolitan city holds a treasure trove few here know about: the Arab region's only Jewish museum ** Edinburgh landmark museum to re-open after £46m refit Staff have been installing 8,000 objects into 16 new galleries in the original part of the landmark building ** LA museum, Getty get Mapplethorpe art, archives The acquisition consists of more than 2,000 works by Mapplethorpe, including several 20-by-24 inch Polaroid photos, works of art from his contemporaries and personal correspondence ** Fossil find puts 'Lucy' story on firm footing New fossil evidence seems to confirm that a key ancestor of ours could walk upright consistently - one of the major advances in human evolution ______________________________________________________________________________ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. 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