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: ** Is postmodernism Gaga, Warhol or a wooden toaster? I'd come along early in the hope of finding a line of ironic overnight sleepers, a distracted gaggle of the self-aware emerging from kitsch tents and eating knowing bacon sarnies on uncomfortable-looking deckchairs fashioned from shopping trolleys ** Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition drawings on show Pencil sketches depict the moment the explorer and his team discovered Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen had beaten them to the South Pole ** Hidden Goya portrait discovered A hidden portrait by Goya has been discovered under one of the artist's paintings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam ___________________________________________________________________ **** 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. Group Reservations. Interactive Map with the world's top festivals and events. 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Provider is a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** Days of waves and hedonism Surf City, an exhibition at the Museum of Sydney, opened by former world champion Layne Beachley, is the first show to focus on one city's contribution to the growing culture, as seen through the eyes of the wide variety of surfers at the time ** Call for Dutch Royal House to ditch allegedly offensive painting "Homage of the Colonies" decorates one side of Queen Beatrix's iconic gold-trimmed carriage, and depicts half-naked, brown-skinned women and men in servile poses bearing gifts to an enthroned white woman ** World's largest fish gets its own museum Five whale sharks have found a new home at a purpose-built nautilus-shaped museum in Yantai City ** Google Earth reveals Nazca-like structures in Arabia Kennedy says that many countries in the Middle East will not provide aerial photographs or permit flights for archaeological research, so Google Earth provides the only way to analyse the region _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 254? New LinkedIn Platform - Join the Global Museum Social Network - Meet & Make Friends, Share Photos but let us not forget those fallen appliances, tools and gadgets ** Placing Islamic Art on a New Pedestal Treasures, in this case more than a thousand pieces from the museum's extensive holdings of Islamic art, have been slowly populating newly constructed rooms, taking their places in gleaming new vitrines with Egyptian marble underfoot and mosque lamps overhead, amid burbling fountains and peaked arches framing views of 13 centuries of art history _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a FAN - Join 1,352 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574 [6]? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Aboriginal Australians: The First Explorers By sequencing the genome, the researchers demonstrate that Aboriginal Australians descend directly from an early human expansion into Asia that took place some 70,000 years ago, at least 24,000 years before the population movements that gave rise to present-day Europeans and Asians ** When a Nude is a Dude Their decision to sell off eight paintings in order to purchase a piece by the Impressionist master Gustave Caillebotte is a interesting look at how sexuality, art, and commerce coalesce in the curation of high-end collections ** Largest pinball museum in U.S. to open Decades after he slept under a pinball machine wedged into his cramped apartment, David Silverman will open the America's largest museum dedicated to speeding silver balls and fast-motion flippers ** This Week's Horoscopes Libra - The stars are happy to announce that starting next week you will pay your zodiac bill on time, if you know what's good for you ______________________________________________________________________________ @@@@ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. 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