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Currently at the temporary site - http://globalmuseum.weebly.com/index.html The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this address http://globalmuseum.weebly.com/index.html and click on the news links) in this week's edition include: ** Cash-strapped councils clear out their collections The Museums Association, which provides advice to local authorities on museum collections, has said it has recently been approached by at least one other council about a major art disposal, prompting fears that other councils may soon dispose of key works ** The Captain Kidd Story The central narrative follows the life of Captain Kidd, a Scottish sailor who drifted from the navy through state-sponsored privateering to outright piracy during a short and fairly miserable career that ended with him swinging from a rope in front of a mocking crowd at Execution Dock, Wapping in 1701 ** French National Museums Are Turning Into Businesses, Curators Complain Notwithstanding public servants' pledge of professional reserve, curators have for the first time decided to speak out: they have just published a blueprint in which they denounce the negative effects of having to sell products, as a result of cuts in public funding, and declare that they are "confronted with the same problems that plague hospitals and universities." ___________________________________________________________________ **** 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** From The Blogs - Field Museum Sends Team To Save Rainforest After we passed the Cordillera, we flew over an immense green carpet of lowland rainforest, interrupted only by the occasional flight of a King Vulture down below, or colorful flocks of Blue-and-yellow Macaws who prefer the enormous Mauritia palm swamps ** Museum crushed ancient plate A precious piece of Song Dynasty porcelain was damaged during "nondestructive" testing by a research staff member, the Forbidden City authorities confirmed on Sunday, a day after a Web user had already leaked the information online ** Apollo 15 Astronaut Al Worden Reveals Secret about Souvenirs They secretly carried nearly 400 first day covers into space and made a deal with a German stamp collector to sell 100 of them and use the proceeds to set up trust funds for their children ** HMS Belfast adds thrilling Gun Turret Experience Gun Turret Experience: A Sailor's Story 1943 uses lights, imagery, sound, movement and smoke effects to recreate the atmosphere and conditions as they were experienced by a wartime gun crew in action _____________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 104? 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Join Today At http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on Sept 11 Besides ending nearly 3,000 lives, destroying planes and reducing buildings to tons of rubble and ash, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks destroyed tens of thousands of records, irreplaceable historical documents and art ** Qld Museum won't reveal whereabouts of prized German Mephisto tank The Queensland Museum's most valued possession, the captured tank Mephisto, is again shrouded in secrecy after being whisked away to an undisclosed location for flood restoration work ** Schwarzenegger museum opens in Vienna The world's first museum dedicated to former "Governator" and Mister Universe Arnold Schwarzenegger opened its doors Saturday in his birthplace of Thal in southern Austria ** Met Museum to send 19 artifacts to Egypt Nineteen artifacts taken from the tomb of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun will be returned to Egypt next week after more than half a century at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York _________________________________________________________________________________ TWEET TWEET - Follow Us On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum 48,949 News Tweets, 1,992 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Hanoi museum to display thousand-year-old jades According to Dr. Nguyen Dinh Chien, the museum's assistant director, the items were part of collection owned by the Louis Finot Museum before 1954 ** Rare aircraft parts go up in smoke Evergreen Museum curator Stewart Bailey pretty much knew every spare part, rocket replica, gun mount and helicopter miscellany that was destroyed when a spectacular fire tore through a large storage building here ** Ogdensburg museum burglary nets gold worth $400,000 The 20 stolen gold pieces were representative of gold as extracted from specific mines in areas around the world from Australia to California ** Museum Shows History and Power of Wind Energy Dozens of old, clanking windmills occupy the grounds of a small, breezy hilltop, irrigating the grass, while a 165-foot-tall modern turbine, made by the Danish company Vestas, towers in the background and supplies the museum's electricity _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a FAN - Join 1,239 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** This Week's Horosopes Aquarius - Please try to keep in mind that high summer temperatures do not indicate the end of the world. The magma flowing up from the cracks in the earth, however, bear thinking about ** MoMA Raises Admission to $25, Paid Director $1.6 Million in 2009, Down 14% Both Futter and Campbell earned what amounts to 20 cents per visitor in 2009-2010, while Lowry earned more than 50 cents for every attendee ** Burglars hunt down rhinos in museums The museum had never been robbed until the July heist, when it became the latest of a rising number of science museums in Europe targeted by thieves for rhino horns, which can fetch tens of thousands of euros on the black market ** Museum uses Lincoln's wrestling past for WWE giveaway Springfield's favorite son, whose skill as a wrestler has been recognized by induction into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame's Hall of Outstanding Americans, may never have donned sequins or worn his stovepipe hat into the squared circle, but the museum that bears his name is promoting itself with a pro wrestling ticket giveaway ______________________________________________________________________________ @@@@ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. Global Museum's DAILY NEWSPAPER powered by your museum tweets - Enjoy! http://paper.li/globalmuseum/1288898965 ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Mengele's handwritten manuscripts to be sold The archive is composed of over 3,300 pages of handwritten text, some illustrated, largely in bound journals, written while Mengele was in hiding in Paraguay and Brazil between 1960 and 1975 ** The Theft That Made The 'Mona Lisa' A Masterpiece If you were standing outside the Louvre in Paris on the morning of Aug. 21, 1911, you might have noticed three men hurrying out of the museum ** The Museum Professional Network: Careers, Connections and Community ICTOP Annual Conference. 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