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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: ** London museum says it will show a lost Leonardo An oil painting recently authenticated as the work of Leonardo da Vinci will be on display at the National Gallery in the fall as part of a larger exhibition on the Renaissance artist ** Earliest Europeans Were Cannibals, Wore Bling The scientists made those assessments after studying human remains and artifacts discovered at a shelter-cave site called Buran-Kaya III in the Ukraine ** A corpse flower by any other name The Houston Museum of Natural Science had an unexpected sensation about a year ago with its suspenseful blooming of a corpse flower, and now it's ready for the sequel ___________________________________________________________________ **** 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. 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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** Roman Frontier Gallery tells tales from Cumbria's origins In fact, in enterprises with obvious parallels to the oil-chasers of today, the Romans came to Carlisle in pursuit of silver, and their armies were eye-wateringly expensive to maintain - a tentload of Romans required dozens of goats and thousands of kilograms of grain to sustain themselves on brownfield sites, let alone financial backing from an empire which stationed 55,000 troops in Britain ** Tourists trapped gaping at sculpture According to local press, the two pensioners became trapped in the quicksand while photographing the 100 cast iron, life-size figures dotted across three kilometres of the foreshore ** Museum of Liverpool to be opened by Finn O'Hare, 6 A six-year-old boy has been chosen to officially open The Museum of Liverpool after he wrote to its management asking to be able to carry out the honour ** Qatar revealed as the world's biggest contemporary art buyer Working through a number of advisors, as well as buying directly from dealers and at auction, Qatar is reliably believed to be building up a top-class collection of modern and contemporary art _____________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 670? New LinkedIn Platform - Join the Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos never fear, an array of museums and historic sites can keep the high-flying spirit alive, says Shuttle astronaut Thomas D. Jones , who has spent 53 days living in space ** A Day At The Museum "Okay, remember kids, this is a museum filled with very expensive items. You absolutely may not touch anything. The guards will arrest you and put you to work cleaning the toilets for a month." _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a FAN - Join 1,190 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574 [6]? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Money talks If we also consider the fanfare over the new rooms devoted to contemporary art (the disadvantages of losing storage space within the building appear to have been overlooked), the pattern seems obvious: the AGNSW appears to be reorienting itself towards the contemporary field, to be turning itself into a pseudo-Museum of Contemporary Art ** Glittering Bounty Eighteen-foot-long gold necklaces, 1,360 kilos of gold coins of the 17th and 18th centuries, scores of diamond-studded plates, rubies, emeralds, 50 diamonds of the Napoleonic era, a 42-inch-long diamond-studded idol of Lord Vishnu, diamonds from Belgium, Sri Lanka and Burma... the list of the contents of the secret chambers of the Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram just doesn't seem to end. Best preserved in a museum ** First-aid kit in shipwreck reveals millennia-old practices Institute first-aid kit found on a 2000-year-old shipwreck has provided a remarkable insight into the medicines concocted by ancient physicians to cure sailors of dysentery and other ailments ** Tech Museum gets hacked The thief captured museum members' names, email addresses, home addresses and phone numbers and posted them to Twitter on Friday before the information was taken down ______________________________________________________________________________ @@@@ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. Global Museum's DAILY NEWSPAPER powered by your museum tweets - Enjoy! http://paper.li/globalmuseum/1288898965 [7] ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Mother of all Polar Bears: An Irish Brown Bear? Despite being so different, the two seem to have found love: Meeting and breeding at least once during the last 120,000 years, the two species gave rise to the polar bears we know today ** Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial Record The faint, 123-year-old recording - etched into a warped metal cylinder and brought back to life after decades of silence by a three-dimensional (3D) optical scanning technique - appears to belong to the first record intended for sale to the public ** Copying, Replicating & Emulating Paintings in the 15th-18th Century This is a Call for Papers for the two-day technical art history conference held at the National Gallery of Denmark on 21-22 May 2012. ** Money Museums Communicating with the Public The early registration deadline for the XVIII ICOMON meeting in Nicosia 10-13 October 2011 is on 30 July 2011. 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