Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Roger Smith <[log in to unmask]> Sender: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:45:05 To: <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Make Museum A Porsche Not A Minivan * Art Attacker Strikes Again * Wayward Rabbit Discovery * Cleveland Museum Bears Winter Chills * Hanging Noose Custody * Treasures of Heaven * Museum's Snail Sex Show * Ivory Coast Mourns 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: ** Natural History Museum announces Snail Sex Show on South Bank Snail courtship, in case you didn't know, involves mating rituals which are unusual even by the standards of an exhibition counting bees and gorillas among its seductive parade, played out on South Bank in a "gastropod peep show" courtesy of a street theatre group ** Create polar museum in Edmonton In the 500-year history of the search for a Northwest Passage, more than 140 vessels and a handful of overland expeditions tried and failed to find the fabled route ** Stolen Rembrandt piece may not be a Rembrandt after all None of the curators, art historians and other preeminent Rembrandt experts contacted by the media since the theft were familiar with the drawing, including one of the world's top Rembrandt scholars and director emeritus of CODART, the international council of curators of Dutch and Flemish art ___________________________________________________________________ **** 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** Wreck of 16th century Swedish warship found in Baltic The wreck of a Swedish warship that historians hope is the Mars, head of king Erik XIV's fleet before it sank in the Baltic in 1564, has been found off Sweden's coast, museum officials have said ** Ivory Coast museum mourns stolen artefacts Bullet holes pock the vault door and empty display boxes litter the showroom floor of Abidjan's Museum of Civilisation, robbed of 100 ancient artefacts under the cover of deadly conflict in April ** Museum in China admits to loss of precious antiques A top official of Palace Museum in Beijing's Forbidden City admitted to the loss of three antiques costing millions of dollars due to human negligence ** Museum highlighting history of overseas Chinese Construction of a planned museum that will highlight the history of overseas Chinese will kick off in downtown Beijing in September _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 183? New LinkedIn Platform - Join the Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos the thieves who took the 3-foot tall rabbit statue from the Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton left him in some woods about five miles east of the city ** Museum Owes $5M More A New York City-based architectural firm is owed more than $5 million from the U.S. National Slavery Museum, but it's unclear whether the firm will be able to collect any of it ** Art attacker strikes again at DC museum A woman who attacked a painting at Washington's National Gallery of Art earlier this year has struck again, police say, this time lashing out against a Henri Matisse painting at the museum ** Largest Cheetah Lived, and Killed, Among Ancient Humans Cheetahs might have been the bloodiest killers at one of the oldest known sites for humans, leaving behind more carcasses than any other predator there ______________________________________________________________________________ @@@@ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. Global Museum's DAILY NEWSPAPER powered by your museum tweets - Enjoy! http://paper.li/globalmuseum/1288898965 [7] ______________________________________________________________________________ ** How not to organise a museum When you do stumble upon something interesting - usually through luck - there is limited information about it, despite the proliferation of interactive booths which are over-directing but un-informing ** Site of Interest - The Aobe Museum of Digital Media A one-of-a-kind online museum and interactive venue designed to showcase and preserve groundbreaking digital media works and provide a forum for expert commentary on how digital media influences culture and society ** Making Mozzarella Brooklyn Historical Society is thrilled to be hosting Chef Michael Ayoub of Fornino Pizza for a live mozzarella-making demonstration ** Hacking The Museum: Innovation, Agility and Collaboration MCN2011 - the 39th annual Museum Computer Network Conference ** ICME/2011/Banz Monastery Banz Monastery at Bad Staffelstein (Upper Franconia),Germany All this and more for you at Global Museum - See the latest museum JOBS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, PODCASTS, HOT JOB TIPS, great people posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable WORLD TRAVEL, the GM Social Network, Museum Online Document Store, Podcasts, Museum Accredited Courses, Products & Services. http://www.globalmuseum.org [8] First published on the Web in 1998 and going strong! 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