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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: ** Visitor numbers on the rise at Australian museums The country's natural history and science museums have shaken their traditional image as drab institutions overrun with specimen drawers and a few taxidermied animals in dusty glass boxes ** Under the Spell of Gilded Age Magicians Thurston's black waistcoat and top hat and his female assistants' costumes trimmed in rhinestones are hung beside his "spirit cabinet," a walk-in armoire painted teal and crimson, with a secret back trapdoor ** Easter Island statues have full bodies and contain ancient petroglyphs In October 2011, the Easter Island Statue Project began its Season V expedition, revealing remarkable photos showing that the bodies of the statues go far deeper underground than just about anyone had imagined. ___________________________________________________________________ **** 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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Scientists have used DNA analysis to gain important new insights into how human beings repopulated Europe as the Ice Age relaxed its grip ** 26-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe sculpture lands in Palm Springs The sculpture by Seward Johnson, the 80-year-old artist and Johnson & Johnson heir who's known for casting famous images into giant sculptures, re-creates the scene from the 1955 film "The Seven Year Itch" in which a drafty New York subway grate blows the sex symbol's skirt well above her knees _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 803? Now on the 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 900 members. Join Today At http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Ontario Military Museum to Receive Decommissioned Oberon Submarine The museum will fund the physical transfer of the 90-metre Ojibwa from Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, to a site at Port Burwell, Ontario ** Museum director arrested for smuggling stolen icon A museum director was arrested at an airport for allegedly trying to smuggle a 17th-century icon valued at $1 million stolen from Russia in 1994 ** British naval heritage at risk of being sold off Archaeologists are up in arms over the Ministry of Defence's (MoD's) decision to transfer the management of an 18th-century British warship to a newly formed charitable body, the Maritime Heritage Foundation, which has entered into an agreement with the US ocean salvage company, Odyssey Marine Exploration, to raise the wreck ** What price street art? (Quite high, actually) One of the obvious problems with street art is that while it might try to highlight social ills, it can end up selling for many thousands of pounds to the elite that it supposedly rails against _________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 75,571 Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 2,689 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** New Delay in Opening African Art Museum For the fifth time in three years, the Museum for African Art has been forced to delay opening its new home at 110th Street and Fifth Avenue, in East Harlem, as it continues to work to raise the money to finish the project ** Ecuador to US Museum: Stop Hiding Our Treasures More than 3,000 Ecuadorian archaeological finds, including the most impressive works of the Manteņo civilization, are kept in the storerooms of a Washington museum ** Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse Recorded in Octopus DNA These retiring creatures offer a rare opportunity to help understand how this extreme part of the Earth has changed in recent geologic times - and what climate change might bring there in the near future ** Bronze Age boat replica sinks A team of craftsmen and archaeologists had been working for several months to build the replica boat, using the same tools and the same methods as their ancestors would have used when the original boat was built more than 3,500 years earlier _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Fan - Join 1,820 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** A Museum Turns Wind Into Gold In addition to a sculpture garden featuring artists of the Pacific Northwest, Maryhill's grounds - all 5,300 acres of them - now include 15 wind turbines, part of a vast installation that sends 500 megawatts of electricity to Los Angeles and about $250,000 each year into the operating revenues of one of the most isolated art museums in the contiguous United States ** Unprecedented flooding inundates Virginia Living Museum Even the beavers had to be moved to safety when flash flooding inundated the Virginia Living Museum with almost five feet of water on Tuesday evening ** Barnes Foundation museum a bland shadow of once great self The result is one part Colonial Williamsburg, where authentic and ersatz mingle; one part Lehman Wing, where an excellent New York collector's expensive period taste is enshrined in a Metropolitan Museum of Art replica of his apartment; and one part Disneyland's Main Street U.S.A., where a spiffed-up version of what time has torn asunder offers commercial entertainment ** Canada museum kills masturbation video after outcry Canada's federal science museum has removed an animated video showing youth masturbating from an upcoming sex exhibit following a public outcry ______________________________________________________________________________ @@@@ The Global Museum Daily Tweet. 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