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" - User Feedback *** Four Pages of the Latest Museum News & Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org . ** UK museums on heightened alert against attacks A warning of a "severe and imminent" threat of attack on UK museums has been issued by Arts Council England and although "attack" might suggest a terrorist threat, a spokeswoman says that the concern is over "theft of objects" ** The Hirayama Studio comes of age Anyone who has ever visited the Hirayama Conservation Studio in the British Museum has seen what a unique and impressive place it is ** Flood of restitutions deepens as museums investigate objects What began as a trickle has now become a flood as more institutions around the world return works of art that were bought from Manhattan antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor, who ran the now defunct gallery Art of the Past for over three decades _______________________________________________________________________ ARE YOU ONE OF THE 3,298? 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No, not the Pyramids, the Sphinx or in a mummy's tombs - he prefers to hang out at the city's Agricultural Museum ** You Can't Feed Art to a Hungry Man Without art, without inspiration, we gorge on a toxic cocktail of Humiliation, Blame, Despair, Regret, Anxiety, Addiction, Hate and Scorn ** Being rich in the Middle Ages led to an unhealthy life In the Middle Ages wealthy Danes and Germans mainly lived in town and could afford to eat and drink of glazed pottery; and this was the main source of lead poisoning ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________ Follow Us On Twitter - http://twitter.com/globalmuseum 128K Museum News Tweets from around the Globe, 4,370 Followers worldwide and growing fast ____________________________________________________________________________ ________________ ** Statue May Be a Lost Work by Donatello It has not been completely unknown to scholars, but it spent most of the last century in the modest collection of an Italian family - a Tuscan art dealer and then his son, an art professor in Rome - and has never been shown in public ** Indonesia offered return of historical objects from Delft museum The Indonesian government has received an offer for the return of around 14,000 historical objects from the Nusantara (Archipelago) Museum in Delft, the Netherlands ** Museum Adds Oswald's Wedding Ring to Exhibit The Dallas museum that tells the story of President John F. Kennedy's death has acquired his assassin's wedding band ** Egypt fixing Tutankhamun mask after botched repair Restorers put their work on the famed golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun on display in Cairo, over a year after the beard was accidentally knocked off and hastily glued back on with epoxy ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ Become a Facebook Follower - Join 2,081 of us who Like Global Museum on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Global-Museum/129179522574? ____________________________________________________________________________ _____________ ** Museum Specimens Find New Life Online Museums around the globe are trying to harness the power of digital technology to make available collections that have long lain dormant on shelves and in dusty cabinets ** Iconic Singapore art To Go on show at National Gallery The masterpieces illustrate Singapore during the 19th and 20th century and will go on show at the DBS Singapore Gallery ** Italy to dig for ancient Roman treasure sought by Nazis Haul from tomb of Alaric, king of the Visigoths who sacked Rome, thought to include gold, silver and priceless Menorah looted from Second Temple ** Britain's First Cornish Pasty Museum A businessman has pledged to create "Planet Hollywood with a Cornish twist" by opening Britain's only Cornish pasty museum - but can't call it a world first, as Mexico has already beaten the West Country to it ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Pin Us on Pinterest. Global Museum's Pinterest Boards - Enjoy! 1.5K Pins, 307 Followers http://pinterest.com/globalmuseum/museums/ ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Sailor Superstitions exhibits From the earliest moments in history when people believed sailing into the horizon meant falling off the face of a flat earth to later centuries when the horrors of giant sea monsters and tales of mermaids luring sailors to their deaths, seagoing humans found ways to keep safe from the mythological dangers through superstition ** The Only French Fries Museum in the World A dynamic father-son duo also run a domestic lamp museum and a chocolate museum, both in Bruges, making them very specific museum moguls-and lords of the fries-in their medieval town ** Furniture Once Scandalously Ostentatious, Now a Museum Gem The Philadelphia Museum of Art is reassembling, restoring and scrutinizing parlour furniture that scandalized some Philadelphians when it was new ** A Look at the Museum of the Future There's a revolution afoot inside museums as technology sparks experiments in exhibit design; from virtual reality to 4-D films, here's what to expect ____________________________________________________________________________ __ Add Us To Your Google+ Circles - 197,421 in Circles. 8,849 in Community so far - https://plus.google.com/109387399901726606466 ____________________________________________________________________________ __ ** Multicultural Museums Cook Off The Cook Off will blend Melbourne's Multicultural Museums to support each other's cultures and enjoy exciting fusions of multicultural Melbourne ** 41st International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA) May 15-20, 2016 Kalamata, Greece ** ICOM-ASPAC 2015 Register today for ICOM-ASPAC 2015 Conference and General Assembly ** Conference 'Navies in Miniature' 4-5 February 2016, Amsterdam ** This Week's Horoscopes Aquarius - Try and get back to basics this week. 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