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: ** Has anyone seen these works of art? Investor's desperate appeal after $10m raid at his home Thieves plundered the Santa Monica home of the art-obsessed bond-fund manager, swiping possessions worth over $10m, including 13 works from his art collection, luxury watches and 40 bottles of fine wine; they even fled the scene in his Porsche Carrera 4S sports car ** Diamond Jubilee portrait captures her majesty When one is painting a portrait of the Queen, one is first instructed by palace courtiers on how to direct the royal subject ** What will become of the Olympic works of art? The fate of two enormous works created by Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn for the recent London Olympics and Paralympics Games is uncertain, with key trade figures questioning whether the large-scale pieces will ever find a home ___________________________________________________________________ **** HAPPY TRAVELERS - BEST FARES & DEALS FOR 2012 & 2013! **** 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. Group Reservations.Interactive Map with the world's top festivals and events. CLICK HERE http://www.museum-traveller.com - Use IE browser - Airfares, Car Rentals, Accommodation, Destination Guides, Condo's and Cruises! 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Ramac actuator and disk stack and the 1959 Telefunken RAT 700/2 analog computer will just look like a cross between an antediluvian switchboard and the control panel for a German submarine ** 405 Picassos donated to Saskatoon art gallery The donation, called the largest of its kind in the province's history, was announced Tuesday in Saskatoon and the 405 pieces are arguably the finest collection of Picasso linocuts in the world, according to the gallery's chief curator ** Building blunder prompts discovery of pharaonic stele in Cairo A large section of the souq was dug to a depth of four metres in order to construct a stone wall and during his routine shift, the souq's security guard stumbled upon an 18th dynasty religious stele within the debris _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 1,251? 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Join Today At http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Imelda Marcos shoe collection now worthless Termites, storms and government neglect have damaged some of Imelda Marcos's legendary stash of shoes, expensive gowns, and other vanity possessions, which were left to oblivion after she and her dictator husband were driven to US exile by a 1986 popular revolt ** Amsterdam museum's closing puts Van Goghs on the move to Hermitage In an undertaking that seemed tailor-made for a complicated heist film, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam began taking down its collection of masterpieces Sunday night and prepared to transfer them to the Hermitage in Amsterdam ** Einstein's brain is now interactive iPad app The National Museum of Health and Medicine under development in Chicago obtained funding to scan and digitize nearly 350 fragile and priceless slides made from slices of Einstein's brain after his death in 1955 ** 10 Of The Most Memorable Museum Scenes in Film From elaborate art heists to existential teenage crises to Russian period dramas, some of the most memorable moments in cinematic history have taken place inside the walls of art museums _________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 86,788 Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 2,871 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Paris museum erects statue of head-butting Zinedine Zidane A 16-foot statue portraying Zidane aiming his shaven head at Italian opponent Marco Materazzi's torso has been erected in front of Paris' Centre Pompidou modern art museum ** Google Launches Field Trip App For Android Google says you can discover thousands of places and experiences under the following categories: Architecture, Historic Places & Events, Lifestyle, Offers & Deals, Food Drinks & Fun, Movie Locations, Outdoor Art and Obscure Places of Interest ** Giant crocodile was 22 feet long - and ripped its prey to death A crocodile more than 22 feet long that ripped prey to death and another huge croc that sucked prey to its doom were at the top of the European marine food chain 150 million years ago, a new study finds ** Museum exhibit reveals Chinese presence in Yuba City Many Chinese men became cooks on ranches or farms, and the exhibit shows the traditional kitchen and implements one would use, some of them artifacts _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Fan - Join 1,983 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Flea market Renoir was allegedly stolen from Baltimore Museum of Art, auction canceled The discovery of the theft was made after a Washington Post reporter uncovered documents in the museum's library proving that the institution had the painting from 1937 up until at least 1949 ** Nazi-Acquired Buddha Statue Came From Space It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones' plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite that likely fell 10,000 years ago along the Siberia-Mongolia border ** Have science museums had their day? Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample interviews Ian Blatchford, director of the Science Museum in London, and asks him how the museum plans to bring the Large Hadron Collider and the ephemeral Higgs boson to life for the public in an upcoming exhibition. Podcast ** This Week's Horoscopes Taurus - After years of putting up an emotional wall, you'll realize the error of your ways this week and purchase 3 tons of brick and cement instead ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. 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For the last four decades, a portrait of a woman closely resembling the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's famed Mona Lisa has remained under lock and key in a Swiss vault ** Culture Matters 2012 The new and exciting international cultural heritage conference will be held in the historic city of Norwich on November 14th - 16th ______________________________________________________________________________ Add Us To Your Google+ Circle - 264 in circles so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Taming the Object Nightmare: An Introduction to Object Care 2012 Kansas City Area Archivists Fall Symposium ** The Next Chapter: Rare Books in Modern Times Presented by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts All this and more for you at Global Museum - See the latest museum JOBS, PINTEREST PINS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, PODCASTS, HOT JOB TIPS, great people posting their RESUMES, FORUM, Cheap and reliable WORLD TRAVEL, the GM Social Network, Museum Online Document Store, Podcasts, Museum Accredited Courses, Products & Services. http://www.globalmuseum.org First published on the Web in 1998 and going strong! ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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