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: ** Remarkable Women in Science at Newcastle's Discovery Museum Marie Stopes, the palaeobotanist who advocated birth control, and Dorothy Hodgkin, who won the 1964 Nobel Prize for her work in mapping penicillin and insulin, are two of the inspirational stars of a line-up of National Portrait Gallery works in this show ** No Room For Archaeology Archives in 27% of Museums A survey by the Society of Museum Archaeologists (SMA) has exposed a lack of storage space and curatorial expertise in English museums dealing with archaeological archives ** Is ready-made art more powerful than painting? With so many artists picking up brushes or at least a pencil, is the idea that real things can be appropriated as art bankrupt? 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Join Today At http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Bunnies implicated in the demise of Neanderthals The debate over what Neanderthals ate, and how it may have led to their demise, has turned to rabbits; which, it is now claimed, Neanderthals did not feast on ** Durham archaeology museum on the move A new exhibition, titled Out of the Attic, will explore the building's history, include information about the planned move and ask people's views on what they would like to see in the new archaeology gallery in Palace Green Library ** British museum executive to share retail know-how in Taiwan The head of retail at the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London - the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design - will visit Taiwan soon to share the museum's experience in developing and marketing exhibition merchandiser ** LEGO Goes Big The Bjarke Ingels Group is designing the LEGO Brand House, a public LEGO museum and experience center, in Billund, Denmark, the company's historic home and site of its current headquarters _________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 94,733 Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 3,128 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Private museum claims to have world's largest croc skull A tiny private museum of antiques and wildlife trophies in Rajkanika area of Odisha's Kendrapara district claims to house the world's largest crocodile skull ** Pearson Air Museum reopening draws ire of some Vancouver residents As residents trickled in for the museum's free reopening, reactions were mixed, with far more passionate responses coming from attendees who supported the trust ** Vienna Jewish Museum Chided Over Nazi Loot When the Jewish Museum of Vienna was founded in 1988 it was entrusted with safeguarding the art, books and Judaica that survived the Nazis' attempt to exterminate their owners ** The "innocent" museum The history of museums is a history of theft, appropriation, bribery and manipulation; it is also a history of beauty, elegance, scholarship and public education _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Fan - Join 2,064 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** New augmented reality app for Terracotta Warriors exhibit What this means is that throughout the three exhibition rooms, there are six placards that when scanned using the app, will display 3D content and videos onto "real space" ** British Museum to showcase ancient relics from Pompeii A bronze tap from a garden fountain, a street sign settling a boundary dispute, a clothes chest, a loaf of bread: some of the objects to survive the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 heading to the British Museum were so recently excavated that dark volcanic clay still clings to them ** This Weeks Horoscopes Leo - The stars foretell that food will materialize in your refrigerator the fourth time you open it ** Bones found in Turkey are probably those of Cleopatra's half-sister The shape of the building, an imperial grave monument, resembles the famous Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. 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