Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online 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 WEBSITE at this address http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the news links) in this week's edition include: ** Space-flown Buzz Lightyear toy lands in the Smithsonian A 12-inch Buzz Lightyear toy that spent 15 months orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station has been donated to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ** Rare Insight Into 19th Century City Life in Britain A curious photo archivist from Newcastle stumbled on an amazing treasure trove of street photographs which capture the city's Victorian residents going about their daily lives ** Turkey asks U.S. museums for return of antiquities The government of Turkey is asking American museums to return dozens of artifacts that were allegedly looted from the country's archaeological sites, opening a new front in the search for antiquities smuggled out of their original countries through an illicit trade ___________________________________________________________________ **** HAPPY TRAVELERS - BEST FARES & DEALS FOR 2012! **** MUSEUM-TRAVELLER.COM - Global Museum's Travel Service For Business and Pleasure - the leading provider of online museum travel, established in 1998. 40,000 hotels in over 8,000 cities worldwide. 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Provider is EXPEDIA, a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** Fossil foot poses human origins puzzle Swinging from trees like an ape but sometimes ambling on the ground, the owner of a foot fossil some 3.4 million years old poses a puzzle for paleontologists over humanity's history of walking ** Museum exhibit tries to dissect the brain A new London exhibition explores that fascination, displaying everything from mummified Egyptian cerebral matter to slices of Albert Einstein's brain in the story of our quest to understand what's inside our skulls ** The Brightest of Creatures A thoroughly engrossing exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History - "Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence" - teaches us quite a bit about the phenomenon ** Museum in Buraidah showcases Kingdom's contemporary history Exhibits in the Saudi museum include copper utensils, coffee pots, kitchen wares, hunting weapons, measuring devices, animal hide products, tools for shoe making, agricultural tools and mills used in the region in the past centuries _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 679? 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Join Today At http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Titanic museum creating buzz in Belfast Gleaming and just as high as the great ocean liner, that was built in these docks, the Titanic Belfast museum cost £100 million and as I walked around it, it was clear to see why it cost so much ** Museum spotlights prehistoric monster snake A prehistoric monster snake the length of a school bus that likely fed on supersize turtles and crocodiles has made its way to the Smithsonian Institution for an exhibit ** Photo albums related to Nazi art theft unveiled Among the items U.S. soldiers seized from Adolf Hitler's Bavarian Alps hideaway in the closing days of World War II were albums meticulously documenting an often forgotten Nazi crime - the massive pillaging of artwork and other cultural items as German troops marched through Europe ** Sydney Museum Offers Nude Tours An au naturel Ringholt will lead the buff brigade on an after-hours tour of his work, which deals with themes of fear and embarrassment, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia _________________________________________________________________________________ TWEET TWEET - Follow Global Museum On Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/globalmuseum 70,015 Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 2,587 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Videogames Politely Invade Smithsonian Art Museum The most impressive moment of the party was immediately following the curator's: a playable version of the Xbox 360 game Geometry Wars was projected on a massive scale across the outside walls of the museum ** Museum plays April Fool's joke on forger Mark A Landis, who has dressed as a Jesuit priest or posed as a wealthy donor driving up in a red Cadillac, apparently never took money for his forgeries and has never been arrested ** 40 hot chicks celebrate museum's birthday Hancock Shaker Village has loaned Berkshire Museum 40 chicken eggs, resting in an incubator, that are set to hatch on Sunday, in time for the Museum's 109th anniversary celebration ** Blogs - Free China Saved More than four years after I launched efforts to save the Free China, and nearly 57 years after its historic trans-Pacific crossing from Taiwan to San Francisco, the junk will make its return trip to Taiwan later this spring, where it will be preserved as an museum exhibit there, thanks to the Taiwan government _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Fan - Join 1,740 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Legal battle over Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged gravestone A quirky auto museum in northern Illinois has somehow become the home of what's believed to be Lee Harvey Oswald's original tombstone ** Historian uncovers Australia's censored books It's a prude's nightmare but a book collector's dream: Nicole Moore found 793 boxes filled to the brim with books Australians were never allowed to read ** Nelson Mandela's life in a digital museum, courtesy of Google As you move through the different sections, you'll find the earliest known photograph of Mandela, scans of the desk calendars where he scribbled notes during his 27 years in prison, and handwritten notes he sent his daughters - including one written shortly after the arrest of their mother ** Merseyside museums at risk of major cuts Cuts in central government funding may force the organisation responsible for the new Museum of Liverpool, the Walker Art Gallery and several other museums and galleries on Merseyside, to reduce staff numbers by up to one in four, close some display galleries and introduce charges for special exhibitions ______________________________________________________________________________ @@@@ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. Global Museum's DAILY NEWSPAPER powered by your museum tweets - Enjoy! http://paper.li/globalmuseum/1288898965 ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Tests show da Vinci "Lady" ruined by age, beetles Bark beetles and old age have damaged Leonardo da Vinci's 15th-century painting "Lady with an Ermine," but the masterpiece is still holding up well, according to a conservationist at the Polish museum where it is displayed ** Titanic centennial: Museums, events, dinners There are replica ships in Tennessee and Missouri, graveyard tours in New York and Nova Scotia, traveling exhibits from Las Vegas to Atlanta, and two brand new museums in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Southampton, England ** Museums and Written Communication. Tradition and Innovation ICOM/CECA-2012 in Yerevan, Armenia. CfP ** Mercator. Exploring new horizons: Exhibition in the Museum Plantin-Moretus/Prentenkabinet focusses on the relationship between travelling behaviour of Europeans in the 16th century and the development of cartography ______________________________________________________________________________ Add Us To Your Google+ Circle - 165 in circles so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Art And Mathematics: from the aestherics of Art to the logic of Mathematics The Museum Herakleidon presents an exhibition of works by M.C. Escher and V. 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