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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: ** American Tourist Snaps Finger Off 600-Year-Old Statue in Florence Museum No, the tourist wasn't drunk, being belligerent, in a brawl, dangling from the statue wearing nothing but his skivvies or whatever other wild imagery your brain might conjure ** Art Everywhere turns UK's streets into world's largest art show From a Bacon on a bus to a Hockney on your hackney, the world's largest art show has been launched - not at an esteemed gallery, but at a shopping centre ** Did Vincent van Gogh commit suicide or was Dutch painter killed by an acquaintance? The mystery surrounding Vincent van Gogh's death has taken another twist after two experts disputed a recent biography that suggested he did not commit suicide but instead was killed by an acquaintance ________________________________________________________________ **** 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. Group Reservations. Interactive Map with the world's top festivals and events. CLICK HERE http://www.museum-traveller.com - Airfares, Car Rentals, Accommodation and Destination Guides Provider is EXPEDIA, a member of I.A.T.A. ________________________________________________________________ ** Ancient ship to set sail again to Egypt A ship that served both for trade and as a warship in the ancient city of Phaselis in the southern province of Antalya will be reconstructed by Akdeniz University's Mediterranean Research Institute ** The Memories Museum of Dr. Mohammed al-Khatib In the midst of one of the many cramped and crowded alleyways of Beirut's Shatila refugee camp, close to qa'at al-sha'ab, or the people's hall, is a brown metal door leading to a ground-floor apartment ** Museum's 'Orgasms Can Kill Pain' Ad Spices Up Exhibit The Science World museum in Vancouver got hot and heavy in an ad for its "Science of Sexuality" show, which explores sexual development while aiming to put sexuality in a positive light ** 500-Year-Old Easter Egg Discovered In Ukraine According to the country's national wire service Interfax-Ukraine, the egg was discovered in part of a drainage system in the rich historical and cultural city of Lviv, located around 30 miles from the Poland-Ukraine border _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 2,229? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Discover secrets of Bigfoot, Loch Ness in the only cryptozoology museum in the world When Coleman moved his International Cryptozoology Museum - a collection of footprint casts, full-scale models, toys, art, photos and taxidermy, mostly of animals not yet proven to exist, from his home to the downtown four years ago, he wasn't sure what to expect for business ** Huge National Art Museum of China still not approved With Hong Kong's M+ Museum due to open in 2017, it was widely believed the city would enter an intense rivalry with Beijing as a new centre for art and culture in Asia ** Grassroots Bomber Command Museum of Canada Continues to Grow Starting with one derelict plane, an Avro Lancaster bomber that the town got together to restore, the popularity of the plane and the subsequent additions to the museum's collection have brought the museum to bursting at the seams yet again ** Museum Tortures With Screechy Stylus, LED Frame It's hard enough to tune out the pervasive chatter, noisy restaurants and toddler tantrums at the congested Museum of Modern Art - New York City's Mall of America - while you are looking at Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie" _________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 102,137 Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 3,505 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Warhol Museum Installs Webcam at Andy Warhol's Grave Shortly after dawn Tuesday, the live video showed a star-shaped silver balloon and two smaller black-and-white balloons swaying gently in the breeze, next to a headstone surrounded by flowers and some decorative grasses ** Bus over the edge - The coolest 'museum' in the world, bar none Hardly the kind of institution that would normally be called a museum, City Museum presents visitors with a cacophony of exciting choices: tunnels to climb through, 10-story slides to shoot down, a chance to sit on the world's largest pencil, and so much more ** 9 Other Times Museum Patrons Mangled Works of Art Museums occasionally rake in some extra cash by hosting private events, and in 2006 the Milwaukee Art Museum opened its doors for a Clear Channel shindig that must have sounded reasonable at the time ** Historic Garment District Museum displays vintage fashions In its so-called glory days after World War I, the district, located between Sixth and 11th and Washington and Wyandotte, bustled as one of the country's biggest manufacturing and distribution centers for women's, men's and children's clothing _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Fan - Join 2,253 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Korean Record Label Opening a K-Pop Museum in Koreatown SM Entertainment, the Korean juggernaut record label/talent agency/pop-group-creator/etc., is opening a Korean pop culture museum in Koreatown ** Selling Detroit museum art to pay civic debt is dumb In a bizarre letter to the New York Times this week, retired museum director Frank Robinson mischaracterized the problem being faced by the Detroit Institute of Arts in the Michigan city's ongoing bankruptcy drama ** Decoding Mona Lisa: Have archaeologists found the face behind the smile? Last year, Mr. Vinceti's team dug up crypts under the basement of the convent believed to be Lisa del Giocondo's final resting place ** This Week's Horoscopes Taurus - Remember: The sum of the pleasure of any two sides of a right-angle love triangle is equal to the underlying jealousy of the hypotenuse ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. 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