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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: ** Britain's favourite Picasso heads to Qatar after failure to raise £50m Child with a Dove, which has been in the UK since 1924, was described by the Arts Council as the "probably the most famous work by Picasso in a UK collection" ** Two million-year-old creature had mix of ape, human traits A 2 million-year-old ancestor of man had a mixture of ape and human-like features that allowed it to hike vast distances on two legs with as much ease as it could scurry up trees, according to research ** Getting stuffed: a tale of love and taxidermy Does there come a day in every man's life when he looks around and says to himself: I've got to weed out some of these owls? ________________________________________________________________ **** 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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CLICK HERE http://www.museum-traveller.com - Airfares, Car Rentals, Accommodation and Destination Guides Provider is EXPEDIA, a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** Lauder donates billion-dollar collection to Met Lauder, the emeritus chairman of Estée Lauder, a major art collector and philanthropist, has pledged to give the New York museum his collection of 78 works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger, believed to be one of the foremost collections of Cubism in the world ** Museum holds circus celebration The Ella Sharp Museum was transformed into a circus complete with jugglers, live music, food and beverage at the opening reception and unveiling of their newest exhibit called "Under the Big Top" ** The Hangman's Tale: Archaeologists Dig into History of Execution In Germany, growing interest in "execution site archaeology" is throwing much light on how the executed died and the executors lived ** First tests of old patent medicine remedies from a museum collection What was in Dr. F. G. Johnson's French Female Pills and other scientifically untested elixirs, nostrums and other quack cures that were the only medicines available to sick people during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries? _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 1,901? 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 2000 members. Join Today At http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Museum reveals new addition to Titanic exhibit The original 1912 report of an influential British investigation into Titanic's sinking was used by the Cunard Line to upgrade the safety standards for its vast fleet in the wake of the Titanic tragedy ** Medieval knight's tomb found beneath parking lot Archaeologists who were on hand during the construction of a new building in Edinburgh uncovered a carved sandstone slab, decorated with markers of nobility - a Calvary cross and a sword ** Museum unveils disputed painting not seen in decades But if it were deemed a real Van Gogh, not a pretender to the brush, the painting would suddenly enjoy art world interest, public fascination and wildly increased value - not to mention soaring insurance premiums ** Motion Picture Academy unveils ambitious plans for film museum The architectural centerpiece of the 290,000-square-foot complex, just west of the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, would be a giant glass-enclosed dome, which Piano refers to as the "sphere" and the "soap bubble" _________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 96,919 Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 3,274 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Museums and Happiness Measuring what matters is one of the six Principles of the Happy Museum Project; counting visitor numbers tells us nothing about the quality of their experience or our contribution to their wellbeing ** Mysterious sundial may be secret to Viking navigation A mysterious Viking sundial found in Greenland may have helped the ancient mariners sail at the same north-south latitude across the Atlantic, new research suggests ** Newark Museum lays off 14 employees in restructuring that will mean fewer exhibitions Since the recession hit rock bottom, we've done annual surveys of the field and they show that staff cuts and cutting back on programs have been the rule rather than the exception ** Hope for Iraq's heritage A decade ago in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, a curator sat holding his head in despair amid shattered exhibit cases and broken statues _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Fan - Join 2,130 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Paris' Louvre museum closed after staff walk off job to protest pickpocket problem The Louvre was closed after its workers walked off their jobs to protest what is said to be a rising problem of pickpockets haunting the famed Paris museum's vast galleries ** New Palestinian museum 'safe place for unsafe ideas' The original idea came from the 50th anniversary of what Palestinians call "Nakba" - the Disaster - the phrase that refers to the birth of the modern state of Israel in 1948, and the displacement of some 700,000 Palestinians ** This Week's Horoscopes Scorpio - You've managed to overcome a lot in order to become a senior marketing manager, primarily your hopes, aspirations, and dreams ** 'Entire streets' of Roman London uncovered in the City About 10,000 finds have been discovered, including writing tablets and good luck charms and the area has been dubbed the "Pompeii of the north" due to the perfect preservation of organic artefacts such as leather and wood ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 670 Pins, 155 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Myanmar to open museum in home of late UN Secretary-General U Thant A home that once belonged to a former United Nations secretary-general, the late U Thant, is being restored and will open as a new museum in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city ** 9/11 Museum Exhibits Will Really Talk to Visitors When the 9/11 Memorial Museum opens next year, its first exhibit will be spare and elegant, enveloping visitors with the personal accounts of people from around the world describing where they were, and what they felt, on Sept. 11, 2001 ** Hear From a Real Space Station Astronaut at the San Diego Air & Space Museum's Tenth Annual Space Day ______________________________________________________________________________ Add Us To Your Google+ Circle - 350 in Circles, 231 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Museum Without Walls Call For Speakers - Academic workshop for College and University Museums ** Sustaining the Impact of UK Science and Heritage Research Queen Elizabeth 2 Conference Centre, London. 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