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

** A flatly false claim by new Whitney Museum Says Critic

Being misquoted is one thing, but being completely misrepresented in an art museum wall text is quite another – especially when something I wrote more than 20 years ago is used as a slur concocted from the direct opposite of my critical opinion

** Something Is Desperately Wrong With the Tate and Is Nicholas Serota to Blame?

Tate Britain's troubles are really the product of the complicated and fudged status of Tate's cultural remit

** How The Internet Has Changed The Practice Of Art

Before the internet, we all thought of art as a one-way phenomenon: there were creators and there were consumers

_______________________________________________________________________

ARE YOU ONE OF THE 3,752?

Our Community 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

________________________________________________________________________

** Maybe The Best Place To Store Your Favorite Photos Is On Old-Fashioned Paper

While the MoMA can afford to hire a whole team of people to tend to its digital archives, the rest of us have fewer resources

** Archaeologists to reconsider origins of industrial era obesity and cancer

Some of London’s most important skeletons will be digitally x-rayed and scanned in a new archaeological investigation linking “man-made” diseases with the industrialisation of the city

** A quacking installation at London’s V&A

Following mixed reviews of the V&A’s All of This Belongs to You exhibition—consisting of a series of artistic interventions in the museum’s building and collection—it appears that a pair of mating mallards are keen to get in on the act

** How Sailors' Love Tokens Got Into Women's Underwear

It might surprise you to learn that in the early 19th century a young man in Europe or America might give his sweetheart a token of love she could wear inside her corset.

___________________________________________________________________________________________

125K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,257 Followers worldwide and growing fast

____________________________________________________________________________________________

** Le Corbusier exhibition glosses over architect’s fascist past

The Pompidou Centre in Paris has hit back at critics who say its Le Corbusier exhibition, which opened to the public on 29 April, glosses over recent accusations that the Swiss-born French architect was a militant fascist with links to the Vichy regime

** The gran tour: meet the retired Londoners taking on a museum marathon

They’re currently on week 67 of their attempt to visit and blog about every single one of the city’s 240-or-so cultural institutions – a task they estimate will take them half a decade at their current rate of visiting one place a week

** Long-delayed Nazi museum to open in Munich

The inauguration coincided with the 70th anniversary of the “liberation” of Munich by US troops at the end of World War II, and of Adolf Hitler’s suicide the same day in a Berlin bunker

** What is Britain's best museum to take children?

From dressing up as Vikings to making fake dinosaur bones, from Elgin to Eastbourne and from massive museums to one-room galleries, these are the nominations

_________________________________________________________________________________________

Become a Facebook Follower - Join 1,9764 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574?

_________________________________________________________________________________________

** Beijing's Palace Museum shuts the door on 'maverick' designs

When work starts on the new northern area for Beijing's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, "maverick architecture" will not be allowed

** How public identified a fake painting at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

Britain remains a nation of “art connoisseurs”, according to the chief curator of a London gallery after a fake old master slipped into a collection of works on permanent display was the one most frequently identified as a copy

** Nepal earthquake destroys Kathmandu valley's architectural treasures

Dharahara tower and Kasthamandap temple among historic sites reduced to rubble by deadly quake, but heritage experts retain glimmer of hope

** The Story of the Bikini, the World’s Smallest Swimsuit

Named after Bikini Atoll, a coral reef in the Marshall Islands where nuclear weapons were tested, Diana Vreeland referred to the new suit as "the atomic bomb of fashion."

______________________________________________________________________________

Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy!

1,355 Pins, 282 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/

______________________________________________________________________________

** How Syrians Saved an Ancient Seedbank From Civil War

If these seeds were decimated, humanity could lose precious genetic resources developed over hundreds, or in some cases thousands, of years

** Museum registrar is guardian of priceless masterpieces

How does a priceless, oversized Renaissance painting get from its home in Florence to an exhibit at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum? Very carefully

** In This Museum, Visitors Can Eat At The Exhibits

It may be one of the only museums where it is OK, even encouraged, to eat and drink in the museum

** The Adorable and Heroic Animals of the Museum of Maritime Pets

The museum tells many tails (pun intended): there’s Sinbad the Coast Guard dog, adopted by the Coast Guard cutter ship Campbell in 1938, who became such a part of the crew that he was given enlistment forms, a uniform and even his own bunk

______________________________________________________________________________

Add Us To Your Google+ Circles – 167,749 in Circles. 6,557 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466

______________________________________________________________________________

** Long Hidden Scythian Treasure Site Located

A farmer made an amazing discovery more than 130 years ago in a field outside Vettersfelde (now Witaszkowo) Poland

** Out of the Ordinary: Preserving Paper-Based Ephemera

Presented by the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts

** EAGLE

Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy International Conference

** Ambassadors of Dialogue

ICOMAM-ICDAD Congress in 2015

** This Weeks Horoscopes

Aries - A shocking revelation will shake you to the core of your being this week, which is odd, because it's merely the fact that the Doobie Brothers aren't actual brothers.

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 News & Opportunities Daily! http://www.globalmuseum.org.