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Thanks!" - User Feedback *** Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org ** Metropolitan Museum sells off millions worth of art It’s a fire sale at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the museum sold off 3,290 objects worth a total of $5.4 million last year, generating the highest revenue in eight years ** From Street to Trench Original manuscripts from the Bodleian Library of first drafts by Wilfred Owen are displayed beside loans of small family treasures carefully kept for a century: a cheap little gold brooch shaped like a torpedo, which was given to a sweetheart and is still in its original box; shards of shrapnel from a zeppelin raid on Bolton; a penknife, tin of cigarettes, scissors, comb and mirror, all the personal possessions of Albert Tattersall sent back to his mother after he was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme ** N.Y. restaurant's fragile Picasso fate hangs in court The non-profit preservationist group that was given ownership of the Picasso in 2005, argues that the wall is fine and removing the curtain risked ruining it and harming the restaurant's interior _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 2,806? 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Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Miniature portraits of Renaissance Britain Poor Hilliard made exquisitely tactile and complex portraits just a few inches square, using techniques that we are only now beginning to understand, and yet much to his chagrin his social status was that of a tradesman ** FBI seizes trove of cultural artifacts at 91-year-old Indiana man's home FBI agents seized thousands of artifacts Wednesday from a 91-year-old man’s private collection at his home in rural central Indiana and says it will return the items that were wrongfully in his possession ** $30 million Boeing gift funds Smithsonian air-space makeover Plans for the renovation call for moving the large Lunar Module, a test flight vehicle, into the central exhibit for the first time and showing a progression from earlier space capsules during the space race ** Stolen Gauguin found in Italian pensioner's kitchen The paintings turned up in a lost property department at a train station and were sold at auction in 1975 to a worker for Italian auto giant Fiat, who bought them for 45,000 Italian lire, or 23 euros ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 111K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 3,758 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** Carthage's Lost Warriors In 146 BC, as the Romans conquered the vast Carthaginian Empire in North Africa, thousands of people fled their homeland; science is suggesting some may have taken refuge thousands of miles away in South America ** A Colloquium to Advance the Practice of Conserving Modern Architecture The Getty Conservation Institute's full report from a colloquium of experts in the field, including video presentations and meeting notes ** The Age of Maximum Cassowary The first indication that a new, gigantic cassowary awaited discovery came from my examination of Edward P. Kelledy’s expedition log of 1845, a little-known account of an ill-fated expedition to Australia’s Cape York Peninsula ** National Geographic Channel Pulls ‘Nazi War Diggers’ Series National Geographic Channel said Monday that it would “indefinitely” pull a planned television series on unearthing Nazi war graves after days of blistering criticism from archaeologists and others who said the show handled the dead with macabre disrespect ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Fan - Join 2,477 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** A museum honours the glory days of graffiti art Now what was once considered vandalism is being presented in an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, showcasing some who, as teenagers, left their mark in the 1970s and '80s ** Museums Turn to Crowdfunding for Support The French have turned to crowdfunding, which they refer to as “participatory financing,” to help the Louvre purchase a pair of 13th-century ivory figurines and the Center for National Monuments raise Euros to restore the Panthéon dome ** Black death was not spread by rat fleas, say researchers Analysis of the bodies and of wills registered in London at the time has cast doubt on "facts" that every schoolchild has learned for decades: that the epidemic was caused by a highly contagious strain spread by the fleas on rats ** Museum of comedy hopes to put laughs on London's tourist trail What links both Ronnies' spectacles, Charlie Chaplin's cane, Tommy Cooper's handmade props and – once it has been sprayed – the stuffed North American grizzly bear from Steptoe and Son's home on Oil Drum Lane? ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 952 Pins, 223 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Hundreds of old selfies taken by mystery man Curators believe most of the pictures were taken in a Photomatic photo booth from the Great Depression to the 1960s; in the photos, he's usually wearing a tie, sometimes a fedora ** Fijian breastplates inspire contemporary artist Ema’s experience highlights the importance of museums not only having collections on display in the exhibition spaces – in which we currently have five civavonovono displayed – but also providing back-of-house access that allows for closer, more personal experiences and encounters with collections ** Bowers exhibition to examine 'lost' ancient Chinese civilization Most museum exhibitions try to give answers, but an unusual Chinese antiquities show the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana has announced as its big fall attraction will focus on 3,000-year-old artifacts in bronze, gold and jade that mainly have produced bafflement ** American Obesity Epidemic Traced To Single Heavyset ‘Mayflower’ Passenger Through an exhaustive analysis of genetic samples, as well as diary entries, ship logs, and tattered medical records from the early 17th century, a multidisciplinary research team has reportedly determined that the majority of severely overweight individuals in the United States today share key genetic markers and unhealthy eating behaviours that appear to be passed down from a 307-pound Plymouth Colony settler named Jeremiah Alden ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles - 615 in Circles, 1,215 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Relationship Between Man and Cat May Be Older Than We Think As the researchers note, conventional wisdom has long held that cats were first domesticated in ancient Egypt somewhere around 1950 B.C.E. 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