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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: ** Nobody Understands the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 'Suggested' Fees Entrance to the beloved The Metropolitan Museum of Art costs a "suggested" price of $25 for adults; but nobody's quite sure what that suggestion means, or whether it's even legal ** National Library appeals for safe return of huge crocodile Davy, a life-size replica of an African specimen, had been moved to the gardens by staff at the National Library of Scotland, who wanted the fake tetrapod to draw attention to their current exhibition about legendary explorer David Livingstone ** The most extensive animation show ever mounted Visitors have the rare opportunity to see an incredible array of animation techniques in more than 100 animated film segments from across generations and cultures ________________________________________________________________ **** 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. ________________________________________________________________ ** Prehistoric avian had unique dual-purpose tail First described more than a decade ago, the latest analysis of the bird Jeholornis surprised palaeontologists by revealing a previously unrecognised second group of flight feathers at the base of its tail ** New York art exhibit celebrates centennial of iconic 1913 show A century after the controversial 1913 Armory Show in New York challenged America's perception of art, a new exhibition is celebrating the event with works from the original including masterpieces by Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia ** Mysterious symbol discovered in Walter Raleigh portrait reveals his love of Elizabeth I Experts at The National Portrait Gallery say a newly discovered sea and moon symbol hidden beneath centuries-old layers of paint on a Walter Raleigh portrait reveal his love and devotion towards Queen Elizabeth I ** Forgotten Fabergé Comes Out of the Attic The Fabergé workshops produced about 50 sculptures in semiprecious stones and gold representing peasants, servants and the occasional Gypsy singer and street sweeper _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 2,437? 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 3000 members. Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Damien Hirst's womb with a view shocks staid Gulf society Never a stranger to controversy, Damien Hirst has sparked a row among religious conservatives in the Middle East with the unveiling of his latest work in Qatar ** First Evidence of Comet Striking Earth Found in Egypt The pebble, which the team has named "Hypatia" in honor of the ancient female mathematician, astronomer and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, is also studded with diamonds, which makes sense considering its cometary origin ** Hey! Where you going with our museum? A ridiculous story on a fake news website said President Barack Obama announced he would kick in his own money to keep a Muslim museum open during the government shutdown ** Mummified Head May Not Belong to King Henry IV Testing old DNA is tricky, however, and too little DNA was recovered from the mummified head to entirely rule it out as Henry's _________________________________________________________________________________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 104,321 Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 3,569 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Lost Leonardo da Vinci painting found in Swiss bank vault Carbon dating showed there is a 95 per cent chance it was produced between 1460 and 1650, but further analysis is needed to ensure that certain parts of the painting were not completed by one of the artist's pupils ** New York museum ups security as gold bar sculpture goes on show Tower of Power, a 1985 sculpture now on show in the long-awaited Burden retrospective, consists of 100 kilograms of gold ingots - worth, at today's prices, about £2.6m - stacked in a small pyramid and encased in a vitrine ** Smartphone app to let world see Dornier17 German bomber fly via RAF Museum Using a specially developed Augmented Reality App, called Apparition: Dornier Do 17, a full scale, 3D vision of the aircraft can be placed in various locations around the globe ** Fright at the Museum When asked if a human needs to have died in the museum for "energies," as they call them, to be roaming the halls, Dr. Stew answered in the negative _________________________________________________________________________________________ Become a Facebook Fan - Join 2,318 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? _________________________________________________________________________________________ ** Maritime Museum takes a look at blockade running Hundreds of the sleek, fast steamers - their decks often lined with cotton bales - sailed and in and out under the dark of the moon, eluding Union warships on station to intercept them ** Museum of Clean also green The museum opened in 2011 and includes old toilets, vintage vacuums and descriptions of the consequences of poor urban hygiene: vermin-infested 18th-century cities where disease-plagued residents huddled together in dirt and squalor ** He bit off more than he could chew! The ancient skeletons are in such good condition they show that the larger, 2ft creature died of suffocation just after it bit the smaller one in half ** Museum Acquires Incredible Collection of Japanese Games If you've ever gone full Indiana Jones while staring at a huge collection of videogames - by which I mean being driven to exclaim "That belongs in a museum!" - you'll be pleased to hear that a museum is now where you can find one of the world's biggest collections of Japanese games ______________________________________________________________________________ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 851 Pins, 195 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ______________________________________________________________________________ ** French museum makes bid to recover lost paintings of first world war Almost a century ago, as the trenches of the first world war snaked ever closer, the Corot painting was crated up by German soldiers and moved by truck from Douai to a nearby town, then in the last chaotic months sent by barge and train to Brussels together with most of the greatest treasures of the Douai museum ** This Week's Horoscopes Cancer - You'll confront your problems head-on this Thursday, which is rather unfortunate, as your problems involve a mountain goat ** Archaeologists uncover a scene of horror at 'Swedish Pompeii' Swedish archaeologists have uncovered what appears to be a 5th-century murder mystery at an island fort that's being compared to Italy's Pompeii ruins ______________________________________________________________________________ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles - 482 in Circles, 752 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ______________________________________________________________________________ ** Platinum and Palladium Photographs Symposium, Workshops, and Tours ** Agents of Change - Engaging Our Communities 2013 British Columbia Museum Association Conference ** Making a SOLO Impression: Publishing and Printing Fine Art with Judith Solodkin Tuesday, October 22 from 6:00 - 7:15 pm 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, Podcasts, Museum Accredited Courses, Products & Services. http://www.globalmuseum.org ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . 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