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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: ** Selling memories: the line between museum education and consumerism Convincing a parent to visit a museum sounds like a better idea than pushing them to buy unhealthy food, but still: we are talking about using the power of advertising and consumerism in favor of a museum ** World's oldest pills treated sore eyes In ancient Rome physicians treated sore eyes with the same active ingredients as today, so suggests an analysis of pills found on the Relitto del Pozzino, a cargo ship wrecked off the Italian coast in around 140 BC. ** Astronomical plans for UK museums and galleries It seems, looking at the National Maritime Museum's plans for the latest round of Stargazing, that curators in Greenwich might have pulled out all the stops, lest anyone thought the meridian lines beneath their foundations might be eclipsed for one night ________________________________________________________________ **** HAPPY TRAVELERS - BEST FARES & DEALS FOR 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. 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The Mayan blowout was just the latest in many centuries of bad calls by prognosticators who have the audacity to think they can divine the End of Everything ** Furuyama Moromasa's 44-foot Tokyo scroll rediscovered at Edinburgh Central Library Japanese painter Furuyama Moromasa, who has a pair of works in the British Museum collection, is thought to have created the rare scroll during the early 1700s, showing shops, theatres and citizens of Tokyo - known then as Edo - going about everyday domestic life _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 1,531? 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 1600 members. Join Today At http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** What Constitutes Good and Bad Web Design? As I began by grumbling about museum sites, it seems only fair to end by praising a promising one: the new Web site of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which is to reopen in April after 10 years of renovation ** Titanic Museum Attraction brings artworks made of ice Thousands of spectators gather to watch this free outdoor event as professional and amateur ice carvers race the clock to create stunning, unique works of art made completely from ice ** Archaeologists unearth enormous 2,000-year-old auditorium In addition to the orchestra pit - in which choruses would have performed - the ruins also include a narrow stage, featuring holes that are thought to have allowed flooding for aquatic displays ** Police 'not very interested' in stolen $1 million Matisse painting found in Essex We have contacted the authorities with information about the artwork's recovery but unfortunately the police don't seem to be very interested in the criminal aspect because of the time that has passed _________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 92,202 Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 3,036 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Museumsinsel - Museum Island: Berlin's Treasure Island The structures on Museum Island were believed to be the first specifically designed to house, originally at least, the private collections of the Prussian royal family which is the second of its unique characteristics ** Digital Chinese caves preserve history The technology enabled the Alive team to augment reality, enhancing colour and magnifying detail; they are also experimenting with animation: the scarves of Bodhisattvas (enlightened beings) riding elephants flutter in a virtual breeze while dancers spring from the wall and perform movements choreographed by the Beijing Dance Academy ** Vienna museum may hold art stolen by Nazis A screening program that started in 2007, years after other Austrian museums began combing their collections for works taken from their rightful owners, has determined that about 500 works of art and 900 books are of dubious origin, Der Standard said ** Mournful, Angry Views of Ireland's Famine The museum, a project of Quinnipiac University, presents a selection of these prints and periodicals, as well as letters and other documents, responding in real time to Ireland's starving populace and deserted villages _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Fan - Join 1,987 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Have you digitally interfaced with your art museum lately? So far, it seems that digital technologies are primarily being applied to nuts-and-bolts issues of institutional survival, maintenance and growth ** Descend into the Kansas Underground Salt Museum Perky Patty informed us that the ground we stood on, 650 feet below the surface of the Earth, was covered 275 million years ago by the Permian Sea ** French Neo-Nazi Museum Guard Adds Art Theft To A Long Criminal Resume Emmanuel Rist, a former guard at the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar in Alsace, was convicted of stealing 17 artworks from the museum, including pieces by Alsatian illustrator Hansi, Italian painter Alberto Magnelli, and French painter Roger Bissière ** Ornithologist Forced To Participate In History Channel's 'What If Humans Suddenly Became Birds?' Program At press time, Lewis was looking into a camera and stating that in order for humans to fly, each of their arms would have to be the size of a Harley-Davidson (satire) ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 563 Pins, 125 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Really ugly bugs at Houston museum It's hard to love a vinegarroon, and whipping up warm feelings for hissing cockroaches isn't much easier ** Andy Warhol Museum uses strong Twitter following to broaden art The museum also has a "screen test" interactive exhibit on the sixth floor that allows visitors to create their own screen tests, manipulated in slow motion - the way the Pittsburgh-born pop artist used to do in his New York Studio - that are then pushed to the museum's website and sent to the user ** Pinned Things iDigBio in Collaboration with The Field Museum Announces Dried Insect Digitization Workshop for April 24-25, 2013 ______________________________________________________________________________ Add Us To Your Google+ Circle - 301 in circles so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ______________________________________________________________________________ ** SOIMA 2013: Safeguarding sound and image collections Nairobi (Kenya) with study visits to partner institutions ** Inauguration Day Events The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian invites the public to celebrate Inauguration Day with a special exhibition, a two-day festival 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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