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 ** An open letter to George Lucas: What's in the museum? I am very troubled that you have not explained why you chose Chicago, why you approved this site, whether you would have accepted any other, why your museum is worthy of such ground, and what you're going to do to ensure that when you're gone, your museum not only thrives but remains as state-of-the-art as you promise it will be when it opens ** Ksours and Kasbahs A historic complex of earthen buildings in Morocco is the subject of a collaborative conservation project ** "Truly unexpected" pink granite boulder of ancient Scottish Picts A huge pink granite boulder from the Picts who lived in the north and east of Scotland hundreds of years ago, incised with a large eagle and a mirror case in a "truly unexpected” set of symbols, has been revealed to the public more than a year after it broke a farmer’s plough near Craigellachie _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 3,036? 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After Six Years, Harvard Art Museums’ Renzo Piano Home Is Nearly Ready The long-awaited project will bring together under one roof for the first time the Fogg’s European and American artworks, the Busch-Reisinger Museum with art from Central and Northern Europe, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum’s holdings of antiquities and Asian art ** Cultural relations between Sydney and Melbourne soured by row over milk crate art Amid the predictable cries of "that’s not art!” and "what a waste of taxpayer money!” came one less-predictable response: from a Melbourne-based artist ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 116K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 3,934 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** The Louvre forecasts 30% increase in attendance If the French government has its way, the Louvre, Musée d'Orsay and Château de Versailles could soon be open seven days a week, bringing them in line with museums in London, New York and Madrid ** Schoolboys find Britain's earliest gold and 4,300-year-old grave of high-status mystery maker An ancient hair tress has been found near the grave of an early gold seeker and metal worker at a farm in Northumberland ** Outcry as ancient Greek statues appear in tulle and feathers The veteran photographer felt that the imposing nudes, which date from the 5th century BC, could be improved by dressing them in a white tulle veil, fuchsia boa and leopard-print underwear ** In Darwin’s Footsteps Charles Darwin spent only five weeks on the Galapagos Islands, and at first, the British biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant didn’t plan to stay very long either - a few years at most ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 1,821 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Denmark's cage-free zoo will put humans in captivity It is like a live Truman Show for animals, a 300-acre stage set wilderness in which the roaming beasts should never even know you are there, carefully concealed behind the scenes ** Clock Curator Keeps Museum's Collection on Time For 40 years a 78-year-old associate curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been winding the institution's European clocks ** Tortoises-with-iPads exhibit criticized An artist's plan to attach iPads showing movies about ghost towns to the back of tortoises at the Aspen art museum is drawing fire from animal-rights activists. ** Facts and fiction surrounding the most famous road in America U.S. Highway Route 66 is both a physical road and a romantic notion, comprising experiences and ideas that are real and imagined, historic and contemporary ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1,059 Pins, 254 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Museum of Political Corruption Proposed The Museum Store will offer "Kickbacks” and "Quid Pro Quos” for sale, as well as figurines of savvy, greedy elected officials, bearing the inscription: "I bought this legislator in Albany, NY.” ** Museum of Gasoline Pumps a homage to a father When you set foot into this wonderland celebrating America's love affair (addiction?) with burning fossil fuels, you will find yourself immersed in a man's life work ** WW1 Centenary: only a few weeks left to access 100 articles 100 free articles are available from the Maney Publishing online archive in July and August to commemorate 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War ** Archaeology museum rediscovers 6,500-year-old skeleton in storage Museum officials said the complete human skeleton had been stored in a coffin-like box but with no trace of identifying documentation ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles – 48,897 in Circles. 2,013 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** The most interesting place to read about museums is Yelp Yelp reviews of museums can be insightful, colourful, or strange (or, in Yelp's own nomenclature, funny, useful, or cool) ** Baltic Amber across Time and Borders The conference “Baltic Amber across Time and Borders” will be held 19-20 September at the University of Latvia in Riga, Latvia. ** Intangible Cultural Heritage in the UK: promoting and safeguarding our diverse living cultures An ICOMOS-UK Conference - Saturday 20 September 2014 ** The Social Value of Museums: Inspiring Change 2015 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo ** This Week's Horoscopes Leo - The stars don't believe they actually have to say this, but just because you find a recipe that makes pancakes for 1,500 people doesn't mean you actually have to make that many. 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