Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online compendium, read weekly by 8,000 readers in more than 201 countries. *** " I love Global Museum! I pull stories for my weekly email to our docents and they enjoy them too. My colleagues even asked to know where I found them because the stories are so interesting. " - User Feedback *** Four Pages of the Latest Museum News & Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org ** Egyptian statue Sekhemka sells for nearly £16m Arts Council England had warned the council its museum could lose its accreditation status as it auctioned the Sekhemka limestone statue to help fund a £14m extension to Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. ** What's the Point of Having a Corporate Museum? Although corporate museum operations vary across industries, the key for successful corporate museum is that it satisfies both the visitors' desire to discover and the business target of brand building without being annoyingly obvious. ** Collecting Books That Are Just Covers A preservation librarian at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has named such antiques “blooks” and has found them made from granite, coal, slate, metal, plastic, ceramic, wood, wax, plaster and soap, among other materials. _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 2,979? 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 ________________________________________________________________________ ** New York sex museum draws oohs and aahs and moans Flying across the Atlantic with a G-spot sculpture, Bompas said the woman next to him saw crates and boxes, and jumped to the conclusion he was a wine merchant. ** Artifacts Investigated By FBI Go On Display At Museum His hobby made him the subject of an FBI investigation in which the FBI took various ceremonial and burial items Miller obtained prior to World War II ** Does Conspiracy Account for the Absence of Jesus' Jewish Identify in Renaissance Art? Portraying Jesus as Christian with no Jewish connection reflects the outcast status of Jews throughout Europe during Medieval and Renaissance times. ** Nearly 3,500 Years Old, an Egyptian Monument Gets a Laser Cleaning Inch by inch, as if a magic wand were being passed over the hieroglyphs, the flecked pink granite of Aswan, Egypt, has emerged from under Manhattan’s grey pall. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 115K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 3,896 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** A History of the World Cup in 24 Objects The National Football Museum exists to explain how and why football has become ‘the people’s game’, a key part of England’s heritage and way of life. ** Giant rubber stamp gets a facelift A gigantic rubber stamp by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen is receiving some much needed care. ** The £5m Renaissance treasures on a golf club gatepost When two weather-beaten statues were stolen from the gateposts of Wellingborough Golf Club, neither the owners nor the local police considered it much of a crime ** Learning Together Conference Museums and Cities of Culture for All. 11-12 September 2014, The Hunt Museum ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 1,797 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Maritime museum finds time for celebration of Harrison's sea clocks New exhibition marks 300th anniversary of the passing of the Longitude Act, and the clock making genius who made it happen. ** Museum’s Chinese Urn Latest Victim of Convicted Killer Seemingly unprovoked, he turned his aggression toward a small potted plant, and then on the large and riotously colourful Chinese urn. ** Yorkshire Sculpture Park named UK museum of the year The museum near Wakefield, spread out among 200 hectares (500 acres) of parkland, had modest beginnings. ** The Imperial War Museum: as much a relic as its Spitfires and doodlebugs? Imperial, war and museum – the three worst words in the English language. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1,015 Pins, 241 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Dam construction turns up fossil treasure trove Giant teeth from a 40-foot-long shark and portions of what could turn out to be an entire whale skeleton are among more than 500 fossils that have been unearthed at a dam construction site in Silicon Valley ** Indigeneity and the Museum - a 6-day immersion workshop. October 20 to October 25, 2014; Concordia University campus, Montréal ** University museum opens exhibit on passenger pigeon extinction September 1 will mark the hundredth anniversary of the death of the passenger pigeon Martha, the last known living member of her species. ** The robot in the mirror The terrifying selfies of Google’s special museum Street View camera as it accidentally snaps itself. ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles – 37,925 in Circles. 1,806 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** The Search for Underwater Sites from the French and Indian War This exhibit reviews the underwater archaeology studies of Lake George's "Sunken Fleet of 1758". ** X-Ray Scans Tell the Tale of Baby Mammoths' Life and Death Detailed X-ray scans of two baby woolly mammoths unearthed in the Siberian Arctic reveal how they lived more than 40,000 years ago — and how they probably died. ** Perot Museum sues mummy exhibitor over alleged promise to host show The lawsuit is a sort of pre-emptive strike, responding to a threat by the exhibitor last month to sue the museum ** This Week's Horoscopes Libra - You will finally meet the partner of your dreams, which sounds like good news until you remember some of your dreams. 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