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 The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the news links) in this week's edition include: ** Families' fears over war museum security Relatives of soldiers whose medals went missing from the Waiouru Army Museum say they have lost faith in its security ** Travelling space show costs too much for Canadian museums The Canadian Space Agency's elaborate plans to celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2010 with a travelling international exhibit backfired because the show was too big ** Paintings missing after Oslo bombing Concern is mounting about the fate of large numbers of works of art owned by Norwegian government ministries or lent to them by the Nasjonalmuseet (National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design) and Public Art Norway (Koro), following the terrorist attack in Oslo on 22 July ___________________________________________________________________ **** 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** The toothless and often irritatingly capricious watchdog has this year been chopped down to size and merged with the Design Council, but the commission's criticisms of the original proposal had bite ** Aztec Maps Put Cortés to Shame To expose El Gordo's greed, census takers from the Acolhua-Aztecs, a subset of the larger Aztec group, set out to count their own numbers in the mid-1500s and tally the extent of their farmland and hence their tax burden ** Quartet faces German court in multimillion euro bogus art case The most spectacular art forgery trial in decades opened in the western German city of Cologne on Thursday, with four defendants facing charges of collecting profits of around 16 million euros ($22 million) for peddling fake masterpieces ** Benghazi museum shows scars, triumphs of Libya revolt Free for the first time to make art about whatever he wants, veteran Libyan sculptor Ali al-Wakwak chose gnarled mortar shrapnel, bullet casings and shattered gun barrels as his medium _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 214? 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Join Today At http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Man steals 8-foot whale tooth from Norway museum Fiskaa says the thief was between 40 and 50 years old and took off with the tooth together with a big, white dog that he had left outside the museum before entering ** Iconic Japan cartoon cat gets his own museum The museum collection features 50,000 items, many of which are original drawings, as well as a desk and other things used by Fujio until his death in 1996 ** Cyclone Yasi uncovers lost shipwreck of 1880 brigantine Belle Months of detective work has confirmed the identify of the two-masted vessel, uncovered in Ramsay Bay, near Cardwell, after the monster cyclone hit in February ** Stolen Rubens found in Greece Greek police have found a 17th century painting by Flemish grand master Pieter Paul Rubens stolen from a museum in Belgium in 2001 _________________________________________________________________________________ TWEET TWEET - Follow Us On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum 52,869 News Tweets, 2,063 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Canterbury Museum 'will bring people back' The museum is one of neo-gothic buildings in Christchurch that survived the earthquakes and the first attraction in the cultural precinct to reopen after the February 22 earthquake ** Forbidden City turning into China's palace of shame In a year that has seen a thief tunnel through the walls, artworks smashed by staff and allegations of tax evasion levelled against senior management, the red-walled palace compound has also become a source of quiet national shame ** Smithsonian To Host Exhibit On Jefferson, Slavery The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is planning an exhibit with Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to explore the third president's history with slavery ** Irish Museum offers reward for finder of meteorite The glowing fireball, travelling at speeds of 100,000mph, was spotted shortly after midnight on Monday, August 22, by hundreds of people from Cork to Belfast and all along the east coast _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a FAN - Join 1,313 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** This Week's Horoscopes Capricorn - You're a self-made woman, which is a point of pride, but also means explaining a lot to the people working the X-ray machine at the airport ** The Magic and Myth of Alchemy "The Magic and Myth of Alchemy" exhibit was created in honor of the International Year of Chemistry, an event celebrated by chemists and chemistry associations throughout 2011 ** Te Ao Maori: Maori Treasures from the Otago Museum at the Shanghai Museum The first ever exhibition of Maori taoka (treasures) in a Chinese museum, Te Ao Maori is an introduction to the culture and mythology of the indigenous people of New Zealand ** Rare find discovered amid town's Old West kitsch Heritage commission curators, representing the Gypsy's owner - the state of Montana - rejected the idea, saying cashing in on this piece of history would be akin to selling their soul ______________________________________________________________________________ @@@@ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. Global Museum's DAILY NEWSPAPER powered by your museum tweets - Enjoy! http://paper.li/globalmuseum/1288898965 ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Tibet Was Cradle of Evolution for Pre-Ice Age Giants High on the Tibetan Plateau, paleontologists have uncovered the skull of a previously unknown species of ancient rhino, a woolly furred animal that came equipped with a built-in snow shovel on its face ** Riddle of missing Third Reich files Police in Krakow southern Poland are cooperating in a sensational international investigation that may lead to the retrieval of a raft of lost Nazi WW II-era files ** Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian Events October 2011 Events ** MPMA Workshop : Introduction to Grant Writing At MPMA's 2011 Conference. 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