Welcome back to GLOBAL MUSEUM, your award-winning & free online compendium, read weekly since 1998 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 ** Is there a future for the traditional museum? Museums represent the last gasp of high culture in an age where showiness and novelty and thinness - even in the arts themselves - threatens to overwhelm us ** Optical trickery brings Rothko's paintings back to life The idea was to illuminate each mural with a pattern of light that would project the missing aspects of the lost colours onto the original canvases, returning them to their original hues without disturbing the paintings' textures ** Museum Audio Tours Match Your Mood Using a Mobile App Launched earlier this month, the app features a collection of guides that present visitors with pieces on display that correspond to a particular mood _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 3,193? 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 4,000 members. Join Today at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Globalmuseum-3968927 ________________________________________________________________________ ** Spared in war, Italy's 'greatest picture' saved again by benefactor An Italian Renaissance masterpiece that English novelist Aldous Huxley once described as "the greatest picture in the world" was saved from destruction in World War Two by a British artillery officer who defied orders to shell the town ** Unique 3D glimpse of the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel For the very first time Ultra HD 4K/3D cameras film inside the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel, to show the masterpieces in these collections as they have never been seen before ** At 9/11 Museum Gift Shop, the Tchotchkes Are Made In Asia In a museum and monument intended to celebrate American resilience and sacrifice, is it problematic that the I Heart N.Y. mugs are made in Thailand, the American flag scarves are stitched together in India, and the officially sanctioned FDNY and Metropolitan Transit Authority toys assembled in China? ** Putting art reproductions in their place An even better idea is to fill the London museums and galleries with reproductions, distribute the originals throughout the UK and let the "fetishistic" Londoner visit Inverness to see those original Rembrandts for a change ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 120K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,071 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** Five UK museums where you can find theatre exhibits Seizing on the popularity of 140-character to-and-fros held for a day by museum and gallery curators and supporters, this Twitter mini-festival aims to go behind the scenes ** In Turkey, the Arts Flourish, but Warily Today, cultural figures describe a climate of anxiety and self-censorship because the government's standards for what it considers offensive keep shifting ** When Mother Nature Stops Being Maternal The exhibition examines just four phenomena - earthquakes (and associated tsunamis), volcanoes, tornadoes and hurricanes ** Shock horror: why art's so obsessed with the grotesque The grotesque has staying power because our life as beings of flesh and blood has not changed, and so long as we have bodies, we can experience body horror ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 1,896 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** The end is nigh for Auckland Museum's critters Auckland Museum is disappointing some of its younger patrons by "retiring" its menagerie of live creatures - partly because of welfare concerns ** Can campus galleries save the art museum? University art museums are proving capable of realizing the ideals that other art museums espouse in facile mission statements ** Washington Gun Law Leads Museum to Remove Rifles A small museum in Washington state is removing World War II-era weapons from an exhibit to avoid having to comply with a new voter-approved law requiring background checks on gun transfers ** Museum Catalogues Finally Trade Paper for Pixels Publishing scholarly collection catalogues is a critical part of a museum's mission, yet printed volumes are costly to produce and difficult to update ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 926 Pins, 256 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** The faces of prehistoric humans revealed She wore clothing made of hemp, fur and nettle and jewellery of ivory and bone, and she was a looker ** Asian Art Museum takes on colossal quake problem The ancient Arabian sandstone colossi on display at the Asian Art Museum have remained remarkably well-intact for more than two millennia, but in present-day San Francisco, the 8-foot-tall, top-heavy figures are one strong earthquake away from certain ruin ** Bottled body parts stolen from Siriraj Museum It was revealed that a foreigner involved in the scandal has a controversial background in the hard-punk sub-culture in the United States ** Imported Glass in Japanese Tomb Identified A dark blue dish and a clear painted bowl recovered together from a fifth-century tomb in Nara Prefecture are evidence of Japan's far-reaching trade networks ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles - 91,733 in Circles. 3,780 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Feature Site - Shelf Life A research collection is a place of discovery; you can walk around the corner and see something no one's quite observed that way before ** An Inclusive World: Bridging Communities Queens Museum, NY ** Vision-Hong Kong International Poster Triennial 2014 Hong Kong Heritage Museum ** Palaeontologists Determine Dinosaurs Were Killed By Someone They Trusted Our findings indicate that someone, we don't know who, spent at least 150 million years gaining the confidence of dinosaurs before abruptly betraying them and taking their lives near the end of the Cretaceous Era All this and more for you at Global Museum - See the latest museum JOBS, PINTEREST PINS, BOOKSHOP, RESOURCES, HOT JOB TIPS, great people posting their RESUMES, SOCIAL MEDIA, the GM LinkedIn Network, Museum Accredited Courses - New Site, New Opportunities! http://www.globalmuseum.org. ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).