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: ** China's Reluctant Emperor For nearly three decades of his 48-year reign (1572-1620), Wan Li refused to read petitions and memorandums sent to him, replace officials who retired or died or even attend his own morning audiences ** Where Every Second Counts Why is this museum - the largest such institution in the country, with an entrance evoking the Acropolis, and 12,000 clocks, watches, timepieces and timekeepers displayed in 18,000 square feet - in a small town not far from Lancaster, Pa., in the midst of Pennsylvania Dutch farm country? ** Seeing was believing The sense of oddness is often compounded by the naive style of early amateur artists and even sometimes by unforeseen semantic shifts; thus an emu is labelled on an anonymous print of 1792, "A non descript Bird found at Botany Bay", where the author means to say that it has not been previously described, adding that the print is "from a drawing made on the spot", the first of many such assurances, designed to forestall the reader's incredulity ___________________________________________________________________ **** 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** Oakland museum cancels exhibition created by Palestinian children The decision to cancel the show, reached at a museum board meeting just two weeks before the exhibition's opening, has left organizers stunned ** China warns museums after series of embarrassing thefts China has ordered its museums to tighten security after a series of embarrassing thefts, including at Beijing's Palace Museum, and will temporarily shut those which don't meet standards, state media has reported ** Secrets of WTC Shipwreck Sleuthed Out Unraveling the mystery surrounding the shipwreck found last year during excavations of the World Trade Center site has resulted in several facts as well as theories ** The English Renaissance: the rebirth of refinement The scale of English Renaissance buildings remains human and intimate, despite the sometimes colossal pretensions of the magnates who built them _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 235? New LinkedIn Platform - Join the Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos & Videos, Blog, Use the Forum, Join A Group. Become one of our first 300 members. Join Today At http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Glittering gallery throws open doors The biggest drawcards are 15 works by the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, Dali and Cezanne being donated by American philanthropist Julian Robertson and his late wife Josie and flown out this week in the billionaire's private jet from New York to go on show until October 31 ** Prehistoric clay disks found in northwestern Alaska The disks were found during a summer expedition in Noatak National Preserve, at a site where archeologists have for decades been studying lakefront pit dwellings that date back 1,000 year ** Pro-Palestinian Agitators Shut Down D.C. Museum Ceremony The seemingly innocuous August 18, 2011 announcement of the engineering award brought a storm of threats of public protest and other disruption that the architecture-based museum staff found overwhelming, according to museum sources ** Battleship Iowa to be Los Angeles museum The Iowa has been laid up in the so-called Ghost Fleet in Suisun Bay for 10 years while a local nonprofit group negotiated with the Navy to berth the ship as a museum and memorial in Northern California _________________________________________________________________________________ TWEET TWEET - Follow Us On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum 53,823 News Tweets, 2,100 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Closest Human Ancestor May Rewrite Steps in Our Evolution A startling mix of human and primitive traits found in the brains, hips, feet and hands of an extinct species identified last year make a strong case for it being the immediate ancestor to the human lineage, scientists have announced ** Christchurch Art Gallery receives a bodacious post-quake care package They wanted to contribute something big and joyous to our post-quake reopening celebrations early next year, and they sure have ** Maori food on menu at museum festival Hangi, raw fish, fermented corn and raupoo cakes will be among the dishes on offer when the Kai Festival is held at Waikato Museum on Saturday, 17 September ** Cup Noodles Museum Opens In Yokohama One momentous event in 1971 led to the construction of not one, but two, museums: the invention of Cup Noodles (known as Cup O' Noodles in the US until 1993) by Taiwanese-Japanese businessman Momofuku Ando _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a FAN - Join 1,328 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Borrowed Italian painting in US: ownership dispute A Florida museum said it has been ordered to temporarily hang onto a borrowed 16th Century Italian painting of Christ holding the cross, as U.S. and Italian authorities seek to resolve questions of ownership amid claims the work had been stolen from a Jewish family in World War II ** Boxing museum in the works for Myrtle Beach Former heavyweight champion James "Bonecrusher" Smith wants to add boxing legends and enthusiasts to the groups that already make Myrtle Beach a destination ** Curators make hard choices at New York 9/11 museum Some of the most potentially disturbing exhibits are being set aside from the main exhibition spaces in special alcoves to allow visitors a chance to decide whether or not to view it ** Apollo astronaut inspires space center crowd His is an incredible story, full of fascinating twists and turns, on one side exhibiting his breathtaking mastery of the skies in his T-38 Talon jet or Hawker Hunter, and on the other showing him humbled by a case of human frailty ______________________________________________________________________________ @@@@ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. Global Museum's DAILY NEWSPAPER powered by your museum tweets - Enjoy! http://paper.li/globalmuseum/1288898965 ______________________________________________________________________________ ** ICOM's Latest Newsletter British artist and film director Peter Greenaway treated members to an inspiring presentation entitled The New Visual Literacy ** Social Media Case Study: Brooklyn Museum Perhaps Brooklyn Museum would be better off focusing on one or two of the tools and using those selected tools creatively ** Museum Records Management - free consultancies for London museums The Renaissance London Information and Records Management Project has been working with the former London Hub museums, and the Museum Development Officers, to support museums to improve their information and records management. ** 21st Century Learning in Natural History Settings The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is excited to announce the 21st Century Learning in Natural History Settings Project. ** Feeding the Spirit: Museums, Food and Community Join colleagues in building a body of wisdom and practice regarding food & museums. 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